THE AKIL CYCLE
A Five-Book Epic Fantasy Series

THE AKIL
CYCLE

The god is gone. The city he built is still standing.

A five-book epic fantasy series about what a city does when the god who built it has to leave—and what it will cost to bring him home.

The Golden Sword — Book One of The Akil Cycle, cover art
Book One of The Akil Cycle
THE GOLDEN
SWORD

Akil Stormwrought built Sky City from nothing—the last god-king of a realm that had forgotten what gods were for. Then he left. He had to. What he was containing would have destroyed the city if he had stayed. He built it to survive without him anyway.

Three people are about to find out if he built it well enough.

Sky City is three days past a siege. The next one is already being planned.

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The Golden Sword
THE
CHARACTERS
five principals
The World
SKY CITY &
UNDERLING

SKY CITY

A high-altitude city built on an enormous living air elemental. Its architecture combines living cloud, pale sky metal, and warm rimu wood. It is home to the raven-dark, winged Ka.

Living air elemental foundation
Cloud, sky metal & rimu wood
Home of the Ka

UNDERLING

The rebuilt Capital beneath Sky City. It exists in permanent shadow but remains dense, resilient, culturally distinct, and alive. Not evil. Not ruined. Not inferior.

Permanent shadow, warm amber light
Dense, resilient, culturally distinct
Rebuilt after the siege
The Akil Cycle
THE SERIES

What does a god owe the world he made—and what does that world owe him in return?

01
The Golden Sword
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02
The Black Staff
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03
The Hollow Crown
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04
The God's Chain
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05
The Storm's Eye
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Tabletop Adventures
ADVENTURE
IN ALERIA

A 5E-compatible tabletop adventure line is in development, allowing readers to create their own heroes and explore the crises, hidden operations, and consequences unfolding beside the novels' central story.

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IN DEVELOPMENT
SHADOW
UNDER SKY

A level 1–3 adventure set between Sky City and Underling in the aftermath of the siege.

5E-compatible · levels 1–3
Peter Rees, author of The Akil Cycle
The Author
PETER
REES

Peter Rees created Akil Stormwrought at the game table and spent years developing his history, world, and consequences. The Akil Cycle expands that history into a five-book epic fantasy series about power, responsibility, absence, and the people who inherit unfinished work.

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