The Protocol Of Continuance II: Fifth Moon Kethyr

In the second installment of the Kethyr chronicles, the world's fragile stability is shattered as the celestial and political orders collide. Following many decades of bountiful Production Seasons on Kethyr, the sudden, jagged ascent of the Fifth Moon (Xylo) plunges the realm into the Omen of Discord. As violet light poisons the land, the five empires-the Veyrian Dominion, Kylen Covenant, Lyanni Nation, Sanza Conclave, and Cassian Ascendancy-spiral into a catastrophic global war. The narrative follows a desperate band of survivors, including the Veyrian archivist Wena, the disgraced Kylen judge Kayel, and the iron-shadowed captain Hecki, as they navigate a landscape of crumbling certainty and rising Shadow-Kin (chaotic) spirits. The journey reveals a terrifying central conspiracy: each empire has spent millennia hoarding a corrupted fragment of the ancient Protocol of Continuance, using it to justify their own survival while blinding themselves to its true purpose. As the Cassians attempt to weaponize the Protocol into a "Permanent Mandate" that would freeze the world in a state of eternal martial law, the protagonists realize they must perform the ultimate sacrifice. The story culminates in the Five Valleys, where the survivors must forge an impossible Multilateral Peace Accord in the face of an onslaught of Iron-Shadows. By invoking the true Final Clause-the "Mercy of Removal"-they succeed in dismantling the imperial power structures that sustained them. The Fifth Moon vanishes, and the book concludes with the dawn of the Local Era, a new beginning where survivors no longer live as imperial subjects, but as neighbors in a world reclaimed by nature and humility. Final Conclusion: The Protocol of Continuance is fulfilled not through the victory of one crown over another, but through the courage of all five to let go of power for the sake of life itself.

Pages: 98, Paperback, Independently published