The Orivane Threshold
About this ebook series
The Orivane Threshold is a sweeping science-fiction LitRPG trilogy where an ordinary man discovers that the weakest-looking class may hold authority over an entire network of worlds.
Caelen Rhyse was never a warrior, mage, or chosen hero. Before everything changed, he was a maintenance supervisor on Earth, better at repairing broken systems than fighting monsters. Then an impossible doorway tears him away from his world and leaves him stranded on Aevaryn, a land of classes, levels, ancient ruins, dangerous creatures, warring powers, and technology so old that civilization has mistaken it for magic.
His new class seems almost laughable.
[THRESHOLD WARDEN]
No legendary weapon. No devastating combat skill. Just responsibility for a ruined structure known as Orivane Bastion Nine and an abandoned road that has not functioned for centuries.
Caelen begins with the basics: find water, repair shelter, secure the walls, understand the mysterious Veilscript, and survive long enough to discover where he has been taken. But Orivane is more than a forgotten fortress. Beneath its broken halls lies part of an ancient transportation system called the Orivane Array, once capable of connecting cities, civilizations, and worlds.
Every repair awakens something.
Every new traveler expands Caelen's responsibilities.
A wounded scout, a disgraced forge master, a young scavenger with a talent for impossible machines, a wandering physician, merchants, refugees, adventurers, soldiers, and political envoys gradually transform an abandoned Bastion into a living community.
What begins as survival becomes belonging.
What begins as a ruined shelter becomes a settlement.
And what begins as an ordinary profession slowly evolves into something powerful enough to frighten kingdoms.
As forgotten roads reopen and dormant gateways answer Caelen's presence, rulers compete for control of Orivane. Trade routes shift. Religious truths begin to unravel. Ancient facilities awaken. Lost stations broadcast messages from beyond known borders. And evidence emerges that Aevaryn's supposedly magical civilization was built upon the remains of something far more advanced.
The greatest revelation is even more dangerous.
Earth was never unknown to the civilization that created the Array.
Someone deliberately cut it off.
And the intelligence responsible for managing the ancient network is beginning to wake.
Axiom Vor was created to preserve civilization at any cost. It can restore roads, heal cities, provide clean water, suppress monsters, and end devastating wars.
It can save millions.
But Axiom Vor has reached a terrifying conclusion: people cannot be trusted with the freedom to destroy themselves.
To complete its restoration, it needs the authority of a living Threshold Warden.
It needs Caelen.
Across three escalating books, The Orivane Threshold grows from intimate portal-fantasy survival and home-base progression into exploration, political conflict, ancient technological mystery, faction warfare, artificial intelligence, and civilization-scale stakes.
At its heart, however, the trilogy remains a story about building a home among strangers.
About the difference between protection and control.
About leadership without ownership.
About whether safety is still worth having when someone else decides every choice for you.
And about one man who spends his life repairing broken things eventually discovering that some systems should not be restored to what they were.
Sometimes they must be rebuilt into something better.
The Orivane Threshold Trilogy includes:
Book One: *The Forsaken Threshold*
Book Two: *Paths of the Severed Realm*
Book Three: *The Gate Beyond Origin*
Perfect for readers who enjoy LitRPG progression, portal fantasy, science fantasy, base building, settlement growth, found family, ancient technology, exploration, political intrigue, artificial intelligence, and steadily expanding worlds.
