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Caelen Rhyse was an ordinary maintenance supervisor on Earth until an impossible doorway pulled him through reality and abandoned him beneath unfamiliar stars.
The world of Aevaryn should not exist.
Classes appear inside people's minds. Skills evolve through experience. Monsters stalk forgotten roads. Ancient ruins respond like machines pretending to be magic.
And Caelen has just received one of the least impressive classes imaginable.
[THRESHOLD WARDEN - LEVEL 1]
No legendary sword. No devastating spell. No army.
Just a ruined structure called Orivane Bastion Nine, a contaminated well, collapsing walls, sealed chambers, and a road that has been abandoned for centuries.
Survival comes first.
Repair the roof. Find water. Secure the doors. Learn the Veilscript. Stay alive.
Then the travelers begin arriving.
A wounded frontier scout. A disgraced forge master. A young thief with an extraordinary talent for machines. A wandering physician whose faith may not survive what lies beneath the Bastion.
One by one, strangers become residents.
Residents become friends.
And the forgotten ruin begins becoming something dangerously close to home.
But every repair Caelen makes awakens another piece of technology no living civilization understands. Local rulers begin asking who owns the Bastion. Merchants see profit. Soldiers see strategic value. Something buried beneath the surrounding wilderness begins calling monsters toward Orivane.
And far below Caelen's feet waits a gate that has been silent for centuries.
When it finally opens, Caelen learns that Orivane Bastion Nine was never merely a shelter.
It was part of a network.
And somewhere beyond Aevaryn, twelve other nodes have just answered.
The Forsaken Threshold is Book One of The Orivane Threshold, a science-fantasy LitRPG trilogy combining progression, portal fantasy, base building, ancient technology, found family, exploration, mystery and an ordinary profession that may become more powerful than any warrior class.
