The maze had a maker. The maker had a reason.A family searches for home inside an invention that learns from them. Following the Labyrinth's workings into the history and engineering of Daedalus brings them closer to the mind that made their survival so difficult.
The family's attempt to return home continues inside Daedalus's Labyrinth, an immense physical intelligence that can observe, learn and change its passages. Understanding the invention becomes essential to finding a route through it. Their search leads further into its history and engineering, drawing them toward the mind responsible for its design. They must connect the behavior of the place around them with the choices that shaped its creation. The goal remains survival and a way home; the challenge is learning enough about Daedalus's work to navigate something capable of learning from them.
The maze had a maker. The maker had a reason.
Ori Refael PeretzExploratory trilogy proposal
02The House of DaedalusOri Refael Peretz
Inside the making.
Workshops, ancient technology and the people behind the legend of Daedalus are possible directions for the sequel.
The maze had a maker. The maker had a reason.
Ori Refael PeretzExploratory trilogy proposal
03The House of DaedalusOri Refael Peretz
The family at its centre.
Further worldbuilding would remain tied to the people trying to survive together. This sequel title and its place in a trilogy are provisional.
The maze had a maker. The maker had a reason.
Ori Refael PeretzExploratory trilogy proposal
The catalogueThe maze had a maker. The maker had a reason.Exploratory trilogy proposal
A proposed second movement
Inside the making of the Labyrinth
The House of Daedalus is a proposed second movement of Enter the Labyrinth. It would extend the family’s survival journey into the history and engineering of the immense, adaptive world around them.
The sequel direction considers workshops, ancient technology and the people whose work might sit behind the legend of a single inventor. Its title and story remain proposals within an exploratory trilogy.
Possible lines of inquiry include deeper workshops, survivor communities, and the histories of Daedalus, Perdix, Ariadne and Minos. These are options for the sequel’s development, not settled events.
Another proposed thread asks whether the Labyrinth could be the achievement of generations of teachers, apprentices, craftspeople and laborers. That question broadens its human history without deciding the answer.
The shared foundation
The family remains at its center
The sequel would carry forward the central encounter: people who know and care about one another must survive architecture that can observe, learn and change. Further worldbuilding needs to deepen that journey.
Detail from the cover concept
The visual identity
The architecture of the myth.
The cover concept for The House of Daedalus. Explore the complete artwork at a larger size.
