ELDERLANDSTHE CHRONICLES

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 Return

BEFORE 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.

  1. 01Prologue · The Last Account
  2. 021 · A Man Without a Bell
  3. 032 · The Generous Hand
  4. 043 · The Back of the Letter
  5. 054 · The Price of Wheat
  6. 065 · The City That Measures Water
  7. 076 · Madruga's Frogs
  8. 087 · The Archive Beneath Their Feet
  9. 098 · A Way Out Through Customs
  10. 109 · The Man of the Dyke
  11. 1110 · Snow and Marks
  12. 1211 · The Foundry That Listens
  13. 1312 · The Bridges of the Void
  14. 1413 · Where a Hand Is Missing
  15. 1514 · The Valley of Wet Ash
  16. 1615 · Blackember's Bread
  17. 1716 · A Song's Accounts
  18. 1817 · The Terraces of Shelter
  19. 1918 · The Father of the City
  20. 2019 · The Order and the Wound
  21. 2120 · Beneath the Weight of Roots
  22. 2221 · Those Who Said Otherwise
  23. 2322 · The Five Limits
  24. 2423 · The Hollow Oak
  25. 25Interlude · The Drowned Lighthouse
  26. 2624 · A River Made of Voices
  27. 2725 · The City That Was Not Supposed to Feed Anyone
  28. 2826 · The Wind That Brings Fire
  29. 2927 · The Gallery of Names
  30. 3028 · The Eclipse Forge
  31. 3129 · What No One Can Take Away
  32. 3230 · The Debt
  33. 3331 · Those Who Return by the Road
  34. 3432 · What Remains Open
  35. 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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