The full moon shone high in the sky, casting its ethereal glow over the land. It was a night like no other, for the celestial being that ruled the moon and the ocean had lost her powers. Her name, once whispered in awe, was Divine. She had been the goddess of the moonlight, the keeper of the ocean's tides, and the one who commanded the forces of nature. But all of that had been stripped away, leaving her powerless and adrift.
Her world, once bound by magic, had been shattered. The heavens were no longer hers to command. To regain her powers, she would need to descend to the human realm and pay for her past deeds. But there was a catch: she would have to live as a human, with no memory of her divine existence. She would have to rebuild herself, one good deed at a time, until the power jar within her heart was full once again. Only then could she return to the celestial realm.
The cold wind blew through the empty streets of Lunaris, the capital city of Averis, where towering spires of white stone reached up to the heavens. But tonight, it felt like the city had been swallowed by darkness. The moon, so familiar and constant, was nowhere to be seen.
In the heart of the city, at the edge of a quiet alley, a young woman awoke. Her eyes fluttered open, and for a moment, confusion clouded her mind. She was no longer the goddess of the moon. She was… something else. A human.
Her body, though slender and delicate, felt different. Her skin, pale like the moon's reflection on the ocean, was now a shade of warmth she had never known. She could feel the weight of gravity pulling at her, something she had never experienced as a goddess. Her long brown hair fell in waves around her shoulders, and for the first time in millennia, she took in a breath that was real, deep, and meaningful.
She was Divine, but not the same Divine she once was.
A jolt of realization hit her as she struggled to stand, her head pounding. Her memories were a blur—fragments of a past life, of a time when she was not human. But those memories were slipping through her fingers, like water through a sieve.
The world around her was unfamiliar, yet somehow familiar. She could hear the distant sound of waves crashing against the shore, but it wasn't the same as the vast, endless ocean she had once controlled. This was something different, something human. The salty breeze tugged at her clothes as she stumbled forward, unsure of where to go.
She looked up at the towering city in front of her, her eyes catching the faint light of distant lanterns. Lunaris. The city that had once been her domain. It now felt foreign, like a dream she could barely recall. She had no memory of how she had arrived here, nor the reason why she had been cast down from the heavens.
But one thing was certain: her journey had just begun.