Hollowed Cycle
In the land of Nyxara, where each year splits into thirty days of consuming darkness and thirty of blinding light, the soul is a fragile flame—purified by light, corroded by shadow. The wealthy cling to artificial light, preserving their purity. The poor, the Shaded, rot in the dark.
Solum, once a puppeteer and orator among the Shaded, wove himself into prophecy. Charismatic and calculating, he rose through the ranks of The Light of the True Flame, a zealous cult that worships sacrificial purity. Through manipulation and myth, Solum positions himself as their chosen martyr—the First Ember, a soul meant to be consumed by sacred fire and delivered to the goddess Solara.
But something goes wrong.
Instead of ascending, Solum is rejected by the light. His soul fractures but does not die. From the embers of his immolation, he is reborn—not in the light, but within the dark. In this opposite state, darkness no longer corrupts him—it purifies him. The world’s laws no longer bind him.
Now hunted by those who once worshipped him and feared by those who still believe, Solum walks the edges of Nyxara as an anomaly—a soul that thrives in shadow, a heretic of divine design. As the next Turning nears, he must decide: will he be the destroyer of the cycle, or its evolution?