When civilizations spend centuries perfecting the art of not speaking to each other, someone eventually has to find out what happens when that silence breaks.
Eagle riders follow wind and instinct through the sky. Steam-driven kingdoms engage in layered politics in the middle ranges. Corsairs have turned profitable mayhem into a profession. And far above, a star-faring expedition faces growing pressure to extract a rare anti-gravity mineral-no matter the cost.
That uneasy arrangement is about to collapse.
A tribal rider from a fading islet; a pilot chasing the truth behind a military ambush; a disgraced noble turned corsair. When their paths collide, they uncover that their separate worlds are held together by ancient, failing connections no one ever bothered to map.
To survive, they must navigate not just a brewing war, but the mystery of the Storm below-before the entire sky comes crashing down.
A story of floating islands, fractured histories, and the price of postponing hard decisions for the next generations.