The Feral Lands universe is my most ambitious work of fiction, first conceived back in 2012–2013, during my first semesters of college.
It currently consists of two books:
This universe will continue to expand with more titles already on the way, ready to bring you new adventures.
MORE ABOUT THE UNIVERSE
In this version of history, humanity never knew Earth.
The universe, life itself, took a different path, and the human race instead emerged on a planet called Aethalya.
A world accompanied by two moons, Serina and Elyra, and divided by the immense Tessar Ocean into two great continents: Vestora and Drahim.
Despite finding itself on another world, humanity remained human, for better or worse.
Over the centuries, its people established regions, built cities, developed cultures, explored their planet, and achieved major scientific and technological advances. They also came to know ambition, territorial disputes, political crises, and war.
Aethalya has a history of its own.
And much of it took place long before the main novels began.
BEFORE CRIMSON CREST
The people of Aethalya built a modern, interconnected civilization. Distances between regions grew increasingly smaller, technology transformed everyday life, and events on one continent could have consequences on the other side of the ocean.
But that society was not free from conflict either.
Decades of tensions between regions eventually led to some of the most significant events in its history, including the Continental War, a conflict that would forever change the relationship between Vestora and Drahim.
Its aftermath would bring new agreements, new alliances, and a humanity convinced that it had learned from its mistakes.
It had no idea how much the world was about to change.
XANKUS
It all began with something too small to be seen with the naked eye.
Its emergence would trigger a crisis for which no region, military, or institution was prepared.
A pandemic began spreading across Aethalya.
The infected died.
But some of the dead rose again.
In time, those creatures would be given a name: Ferals.
The civilization that had taken centuries to build began to disappear within a matter of months.
Cities were abandoned. Communications collapsed. Entire regions went silent.
And humanity nearly disappeared along with them.
MORE THAN A CENTURY LATER
Humanity survived.
But Aethalya no longer belongs to it.
The descendants of those who managed to escape the pandemic now live protected within Settlements, enormous communities isolated from the outside world.
Beyond them lie The Barrens.
Ancient cities, roads, and remnants of a vanished civilization stand abandoned as nature slowly reclaims what was once taken from it.
And among those ruins, Ferals still roam.
For most people, the world outside exists only in stories.
For others, venturing into it is part of the job.
A.R.C.E.
The Armed Response and Containment of Epidemics (A.R.C.E.) is one of the forces responsible for protecting the Settlements and confronting the dangers that exist beyond their borders.
Among its ranks are those who watch, protect, and venture into The Barrens to recover what humanity left behind.
Every incursion can uncover resources, remnants of the old world, or answers about what happened more than a century ago.
It can also be their last.
Because the Ferals are still out there.
And they are not all the same.
STORIES OF AETHALYA
The Feral Lands universe does not tell only the story of humanity on the brink of extinction.
It also tells the stories of those who lived before, during, and after that turning point.
CRIMSON CREST takes us back to the events leading up to the pandemic and the first discoveries that would ultimately change Aethalya.
FERAL LANDS shows us what remained more than a century later: a new humanity born among the remnants of the old one, and an outside world transformed into unknown territory.
But between those two moments lie more than a hundred years of stories.
Aethalya is a world far greater than any one of its books.
And we have only just begun to explore it.