A young cartographer discovers a map that leads to a legendary city swallowed by the sea, embarking on a perilous journey that blurs the line between myth and reality.
Kaelen had always been a man of lines and logic. His world was parchment and ink, the precise rendering of coastlines and mountain ranges. But the map he found, tucked away in a forgotten tome, was different. It was drawn in a shimmering, silver ink and seemed to shift and change in the candlelight. It depicted Aeridor, a city spoken of only in whispers, a place of impossible architecture and arcane knowledge, lost to the waves a thousand years ago. Driven by a thirst for discovery that bordered on obsession, Kaelen commissions a ship and crew, venturing into the treacherous Azure Maw, a stretch of ocean from which no ship has ever returned. He seeks a city, but he may find a truth about his own lineage that is far more dangerous.