The Wilds are alive
Routes migrate, Doors strengthen and fade, and native ecologies have intentions no map can fully hold.
Book One of The Dreaming Wilds
The Wilds Will Not Be Kept
Encounter specialist Tallis has built her life on understanding what others refuse to name. Zoran has survived by separating what should never have been joined. When the Dreaming Wilds begin changing around them, they are forced into an alliance that threatens every certainty they rely on—including the line between protection and possession.
Adult romantasy · in development
Enter the Dreaming Wilds
A living world cannot be reduced to a route.
Nearly everyone touches the Dreaming Wilds in sleep. Trained travelers go deeper, into persistent landscapes where time stretches, routes move, and mistakes can follow them home.
Tallis interprets difficult returns and layered encounters. Zoran finds lost paths and separates overlapping signals. When a disturbance in one deep Reach forces them into partnership, their methods clash: she resists every simple answer, while he believes survival sometimes requires a clean cut.
As the Wilds change around them, their investigation becomes inseparable from the trust growing between them—and from the question at the heart of both the romance and the world: can power be shared without becoming ownership?
Magic begins in relationship
A newborn’s first true Wilds sleep shapes what their magic can touch—and where it answers most readily.
Being known has consequences
Honesty does not dissolve the danger. It makes every choice more precise, intimate, and impossible to escape.
Visual studies
Art from the Dreaming Wilds
Early atmosphere and world studies from a book still taking shape. Finished illustration, creature art, maps, and cover work can grow here as the Wilds become visible.
Pearly shallows, luminous roots, and a canopy deep enough to keep its own weather.
Doors are relationships before they are passages. Some answer only when the light is changing.
A few waking hours can contain days beneath the surface—provided the route still remembers you.
Your first sleep awaits
Determine your magical affinity.
In the Dreaming Wilds, affinity determines what your magic can affect; Day or Night determines where it answers most readily. You do not need to know the book or its magic system—choose the answers that sound most like you.
Question 1 of 10
The Wilds have answered
- Your gift
- Your shadow
- Your orientation
The Dreaming Wilds
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