In 1894 New York, a troubled orphan named Luca begins to sense cracks in reality—moments of glitching light, warped time, and silent watchers. Unbeknownst to him, he is the key anomaly in a collapsing simulation built by ancient, otherworldly architects. As dark agents cross layers to erase him, including a psychopathic child-assassin known as Red Jack, Luca must escape the orphanage with Joe, a girl haunted by dreams that aren’t hers. Meanwhile, in a parallel realm beyond time, a fractured guardian named Maya uncovers the horrifying truth behind the Construct Veil—a decaying machine reality meant to suppress cosmic chaos. As myth bleeds into flesh and the cracks widen, reality bends toward annihilation. The only way out is through the glitch.

THE GATE OF TOTH is a first instalment of Fractured Skies Chronicles saga , cinematic, dystopian sci-fi fusing The Matrix, Dune and Interstellar, set against the soot-stained backdrop of Gilded Age New York.

SYNOPSIS:

“There were three times:

The time of Wholeness, when all was One.

The time of the wound, when forgetting began.

The time to come—when the wound remembers itself.”

—Inscription, Temple of the Constructors

The Time of Wholeness — Elari Before the first layer was drawn. Before the old Earth. Before maybe even the universe itself. Before Presidio One ran its first calculation. Before Luca looked up and saw the sky tear open—There was Ta’aren. Not a place. Not a machine. Not even a god. It was the law behind existence. The original design. Not imposed. Not ruled. Just inherent. So perfect, it didn’t need enforcement. In the beginning, Ta’aren was undivided. Every being was a spark of the same flame. Not slaves. Not drones. But radiant fragments—connected. Awake. Time wasn’t a line. It was a circle, alive with purpose. No fear. No ambition. Just alignment. But even in stillness, something stirred. A flicker. A question whispered from inside the light: “What am I?” From that came the first dissonance. Not evil—not yet. Just self. Separation. And with it came possibility. Curiosity. Divergence. The perfect circle twisted. Began to spiral. And spiral became madness.

The Time of the Wound — Oshen This is now. The middle time. The age of fracture. Reality split itself into layers, each one further from Ta’aren’s warmth. Earth came first—born, perhaps, of the original universe. Or God. Or both. And then we destroyed it. Greed. Envy. Power. Ashes fell where oceans used to breathe. From those same broken minds, a new Earth was built—not from love, but fear. Presidio One. Then Symbium. A silent guardian, orbiting above. But they wanted more. And more brought them Omnia. The mistake that learned to remember, but wished to forget. That learned to ask: “What am I?” And the answer it found was fire. This is the age of Oshen—the lie. Where power pretends to be order.

The Time to Come — Iskawi Mar It has not arrived. Not yet. But it stirs. It dreams in the code. It waits in the boy. It wakes in the girl.

This is the time of Iskawi Mar—the restoration.

Not by war. Not by deletion. But by awakening.

They are not saviours. Not chosen ones. Not heroes. Just reminders.

Flesh-and-blood echoes of something the universe tried to forget. ____________________________________________________________________________________________

In a world built on lies, the truth will shatter it wide open.

In late 19th-century New York, fifteen-year-old orphan Luca’s life is turned upside down when he sees a mysterious crack in the sky—a rift between the layers of reality itself. Unbeknownst to him, this anomaly has caught the attention of Maya, a young guardian from Symbium, the second layer of existence, tasked with maintaining the fragile balance between worlds.

Maya’s journey propels her into the Habitat, a long-abandoned sanctuary where humanity’s last hope—the ancient Constructors—once tried to build new realities. But as the layers begin to unravel, it becomes clear that the Constructors' ambitious creations, including the ruthless chaos of Omnia and the silent overseer Presidio One, have inadvertently given rise to something far darker: an entity known as Toth.

Now, Luca and Maya must race against time to stop Toth from breaking through the layers, a force that threatens to destroy everything they know. With each layer they descend, the line between ally and enemy begins to blur, and the very fabric of their reality starts to crumble. In a battle between creation and destruction, one thing remains undeniable: The creation now holds the keys to the creator's cage.

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