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Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories

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Waylaid by storms, Kylah Marie and the Velg’lan fighters arrive at Baliya Island later than they intended. Transmissions fail. So when Kylah arrives at the island, she expects a fight. Instead, she discovers something she doesn’t expect, and it may be more terrifying than any battle.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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For the Legate, the day starts out as an ordinary day on Baliya Island. He decides to host some residents of Facility Two on the training field to watch the IX Hispana Legion train, but an urgent transmission from Bryn shatters the day’s plans.

Some residents evacuate, while others stay behind to face whatever fate has in store for them. The Legate realizes that the timing of events determines very different outcomes in this situation, and that things can quickly go from bad to worse for those who remain on the island.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories

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After days alone in her room in Facility Two, Karrah MacMillan decides she has had enough. She returns to her training, her sister, and the people she has begun to know on Anturia to prove to herself that she can find her place amongst them.

Maybe things aren’t as different as they feel. Maybe some things haven’t changed one bit. Maybe Karrah is going to be just fine.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories

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Flandan Reynolds thought surviving the impossible had given him another chance at life. But hope can be dangerous when it grows around things left unsaid.

As relationships deepen on Baliya Island, Flandan realizes that some truths can no longer be avoided. He wants to do the right thing before anyone gets hurt, but sometimes, the truth comes too late. Then there are times when the ground has already begun to crack beneath you.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories

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Bryn Tal, Dahlfia Dewr, and Myr Seren have narrowed over 10,000 Immortaleum down to 100 humans selected for leadership roles across the continent of Landoris to help the Council of the Wise combat Emperor Daxingovan and the threat he poses to their way of life.

Now they must deliver the news to those who are chosen. Some of the chosen are unimpressed, some are bound to duty, some are excited, and some are afraid of disappointing the Council. Unintended consequences occur for one who was not chosen.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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Karrah MacMillan has never known a life without her twin sister beside her.

Now, stranded thousands of years from everything she knew, she is grieving the family she lost while trying to understand the strange new world that saved her life. Anturia frightens her in ways it seems to fascinate Kerrih, but it also offers Karrah something she never expected. A chance to discover who she might be on her own.

New friendships, unexpected talents, and the attention of someone who sees Karrah before he sees her sister begin to make this unfamiliar world feel a little less frightening.

For most of her life, Karrah has understood exactly where she stands, beside Kerrih.

For the first time, she is beginning to wonder whether she might want somewhere that belongs entirely to her.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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The Ninth Legion survived Rome. Now its Legate must decide what comes next.

More than five thousand soldiers look to Caius Regillus for purpose, but the war Bryn Tal has asked them to join is not theirs. They know little of Anturia, its politics, or the enemy they may soon be asked to fight.

For Caius, choosing a side means gambling with every life under his command.

While searching for clarity, an unexpected conversation in a garden gives him another perspective on what a second life can mean and what someone might choose to do with it.

The Ninth still has its discipline. It still has its strength, and Caius still carries the responsibility of command. But for the first time, Rome cannot tell him what to do. The decision belongs entirely to him.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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Dahlfia Dewr trusts observation more than assumption. As the newly arrived Immortaleum adjust to life on Anturia, she begins evaluating how well they are adapting, not only to their new world, but to each other. Most respond in ways she can understand. The twins are different.

Kerrih and Karrah have spent their entire lives side by side, but Dahlfia wants to know what happens when that bond is tested, when expectations change, and when each sister is forced to stand on her own.

What she observes leaves her with more questions than answers, and one possibility she isn’t yet willing to say aloud.

Some bonds make us stronger. Others reveal exactly where we might break.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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Rome gave Caius Regillus everything a commander needs: discipline, structure, purpose, and an enemy. Anturia has given him none of those things.

As the Ninth Legion trains in an unfamiliar world, Caius struggles to maintain the order that once defined both him and his men. His soldiers can still march. His officers can still command. The discipline Rome forged into them remains.

But for the first time, Caius doesn’t know what victory is supposed to look like. And while one unexpected woman grows harder to ignore, his most trusted officer notices something Caius would rather believe he has under control.

The Ninth Legion survived the journey to Anturia. Now Caius must determine what remains of Rome when Rome is no longer there.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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The first lessons are underway, and not every student learns the same way. As the newly arrived humans begin adapting to life on Anturia, Kylah is given a job she’d rather survive than enjoy: teaching a group of bewildered newcomers how to use technology that feels impossible to them. Between chaotic training sessions, unexpected personalities, and more than a few moments of frustration, one thing becomes increasingly clear. Some differences run deeper than appearances.

As Kylah observes the twins more closely, she begins to recognize subtle contrasts that could matter far more than anyone realizes. First impressions are easy. Understanding who someone truly is takes much longer.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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Something happened on the platform that no one can explain. As thousands of newly arrived humans settle into life on Baliya Island, Bryn and Dahlfia quietly isolate a young woman whose actions defy everything they believe is possible. What begins as a private conversation quickly becomes an urgent investigation as strange questions emerge without comforting answers.

Some secrets cannot be shared with the council, while some discoveries are too dangerous to reveal. And sometimes the greatest threat isn’t what you’ve seen; it’s what you haven’t understood yet.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories

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The future cannot be summoned without consequence. As the next wave of humans arrives from Earth, Bryn and the Council discover that not every soul crosses the Porta Segreta in the same way. The careful plans that worked before begin to unravel as fear, grief, and confusion spread through the staging grounds. Every arrival brings new questions, and every answer reveals another unknown.

While the council struggles to adapt, strange anomalies continue to surface around the ancient machine, suggesting there are forces at work that no one, not even those who built it, fully understands. Some destinies cannot be programmed, while some souls refuse to follow the rules.

