Munutu Terra

Munutu Terra is a fantasy fiction novel about a civilization that collectively worships a deity called Munutu Terra. The Munutu Terrans live in a walled city of the same name, governed by the nepotistic rulership of Adam and Eve. Every year, all inhabitants of the age of twenty-six are sent beyond the city walls for the first time in a customary ritual called the Search, in order to experience life outside of the city's protection and, thereby, come to appreciate its self-sustaining importance when they gratefully return. However, the Caverna Vitae, a religious schism that broke off hundreds of years ago quickly become embroiled in schemes for revenge and their own emerging and competing visions of the most virtuous way of governing a nation.