About the author
Cae Andros
Dark, historically textured steppe fantasy about horses, broken clans, road-kin, hostile protectors, and the price of survival.
The work
Cae Andros writes dark, historically textured steppe fantasy about horses, broken clans, road-kin, hostile protectors, and the price of survival. His series, The Road of Many Fires, begins with A Bow Too Heavy and follows riders, traders, and unwanted survivors through a world where rescue is never clean and every fire asks something in return.
The territory
The stories focus on peoples who survive through movement rather than walls: horse-lines, road knowledge, kin obligations, trade, tools, names, fires, and the dangerous bargains required to keep moving.
The world is fictional. Its texture draws from the practical pressures of mobile cultures without presenting the setting as literal history or using a real people as a costume.
The first series
The Road of Many Fires begins with three books: A Bow Too Heavy, Under Cord, and The Name That Eats.