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The Children Of Law And Chaos

In the nation of Arcanis, the Church rules with an iron creed--only those it deems worthy may wield sorcery by conversing with the Law, the divine order of all things. Any other who dare speak to it are branded as heretics and executed. In the town of Orrinwick, Alexandra Vale lives with her family--beloved and faithful. But they do not serve the Church. They are member of the True Faithful--a secretive organization that worships the Lord like the Church but it does not opress others. Instead, it believes that sorcery is a blessing meant for all, and they dream of overthrowing the Church’s oppressive rule so that every person may be able to experience conversing with the divine word of the Lord. Alexandra's family dreamt the same. But dreams shatter. And so, when the Inquisitors arrive to hunt Alexandra and her family down, her parents sacrifice themselves to give the two siblings a chance at escape. But that was not the end of it. Even after fleeing to Belmire, a strange existence haunts Alexandra's dreams every night. And Adam begins to push himself into doing anything to protect the only precious thing of his left in the world. Connin Martyns had spent peaceful days in the capital of Arcanis as a blessed child. Until one day, he began having visions of a calamity soon to be born that could upend the delicate balance of the world in the future. So he sets out on a journey to find the woman in his dreams and prevent the emergence of a new disaster. In the city of Belmire, Elijah Graceford is bored with his life as a noble, with nothing exciting or thrilling enough. As he struggles with constant blackouts and boredom, an insatiable void whispers in his mind to hunt for prey every day. As all the characters in the play wrestle with haunting pasts and an unknown future, tensions between nations reach their peak and prophecies are fulfilled. *** Set in a world that has reached the end of its Medieval Era and is faced with the discovery of steam machinery, follow Alexandra and many other complex characters on a journey full of tragedy and despair, guilt and regret, discovery and growth, perhaps a bit of romance and happiness, but most importantly--tons of Chaos.
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Seraphim's Dagger

In a world where humans and beastfolk share uneasy borders, sixteen-year-old Elara Vey has known only hard labor, cold meals, and the sharp edge of her adoptive parents’ cruelty. Orphaned when a beast attack left her home in ashes, she learned to survive quietly, keeping her head down, her voice low, and her dreams buried deep. But when a cloaked stranger appears at the forest’s edge and whispers, “You have her eyes,” Elara’s carefully controlled life begins to unravel. Shadows in the woods stir with strange purpose. The wind carries whispers of an ancient weapon, the Seraphim’s Dagger, lost for centuries, forged in blood and light, and bound by fate to a warrior long dead. As tensions between humans and beastfolk threaten to ignite into war, Elara is drawn into a dangerous hunt for the dagger, one that will reveal truths about her parents’ deaths, the power coiled within her, and the role she is destined to play in a conflict that could shatter the realm. But fate has a cruel sense of irony. Among the very people she was taught to fear, Elara crosses paths with him, an exiled beast warrior whispered about in fearful tales, a creature marked by both scars and secrets. Some say he has slain kings. Others claim he is cursed, his soul bound to the dagger’s bloodline. He is dangerous, unpredictable… and mysterious. Against every warning, and in defiance of every law, Elara begins to feel the pull of something forbidden, an attraction that could ruin them both. Because loving him doesn’t just break the rules of her world… it may awaken the very darkness they are trying to defeat.
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