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AnunA

One world that remembers everything.

The epic universe of Rhys van Dael. A desert of buried cities where the field itself has begun to learn, and every letter written into the world leaves a mark that will not fade.

A world that remembers.

Across the plain, five cities keep the oldest quarrel in the world. Beneath them lies the field, a thing that once only recorded and has lately begun to learn. What it learns, it keeps. What it keeps, it returns.

This is the ground of the AnunA saga: sand and silence, memory and letters, and a hand of five fingers pressed into the world.

The Fivefold Hand.

The emblem of the saga. Five fingers, five movements, pressed into the field one after another. The story follows the hand from the first mark to the space where the last was never made.

I · Thumb

Origin

Where the flame first learns its name.

II · Index

Vector

The war that learns to watch.

III · Middle

Fracture

The waker rises, and the line breaks.

IV · Ring

Coherence

The broken sun, held together by will.

V · Little

Absence

The letter that was never written, and the space it leaves.

The Fivefold Hand Saga.

Five books. Read in order.

I
Origin

Origin of the Flame

A young priestess discovers the field is learning, and nothing in Uruk will remain as it was.

Forthcoming
II
Vector

The War That Learned to Watch

War arrives not as invasion but as a force that has begun to learn from watching.

Forthcoming
III
Fracture

The Waker Ascent

The city returns to Uruk changed, but the streets have grown longer in her absence.

Forthcoming
IV
Coherence

The Broken Sun Bleeds Light

The sun rises but gives no warmth, and in the field's silence, something ancient begins to wake.

Forthcoming
V
Absence

The Absent Letter

The twenty-second Letter remains, but the twenty-third has grown into the space where it was never supposed to be.

Forthcoming

The Whisper Guild.

In the shadows of the cities, a guild of spies learns to work in the silence between truths. The saga's espionage line runs beneath the plain, where a single kept secret can move a war.

Book 1 · Year Zero In revision

Standalones.

Prequel

The Sand Watcher

A solitary figure walks the borderlands, watching something the cities have forgotten to fear.

Standalone

Khelar's War

A soldier's history that reshapes what the second book means.

Standalone

The Last Proxy

One life stands in for another, at the edge of the map.

Duology

Children of the Interval

Two books set in the space between worlds.

Rhys van Dael

Rhys van Dael writes the AnunA universe: epic fantasy and speculative fiction built one world at a time. The Fivefold Hand Saga, The Whisper Guild, and the standalones all belong to the same slowly remembering desert.

The saga is still being written.

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