A Philosophical Adventure

Fraggenstone

Knowing Not-Knowing Curiously Going There Returning Knowing

A fog has held the Kingdom of Fraggenstone for seventeen years.
Not weather. A weapon.

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The Story

Three companions arrive on the same day, drawn by the same instinct. What no single discipline could see, the three together can: the fog is deliberate, its manufacture protected, and somewhere beneath it lies an architecture that could release everything it has imprisoned.

One word was carved into the floor of a cellar before any of them arrived to read it.
No author. No explanation. Only the question it demanded.

What do you know — and how do you know it?

The Kingdom

A late-medieval world where fog is not a condition of nature but a condition of power. To see clearly is already an act of courage.

The Fog

Manufactured, maintained, and profitable for those whose power depends on the confusion it creates. It has held the Kingdom for nearly two decades.

The Dragons

Not myths. Partners. Each bond between rider and dragon reveals what domination conceals — and what partnership can unlock.

The Journey

From Knowing to Not-Knowing to Curiously Going There, to Returning Knowing. A journey the reader takes alongside the Three.

The Authors

August Keder

August Keder

Co-author

Expertise in innovation and venture acceleration, with deep roots in the European startup and venture capital landscape.

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Christian Aspegren

Christian Aspegren

Co-author

More than fifteen years of research into disruptive phenomena and their role in the acceleration of innovation.

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Sénamé Agbossou

Sénamé Agbossou

Co-author

Expertise in mobilising human capital for venture creation, and instrumental in building the architecture behind this story's foundations.

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'If you finished this book and felt that something in it was also about the world you work in, you were not wrong.'

Fraggenstone Decoded

Companion Volume — Forthcoming

The companion maps the allegorical layer explicitly and sets out the evidence behind the argument the story carries.

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