Rather than being independent, the Celesi Veil series has been formed by a trilogy of three individual stories. Each story has been designed to be fully readable by it’s own, allowing a reader to even skip earlier books without missing important information, while still having the events of the series flow on a timeline. This means, while the details presented in later books might have been designed to make sense by itself, a reader who had already completed an earlier book would be exposed to even more details about exactly how everything comes together in a greater whole. In this way, reading books out of order can actually provide spoilers for previous books. As such, it is recommended to still read everything in order unless the exact style of a particular book is truthfully that unappealing to the reader, and they never plan to read it at all.
Several elements of the series are thematic to the entire series as a whole, though with each book shaping and defining exactly how it applies. The series effectively appreciates an over-arching ‘second world’ theme, with intrinsic concepts of Earth being pulled through the Celesi Veil to Celese. The exact details of this shift is unique to each book. In the first book of the mind, Vitae Memorandum, the thoughts and memories of people from Earth make passage through the veil, presenting Celese with ideas taken from Earth. In the second book of the soul, Essentia Animus, the essence or ambitions of people from Earth make passage through the veil instead. In the third book of the body, Fortuna Verto, the physical individual of a person is shifted through the veil instead, this time in both directions in a bit of a parallel world syndrome.
The timeline is distinct in its approach too, with Celese growing through the ages spanning each book. Vitae Memorandum takes place in a Celese that feels like it’s own medieval variant of Earth, not being as developed as modern-day Earth, representing a Celese of the Past. Essentia Animus however takes place much deeper into the future, where the distance between Celese and the Earth as we know it have been closed down considerably, representing a Celese of the Present. Fortuna Verto moves things even further ahead, progressing the development of society into a post-modern setting far more advanced than the Earth as we know it, representing a Celese of the Future. Meanwhile, Celese itself remains a fantasy world the entire time, with it’s own version of scientific logic that is constantly brought to measure in order for the world to continue advancing.
The natural forces of the world are constantly disrupted in each of the three books due to the sudden breach of the veil, causing profound shifts that are symbolic of an elemental nature. In Vitae Memorandum, a Celestial Storm forms as the concept of electrical innovation threatens the very foundation of the world’s logic and principle. In Essentia Animus, the Astral Flame sparks into the world in an attempt at bringing death and destruction in its wake, having been awoken once the boundaries of the world itself was threatened. In Fortuna Verto, Temporal Frost forms repeatedly in patches as a response to instability forming overtime, a result of chaotic factors caused by connecting worlds and then the breakdown of consistency as a chain reaction.
While several factors are unique to each book, many other things stay constant in this dramatic adventure series. Celesi Elves and Humans persist though the entire story, even if the difference between the two still differentiate from classical norms. For being a world of fantasy, technology constantly plays a key role at every level, with some repeatedly resurfacing mechanical ideas. Many of the descriptive elements to the fantasy element called “the gift” comes up constantly through the entire story and plays a significant role. However, the most immersive elements of the series remains both the factors of its core genres, that it is a drama and an adventure. The stories all focus on major characters from a selection of perspectives, all with ambitions to go places to achieve significant goals. These characters are driven to such goals by the events that bind them together as a group. However, these factors are never simple or reliable in matters of success, character failure is frequent when this much uncertainty is involved, things go wrong repeatedly just as they can also go right, success with a cost at best and failure leading to a struggled salvage at worst. As the stakes raise over the progress of the story, the matters of influence become more significant from all perspectives, the struggle to keep up and not just break down just becomes worse, their own doubts remaining the hardest obstacle to deal with. The characters become more powerful, and that power leads to greater consequences, leading to even more emotional conflict. In the end, when the dust settles at last, it isn’t an absolute victory that stands as their prize, the costs and loss that brought them there being too significant to ignore.
Portal links for each of the books of the trilogy can be found below or on the homepage Directory. Side stories related to the series will be listed after the main trilogy in the list below:
- Vitae Memorandum (Celesi Veil Trilogy – First Book of the Mind): Original Web Novel – A Remembrance of one’s Life, or a Life of one’s Remembrance, four girls from different corners of a fantasy world’s upper society are suddenly faced with memories of earth. A story of another world, these four girls, awakened to memories of another life, now have twice the trouble to worry about, as they work to discover the truth hidden behind the cause.
- Essentia Animus (Celesi Veil Trilogy – Second Book of the Soul): Original Web Novel – When the living essence of three girl’s are put at risk, giving room for a second essence within themselves, even their hyper developed fantasy world might not be enough to contain their new found ambitions. Another story of another world, these three girls must adapt to their new essence, all while each left to question if they are truly still even alive.
- Fortuna Verto (Celesi Veil Trilogy – Third Book of the Body): Original Web Novel – A girl’s luck changes when her world changes upon itself, sending her back and forth between a world she knows and another that shouldn’t even exist. Working with her parallel self from that other world, the two must adjust to their alternate form when visiting the other’s world, as they search for a way to escape the chains of misfortune they are bound to.
The absolute ending of the trilogy intentionally revokes all continuation of the Celesi Veil trilogy, it will only ever be three books long. However, even in the ending, the story hints about exploring new avenues, where certain overarching factors might leave the veil unto other paths. The reality there is that some of this trilogy will certainly be used as inspiration for future story projects, and the design of the ending forms a tie in how such future work could turn back to this initial series. After all, the way book two turned out left so much inspiration that simply could not be realized in book three, stuff that I would need a new project in order to explore at all.
The records here of the Celesi Veil are thus to be considered an origin of future inspirations, where any such projects begun. However, there are no plans to continue publishing future work in such a reclusive collection, the stories that come after this will be found in other avenues. If the trilogy has left someone inspired for more like it, I would suggest they search out any of my work that would become “inspired by the Celesi Veil Trilogy” in other platforms.
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