Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories The gate was never meant to remain open. Now an entire world is paying the price. When Bryn, Dahlfia, and their team arrive on Baliya Island, they discover a humanitarian catastrophe beyond anything they imagined. Thousands of frightened humans continue pouring onto Anturia while disease, starvation, and violence spread faster than anyone can contain. Every de...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories War may be over. Peace is another matter. As Teithia begins the long process of healing, Bryn and Dahlfia struggle to rebuild lives forever changed by the battle. But unanswered questions surrounding the attack refuse to stay buried, and disturbing new evidence suggests the enemy knew far more than anyone believed. Old secrets finally come into the light. New...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories Victory has a way of demanding payment. As the battle for Teithia finally begins to turn, Bryn leaves the safety of the command post to search for the one person she cannot afford to lose. Dahlfia. But the city she enters is no longer a battlefield. It is a graveyard. As enemy forces strike from the shadows and familiar streets become killing grounds, salvatio...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories Legends are not born in peace. As the battle for Teithia rages across streets, courtyards, and shattered strongholds, Kylah finds herself at the center of the chaos. Outnumbered, wounded, and driven by equal parts fury and determination, she becomes something more than a soldier in the eyes of those around her. A symbol. A story already taking shape before the...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories The first breach is only the beginning. As Bryn’s forces launch their attack to retake Teithia, the plan appears to be working. Gates fall. Armies move. Hidden tunnels open beneath the city. For one breath, victory feels possible. But in war, every advantage can become a trap. As transmissions fracture and forces collide across multiple fronts, Bryn must comma...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories Before wars are won… ...someone has to make the first move. As the survivors of Teithia prepare to strike back against Mallaidh’s forces, Bryn and the remaining councilors race against time to organize a desperate plan to reclaim the city before their advantage disappears. Armies gather. Alliances are tested. Every decision carries the weight of lives that may...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories Some storms can be seen long before they arrive. Others are already upon you before you understand what they are. As forces begin to shift across Anturia, what once felt distant now moves with undeniable purpose. Old alliances are tested. New threats emerge. And the fragile balance holding everything together begins to fracture. For Kylah and those bound to th...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories In Alltud, nothing is forgotten. And nothing is judged lightly. After the trial in the desert, Kylah returns to a community that sees more than she expected and understands more than it reveals. Here, survival is not the end of the story. It is only the beginning of what comes next. As questions of justice, choice, and consequence rise to the surface, Kylah is...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories Not every victory feels like one. In the unforgiving expanse of the Plains of Du’Roi, Kylah follows a trail that leads her to the one confrontation she cannot avoid. What began as training has become something far more final. Out here, there are no witnesses. No rules. No second chances. But when the moment comes, what stands before her is not the enemy she ex...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories Not all who wander the desert are meant to survive it. Some are meant to be changed by it. As Kylah’s journey through the Plains of Du’Roi pushes her beyond the limits of endurance, she finds herself on the edge of something she cannot explain, caught between pain and peace, reality and something far less certain. Drawn toward water where none should exist, sh...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories Survival is only the beginning. In Alltud, survival must be earned. As Kylah begins her training within the hidden desert city, she quickly learns that strength alone will not be enough to secure her place among its people. Every lesson is a test. Every skill is a weapon. And every weakness is something the desert will exploit without mercy. But not everything...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories Some stories are remembered. Others are recorded as they happen. For the first time, Kylah begins documenting her experience in real time, unsure if she will survive long enough for anyone to ever hear it. Exiled to the unforgiving Plains of Du’Roi, she is left with nothing but her instincts, her anger, and a voice guiding her from the shadows. A voice she doe...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories Leadership is not tested in moments of victory. It is tested in the choices no one wants to make. Inside Che’el de Velg’lan, the weight of rumor has become something far more dangerous. What began as whispers has now reached the Velg'lan council, and they are no longer willing to ignore it. Kylah is no longer just a question. She is a liability. As pressure cl...

from Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories Trust doesn’t break all at once. It fractures quietly through whispers, through doubt, through stories no one can prove, but everyone begins to believe. Inside Che’el de Velg’lan, Bryn struggles to regain her strength while Dahlfia works to hold their fragile alliance together. But beyond their walls, something more dangerous is spreading. Rumors. Kylah stands...

from Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories The war didn't begin with a battle. It began with what no one chose to see. Beneath polished alliances and carefully maintained order, cracks are already spreading. In the aftermath of Teithia's fall, leaders maneuver behind closed doors, shaping a future no one will admit out loud. Bryn Tal and Dahlfia carry the weight of what they set in motion while other fo...

from Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories The chamber doors close. What was promised as reconciliation becomes something far older and far more dangerous. In a single afternoon, alliances fracture, silence fails, and the Council of Elders is forced to remember the last time it chose power over wisdom. Across Teithia, confusion turns to chaos as messages spread, narratives harden, and history is rewritt...

from Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories The city is unraveling. Violence has become ordinary. Mallaidh has stopped pretending this is about order. And Bryn Tal walks through a Teithia she no longer recognizes. When the council calls an emergency peace meeting framed as reconciliation, but everyone knows what it really is—a trap. Tynaref warns her to run. Oswalt begs her not to go. Dahlfia refuses to...

from  Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories The council insists the situation is contained. Bryn Tal knows it isn’t. As evidence mounts that humans are being bought, sold, and quietly embedded across Anturian society, Bryn demands answers the council refuses to give. Language softens. Records fracture. And accountability is buried beneath procedure. But the truth stops being abstract when it walks into...

from  Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories The Porta Segreta was supposed to be under control. Reports said the humans were calm. Curious. Grateful. They were wrong. When violence erupts inside an Anturian observation facility, Bryn Tal is pulled back into the heart of governance and into the first undeniable proof that the door between worlds has already begun to push back. Humans are dead. Guard...

from  Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories The Porta Segreta has changed Anturia, but not in ways that can be measured in resources or reports. As the council recesses and life in Teithia settles into an uneasy calm, Bryn Tal steps away from governance and into the quiet rhythms of home: her garden, her granddaughter Afanen, and the fragile innocence of a world that still believes itself untouched...

from Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories Months after the Porta Segreta is activated, the first Anturian teams return from Earth unharmed. The portal works. The technology holds. By every measurable standard, the mission is a success. That certainty is what unsettles Bryn Tal the most. As rules are drafted and boundaries set, confidence spreads through the council. Observation replaces caution. Curios...

from Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories Bryn Tal records this account from captivity, long after the world she knew began to burn. Two hundred years before the war that would change Teithia forever, an off-world stranger arrives before the Anturian council with an irresistible promise: a doorway to a twin planet called Earth, rich in resources, opportunity, and untapped potential. Against centuries o...