Crystal Throne

di Ibrahim Sari (Autore)

Haven Publisher, 2025

Crystal Throne is a philosophical fantasy about the ordinary machinery of power—ledgers, gates, bells, benches, banners—and how small choices turn them either into tools of control or instruments of community. No prophecies, no chosen ones, no wars of destiny. Instead, the story follows four travelers—Maelin the scribe, Yssri the musician, Torvane the builder, and Sereth the cautioneer—who walk beside gray-clad Heralds carrying proposals they call Drafts. A Draft is never a law; it is a pattern meant to be edited by each town it visits. In every place, a familiar temptation appears: turn numbers into law, water into property, storage into hoard, praise into reverence, alarms into commands, listening into verdicts, seeing into doctrine, arrival into a crown. Through small, careful inventions—bells that miss a beat, latches that require two thumbs, rails that stop short, ledgers that blush when misused—the travelers help communities choose humility over hierarchy. At the heart of the novel is a simple grammar of neighborliness: Water kept lent. Store kept porous. Praise kept as service. Unison kept with gap. Signal kept as ask. Listening kept as witness. Sight kept with parallax. Center kept empty. These lines are not slogans but handles—practical ways to carry the book's lessons into real life. The Crystal Throne itself remains untouched: a radiant seat in the middle of a salt-bright plain, important not because someone will sit in it, but because it teaches the value of leaving the center open. Blending literary fantasy with quiet political insight, Crystal Throne offers a thoughtful journey through the everyday structures that shape societies—and the gentle, persistent work required to keep them human.

• Autore: Ibrahim Sari
• Anno edizione: 2025
• Editore: Haven Publisher
• Formato: EPUB2 con DRMFREE
• Lingua: Inglese
• Compatibilità: Tutti i dispositivi (eccetto Kindle)
• Layout: Reflowable
• EAN: 9798232520274