Book I of Deminius: The Origins Series
In the beginning, there was a child who walked.
No child had ever walked at birth. Not in all of Gardenia’s long recorded history. Not once, in all the ages of the Elemens, the overlords, the mystics, and the forgotten.
Until Deminius.
Four days old. Standing. Watching. Already more than the world knew how to hold.
His parents gave him to the mystics of Indica — not abandonment, but the oldest act of love. The hunters were coming. And a child who walks at birth cannot be hidden in an ordinary life.
In Indica he is raised in silence, shaped by discipline, and stirred by two bloodlines — fire from his father’s lineage, frost from his mother’s — gifts belonging to two worlds, meeting in one body.
The prophecy has always known his name.
He is only beginning to learn it.
Before the Walker, there was the child.
Before the child, there was the prophecy.
A child born walking will rise to challenge the overlords. Will unite the scattered and the oppressed. Will restore what was taken.
Deminius is four days old when his parents make the impossible choice. Hunted for what he represents, surrendered to the mystics of Indica for what he might become, he grows up between two mythologies — the fire of his father’s Nigerian ashé, the frost of his mother’s European gift — in a realm where silence is the oldest form of power.
He does not yet know what Gardenia lost when the Elemens fell.
He does not yet know what the overlords fear.
He does not yet know his own name.
But the world is already turning towards him.
And when he is ready, nothing will hold him.
The Silent One is Book I of
Deminius: The Origins Series
The first chapter of the Gardenia Universe, and the founding text of afroeurofantasy fiction.