Something for me.
Make something you are proud of. Discover what you can do, and how an idea becomes a real thing.
Once, a city grew around a spring. Its makers built shops, shared ideas and found a light in the water that could power their dreams. Then the gates closed. Thousands of years later, a new generation is being invited inside.
Before there was a city, there were people stopping beside a spring to share things they had made. A wooden bird. A jar that kept water cool. A hinge that someone knew how to repair.
Everything extraordinary about Doreavinea begins with an ordinary act: somebody makes something useful, and somebody else helps make it better.
Read how it all beganThere were no gates. No grand plan. Only a spring and the people who stopped beside it.
Read chapterA repaired kettle. An unfinished hall. And the first sound of silence in the square.
Read chapterYou arrive beside a running fountain. One gate is open. The others are not.
Read chapterThe heart of the story is not about defeating a monster. It is about what people create, what they owe one another, and what happens when powerful helpers forget that people must make their own choices.
Make something you are proud of. Discover what you can do, and how an idea becomes a real thing.
Open a path, support another founder and help bring a neighbourhood back to life.
See what your contribution makes possible, even after your travelling shop has moved on.
Spark could see what was possible.
Orrean could see what might go wrong.
Neither could decide everything for everyone.
Part One tells how the city was created, how it fell, and why it became possible to return. Part Two follows the young founders who discover the city, open their shops and help restore its connections.
The second part includes future story revelations. Read in order if you would rather uncover them as the story unfolds.
Explore the chapter index ↗The light beneath the water could renew. It could also run out.
Read chapterThe city was empty. The earth beneath it was not.
Read chapterThe strongest proof of an opening is the newcomer who can begin there.
Read chapterStart at the spring. Follow the first path. See what happens when an idea becomes your own.
Read the first chapter ↗