The Primordial Pillars
Ancient presences tied to the foundations of existence. Their traces remain scattered across forgotten places.
Before the first dawn, before the first name, there was an origin waiting to be remembered. Enter a world of forgotten ruins, ancient powers, and two paths destined to complement one another.
Fragments of a reality whose beginning has been lost.
Ancient presences tied to the foundations of existence. Their traces remain scattered across forgotten places.
Silent structures that preserve clues, trials, and memories from an age no living history can fully explain.
A place spoken of only in fragments. Its true nature—and the path toward it—remain unknown.
Two journeys. Two powers. One mystery.
A wanderer who awakens without memories. Known as The Quest Giver, TQG seeks the truth of their own existence and the origin of the fractured world.
A system-like intelligence whose identity unfolds alongside the journey. Systro observes, adapts, and helps uncover what neither traveler could discover alone.
Names preserved in scattered clues. Their roles in the origin of everything have yet to be fully revealed.
Growth shaped by choices, discoveries, and earned understanding.
Prologue and the first steps of an unfinished journey.
The world had no name in his memory.
When TQG opened his eyes, the sky above him was wide and unfamiliar. A quiet meadow stretched toward a distant line of trees, while the wind moved through the grass as if nothing extraordinary had happened.
Yet something was missing. He could remember the shape of the clouds, the cool earth beneath his hands, and the sound of his own breathing—but not who he was, or how he had arrived.
A faint pattern shimmered among the stones nearby. Before he could approach it, a voice emerged from the silence: fragmented, unstable, but unmistakably aware of him.
“Connection… established. Identity… unavailable.”
TQG looked toward the empty air. “Who are you?”
“I am… Systro.” The voice paused, as though searching through a thousand broken records. “I do not possess all the answers. But perhaps our paths can complement one another.”
For a long moment, TQG said nothing. Then he looked toward the horizon, where a distant relic glimmered beneath the fading light.
“Then let us find out who I am.”
CHAPTER 1 · THE ONE WHO WANDERED · DRAFT EXCERPT
This preview currently contains the opening excerpt only. Further chapters will be added after manuscript review.