The Chronicle
The remembered story of Aoden, told across four trilogies.
What is remembered
Songweaver's Tale follows the long work of restoration in Aoden: children drawn through danger, kingdoms carrying old wounds, songs that answer darkness, and ordinary courage pressed into myth.
The public shape is simple: four trilogies, twelve books, and a world whose deepest truths are revealed by story rather than explanation. Some names remain held in reserve until the tale is ready to bear them.
The Four Trilogies
First Trilogy
A rescue becomes a crossing. Three children from Riverview step beyond the borders of familiar life and discover that the old stories were never safely past.
Second Trilogy
The road widens from rescue into consequence. What began in hidden places moves toward courts, borders, and old powers that have learned to wear respectable faces.
Third Trilogy
The deeper history of Aoden presses toward the present. Songs remembered by the faithful begin to contend with names that should have remained buried.
Final Trilogy
The tale turns toward its last reckoning: not merely whether darkness can be defeated, but whether the restored can remain whole after the battle is won.
First Door
Song of the Dawn opens with a vanished sister, a desperate rescue, and the first steps into a realm where ancient songs still answer. Mourning of the Spire carries that road into grief and endurance. Anthem of the Hearth closes the first movement with the hard mercy of return.
The first trilogy is not an explanation of Aoden. It is a threshold: childhood giving way to courage, home becoming both wound and hope, and forgotten powers stirring beneath ordinary love.