Elsewhere across the multiverse… Young Prince Franz-Karl is the younger son of the younger son of an Emperor. He is also an Elderkin, descended from Manifest Beings who may be Gods or Demons or merely Outsiders, depending on which philosopher or preacher or politician you ask. In our world the…Read more…
Is a walled and locked Residence a palace or a prison? It depends on who holds the keys. When the Holy Remoran Empire decided that the Emperor’s younger son would marry the heir of the Duke of uncanny Traventi, Childe Silvia saw Leon-Alexander as a fine man and marriage as…Read more…
The Infinite is one thing and everything: it depends on where you are, how you look. ________________________________________ Look one way, and behold the Plenum: undifferentiated dimensionality and the basis of gravity. ________________________________________ Look at the same thing differently and behold the Empyrean: every symbol, structure, pattern, idea, desire, action, or event, whether possible or impossible, simultaneously perceptible. _______________________________________ Is the synoptic chaos a bit much? ________________________________________ Do you desire sequence? Causation? A plot? _________________________________ There are … cosmoses? Cosmoi? There are bounded cosmic structures in the Aetherial, floating upward in time like the tiny bubbles in a glass of fizzy wine. Materialities. _____________________________________ Seek one that welcomes visitors from elsewhere… ________________________________________ Pick one… ________________________________________ That one. _____________________________________ The Living World of the Chronicles floats a little distance from ours within the Aetherial Multiverse. _____________________________________ History, languages, literature, landmasses are not entirely different, but not the same. The Chronicles are not set in Central Europe at the turn of the 18th Century.
Author info
Elyse M Grasso
Elyse M Grasso is a former librarian and a retired Software Engineer. Heir of the Bindings is her first published novel, after years of reading and writing SF&F. Elyse lives with her cat, Nyx, on a ridge in Colorado that has amazing views of the Front Range, and equally amazing winds.
