FERDINAND’S ROAD: FERDINAND IN THE ARCHIVES
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The main story of DESCENDING ROAD, where we meet Ferdinand, Andrew, Ezzar, Jeddin, Marra, Arlen, and many others – every one of them entangled in the fate of the City and the planet.

ANDREW’S ROAD: FERDINAND AND THE SONG
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The story of an ordinary man, brought unknowingly as a child into a tangled world that tests him to his limits.

EZZAR’S ROAD: THE LAST ONE
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A woman’s life is destroyed — she finds her way out of rage and horror into hope.

JEDDIN’S ROAD: FERDINAND DRINKS
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Reality to this man is discontinuous and unending, and his inner secret leads him on a long chase.

MARRA’S ROAD: FUN WITH FEVER
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Her charity to a stranger throws her into a most-disturbing world.

ARLEN’S ROAD: THE GREEN OVOID
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Power and adventure are his to wield, and he does so without reckoning the consequences.

PYRO MAN: MA GETS A BURHOLM
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The City‘s drugs enslave him, until he finds the courage to face death.

LEJINA’S CHANGE: ON GRAND BEND STREET
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She travels the City streets in fear, and a bird lands on her shoulder to whisper words that take her on a giddy and horrific dance of transformation.

DERIZAN’S JOURNEY: THE WIND STOPPED ALTOGETHER
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Uprooted from his home and cast with his family into the wastes, he must save their lives and find his way to justice.

WEAVING INWARD: FERDINAND IN THE ARCHIVES
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Breaking free from addiction, this created person discovers secrets hidden from humankind for thousands of years.

DENG’S RIDE: THE LANGUAGE OF CITY WALLS
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A City resident unlocks tales concealed in plain sight — tales that can bring death, healing, or just laughter.

THE SIRATHEN ROAD: PILLARS OF TIME
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An appalling forest confronts a fugitive, forcing him to choose between a death sentence and a life in wood-shrouded darkness.

SULIMAR’S ROAD: SULIMAR
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His girlfriend abruptly deserts him for a former lover, and this man starts improvising a new life — with wild and wacky results.

DESCENT TO TARNUS: NO PLACE FOR TEARS TO FALL
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Asleep for millennia, he awakens to impending death, and finds a surprising existence in a new world beyond his imagination.

EX MURO: TO LAUGH AT THE MAN
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Escaping from thousands of years of prison, this creature in human form takes out his revenge, only to discover something far greater.

DANCE OF WAR: THE VAT
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Two lovers, driven to meet by violence and battle, force a bloody trail across Tarnus until at last death confronts each of them.

CITY STREET SCENES: JEDDIN
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Gran Dar, the mightiest subterranean City of Tarnus, shows the reader a tableau of its everyday life.

EATING, DRINKING, DANCING, AND MORE: FERDINAND IN THE ARCHIVES
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For the restless visitor, the City unfolds its explosive night life.

PARALLEL STRANDS: BETRAYAL AND DESERTION
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Andrew, pushed beyond his limits, tries to shift the branching of time.

A CITY TOUR: CITY INTRODUCTION
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The City Guide ainon of the Archives describes some of the City‘s characteristics.

STAR ROAD: Before The Story
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Getting to Tarnus took a long, long time – and most who started the journey died along the way.

BACK ALONG STAR ROAD: NOW THERE WILL BE
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Following the trail back from the beginnings of Tarnus leads us home – to an Earth made alien by our journey.

THE WEAVINGS OF TIME: FERDINAND IN THE ARCHIVES
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The stories of Descending Road lead in many directions, tangled in the fabrics of history, dream, and circumstance.