Awakening the Chosen

Work in Progress

Blood of the Wild Gods: The Chosen

Dark Fantasy • Psychological Horror

In a time of fragile peace, what happens when the real danger wears a halo?

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The Story

Five years after The Silence, the world is still learning how to breathe again.

In the quiet coastal town she calls home, Mira Roehart clings to the wild beauty of the forest and the sea—places that have always made sense when nothing else does. But when waves of refugees begin arriving, followed by a silver-tongued leader named Lucien Altheris, everything begins to shift.

Lucien brings promises of Light, of order rising from the ashes of chaos. To many, he is salvation. To Mira, something about him feels wrong—too perfect, too polished, too powerful. As her world changes in ways she can't explain, Mira begins to question not just who she is, but what she might become in a world where light and darkness blur.

"The sea, in its ceaseless rhythm, had always sung to Mira Roehart—a tongue of tides and whispers, salt-laced winds, and the groan of ancient piers."

Glimpses Within

"She wanted to belong. No matter how much she pretended it didn't matter, that desire had always lived inside her. The yearning to be liked, to be wanted, to be enough."

"She was groundless, unanchored, a solitary starling lost in a world that demanded she be something—someone—she fundamentally, irrevocably, was not."

"The world has balance. Light and shadow, joy and sorrow, creation and destruction, good and evil... they have to coexist. They're two sides of the same coin, aren't they?"

"And the lie—the slow, insidious lie she was about to step into—felt heavier, more suffocating, more terrifying than the deepest, darkest depths of the hidden pool beneath the whispering falls."

Meet the Characters

Souls caught between the light that promises salvation and the darkness that feels like home.

Mira Roehart

The Void-Touched

A half-Nimwe woman whose journey from powerless victim to conscious liberator demonstrates that authentic power lies not in choosing extremes, but in refusing to let trauma define you.

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Katalina (Kat) Petari

The Lost Soul-Sister

Mira's beloved best friend whose heartbreaking transformation from gentle artist to zealous missionary reveals how extremist movements exploit the most loving hearts.

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Lucien Altheris

The False Light

A Vaelari whose divine beauty and supernatural charisma mask the most insidious evil—corruption that wears the mask of righteousness while using celestial powers to systematically abuse.

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Elias Roehart

The Secret Keeper

Mira's devoted father whose protective love becomes destructive when filtered through dangerous secrets, ultimately choosing ideological certainty over his daughter's needs.

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Meridia

The Blood Mother

A calculating Forsaken leader whose blood-soaked sanctuary represents both protection and exploitation—demonstrating how revolutionary necessity can corrupt even protective instincts.

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Mordekai

The Liberated Witness

A former Solarian soldier whose liberation from Zenithian mental conditioning proves that authentic consciousness can triumph over manufactured compliance, carrying invaluable testimony.

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Themes & Elements

Ocean & Isolation

The sea serves as both sanctuary and prison, reflecting Mira's internal struggle between connection and solitude.

False Light

Not all that glows is divine. The brightest lights often cast the darkest shadows, and salvation can be its own form of damnation.

Identity & Belonging

The desperate need to belong battles against the fear of losing oneself in the process of fitting in.

Balance & Extremes

True power lies not in choosing light or dark, but in understanding that both must exist for either to have meaning.

Void Powers

The ability to see through illusions and break mental chains—a gift that isolates as much as it liberates.

Religious Manipulation

How faith becomes a weapon when wielded by those who would control rather than guide, exploit rather than nurture.