The VantaPsy Chronology

VantaPsy: Soul Snatcher is the flagship story, set in a world already shaped by centuries of myth, catastrophe, and consequence. The VantaPsy Chronology is how that world got there.

Each book moves through a different age of Aerisu, tracing the arc from the Curse as a whispered threat, through the rise and fall of kingdoms, the emergence of gods, the normalisation of magic, and the slow accumulation of legend that Soul Snatcher inherits. The world doesn't arrive fully formed. The Chronology is the record of how it broke, rebuilt, and broke again.

Time in Aerisu moves in loops, so there is no true beginning, but every story has to start somewhere. Heat of Heaven is that start. Read in any order and each book stands on its own. Read in sequence and you watch a world become the one you already know.

At its core, VantaPsy is about us, and the weight of what we choose to leave behind.

VantaPsy Chronology · Book One

Heat of Heaven

Set during the Age of Men · Standalone

High atop the mist-wreathed peaks of Aokusa, young Zuki Kusanagi lives a life of harvests, lanterns, and whispered prayers. Even paradise holds cracks. Her mother is slowly succumbing to the Curse, an affliction that unravels memory, form, and soul, and her father, a soldier of Hoshimira, is always away fighting distant wars, never present when it matters most.

Far below, deep within the crystalline veins of the Geode, an ordained expedition descends. Yasira, a geologist burdened by truth and duty, joins the mission to uncover the origin of the Curse, alongside her husband Tayyir, the mech pilot Hiro, and the aristocratic researcher Dr. Veythal Lucan. As the line between the sacred and the profane fractures, the expedition spirals toward catastrophe, and both heaven and earth begin to burn.

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VantaPsy Chronology · Book Two

Ashen Crescent

Set during the Age of Men · Follows HoH

The world cracked open, and from its heart poured fire. Beneath the desert's crust, in a sunless city called the Geode, the last remnants of a broken people cling to survival. When a cursed expedition awakens something ancient buried in the earth, a plague of flame and shadow tears through stone, faith, and memory alike.

A helper named Hurriya becomes the light of a dying world. A bitter engineer builds a plane from dust and desperation. A girl from a mountaintop, Zuki Kusanagi, falls into the ruins of a war she's never known, born again through ash and blood. From the sewers of Ori'sol to the silent highlands of Aokusa, Ashen Crescent traces grief, survival, and the quiet strength that endures when gods stay silent.

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VantaPsy Chronology · Book Three

The Ocean Maw

Set during the Age of Men · Standalone

The moonless, fractured world of Aerisu is haunted by a memetic Curse that erodes memory, dream, and soul. When strange signals rise from the abyssal trench of Vaelmir, the Ocean Maw, the great submersible dreadnought Vireliax descends to investigate. Officially, the mission is research. Unofficially, it's a plunge into something divine, or something monstrous.

A fragile fellowship gathers aboard: a scholar carrying forbidden truths about a planetary intelligence called Bahamut, a researcher clinging to memory and relics of the real, a disciplined warrior bound by loss and duty, a legendary pilot masking alienation, and a child recording myths in secret. What begins with ritual and banter soon erupts into blood and fire, and the greater threat still waits below.

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More entries in the Chronology are planned. The three books above are the first arc.

Centuries ago the moon Lunarkos fell and the planetary serpent Bahamut rose to meet it. Their collision tore the boundary between soul and matter, creating the Moon, the Curse, and the flow of magic that shapes everything in Aerisu today.

The Chronology follows that fracture outward: the factions that formed around it, the cities that grew in its shadow, and the people still living with what it left behind.