Eden Reckoning

The ***Eden Reckoning*** is a young-adult fantasy, action and science-fiction series composed of five books and a novella collection written by Filipina author, SF.

## Series background

Prior to the start of the main events, Ionafan Aleksandr Lavrentiy Fyodorovich Vasilyev, the Eleventh Prince of the Eurasian Empire, and his younger sister, Marianna Yuliya Fyodorovna Vasilyeva, lived along with their mother at peace away from the imperial court in fear of troubling and harming them since their mother was originally a commoner whom the Emperor of the Eurasian Empire favored the most. Along with them was their maternal cousin, Leon Tamaz Antkowiak, the exiled Crown Prince of the Georgian Empire, who've been sent to the Empire as part of a trade.

When Ionafan was ten, their mother was unknowingly murdered. Marianna was caught in the crossfire that led her to be crippled. Angry with his father's lack of concern, Ionafan renounced his title that ultimately led for him, Marianna and Leon to be sent to the Philippines, under the care of the Ryu family, as part of the Treaty of Donetsk between the Empire and the Philippines. During their stay, Akito Ryu became friends with them, along with Khan Iskandar, the successor of the leader of Ma-I Ophir, who has a connection with Akito's father and the current government of the Philippines. Just a year later, they were separated from each other because of the Third Pacific War, which was triggered by the revelation of the Philippine government's alliance with the militant force Ma-I Ophir, the very revolutionary group that the Empire promised to help the country from defeating by supplying it with resources. In the end, the Philippine's existence ended in 2310 IK as the country's name became "Philipp" as a mocking gesture to the defeat of the nation.

Ionafan and Marianna were taken in and settled in the King Ivan the First Academy, ran by the Ruslanov family, which also acted as their mother's ward, and they lived in hiding when their records announced them dead. Along with it, they've changed their identities to Jonathan and Marianne with the help of USR's Southeast Asia and Pacific Region, whose leader was his father-in-law and vowed to one day help him with his revenge against the Empire. Akito entered the military after being orphaned, and was given an Honorary Eurasian citizenship. Khan continued to learn under the tutelage of his father as the future leader of the Ma-I Ophir. And Leon was saved by the Empire wherein he served as a spy for another anti-Empire group in the Middle East along with the Georgian Empire, the Oval Council.

Until, one day, seven years after the invasion of the Philippines, their destinies were once again meant to cross, and Jonathan's hidden power, Kaio, had been awakened; hence, the start of his rebellion against the Empire.

## Books

### Series

* Book One: *Reboot*
* Book Two: *Revere*
* Book Three: *Revive*
* Book Four: *Refrain*
* Book Five: *Reload*

## Trivia

* The series was originally known as "Code Breaker", consisting of only four books, throughout the first draft. It was later changed to "Eden Reckoning" by the revision stage, and to have five books due to countless changes made.
* The title "Eden Reckoning" was actually because of an aviation term called "Dead Reckoning", which was the process of calculating one's position by estimating the direction and distance traveled rather than by using landmarks. According to SF, she liked the idea of the word "reckoning" with its meaning of being "a person's view, opinion, or judgment", and that "Eden" was associated to "paradise". Combined together, "Eden Reckoning" was defined to be the "judgment of paradise" wherein the main characters of the series have their own definitions of what is "paradise" for them.
* It was mentioned that the first draft is only a "chess for two" or "two sides of the same coin", signifying that the conflict was only between two main characters. The revised version was described as a "chess for four with a room for one or two more" or a "VIP poker game" or a "rolling of a dice", hinting the high stakes that the characters were placed on the series with more players as well.