Iron Wings

Iron Wings opens in myth and proceeds by measurement. In the river city of Veyra, a hill-sized engine is mistaken for a god. Instead of being worshiped, it is taught—slowly, deliberately—to become a workshop. What follows is not a tale of prophecy or conquest, but of stewardship: how a city learns to survive by replacing spectacle with count, ritual with maintenance, and reverence with responsibility. The citizens of Veyra—clerks, sweepers, mechanics, wardens, and apprentices—do not seek heroes. They choose chores. They name parts plainly, keep pencils on chains, post small prohibitions instead of grand commandments, and insist that every request brush against refusal before it becomes permission. In this city, no comes first, not as cruelty but as care. Moving through a series of civic trials, Iron Wings traces how power is domesticated through limits: hinges that stop quietly, valves that fail small, rivers taught to mind their manners. Against them stands the Sanctum, a recurring human reflex that renames appetite as ceremony and tries to tax what hands already know how to do together. Written in a voice that blends shop talk, ledger, and quiet chant, the novel reads like a fable for systems—political, mechanical, and moral. Repetition becomes a tool. Silence becomes a safety. Wonder survives not in miracles, but in days that are counted, stewarded, and left unadmired. Iron Wings is a work of mythic, philosophical fiction for readers drawn to literary fantasy, political allegory, and stories where the truest form of resistance is maintenance. It asks a simple, radical question: What if the sacred thing is not power, but care—and what kind of city might grow from that choice? If the book succeeds, it will not ask to be praised. It will ask to be used.