Stormbound (Paperback)
Adrien A. Lloyd, Sr
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Add to basketSold by Grand Eagle Retail, Bensenville, IL, U.S.A.
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Add to basketPaperback. Stormbound: The Warden of Balance - Book OneVeilrend is a world sustained by order. Floating continents drift in careful harmony, their paths traced by ancient stars. Magic obeys rigid laws, bound to the Zodiac constellations and enforced through rituals so old their purpose has faded into unquestioned tradition. Guardian beasts stand watch, answering to celestial authority. Balance is not merely a principle; it is the foundation of existence.From an early age, Caelum learned to feel balance not as doctrine, but as a living pressure, something that breathed through the stars and waited to be understood.A quiet prodigy raised within the discipline of celestial study, Caelum believes the stars are fixed, the systems eternal. But on the morning a forbidden thirteenth star ignites the sky, everything he has been taught begins to fracture. Constellations falter. Rituals fail. The invisible structures holding Veilrend together start to unravel not in chaos, but with unnerving precision.Drawn into forces far larger than himself, Caelum becomes bound to an ancient guardian and awakens a power believed lost to history: the mantle of Balance. Named the last Warden of a system already unraveling, he is forced to confront an unspoken truth: stability is not the same as preservation, and order endures only through sacrifice.As the Zodiac begins to collapse, Caelum travels beyond the sheltered world he once knew, witnessing lands altered by celestial imbalance and people struggling to survive as magic reshapes itself around them. Institutions meant to protect Veilrend reveal their fear of change. History proves less reliable than legend. And the more Caelum intervenes, the more he realizes that every act of correction carries consequences elsewhere.Yet the greatest revelation comes not from the stars, but from the world itself.Hidden beneath Veilrend's cultivated balance lies a truth older than the Zodiac and less forgiving than the stars themselves. As the structures he serves begin to fracture, Caelum must choose between sustaining a world built on borrowed order or allowing its fall so that something unspoken, and perhaps unavoidable, can finally take its place.Stormbound: The Warden of Balance is the first book in an epic fantasy series that blends cosmic mythology with intimate character-driven storytelling. It is a story about intelligence over brute force, about systems that outlive their creators, and about a world that does not ask to be saved, only understood.This is not the tale of a hero who conquers fate.It is the record of a young man who learns to remain standing when the storm arrives, and to choose, with open eyes, what is allowed to endure. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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