Elias Introduces the Author
“Before you read further, traveler, you should know something of the one who carved this tale into your timeline. The author you call Nick Yost is a maker of patterns—a former engineer who once shaped logic and code, now turning that same precision toward myth and memory. His journey began long before the Dreamer was named. As a young man, he crossed paths with Frank Herbert, the chronicler of Dune, in a quiet bookshop where only a few stood witness. Their conversation lingered in him like an ember, and the signed volume he carried home was more than a book—it was a spark.
Across the decades that followed, Nick carried the Dreamer’s shadow with him. He shaped fragments, abandoned drafts, returned again and again, as those who are called to story often do. Only after stepping away from the labors of his former life did he finally claim the uninterrupted time needed to weave the tale you now hold.
Vear – The Odyssey of the Dreamer is not merely a novel—it is the culmination of a lifetime of imagining, questioning, and refusing to let a dream fall silent. I have watched many destinies unfold, but few begin with such a quiet spark and grow into something capable of echoing across worlds.”
—Elias.