There are stories that arise from an image, a sentence or a character. And there are stories that begin as an intention – for example, as an attempt to create a world, which poses a certain question. Triarchia belongs to the second category.
Triarchia is not yet a finished novel. It is a literary project in the making – a construction of thoughts, ideas, world structures and characters that are slowly coming together. But the intention is clear: Triarchia does not want to be a dystopia like many others. But like all the others, it wants to explore how people behave in exceptional situations, how they change when they gain or lose power. Who do they become and why?
The idea behind Triarchia
What if our society were stabilized not by a single power, but by three interdependent systems – each with its own rules, values and blind spots? In Triarchia there is:
The green fields: machine-free agriculture, supported by slavery and traditional beliefs.
The borderlands: a politically fragmented area, dominated by trade and the rules of the market.
The Steel Cities: technologically superior centers of power with access to knowledge, control and surveillance.
These three spheres exist in a fragile balance – regulated by the “Old Rules”, the breaking of which means extinction.
But then everything changes. Everyone is thrown off course because society collapses. And the question is: where does everyone find themselves?
And of course I’m interested in how people change in this world, what it looks like inside them.
Triarchia asks: What does dignity mean in a system that knows no escape? How do the characters deal with power?
Triarchia is, of course, in the tradition of modern dystopias – with a kinship to The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro or Red Rising by Pierce Brown.
But of course it should also differ from these, and not just in tone.
This project is aimed at readers who…
are interested in complex social concepts,
appreciate quiet, psychologically profound narrative forms,
find moral gray areas exciting,
and are prepared to engage with a world that does not immediately reveal its answers.
Conclusion: Triarchia is a promise
A promise of a story that does not simply entertain – but challenges. A world that doesn’t pander, but resists.
Triarchia does not want to build a world in which you can simply escape. Rather, one in which you have to learn to assert yourself – or lose yourself.