Eidolon - The First Veil

On a quiet trip to the Scottish Highlands, a ten-year-old boy notices something no one else seems to question-a distant mountain his parents insist doesn't exist. Locals avoid it. Maps ignore it. And yet, he can't stop looking at it... or feeling like it's somehow aware of him. Months later, after a series of unsettling moments where reality seems to shift and bend around him, he is taken to that very mountain-revealed to be the hidden site of an ancient academy where a rare and dangerous ability is studied: the power to shape reality through perception. At the Academy, students are trained to control their minds with absolute precision. A single doubt can shatter what they create; a single fear can twist the world into something unrecognizable. Here, reality is not fixed-it is fragile, unstable, and constantly rewritten by those strong enough to believe. But the Academy is not just a school-it is a last line of defense. As the boy struggles to master his own mind, he discovers something that sets him apart: he doesn't see just one version of reality, but many at once. Where others impose their will, he hesitates. Where others see certainty, he sees contradictions. And that may be the only thing that can stop a world from being rewritten. Because in a place where belief defines existence, the greatest power isn't control-it's the ability to question what's real.

Pagina's: 324, Paperback, Notion Press