Lowbell
A mountain terrace below the cloud deck. Its bell still rings, though the charts say it is empty.
VEYR · BOOKS VI–X · BY BLACKBEARD
The Gilded
Covenant
The second Brasswake voyage
They cannot own the sky.
So they are buying its harbors.
A bell rings from a place the charts call empty. A living clerk has been declared dead. A fortress carries a ledger its own captain has never read. The Unbroken sails into a war fought with gun batteries, forged bonds and promises people cannot afford to believe.
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VI–XThe next five Brasswake voyages
AFTER THE LAST FREE HORIZON
Freedom has a working account
The Crown Engine war has ended. Your earlier decisions still belong to you. The Unbroken still needs coal, its crew needs wages, and the harbors of Veyr have discovered that a rescue can arrive with a contract nobody should sign.
The Gilded Covenant claims structures declared abandoned. Its privateers offer protection to the people it has made invisible. Captain Sable Rook follows the evidence from a silenced bell to a registry city and then aboard the enormous Leviathan.
Return with the crew, face rivals with obligations of their own, and help nine harbors work together without appointing another owner. The journey reaches its conclusion at Quiet Crown, where the creditors have priced a city’s falling before its inhabitants can leave.
BEYOND THE OLD TRADE LANES
Five places that refuse to be empty
Palimpsest
A republic of registry towers and borrowed names, where a corrected certificate can be more dangerous than a loaded pistol.
The Leviathan
Six hundred and eighty meters of armored salvage decks, gigantic winches and families whose labor is hidden in a ledger.
Ninefold Mooring
Nine harbors, separate flags and a defensive agreement that must survive its first broadside.
Quiet Crown
A tethered foundry harbor where the bond court has already sold the salvage of homes still occupied.
NEW VOICES IN THE BRASSWAKE
Witnesses, workers and collectors
Mina Tern
Declared dead by her own registry, a living clerk carries the corrections it refused to hear.
Orso Flint
A dockwright who measures what a promise can carry—and insists the brake has a second operator.
Arlen Sere
The Leviathan’s commodore has rescued harbors. Now he must read the whole account of how his fortress is paid.
Oriel Dain
A former captain who has learned to collect cities without calling it conquest.
Sable, Iona, Bram, Neris, Tamsin, Pell, Gannet and Ysra return, each with promises of their own.
THE GILDED COVENANT
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BOOK 6 · SECOND VOYAGE
The Bells Beneath the Cloud
Follow a distress bell beneath the clouds and rescue a harbor the official charts have declared empty. A golden relief fleet is already waiting to collect its people.
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BOOK 7 · SECOND VOYAGE
The Republic of Borrowed Names
In the registry republic of Palimpsest, living people have been declared dead and their wages sold. A missing clerk leads the Unbroken into a city that insists its papers are more real than its citizens.
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The Leviathan's Debt
Board a 680-meter armored salvage fortress under a precarious truce. Its commodore's rescue record hides a ledger his crew has never been allowed to read.
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BOOK 9 · SECOND VOYAGE
The War of Nine Harbors
Nine harbors answer a pirate summons with different promises. Protect their convoys from the collection fleet without turning a defensive alliance into a new empire.
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BOOK 10 · SECOND VOYAGE
The Harbor at the End of the Sky
Reach a tethered foundry harbor whose creditors have already sold its falling. The Unbroken must protect its people and confront the Gilded Covenant before the last anchor is released.
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What does a rescue let people choose?
The bell is still ringing. Take the Unbroken below the clouds and listen.
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