The Fourth Field

About the book

In Varin, words are reality.

Every Edict – a law sealed by Crown, Guilds, and Coffer – can build roads, steer markets, strengthen armies. But the power of the seals is breaking: Fractures tear through the city, stairways forget their weight, voices echo without mouths.

When a forbidden Free Edict destroys a harbor district, the young scribe Arin finds himself caught between intrigue and rebellion. Queen Maev fights for every word that might preserve order, while guilds and merchants play their own games. Yet between the official seals appears a grey imprint – flawless, uncanny, a sign of an invisible power that has already reached far beyond Varin’s borders.

Arin’s discovery will change the Realm. For somewhere beyond the coasts, someone is drawing lines no one ever signed – and the goal is a new order of the world.

The Fourth Field is the first book of Imprints of the Realm and opens The Cycle of Script: epic fantasy in which written law is magic, and every signature has a price. With a map of Varin and a list of characters.