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In Eden Vale, a sealed enclave of the ultra-wealthy, life has been perfected. CEOs, artists, and intellectuals live among immaculate landscapes and frictionless routines, believing themselves insulated from history, politics, and consequence. What they do not know—or prefer not to know—is that their serenity has a measurable cause. Marcus Ilyin, a quantum physicist invited to Eden Vale as a harmless prestige appointment, has quietly rewritten the foundations of reality. By extending the Standard Model to include a qualia field, Marcus proves that subjective experience is not accidental but fundamental—and, crucially, manipulable. Using nanoscale biological interventions, he discovers how to sculpt pleasure, dread, meaning, and despair at their source. As Eden Vale becomes the first environment tuned directly to consciousness itself, its residents begin to change. Marcus realises the enclave is no longer an experiment but a resonant system—one that amplifies belief, power, and pathology in unpredictable ways. Part thriller, part philosophical provocation, SERAPHIM explores what happens when consciousness becomes infrastructure, and paradise is no longer a metaphor but a setting—maintained, optimised, and quietly weaponised.
