Chapter 2: The Capital's Blight and Clotho's Rebirth Meanwhile, a festering blight consumed the heart of the capital, its denizens moping through squalid streets, their malformed hearts kindling sparks of rebellion. Christopheles, a man garnering the people's ears, unveiled a magus and defiantly challenged her god, before executing her, shattering the monument of divine order. Deep beneath the crumbling city, in a dank, decrepit cell, Clotho Borales withered, broken and anemic, awaiting execution.

Chapter 1: The Village's Bloodstained Awakening Dusk hung low over a humble village, where joy, song, and dance once flowed from the longhouse atop the hill. Yet, in a quiet cottage on the edge, Camila slouched, weighed by an evening mundanity and the unspoken condemnation of her perceived monstrousness. Though her mother offered love, the village's judging eyes, full of scorn and fear, cast a long shadow on her ivory skin, where cosmic veins stretched like nebulae. A vision sparked within her, detailing a chamber-loaded rifle, a desperate foresight against brigands. A fleeting hope bloomed with Kai's earnest proposal, a declaration of love undeterred by her non-human nature, a weight he promised to share with their descendants. But this fragile joy was shattered when Charles Daxton, a cruel bounty hunter.......

Prologue: The Crown's Weary Gaze The city groans beneath the haughty gaze of its regents, their will hanging heavy over the people like the shadows of high towers. A king, chained by his sense of duty, sits in a bastion to the north, his realm etched in the weary lines of his face. Before him, an Arbiter, cloaked in ominous gold, delivers a prophecy: man, having conquered Mother Nature, now wages war against Father Spirit in the relentless pursuit of Progress. This mistress, Progress, devours all but her last suitor, leaving man to construct abominations and pacify himself with drugs, ultimately turning his destructive gaze inward, warring upon himself. With human foresight betrayed by instant gratification, the Church demands the king's abdication, a sentence echoed by the king's own furious, resigned growl.