The Winds of Aerathiea The first volume in the new epic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Aerathiea. Young Liam Waite has already survived the unspeakable horrors of living in a post-apocalyptic St. Louis. Nothing could have prepared him when a mysterious airship burst from the sky one October morning and asked for him by name. From there, he is whisked into a world he is utterly unprepared for and is made to answer for the sins of his parents.