A Hard Rain Falls: The Sundered World Part 1

Siwe a young woman cherishes dreams of becoming a singer on the fabled Road, Gaoth is a Forester living in the great Forest known as Tapuai, beneath which the vast mycorrhizal network of the Mushroom spread. He carries a symbiote, as do all Foresters, which amongst other things allows him to communicate with his friend TikTak who is a giant sentient Spider. Gaoth dreams of faraway places and a haunting music. TikTak dreams of flying. Uyanga is a horse woman on the Sea of Grass who is summoned to meet a mysterious presence. Yeo runs a bar in the City, ancient capital of a great northern Empire. Crook is a subversive presence as a band leader in an army of that Empire. Withing the core of the world an alien presence lurks. Follow the stories of these and other characters, in a world sundered by an endless storm that rages around the equator, separating north from south.