CRÓNICAS ANACRÓNICAS
CRONISTAWhy do we live this way?
With CRONISTA, explore the world, words and ideas we take for granted. Choose an independent experience: Earth or the origins of words.
Creator’s original visual referenceTHE NOVEL · ITS VOICES · ITS OTHER PLANES
Every face,
a form of confinement.
Sophia begins with a question. Eli finds a signal. Thomas follows a trail. On the other side, someone keeps the production running.
Explore the charactersA STORY OF THE VISIBLE AND THE INVISIBLE
A prison is also built from memory, desire and the need to belong.
THE HOSTS OF THE UNIVERSE
Two voices. Other ways of seeing.
PARNASSUS OF HORROR
The Parnassus host
The Parnassus of Horror presenter now has a place among the characters. Meet the presenter and visit the existing Jailer City building.
Character designDIRECT ACCESS TO EACH PLACE
Places and tours
Open each existing place on its own, or explore all of Jailer City.
La GaritaOwner-private viewer ↗Casa AmadeusOwner-private tour ↗Casa de la CascadaEnter the walking tour ↗Teatro El UmbralEnter the walking tour ↗Nocturne CinemaEnter the cinema ↗
La Garita and the Amadeus tour are private to the owner. The directory also includes the public Amadeus exterior model and all existing city buildings.
THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK
The story, page by page
The Portico and the first five chapters, complete and illustrated; the rest of the novel, chapter by chapter in summary. Switch to Español for the Spanish edition. The whole story is in the book.
EL LIBRO DENTRO DEL LIBRO
Arcanas Letanías
Respuestas al misterio de la vida. Escribe tu pregunta y sigue sus huellas en la obra.
Ask the book ↗
STORIES FROM THE OTHER UNIVERSE
DOOMERS · The Demiurge’s Discards
An isolated region of the DOMOGO universe
The creator’s discarded experiments continue their lives in the DOOMERS’ world, surviving on his sap. Their struggle belongs to this isolated land, apart from the DEMORGS.
8-page comic · the Doomers
Read the comic ↗Explore the comics · New: DEMORGOS ↗Read Murdogos: The Last Chain ↗Review the comics styles ↗THE PLAYABLE WORLD
ROOK: Signal Canopy
Ride a levitating board through a forest of colossal trees. Follow the smoke, enter Verdict Spire and break the Holds. Bring the Host back before the Reclaimers close in.
3D prototype · First mission · Keyboard and touch controls
WHO INHABITS THE STORY
Characters and presences
The biographies contain plot spoilers.
NOVEL AND AUDIOVISUAL ADAPTATION
No matching name. Try another character.
THE CITY OF THE ADAPTATION
Jailer City
Places and tours ↗Map of The Jailer’s worldA street, a theater, a university, a gallery.
Everyday life is a stage too.
ENTERING THE STORY
What lies on the other side
Their appearance belongs
to another universe.
Murdogs, Hedomogs and Demorgs exist on other planes of the story. Their bodies, shells and seemingly fantastical features make visible a nature that does not belong to human organic life.
Perception also plays a part: a consciousness translates what it encounters through memory, culture and its own limits. A form can therefore be both true and partial. The man in the hat is a translation of GODEM, not a complete explanation of his nature.
Murdogs
Loosening the knot.
Consciousnesses that have released the chains of attachment that bound them to eternal return. Their shell shields them from new attachments without making them immune; they cross the realm of the HEDOMOGS and the valley of the DEMORGS toward the threshold where the self ends.
Hedomogs
Making the production desirable.
Every religion and everything sold to you as goodness. They create beauty, spirituality and the promise of a better life; once a consciousness interprets them, they become prophets. They never attack the MURDOG: they seduce it with a purpose that can chain it to the wheel again.
Demorgs
Envy of the creator’s gaze.
The demons of every religion. Believing humans are the creator’s favorites, they envy the attention he gives them and torment consciousnesses bound to human bodies. They hunt the MURDOG as a trophy, to drag it back to the purgatory of the wheel.
The DOOMERS live apart: abandoned experiments survive on GODEM’s sap there. Their struggle is distinct from that of the DEMORGS of the valley. Read the MURDOGS comic ↗
ONE WORD, TWO SCALES
Why
El Umbral?
El Umbral is a theater. Nerio works among its lights and scenery. Encounters, operations and conversations converge there, revealing how much a scene depends on what remains hidden behind it.
Umbral also means threshold. It is the boundary where what a consciousness considers its reality begins to contact another plane. The same image connects the passage from audience to stage with movement between forms of existence.
- DOME
- The presence and architecture of the boundary, tied to the function. The dome is the enclosure of the known universe.
- DOM
- The one who executes the function: it cuts weakened chains so the consciousness re-chains and stays useful to GODEM.
- DOMOGS
- The outer plane of the margins around the dome. It is not a single species.
Novel · chapters 27, 37 and 39
THE ROOM FROM WHICH WE LOOK
The Bunker
Consciousness learns to call its bunker home.
The bunker is the structure of the self. A consciousness looks out from a post built from the body, memory, fear, desires, relationships and beliefs. That structure also organizes how it listens and judges.
The bubble around it is its field of perception: the part of the world it can receive through those filters. The adaptation makes that architecture visible through bunkers, chains, rooms and conduits accessible from another plane.
Novel · chapters 36–38 and 42
Understand the bunker and the bubble ↑
FROM WITHIN
Each consciousness organizes a world from what it has kept in its own room.
The spotlight
The gaze directed outward. It illuminates another’s failing while leaving its operator in shadow.
The loudspeaker
The voice of the self: explaining, justifying and demanding that its experience matter.
The gavel
The inner judge. It passes sentence and turns its own perspective into a court.
The conduits
Words, looks and signals traveling between consciousnesses. Each receives them through its own history.
FIVE PRISONS · TWENTY-FIVE CHAINS
The floors of confinement
Recognizing a chain does not mean having released it.
The notebook groups five anchors under each prison. They organize the mechanism rather than provide a fixed checklist for judging other people.
Religion operates through morality and the self’s claim to permanence. These are two mechanisms within the five prisons, not an additional prison.
Where does religion fit? ↗Novel · chapters 22, 38–40
- 01
The body
Hunger · sex · pain · illness · survival.
- 02
Memory
Trauma · nostalgia · shame · resentment · repair.
- 03
Belonging
Blood ties · family name · family guilt · loyalty · abandonment.
- 04
Morality and religion
Virtue · guilt · punishment · flag · tribunal.
Religion belongs within this prison: doctrine, commandment, purity, sin, guilt and judgment. Sacred authority and the promise of salvation can turn obedience into an inner obligation.
- 05
The self
Reputation · one’s work · recognition · power · permanence.
Religion also reaches into the self through promises of soul, transcendence and permanence: the desire for our identity to survive the disappearance of the body.
THE JAILER · COLLECTIONS
The universe beyond the page
GODEM, DOM and the inhabitants of the margins. Artwork, T-shirts and figures that bring the novel’s universe into your collection.
25 cm · resin · pedestal
Collectible figures with a painted finish and individual display base. Proposed total height: 25 cm, including the pedestal.
These images present collection concepts. Purchase links will appear here when the products are available in the store.
The Jailer
Seeing the strings is not enough.
We still have to live within the production.