Gearwind Dunes
Book One Trailer
Long ago, the Tonal Engines carried the Anthem of Time, the melody that held time and nature in one harmony, until the Chronomancers bent it out of tune. In the Sundering the rivers dried, the mountains crumbled, and the Time Wounds tore open, spilling flesh-and-gear horrors from other eras across the sands. Now the Windriders cling to failing skies, the Dune Wanderers read a desert they believe is alive, and the Time Keepers guard what little the old world remembers, while the Tonal Artefacts that could make the Anthem whole lie buried beneath the dunes. Book One: The Listener is coming, and this trailer is the first look: Mirashan, a scavenger who belongs to no faction, is about to learn that the Anthem does not answer those who would rule it, only those who listen.
A lone traveller walks toward towering rib-shaped stone structures in the desert.
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Gearwind Dunes – Book One Trailer
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29 October 2026
9 February 2024
27 May 2025
The world
Characters
Mirashan
A scavenger who belongs to no faction.
Zephyr
Commander of the Windriders, who hold the skies from the cliffs of Skyhaven. She rides the Skyward Dragon.
Kailas
The narrator and the guide of Gearwind, a wise old man with a wooden staff.
Vera
Warden Vera, the Time Keeper who guards Rhyza. “Knowledge is not free.”
Tazir
A merchant with a knowing smile and a ring on every finger. The first human threat.
The Shadow Twin
Wears Mirashan's face and meets him in the trial of courage with one question: “What will you lose?”
Beasts and ships
Skyward Dragon
Red-winged and grey-armoured, it flies with the Windriders. Commander Zephyr rides it.
Thornscale Behemoth
A giant predator covered in thorn-like scales that rises from beneath the sands.
Brass Wanderer
The sand ship of Mardik: a galleon hull like the Vasa on iron runners, with wooden outriggers and patched sails.
Places
Mardik
The scrap town. Scavengers and traders work its market beneath a rusted iron wheel gate taller than a man.
Rhyza
The fortress of the Time Keepers. Behind its great stone gate lies the chamber of trials.
Skyhaven
Home of the Windriders in the Stormspire Peaks: cliffs carved with turbines and airship docks.
Eldergreen
The green world before the Sundering, when the Tonal Engines carried the Anthem of Time.
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