Null Threads by Joshua Dalzelle
What follows is Null Threads, a six-part story set 240 years before the events of House of Blades, Book One of the Gates of Babylon.
A quick orientation before you begin. The Imperium of Light spans countless worlds, and its order is kept by the Knights Eternal, warriors granted the Sight, the ability to glimpse the branching paths of the future. For centuries, that gift has made them untouchable.
Sir Rylen Thorne is one of them. He has been sent to a frozen world called Nayara to find two Knights who vanished without a trace, and what he uncovers beneath the ice will cost him far more than the answer he came for.
You don’t need to have read House of Blades to follow it. But when the novel arrives this October, you’ll understand you were holding the beginning of the whole story all along.
Step through.
Welcome to the Imperium of Light
What follows is the opening of House of Blades, Book One of the Gates of Babylon: the prologue and first two chapters, free to read.
A quick orientation before you begin. Humanity is scattered across countless worlds, connected by a network of ancient Gates that almost no one truly understands. Holding it all together is the Imperium of Light, and enforcing its will are the Knights Eternal, warriors granted the Sight, the ability to glimpse the branching paths of the future.
You’re about to meet one of them.
You don’t need to know anything else. Just step through.