Four Pieces of Light

An Archive of Necessary Myths

De: Alyx H. V.

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Alaric has named Julien the new Sun Keeper. This is, in the considered opinion of the people of Varennes, an unmitigated catastrophe.

Julien thought his new job would involve celestial mechanics, not celestial politics. But before he can catalogue a flare or polish a sunbeam to proper brilliance, he must convince the people of Varennes that he isn’t a cosmic accident in the making.

Accompanied (though not always helped) by Cassius, a man with a wound, a conscience, and a talent for being noble at all the wrong moments, Julien begins an increasingly inadvisable journey to peel back layers of light, of myth, and of his own teacher. Between fending off public outrage and deciphering cryptic paintings in a locked chamber, he finally comes to confront his place in a story long in motion: if he can see the contours of the world, must he carry the burden of shaping it?

Wry and aching in equal measure, Four Pieces of Light: An Archive of Necessary Myths follows a trickster god as he orchestrates the fate of mortals and immortals alike, one improbable coincidence at a time.