Platinum PegasusPublishingJonah Mercer
Nineteen, underestimated and suddenly visible to people who understand more about his family than he does.
Reading Room
Read before
the release.
Excerpts, dossiers, discussion material and book-grounded context from the opening slate.
The Sovereign Union · Excerpt & argument
Covenant, status, structure.
Start with the distinction at the heart of the book, then follow the argument outward.
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Aetherion · World dossier
The Gates and what they remember.
A spoiler-light first dossier on Resonance, the Gates and the forces already named in the world.
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The Black Laurel · Dossier
Legacy, loyalty, hidden power.
A spoiler-light first dossier on Jonah Mercer, the Laurel and the inheritance that pulls him into view.
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Inheritance becomes visible when someone comes to collect.
Jonah Mercer turns nineteen expecting an ordinary birthday. Instead, an attack exposes skills, obligations and institutional attention that were never supposed to enter his life so early.
The Laurel
A hidden international institution shaped by training, guarantees, protected bloodlines, influence and obligations that can survive the people who created them.
Nightowl
Jacob Mercer, Jonah's missing father, vanished the day after Jonah's tenth birthday. His absence is not the end of the story. It is the question behind it.
Aetherion · World dossier
The Gates remember more than kingdoms do.
Aetherion is sustained by six Gates and the living force called Resonance. Civilizations build faith, power and memory around partial understandings of that architecture. The deeper story begins when those fragments stop agreeing.
Resonance
The living frequency that binds matter, memory, faith and divine power. It is not simply magic. It is part of the world's structure.
Auralith
The Solar Wyrm of the Gate of Fire & Light, bound to Eryndor. Its remembered phrase is "Flame that sees," and its tradition carries the Nine Flames.
Thal'gor
The Abyssal Leviathan of the Gate of Water & Shadow, bound to Vhalis. Its remembered phrase is "Depth that remembers," and its tradition carries the Twelve Below.
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