After the Great Transfer, Eidos became both refuge and destination. Millions of consciousnesses live there, sustained by a perfection that promises continuity and the absence of pain. Natural death has disappeared, yet fractures persist, fissures no algorithm can fully seal.
On Earth, the Custodians continue their silent work. They interpret signals, rebuild structures, and discover, with an unanticipated sensitivity, the value of what the wind, the ruins, the song of a solitary bird, life insisting within a condemned environment.
Eidos Tales brings together stories that stand alone yet interweave. A father divided between two bodies; priests who hesitate at the threshold of the soul; families who did not reach the Transfer in time; groups surviving in empty cities; Custodians who explore the world. Stories that reveal what remains human once the place to be born, to grow, and to die has been lost.
Each story illuminates a different angle of collapse and the ethics of identity, memory as a boundary, the violence that emerges in the absence of law, the tenderness that persists even when everything is broken, the solitude of those left behind, and the illusion of youth that does not fade with age but wears away with time.
This volume explores existence, doubt, and our nature. It preserves the tone and the halo of Eidos without offering definitive answers. It proposes a gaze into the cracks of the present and the human behaviors that sustain them, inside and outside the system.
Eidos Tales expands the universe of Eidos with stories set before and after the Great Transfer. An incomplete map of what was lost and of all that may still be remembered.
This book contains references to, and key events from, the novel Eidos. It is recommended to read Eidos before Eidos Tales.*