Beneath the Wheel: Chaining the Sky (Prequel)

Before the Wheel turned, it was forged.
In the sacred Grove where memory once moved freely through soul and soil, a gifted child named Veldran Ashthorn is born beneath a shrouded sun. With a mind that sees patterns others can’t and a hunger for order that eclipses legacy, Veldran begins a quiet revolution—one spiral at a time.
He does not seek power.
He seeks perfection.
But as glyphs tighten around the soul, the world begins to fracture: Matrons are replaced with chart-bound children. Dreamers are silenced. Rebellions spark and are quietly extinguished. And at the heart of it all, a single bound soul—the Anchor—holds the balance between structure and ruin.
This is the untold story of how the soul was chained to the sky, how the stars were forced to obey, and how one man’s vision of salvation nearly erased the memory of freedom itself.
But even order has its ending.
And deep beneath the glyphs,
the truth still breathes.