Lumo: Where Worlds Turn

A troll who does not belong. A human who has lost his place. And a world far older than either of them understands.Lumo has always moved to a different rhythm than the rest of his kind. While his tribe is driven by an ancient, brutal hunger, Lumo is haunted by quiet visions of shields that hold, hands that protect, and a stillness he has no name for. When he chooses to save a human captive from his own kind, he is cast out of the only home he has ever known and sets out toward a world where he belongs nowhere.His path soon crosses with Erham, a cynical former slave and traveler carrying a past he rarely speaks about. Together, they begin a long, measured journey across Gariki-from the claustrophobic, earth-scented tunnels beneath Milltown to the sprawling, mechanical order of Amoran, where civilization runs on structure, dependency, and routine.Their bond is forged in the spaces between destinations and survival. It grows through shared fires, simple meals, and the slow, tacit trust that forms between two outcasts who have little reason to trust anyone. Their journey eventually brings them to Vaelor, a towering half-giant trapped in the brutal world of the arenas, and the three begin to move through a wilderness shaped by creatures, ruins, and paths that seem to follow an older logic than civilization itself.But the farther Lumo travels, the harder it becomes to believe that the world is as young and orderly as it appears. Strange creatures move through the forests. Old stones disappear beneath newer ones. Ancient things remain where people have forgotten them, and the world occasionally reveals something that seems to belong to a time no one remembers.As Lumo's journey carries him toward the mist-shrouded ship-city of Northern Velham, the world around him begins to feel less like something he is discovering-and more like something that has been waiting.Where Worlds Turn is the atmospheric first book in the Lumo Trilogy. A slow-burn dark fantasy about identity, friendship, belonging, and a world that is only beginning to reveal how old it truly is.