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🇫🇷 Les Chiens de Chasse nous traquent dans la brume fuchsia, aboyant leurs coordonnées. Pour désynchroniser le cœur de la ville, il faut plonger les mains dans les fibres du Métronome. Quitte à y laisser bien plus que sa propre chair.

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🇬🇧 The Hounds are tracking us through the pink haze, barking their coordinates. To knock the city's heart out of sync, I have to plunge my hands into the Metronome's fibers. Even if it means leaving behind much more than my own flesh.

Still one of my favorite images of the surface of the moon. The contrast, the austerity… it speaks so strongly to my minimalist self.

This image features on the custom endsheets of the COLOR OF A MIRROR limited edition hardcover, providing a really cool shift from the black of the cover to the white of the pages.

Only 100 hardcover copies printed. Find it here:

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Image credit: NASA & Project Apollo Archive

The High Realms is the galaxy-wide territory where most of The Arcanum takes place. It’s the ruling seat for all known monarchies dynasties that exist within the Known Universe.

There are three Great Dynasties in the Realms, and each controls a highly influential part of the galaxy.

House Barnum

House Caesar

House Lucarion

House Barnum rules the Southern High Realms, known for its rolling green hills, hot weather, ancient traditions, and peace. Their governing planet is Zeltog, home of the Rhashi Eli'hah. Their Monarch is King Kyron. They’re ancient, absurdly rich, and terrifyingly influential. But even they don't understand what’s about to be unleashed. Some believe this House may be the one to birth the Dreamer...

House Caesar rules the Western High Realms, the biggest of them all, known as the Capital of Market, specifically the market of drugs and recreation. Keepers of nearly eighty percent of all known drug stockpile, the empire is built not only on wealth, but on the suggestion of permanence. The governing planet, which is the highest governing planet in all of the Empire, is called Imperion Prime—a reign that has endured for over 90,000 years. House Lucarion does not rule over any specific realm. They are the weakest of the trio, only noted as influential for their deep roots as the richest Slavers in all the Capital. They are popular because it's shocking to the public that they have found a way to enslave people. They are the only monarchy that still does it. They have become subject to many myths and dark legends. Are they in cohorts with demons and darkchildren? Does the Duchess practice dark magicks? Do they use the likeness of Man in their A.I. Machines? Only the gods know.

The Empire does not remember who they conquered. They don’t even know what came before them. What remains of the Old World is hidden, or scrubbed clean by the royal archivists, or burned. No one in the Capital truly knows how the Empire began, only that there were many Crusades and battles against an ancient government that's been long forgotten.

WHEN THE FAITHFUL READER BEGINS,