A CHRONICLE OF THE ELDER LANDS
The Debt of Those Who Return
Who can claim a life that returns?
On the night of the Rupture, a scribe discovers that a pact may decide the fate of those who return from death.
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ELDERLANDSThe Debt ofThose Who ReturnBEFORE THE FIRST PAGE
The first sign was that the frogs stopped singing.
A prologue, thirty-two chapters, an interlude and an epilogue. Discover the cities, their pacts and the memory of those who live there.
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01 / THE BOOK
Every debt, a story.
- 01Prologue · The Last Account↗
- 021 · A Man Without a Bell↗
- 032 · The Generous Hand↗
- 043 · The Back of the Letter↗
- 054 · The Price of Wheat↗
- 065 · The City That Measures Water↗
- 076 · Madruga's Frogs↗
- 087 · The Archive Beneath Their Feet↗
- 098 · A Way Out Through Customs↗
- 109 · The Man of the Dyke↗
- 1110 · Snow and Marks↗
- 1211 · The Foundry That Listens↗
- 1312 · The Bridges of the Void↗
- 1413 · Where a Hand Is Missing↗
- 1514 · The Valley of Wet Ash↗
- 1615 · Blackember's Bread↗
- 1716 · A Song's Accounts↗
- 1817 · The Terraces of Shelter↗
- 1918 · The Father of the City↗
- 2019 · The Order and the Wound↗
- 2120 · Beneath the Weight of Roots↗
- 2221 · Those Who Said Otherwise↗
- 2322 · The Five Limits↗
- 2423 · The Hollow Oak↗
- 25Interlude · The Drowned Lighthouse↗
- 2624 · A River Made of Voices↗
- 2725 · The City That Was Not Supposed to Feed Anyone↗
- 2826 · The Wind That Brings Fire↗
- 2927 · The Gallery of Names↗
- 3028 · The Eclipse Forge↗
- 3129 · What No One Can Take Away↗
- 3230 · The Debt↗
- 3331 · Those Who Return by the Road↗
- 3432 · What Remains Open↗
- 35Epilogue · The Account Continues↗
02 / WITHOUT SPOILING THE STORY
Names for the journey.
- Rupture
- The event at the heart of the prologue and the pact between the four cities.
- Dawnrock
- A city of pale stone, blue roofs and terraces beside the water.
- Lindvale
- A city of hills, orchards and timber-framed homes around a great oak.
- Bridgebasin
- A city of bridges, canals and docks; Madruga Senn’s home.
- Blackember
- One of the four cities represented in the pact of the Rupture.
- Madruga Senn
- The scribe whose story opens on the night of the Rupture.
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