The old bond waits in silent place,
until the world must face its weight.
A fallen general leads the remains of a kingdom through a wood that keeps what it takes. A quiet man at his shoulder counts everything, and is counted in turn. And beneath the oldest city in the east, something that has waited five eras is about to be found.
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The kingdom of Nathaniä has stopped deserving its army. General Alastair flees east with everything a collapsing world could not keep: veterans, debtors, women with children under cloaks too thin for the night. His road ends at a city that appears on no living map. Behind him rides Patrick: assessor, counter, keeper of a private ledger. The city will read them all.
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Holding a city is not the same as being held by one. As kings and claimants reach for Orenthal, its keeper descends further into its archives than any holder has dared, and finds that the compact beneath the city has been waiting for someone to read it correctly.
Forthcoming.
One lamp goes out on a stair where none has failed in nine hundred years. Three armies converge on a place that no one owns. And everything old, older than the claimant houses, older than the Church, older than the counting of eras at all, begins to come home.
In the writing.
“Beneath the garden two will wait:
one ends all doubt, one names your fate;
a third but watches, soon and late.
Who answers neither holds the gate.”
Thomas P. Blinde (1987) is a Dutch writer and entrepreneur based in Roden, the Netherlands, where he lives with his partner, Rowan, and their children. He began writing in earnest after leaving politics, turning a long-standing love of storytelling into nearly four years of work on his debut novel, The Collapse of the New World: adult epic fantasy exploring power, esotericism, magic, and the ways people transform, or refuse to.
“It appears only on the inside of things.”
© 2026 Thomas P. Blinde · Roden, the Netherlands
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