A world built on three realms.

Samsāra takes place on the planet Titānia, in the summer of 548 BCE — the year of the 13th decadal Trials first hosted by the Sūrian-born queen of Arcadia almost a hundred and twenty years earlier. Civilization here is younger than ours and older than ours at once: the Sumerian dawn already an ancient memory, the unification of the Sūrians a dim legend, the first appearance of the Mārtya only sixteen generations gone.

The cosmology is three-tiered. Celestial beings — Devas, Enlightened Ones, and the high-light Sati that sustains them — look down from the Pure Realm and the Brahmā realm. Terrestrial life — Sumerian, Mārtya, Sūrian, Prithvi — runs its course on Titānia. Narakan beings dwell in the opposite pole, the realm of greatest mental affliction. Naraka is also the bridge: anything from outside Titānia — a soul, a Deva, a curse from a parallel realm — has to pass through Naraka to enter this world.

The story’s engine is a curse that arrived through that bridge long before the present. In a parallel realm, a young woman named Samara was destined to marry her childhood friend, a prince named Zaheer. The Oracle’s vision came to her first — but it was a vision of another realm’s future Enlightened One. She mistook the Enlightened One for Zaheer, and her mistake set him on the path to ascension. When her own realm cessated and her love was lost, she sought divination, was cursed, lost her Sati, and became the first Fallen — Māra. Her unrevoked agency continues to seed every realm with consciousness fragments destined to become Enlightened Ones. One of those fragments is alive in Titānia in 548 BCE, and his name is Siddhārtha.

But Sid is fourteen years old. He does not know the prophecy. The people who do know are protecting him from it, manipulating him toward it, or trying to claim it for themselves. The 13th Trials gather them all in one place: princes, false prophets, queens with secrets, an Oracle younger than the protagonist, a huntsman who carries his father’s monk-robes and does not yet know what they are for, and a half-sister who has been keeping her brother alive without ever telling him why.

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