Quill & Cosmos

🛡️ MEET LEON 🛡️ Sylphar's golden boy. Soldier, charmer, and the hero who rescued Princess Ariadne from Erebos. The crowds adore him. But heroes aren't always what they seem, and Leon wants that crown badly. How far would he go? What makes Leon who he is: He is charm itself. He can win a room with a smile, and he knows it. He is the hero of the rescue. He brought Princess Ariadne home from Erebos, and Sylphar has not stopped celebrating him since. He is ambitious. The crown is not just a dream for Leon. It is a goal, and he is willing to reach for it. He is not as simple as the cheers make him sound. There is more under the charm than the crowds ever see, and the question is what it costs. So: hero, or something else? Read and decide. 📖 Legend of Sylphar: The Silver Queen — available now: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7ZRJRGS All other stores: https://books2read.com/b/LegendofSylpharTheSilverQueen Want to meet him for free? The Silver Queen ebook giveawa...

🏛️ MEET CAPEL SIRIUS 🏛️ Steady. Principled. Unshakable. That's Capel Sirius. Capel is Chairman of the Sylphar council, and the closest thing Princess Ariadne has to a father figure. In a court full of schemes and shifting loyalties, he is the steady voice in the room, the one who says what is right even when it costs him. What makes Capel who he is: He is steady. When everyone else is reacting, Capel is thinking, and his counsel has steadied Ariadne more times than she can count. He is principled. He does not bend for convenience or applause. What is right is right, and he stands on it. He is unshakable. Pressure, politics, danger, none of it moves him off his ground. He is family, in the way that counts. Not by blood, but by choice, by showing up, by being the grandfather figure Ariadne leans on when the crown gets heavy. In a court full of schemes, who do you trust? 📖 Legend of Sylphar: The Silver Queen — available now: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7ZRJRGS ...

Jack Unit 382 is a clone — one of a thousand identical Jacks laboring in the textile mills of Raven 5, a world his kind can never leave. Each night he journals the days since the treaty. But 382 has begun to suspect he is different from his brothers: he dreams, he wonders, and he wants things no Jack is supposed to want. This is his story. Journal Entry 712 I unfolded the slip last night. For a week it had sat folded in my pocket, the curve waiting the way a held breath waits. I told myself in yesterday's entry that I would finish it, and I keep my promises to this journal even when I am afraid of them. So I sat on my bunk after the lights went low, and I took out the pencil I keep hidden in my boot, and I finished the line. It did not become a petal. That is the first honest thing I can write about it. The curve wanted to go somewhere the petals never go, and my hand followed it with a sureness that did not feel like mine — or perhaps it felt like the most mine anything has ...

  👑 MEET KING TAURAN 👑 Every court has a king. This one has a legend. Tauran is the King of Lyke, father of Erebos and grandfather of Theeson. He has held the throne longer than anyone remembers, and he is not finished. What makes Tauran who he is: He is terrifyingly beautiful. Young and ancient all at once, with a crown like black oil on water. Look at him too long and you will forget to be afraid. That would be a mistake. He is kept alive by magic. The blue sphere atop his staff holds a legendary jewel that cannot be broken. Its magic keeps him breathing, and no one remembers a Lyke without him on the throne. Everyone kneels. He does not ask for loyalty. He simply expects it, and he has never been disappointed. King, tyrant, or something in between? Read and decide. 📖 Legend of Sylphar: The Silver Queen — available now: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7ZRJRGS All other stores: https://books2read.com/b/LegendofSylpharTheSilverQueen Want to meet him for free? Th...

Jack Unit 382 is a clone — one of a thousand identical Jacks laboring in the textile mills of Raven 5, a world his kind can never leave. Each night he journals the days since the treaty. But 382 has begun to suspect he is different from his brothers: he dreams, he wonders, and he wants things no Jack is supposed to want. This is his story. Journal Entry 705 I went back to the magnolia tree today. ZX98 was already there when I arrived, sitting on the bench with his hands folded in his lap, looking at nothing in particular the way he does when he is thinking. He did not seem surprised to see me. I have begun to suspect that very little surprises ZX98, which is either wisdom or exhaustion, and I have not yet decided which. "You have the look," he said, "of a Jack who has been carrying a question." "I have been carrying it all week," I admitted, and sat down beside him. The petals were coming down slow in the afternoon light. I watched one land on the be...

   👑 MEET EREBOS 👑 Every story needs a villain. This one is hers. Erebos is Theeson's father, older and harder. He acts first and asks no questions later. He is cruel, and he likes it. Erebos doesn’t hurt people because he has to. He hurts them because he enjoys it. He wants the throne. Erebos is ambitious the way fire is hot. He was born beside power and raised in a king’s shadow, and he has no intention of standing behind someone else’s crown. Everyone is a piece on his board. Useful, or in the way. There is no third category, and he has no qualms about removing the pieces that stop being useful. So what is he? A monster, a mastermind, or something else entirely? You decide. 📖 Legend of Sylphar: The Silver Queen — available now: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B7ZRJRGS All other stores: https://books2read.com/b/LegendofSylpharTheSilverQueen Want to meet him for free? The Silver Queen ebook giveaway runs through November 1. Email authorbrandipeterson@gmail.com with ...

🗡️ MEET THEESON 🗡️ Prince Theeson, son of Prince Erebos. Young, handsome, and utterly amused by the pampered little Sylph princess he just captured. Ariadne finds him acceptable. And annoying. (Her words, not mine.) What makes Theeson who he is: He looks the part. Broad shoulders, dark armor, and a cape he wears out of duty, not decoration. His hair is black in shadow with a reddish gleam when the light catches it, and his dark eyes give nothing away. He wears a smirk like a mask. His smirk and his arrogance hide what he does not want anyone to see: the shame, the fear, the sorrow, and the conflict underneath. He walks the line his terrible father forces him to walk, but he hates it, and loyalty to his people is starting to cost him more than he expected. He captures Ariadne, and later regrets the trouble he has put her through. Behind the mask is a heart and a conscience he is still trying to protect. He notices more than he lets on. For all his joking, Theeson reads a room fast....