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cover art for The Eye of Leviathan by M.A. Carrick, showing a half-circle of a green-tinged map of the Otherworld above a half-circle of an engraving of a sea beast. The intervening space is filled with gold filigree, and joined by a blood-red wax seal with a ship sailing between tall cliffs toward a starry sky, with tentacles in the waves below.
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The Eye of Leviathan

In an alternate Spanish Golden Age, where the map becomes the territory and mapmakers are the architects of reality, the Council of the Sea Beyond has risen to unrivaled power, exploiting the world’s most precious resources for their own gain.

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From Our Journals

“Non Plus Ultra”

06-01-2026 11:50 AM Marie Brennan
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We are just over one month from the release of The Eye of Leviathan, and we have something to whet your appetite/tide you over until then! Adventitious has just published “Non Plus Ultra,” a prequel novelette that tells the tale of how a sailor from Valencia discovered the secret of passage to the Sea Beyond. […]

Last days of a Kickstarter!

04-28-2026 12:58 PM Marie Brennan
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This is not an M.A. Carrick project, but since it involves me and one of artists from the Rook and Rose pattern deck, I’ll give it a quick plug anyway! Lady Trent’s Field Journal: A Dragon Coloring Book is (as the name suggests) related to my series The Memoirs of Lady Trent — but thanks […]

Cover for The Eye of Leviathan!

04-20-2026 4:28 PM Marie Brennan
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We are behindhand in posting this here, but we have cover art for The Eye of Leviathan! This is very much a collaborative effort: the sea beast at the bottom is from The Destruction of Leviathan by Gustav Doré, the map at the top is drawn for our series by Tim Paul (who also did […]

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“Non Plus Ultra,” a prequel novelette to the Sea Beyond duology, is free to read online!

06/01/2026

In celebration of M.A. Carrick’s “birthday” — the anniversary of when our collaboration began — we have posted the annotations for Labyrinth’s Heart!

09/21/2024

If you missed the pattern deck Kickstarter, you can still pre-order the deck and various add-ons through our BackerKit store!

09/08/2023
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