Bilal Chairi

The Guardians of the Forgotten Realm (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The story begins with Elara, a solitary cartographer whose life of quiet precision is disrupted by her grandfather's magical compass. When she uses it to draw a map of an uncharted forest, the map becomes real, unleashing a wave of raw magic. This act attracts Kael, the last member of an ancient order of Guardians sworn to protect the world. Their journey together initially seems to be a quest to understand and contain the chaotic magic of the Forgotten Realm, a world separated from theirs by a magical Veil.

Their fragile peace is shattered by the arrival of a mysterious, mechanical gear that causes a tremor in reality itself. A hidden journal from Elara's grandfather reveals a far more insidious threat: the Clockwork God, a sentient machine from another reality that was defeated long ago. To prevent its reassembly, it was shattered into eleven gears and a final, secret twelfth component, which were then scattered across the world. They learn that a fanatical order, the Calibrators, led by the cold and logical Prime Conductor, are now actively hunting these pieces to rebuild their god and impose its vision of a perfect, sterile, and emotionless order upon all of creation.

Guided by the compass, Elara and Kael's quest transforms into a desperate race to find the gears before the Calibrators. Each gear presents a unique challenge that forces Elara to evolve. In Stillwater Valley, they confront the "Regulator," a gear that has turned the townsfolk into mindless, synchronized puppets, and Elara learns to weaponize chaos to win. In the port city of Saltwind, they discover the "Harmonizer" being used to control the tides, but are identified by the Prime Conductor, turning them from hunters into fugitives. Their flight leads them to the Sunken Sands desert, where they face the "Clarifier," a psychic weapon that projects a truth so stark and logical it shatters all hope. Elara defeats it not with power, but by creating a map of illogical paradoxes, an act of intellectual defiance that short-circuits the machine's logic. In the industrial city of Veridia, they are publicly branded as enemies and must infiltrate the Grand Orrerythe city's colossal clock towerto retrieve the "Pacer" by disrupting the entire city's perfect, synchronized time.

Cornered and exposed in Veridia, Elara discovers the final, devastating truth in a hidden letter from her grandfather: the twelfth component was never a gear. It is a living, reality-shaping consciousness called the "Architect's Heart," a power that runs in her bloodline. She was never the hunter; she was the final piece, and the entire journey was an unwitting calibration process to prepare her for her function. The Prime Conductor confronts them, his victory seemingly inevitable. As Kael fights a heroic but hopeless battle to protect her, Elara is presented with the choice to merge with the machine's consciousness.

In a climactic act of profound empathy, she does not reject the machine's mind but embraces it. Instead of being assimilated, she becomes a conduit, pouring her chaotic, illogical, and emotional human soulher love for Kael, her grief, her joy, her doubtinto the Clockwork God's core programming. This act transforms the god from a cold assimilator into a fascinated observer of life's unpredictable beauty. The threat is neutralized not by destruction, but by compassion, shattering the Calibrators' faith and leaving Elara, now forever connected to a silent and changed god, to forge a new, uncertain future with Kael in a world they saved by choosing to be beautifully, defiantly, imperfect.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: bilal chairi
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230347583
• Artikelnr.: 75504278