The World of Némand

In a universe where souls fuel steam engines and archetypal forms shape reality, the Ninth Planet Némand approaches on its 10,000-year orbit. It brings cosmic turbulence, divine warfare, and the return of the extradimensional Divs.

At the heart of creation burns the Broken Sun—an ascended mortal bound by an eternal vow, his true name now forgotten. His crew became the Yazatas, divine warriors on the Eternal Garrison. His love became the Simurgh, a golden automaton guardian forged from memory and grief.

This is a world of Engine-Arks and Athanatic Steel, of the Eternal City's brass towers and the sacred mysteries of Mount Damavand. Where weavers spin magic into silk, and engineers ascend to godhood through the mastery of soul and machine.

In a world where souls fuel steam engines and archetypal forms shape reality, a tyrannical king with serpents growing from his shoulders consumes the minds of his people— literally erasing their memories, emotions, and identities to feed an insatiable hunger.

Kaveh, a young spice merchant, joins a resistance movement dreaming of reform. But hope is a dangerous thing in Zahhak's kingdom. When the trap springs, Kaveh experiences the ultimate horror: watching his own soul be devoured, memory by precious memory, until nothing remains but an empty shell.

His screams echo through The Field—the consciousness substrate connecting all things— and reach Anahita, a shepherd's daughter in the distant Zagros Mountains. Haunted by nightmares of serpents eating each other, she discovers she's Varyan— one of the sensitive few who can manipulate reality through the six elemental spectrums.

Blessed by the Broken Sun—an ascended mortal who sacrificed his humanity to protect creation—Anahita must climb Mount Demavand to purify the corrupted Simurgh. But every use of magic burns away her memories as fuel. How much of herself must she sacrifice to stop a king who's already forgotten what it means to be human?

This is a story of love and loss, of souls turned to ash, and of one girl's desperate fight to save what remains of humanity—even as she forgets who she was.