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Jace Ruan - Herald. Diplomat. Suave. Jace could sell dirt to settlers in the Scorch Zones. Proudly Irish and seemingly born with a silver tongue, he could make the worst of deals sound like a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. His words were always laced with honey - facts and flourish blended in such perfect proportions that people found it difficult to disagree with him. His infamous catchphrase, “you understand?”, had converted countless sceptics into believers, if only becau

Mara Zheng - Fighter. Sniper. Unapologetic. Mara Zheng was a wild card within the Hong Kong Police Department. She did what she believed was right regardless of orders, often bypassing the chain of command in the heat of an operation because she trusted her own judgement above protocol. Her superiors fumed and reprimanded her, but they could never argue with her results. She outperformed every one of her peers at the police academy, achieving the highest scores across every a

Commander Adam Kessler - Soldier. Protector. Unyielding. Adam was born in post-war America and abandoned as an infant. He was taken in and raised by a militant sect determined to resist the dissolution of the United States, where he was trained in combat tactics from the moment he was old enough to hold a weapon. Though ruthless and often reliant on guerrilla methods to achieve their goals, the sect taught Adam far more than warfare. Alongside lessons in discipline and duty,

Dr Xinyi Liao – Generational Genius. Nobel Laureate. Hermit. Xinyi Liao spent her entire life in pursuit of knowledge. While her aristocratic parents chased power and fame in the newly formed Xin-Beijing after the war, Xinyi immersed herself in the sciences, delving deeper than any of her peers across multiple disciplines. Biophysiology, organic chemistry, ecogeology... she explored and mastered them all to the theoretical frontier. Yet her greatest passion lay in theoretical

Monica Virell - Corporate Warlord. Strategist. Relentless. Born to middle-class American migrants who fled their declining homeland for Xin-Beijing, Monica was a victim of bullying throughout her childhood. She was often teased and humiliated for her ties to the nation that had both started and lost World War III. In spite of this, she learned from an early age to steel herself, focusing on what she could achieve while blocking out the voices that sought to belittle her. She

Dr Sebastian Rhames - Visionary. Idealist. Enabler. Rhames was a junior physicist who pivoted into entrepreneurship early in his career, convinced that climate technology would become humanity’s salvation. Intelligent yet unfocused, he only narrowly completed his PhD while simultaneously building his climate-tech start-up, Helixon, which would eventually emerge as one of the world’s most promising providers of climate solutions. He owed much of his success to his muse and cou

YOU HEARD IT HERE FIRST! THIS FALL *Work In Progress COMING IN SEPTEMBER 2026 If Aetherion: Emergence was the beginning of the miracle, Ascendance is the beginning of the cost. Follow the Aetherions through the height of their extraordinary ascent, and witness the looming storm crashing upon them. Can even the fifth dimension withstand what is coming? They were meant to save the world. No one said what it would cost. Three years after their emergence, the Aetherions stand at

Aetherion: Emergence was independently published on 24 March 2026, but the journey began much earlier. On 21 January, we launched the first post of a campaign that spanned Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok, LinkedIn, and Substack. Through immersive in-world clues, mysterious messages, and carefully placed breadcrumbs, we slowly unveiled the world of Aetherion. Along the way, we ran seasonal pre-order promotions, shared companion lore articles after launch, and invited readers to

The Aetherion Field was theorised as a hidden fifth-dimensional framework permeating reality: an underlying structure connecting matter, energy, and spacetime itself. Unlike conventional forces, the Field does not merely influence the physical universe; it subtly regulates probability, perception, and interconnected systems beyond human comprehension. Long dismissed as fringe theoretical speculation by fallen-from-grace, two-time Nobel Laureate and “mad scientist” Dr. Xinyi L