The Fonváros Quintet
Five interconnected tales set in the bustling streets of Fonváros, where every shadow hides a secret and every choice carries weight. Follow diverse characters navigating a city where magic comes at a price and survival requires more than luck.
Reading Order: These stories can be read independently, but they're designed to be experienced in the order below for the full narrative arc.
The Reading
A Szòvòtar's job is to read patterns and bind souls to their destined paths. But what happens when the patterns start revealing truths the system was designed to hide? And what price do you pay for seeing what you're not supposed to see?
Read StoryBleed
Vèirnav has bound six echoes—dead souls tethered to the living world through Residue and ritual. For twenty years, he's used their expertise to survive. But when his oldest echo begins remembering things the dead shouldn't remember, the careful economics of death start to collapse.
Read StoryThe Constrained
Àrnnav received the Thorn pattern at her Binding—a mark of difficult paths and hard choices. Working brutal hours in the laundry house to save her brother from the same fate, she takes on dangerous side work that could free them both or destroy everything she's trying to protect.
Read StoryThe Warden
The Wardens enforce the city's laws, keep order in the streets, and ensure the pattern system remains intact. But when a Warden starts questioning the very foundations of that system, loyalty becomes a luxury no one can afford.
Read StoryThe Woven
Five stories, five lives, five patterns that intersect in ways none of them could have predicted. In Fonváros, where every soul is bound and every choice has a cost, the threads that connect them all are about to pull tight.
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