Black Reverie
In the shadow of gods, a knight is born of blood and prayer.
The world lies at the heart of Yggdrasil, the World Tree whose branches stretch toward divine realms — Olympian, Hindu, Egyptian, Norse — and whose roots sink into the Netherworld, the twilight boundary between light and abyss. Humanity draws magic from faith; each pantheon grants power, but loyalty must be absolute. To change gods is to lose everything.
Ten thousand years ago, the primordial monsters Typhon and Echidna rose against the gods. Defeated, Typhon was shattered into fragments — becoming the first mythical beasts: manticore, dragon, sphinx — each imprisoned across the world. Echidna was sealed in the Netherworld… but nine millennia later, she returned. To fight back, the gods fused with mortals, creating divine champions: the Trinities. They resealed her… yet her influence lingers. Nature warps. Hybrids are born. Furies, beastkin, and aberrations spread. The gods, powerless to stop it alone, created Spirits to contain the decay.
In this fractured world, Leonem Adrien DioAngelo — or simply Leo — is born of a dark miracle. Son of the legendary knight Rowan "Silent Storm" and Aurona, a northern immigrant, he was meant to die before birth. But a desperate prayer at a forbidden altar changed his fate. A divine light touched his mother’s womb, and Leo was born.
At twelve, his father perishes, buried a hero. His mother sinks into poverty, then shame. Abused in silence by her employer, her suffering festers — until Leo uncovers the truth. That night, a dormant power awakens. A man dies, his throat cut in the stillness of a manor too grand for justice. No one will ever know.
From that day, Leo swore an oath: to become a true knight. Not a symbol. A shield. A sword for justice — even if he must defy the gods themselves. In a world ruled by divine mandates and sacred bloodlines, he walks the edge of salvation and ruin.
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