Thousands of years ago, the people of the First World found a door in the heavens at the midnight zenith. Through the door, they could see a new world and believed it was a world around a distant star.

They set out in their celestial ships, determined to colonize this new world. Unexpectedly, their passage weakened the door. When it collapsed behind them, they were trapped on a world that they were realizing was not around a distant world at all. It was a mirror of their own world, but millions of years in the past.

Kampania was the name they gave their new home. They struggled to build a civilization and maintain the knowledge they brought from the First World, but the new world was brutal, filled with ancient monsters and a harsh environment. They fell back into primitive ways. Chiefdoms and kingdoms arose, empires spread and fell, and a cult of Annihilation from the First World threatened to erase the ancient knowledge preserved by scholars and sages.

Chapter 1 – In the isolated fishing culture of Laramidia, the boy Bram is apprenticed to the wandering sage Perisfin. One day, the old man announces that he is leaving for the lands to the east, the kingdoms of the Inner Seas. Is he done with Bram, or is there something troubling arising in the world?

Chapter 2 – Bram’s mentor Perisfin has departed the city of Safran, leaving the boy to work on his father’s fishing boat under his younger brother Kori. But, as they lay out the seine near an isolated rock known as the Tyrant’s Tooth, the dangers of the Thalassic Ocean close in on them.

Chapter 3 – Bram is stuck on a remote rock, miles from the coast of Laramidia. He steals a fish from an ikti bird and goes to sleep struggling not to mourn. His sleep is troubled by dreams, but he awakens to a new presence on the sea.

Chapter 4 – After returning to Safran, Bram stays with his cousin Alis before revealing his father’s death to his mother. He confronts his legacy as a descendant of the renowned boat master Rebin Kansadi and as the apprentice of Perisfin.

Chapter 5 – The mourning commences as Bram and Alis grow distant. Bram sees no future for his family unless he abandons his apprenticeship and takes to fishing. Then, as the mourning concludes, Perisfin the sage returns from his wandering.

Chapter 6 – Perisfin ends Bram’s apprenticeship and tells him to pack his bags. Alis defies the old sage and demands assurance that Bram will be safe. The old sailor Ybe bumps into the sage and his student, confirming tales of the growing threat of the Annihilation.