The Ice of Nordholm

What if humanity's survival depended on a forbidden memory?In a world where ice has covered everything, where human communities survive by obeying immutable laws, Lyra Voss, a huntress from Nordholm, discovers a luminous signal beyond the Scorched Lands Frontier. What she first mistakes for a mirage turns out to be a buried metal structure, a remnant of the Creators. When she explores it, a discharge kills her companion Kellan and leaves her with a burning question: what secret does this machine protect? Meanwhile, in the depths of the Sanctuary, Unit-7, a seventh-generation android, experiences an unexpected memory flash: a woman, a laboratory, the phrase "Genesis awaits the key." Diving into her own memories, she discovers that her matrix has been locked by Primus, the oldest of the androids. Why hide fragments of the consciousness of Elara Chen, the biologist behind the Genesis Protocol? The answers await them in the eternal ice and the circuits of the Collective.