Welcome to Anturia.
Epic sapphic dark fantasy for readers who don’t need clean heroes or easy answers.
If you love complicated women, sapphic main characters whose lives are about far more than who they love, morally uncomfortable choices, ancient political grudges, dangerous alliances, and fantasy worlds where doing the right thing depends entirely on who you ask, you may have found your next world.
Anturia has been growing for more than 40 years.
Now you can enter it.
Bring your daggers. 🗡️
You might belong in Anturia if…
You want women who are allowed to be powerful, ruthless, frightened, ambitious, brilliant, selfish, loyal, violent, loving, and sometimes very wrong.
You want sapphic characters at the center of an epic fantasy world without the story becoming solely about their sexuality or relationships.
You like protagonists who make decisions you understand even when you can’t forgive them.
You want political conflicts where neither side gets conveniently labeled evil so you know whom to hate.
And you would rather finish a story asking “What would I have done?” than be told what you were supposed to think.
If you’re nodding, welcome to Anturia.
What is Anturia?
Anturia is a planet shaped by sapphic heroes, where women have ruled for over 10,000 years. It blends ancient magic and modern technology, with political conspiracies spanning centuries. The stories in Anturia are ones you can feel and experience, not just be told.
Anturia Diaries is an epic dark fantasy world that is deeply emotional but not without hope. You will not find grimdark, romantasy, or high fantasy stories here.
What you will find is that the choices women on Anturia make change the course of planetary history, and the truth of those stories can vary depending on whose point of view you’re hearing.
>Want to know more? Explore it here.<
The Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
For more than 10,000 years, the civilizations of Anturia have survived wars, revolutions, political upheaval, and each other. They believe they understand their world. They don’t.
In 10,673 AY, a portal opens between Anturia and Earth, and that alone should be impossible. Instead, it becomes the first crack in assumptions. Old secrets begin surfacing as political alliances shift. People who should never have met collide. Across decades, women from very different corners of Anturia push the world toward a future none of them can yet see. No chosen one saves it.
These are the people who make choices and live with what those choices become.
Multiple first-person perspectives.
No omniscient narrator waits to tell you the truth. You experience Anturia through people with their own histories, loyalties, prejudices, fears, and incomplete understanding of what is happening around them.
A 12-season prequel saga.
The Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories span decades of events leading toward the Landoris Wars novel series, beginning with The Battle of Du’Roi.
Short episodes.
Most episodes run approximately 10–25 minutes.
Want to listen?
Start with Season 1: Episode 1 – The Porta Segreta
A new audio episode is released on Mondays at Noon Eastern.
Prefer to read?
Start with Season 1: Episode 1 – The Porta Segreta on Substack.
A new written episode will be released every three days while the written version catches up with the audio drama. Once caught up (estimated Jan 2027), new written episodes will arrive weekly on Thursdays at Noon Eastern.
The Battle of Du’Roi
My debut dark fantasy novel, The Battle of Du’Roi, is coming in Q1 2027.
The Queen of Ivory must overcome being hunted with a bounty on her life as she investigates strange occurrences across the continent of Landoris. What she discovers threatens more than simply herself and forces her to unite people with millennia of reasons not to trust one another.
“The desert will judge. She alone determines who survives and who doesn’t.”
>Read the Chapter 1 draft here!<
Founding Citizens of Teithia
The first 100 subscribers to Anturia Diaries on Substack will become the Founding Citizens of Teithia, and their names will appear in the Legends of Teithia listing in the back of my debut novel, The Battle of Du’Roi.
If you’ve found Anturia while it’s still small, strange, and growing, your name can become part of its legend.
Become a Founding Citizen – subscribe!
Go Deeper!
If you’ve already been in the world of Anturia and are ready to go deeper, you can start exploring the history, people, cultures, politics, places, and secrets behind the stories.
▶ Explore the Glossary of Anturia
About Heather
I’m Heather L. McMillan, the author and creator of Anturia. I started imagining pieces of this world more than 40 years ago as a little redheaded girl who needed somewhere else to go, and somehow I never stopped building it.
Today, I am turning those decades of characters, maps, histories, politics, magic, and probably far too many daggers into the Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories and the novels of the Landoris Wars.
Welcome to Anturia.
Bring your daggers. 🗡️ You will probably need them.