Aetherreach
Aetherreach
What if the game you created… became your kingdom?
Caelan Ward, genius developer and visionary behind the world’s most advanced VR fantasy game, Aetherreach, was ready to unveil its final evolution: a full-dive simulation that would blur the line between reality and code. But when he and his closest companions initiate the dive, something goes wrong—or perhaps too right.
They don’t wake up in the game they designed.
They awaken in a world that feels too real, where magic flows like data and the kingdoms they once crafted now breathe, bleed, and break.
Caelan is no longer a developer. He is the High Magus of Hollowreach, a remote, frostbound kingdom teetering on the edge of ruin. Around him, his co-founders—military tactician Darius, merchant king Soren, elusive spymaster Ezra, and the prophetic Naomi—have become rulers, warlords, and legends. But influence doesn’t mean control. Each of their domains is fractured by betrayal, rebellion, and ancient forces none of them programmed.
To survive, they must reunite.
To rule, they must remember who they are.
To rebuild, they must forge a kingdom out of chaos—not just in this world, but between both.
But as Caelan digs deeper into the magic beneath Hollowreach, he uncovers a terrifying truth: the realm itself may be alive—and it remembers them.