The Shattering of Arqenuvam

Books

Stories written in the shadow of a broken world.

Discover the novels and historical companion that chronicle Arqenuvam from the ancient Edicts to the current age.

A reader's path

Two ways to begin

Where you enter depends on how you want to experience the world.

01Begin with the world

The History of Arqenuvam

Understand the gods, magic and ancient wars that shaped the present. A companion guide and prequel that opens the deep foundation of the world.

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02Begin with the story

Echoes of the Wasteland

Enter Aetheria directly in Cycle II, Edict 3601. Follow the ground-level struggle at the poisoned edge of the wasteland as the main saga begins.

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The sequence

The Books

Chronological reading order from foundational history through the unfolding main saga.

Concentric golden rings and broken stone hover above a cracked celestial terrace, opening onto a mountain city under a twilight sky.
00Companion Prequel

The History of Arqenuvam

A Prequel to The Shattering of Arqenuvam

Before the wasteland, there were the choices that broke the world. The History of Arqenuvam opens the forbidden record of the Genesis Council, the Five Tiers of Magic and the ancient wars whose scars still shape the current era, serving as both companion guide and prequel to the main saga.

A lone traveler stands on rusted wreckage in a barren waste, facing a white-spired city held inside a shimmering golden dome.
01Volume I

Echoes of the Wasteland

Aetheria is a city split in two. Beneath the protected Radiant District, the Misery District endures on the poisoned edge of the Great Salt Flats, where survival is shaped by magical waste, inherited power and the scars of ancient wars. Echoes of the Wasteland opens the saga at ground level in Cycle II, Edict 3601.

Two empty stone thrones overlook a white city beneath a crackling energy dome, with a solar eclipse above a darkened horizon.
02Volume II

The Shadow Covenant

Aetheria's Radiant District shines with a borrowed spring, paid for in ley-waste, silence and names erased from the record. In Greystone Town, a trail that should have ended in a dead ledger instead opens into buried history, dangerous alliances and a conspiracy reaching toward the foundations of Aetheria itself.

03Volume III

Volume 3

Official title to be revealed

The next volume of The Shattering of Arqenuvam is on its way. Its official title and story details will be revealed when they are ready, keeping the next turn of the saga under wraps for now.

Amazon Availability

The completed books will return to Amazon around the wider Arqenuvam game-release period.

One world. Many histories.