The Starless Weave: 1

Beneath kings. Beneath keeps. A truth long buried stirs.Deep beneath the mountain kingdom of Kharad Venn lies Narrowdeep, home to the Virel-a people valued for the work their smaller hands can perform and forgotten the moment that work is done.Kaelen has survived by being precise, quiet, and easily overlooked. But when a routine maintenance failure turns deadly, he does something no Virel should be capable of: he perceives the hidden relationships within stone, metal, pressure, and magic-and changes them.The act saves lives. It also makes him impossible to ignore.As rumours race through Narrowdeep, witnesses disappear, official records begin replacing the truth, and competing authorities move to claim Kaelen as worker, weapon, criminal, or threat. His search for answers leads beyond the mapped foundations of Kharad Venn, through roads built for forgotten travellers, and toward a hidden Virel city whose people have spent generations preparing for freedom.There, Kaelen discovers that his people's limitations were never natural.They were engineered.But buried truth does not unite everyone who uncovers it. Some demand proof. Some demand patience. Others believe freedom delayed is merely another form of control-and are willing to break the mountain to obtain it.To prevent liberation from becoming catastrophe, Kaelen and his companions must confront the institutions that shaped their history, the rebels determined to avenge it, and the terrible question waiting beneath them all: When a chain also holds the world together, how do you break it without bringing everything down?THE STARLESS WEAVE is an adult epic fantasy of hidden civilizations, ancient systems, political rebellion, dangerous discovery, and the cost of reclaiming a history others were determined to erase.