The Lethe: Chapter List
A Caldaea Story by Aysun Gerards
“Adventurers, bandits, and exiles all converge on the Coin City of Dra’angel, in search of their fate, honor, or power. When a divine commandment unveils a long-dead threat, these unlikely heroes must rally against a realm of nightmare and un-reality- before their very memories are washed away…”
The Lethe is a Fantasy story set in the world of Caldaea, a world characterized by adventurer-mages with malleable identities and rulers with malleable morals. Each chapter will be listed here.
Chapter 1: Arrival
Once Crusader Angean le Torneau sails across the Kuratyr Ocean, aiming to fulfill an oracle’s Commandment in a foreign land. Yet, dark ships intercept them at sea, forcing conflict.
Chapter 2: The Red Rat
After a quick and bloody battle, Angean has to explain a ship full of injured- and well-armed- tormen washing up on the Coin City’s shores, and is introduced to the great desert’s endemic intrigue.
Chapter 3: Infiltration
Deep in the White Dunes, a caravan rests far from settled roads. Two bandits approach like ghosts in the sandstorm, hoping to make off with a strange logbook.
Chapter 4: Cold Singer
Mi scours the Coralla trader’s wagon in hopes of turning up the logbook- only to be warned by a supernatural force of a monster, lurking just beyond the sandstorm’s veil.
Chapter 5: Green Mage
Sel Maishan, a blood mage and foreign cleric, rests inside Dra’angel- unaware of the danger waiting for him above.
Chapter 6: The River
Sel encounters a magical river in a strange world…
Chapter 7: Escape
Ren fights the Nightmare, struggling to incapacitate it without killing it and taking on its magical corruption.
Chapter 8: The Coin City
Jero and his newly-knighted companion, Han, head off into the city to gather magical experience and mundane medicines.
Chapter 9: The Tar Sage
Liera'ze slowly comes to terms with her sudden flight from her captors- and the strange city to which she is being led.
Chapter 10: Shadowfall
Han and Jero are trapped as servants of the Dragon of the Desert bear down on them. Meanwhile, Ren finally meets back up with Sel to help track the Prince.
Chapter 11: Messengers
Angean encounters a one-time ally, and Mi interferes in a Justic assault.
Chapter 12: The Diver Colony
Twicateel leads Jero to the Diver Colony- which has been struck by more than just monsters during the shadowfall.
Chapter 13: Alliances
Angean meets with Jero and an eclectic group of explorers to delve into the Diver Colony. Meanwhile, Sel and Mi meet with a dangerous contact.
Other Works by Aysun Gerards:
Luckless
One missed shot rings throughout the artificial island-city of Alloton, and the world of the mutant assassin Four collapses around her. Lies and manipulations are exposed, mages and mutants fight for supremacy, and a mycelial monster lurks just beneath the sea-battered tunnels, waiting to pounce.
Just her luck.
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