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The Skybound Tribes: Book I
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ISBN13: 9798140263362
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 5 2026
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 5 2026
Pages: 358
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.74 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if humans had been born with wings? In 12,000 BCE, the high Andes are a world of glaciers and giant beasts, where small clans of flying people survive by reading the wind and never taking one risk too many. Fifteen-year-old Tayra is a Scout, one of the few who fly out ahead of her clan to find water, game and danger. She is good at it. She is also the kind of person who cannot stop looking at the one place the old rules say to leave alone. At the center of that world stands the Standing One, a black spire of stone that climbs out of the earth into thin, cold air.
Every child learns the same warning about it. No one can say where the warning came from. Eight thousand years later, at the foot of the same mountain, the clans have gathered around a single spring called the Weeping. Illari is twenty-two, a young founder with a sharp mind and a dangerous amount of responsibility. She must persuade rivals with long memories to share one water, one law and one future, while the mountain above them keeps its silence. Between their two lives, an aging Keeper who tends a cup of water at the foot of the mountain tells the story as it was handed to him, and admits from the start that he leans. THE SKYBOUND TRIBES is a grounded, character-driven epic of prehistory: ice, ochre, hunger, flight, and the first fragile ideas of peace. It is about how a people decide what is sacred, who gets to tell the story, and what it costs to keep a promise across thousands of years. If you enjoy alternate history with a mythic heart, survival stories set in a real landscape, or fantasy where the wonder comes from the world and not from magic, this is where the saga begins. Book I of The Ascendant Saga: Aeolian Chronicles, a twelve-book alternate history that follows winged humanity from prehistory to the far future.
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