Season Three reaches its breathtaking conclusion in Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories—a cinematic dark fantasy audio drama blending science fiction, political intrigue, ancient technology, and morally complex characters whose choices echo across generations. As one chapter closes, another begins.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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Some forces do not need time to become dangerous; they arrive ready. As Baliya Island prepares to receive thousands of humans pulled from Earth, Bryn and the Council believe they have accounted for injury, confusion, fear, and resistance, but they are still not prepared.

The first group crosses through the Porta Segreta in perfect formation with no panic, disorder, or hesitation. Only discipline. As thousands more follow, the scale of what the council has brought to Anturia becomes impossible to ignore. These are not frightened survivors waiting to be rescued. They are soldiers, and at their center stands a commander who immediately understands that someone has taken control of his fate.

The line has already been crossed. Now Anturia must face what came through with it.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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The crisis on Baliya Island is over, but the consequences are only beginning. With the Porta Segreta finally under their control, Bryn and the Council of the Wise face a discovery that changes everything they thought they knew. The off-world machine was never simply a gateway between worlds; it can target specific people from specific moments in time. It is a weapon, a recruitment tool, and a temptation.

As Emperor Daxingovan’s influence continues to spread across Anturia, the council must answer an impossible question: If crossing a moral boundary could save countless lives, would you do it? Old promises collide with harsh reality as allies disagree over ethics, survival, and the future of their world. Because once a moral line is crossed, it rarely stays behind you.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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The gate was never meant to remain open, and 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 decision they make costs lives, and every minute matters.

As the race to stop the Porta Segreta begins, an unsettling discovery inside the off-world technology reveals the crisis may not have been an accident at all, raising terrifying questions about what this machine was truly designed to do. Some doors should never have been opened, and others should never have been built.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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War may be over, but peace is another matter entirely. 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, and new leadership rises. As Landoris celebrates the beginning of a united future, a revelation from beyond its borders threatens to change Anturia forever. Sometimes the ground beneath your feet feels solid and stable, right before it gives way.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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Victory demands 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, an unexpected form of salvation arrives. Old allies face final reckonings, and long-buried truths surface. Questions surrounding the war grow larger instead of smaller. And as the dust settles over Teithia, a new figure steps forward to make demands no one is prepared to hear. Because some victories do not end a war. They only reveal the next one.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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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 takes shape before the battle is even over.

But while victories are won in one part of the city, confusion spreads in another, and the reports clash. Every decision carries consequences that may not be understood until it is far too late. As allies struggle to hold the city together and the cost of war keeps rising, a single question begins to echo through the transmissions: Where is Dahlfia?

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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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 command from the center of chaos while every voice in her mind carries new danger. Kylah moves through the tunnels. Gaffdyn advances from the north. Myr pushes from the south. Dahlfia enters the darkness beneath Teithia. And then something goes wrong. What began as a coordinated strike becomes a battle against confusion, ambush, and the terrible cost of divided command. Because once the first breach opens, there may be no way to control what comes through it.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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Before wars are won, someone has to make the first move. As the survivors of Landoris prepare to strike back against Mallaidh’s forces in Teithia, Bryn and the remaining councilors race against time to organize a desperate plan to reclaim the city before their advantage disappears. Armies gather in Graywood, and alliances are tested. Every decision carries the weight of lives that may never return home.

But while leaders debate strategy above ground, others move through shadows, tunnels, and forgotten paths beneath the city itself, where one wrong step could destroy everything before the battle even begins. As old loyalties harden into open resistance, the fight for Teithia is no longer a question of if, only how much it will cost.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories

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Some storms can be seen long before they arrive. Other storms 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, while new threats emerge. The fragile balance holding everything together begins to fracture.

For Kylah and those bound to the choices already made, the question is no longer whether conflict will come, only when and who will still be standing when it does. As paths converge and the weight of everything set in motion comes into focus, one truth becomes impossible to ignore. None of them can go back.

What lies ahead will demand more than survival; it will demand everything. Here, the pieces begin to align, and quiet tensions give way to open conflict. The future of Anturia shifts, whether they are ready or not. Season Two concludes as the storm finally begins to break, setting the stage for what comes next.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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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 must confront the deeper truths that shape Alltud itself. Who decides what a person deserves? What makes someone worthy of belonging? And what separates punishment from purpose?

But in a place built by outcasts, criminals, and those who refused the paths set before them, the answers are not simple and not offered freely. Alltud is where survival becomes meaning and judgment gives way to perspective. Now, Kylah begins to see the world and herself through a different lens.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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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 in the midst of the desert, there are no witnesses, rules, or second chances.

When the moment comes, what stands before her is not the enemy she expected. What she is asked to do is not as simple as survival. The line between hunter and hunted dissolves. Kylah is forced to confront a truth: strength isn’t always measured by the ability to kill, and mercy isn’t always an act of kindness.

Some choices do not feel like victory; they feel like loss.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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Not all who wander the desert are meant to survive it while others 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, she encounters a presence unlike anything she has known. The presence is ancient and waiting for her. This place is not a simple refuge, and the being that resides there is no ordinary being. As questions surface and answers remain just out of reach, Kylah must accept that not everything in this world can be understood. And not everything is meant to be.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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In Alltud, survival is only the beginning, and then you have to earn it again. 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. Lessons and skills are meant to help you but offer no guarantee because not everything can be taught.

Some enemies are not placed before you by chance. As Kylah is pushed to her limits in every way, she learns the greatest threat she faces may be the one she chooses. In Alltud, there is only one way to belong, and it comes at a cost that cannot be undone. The desert demands justice, and it is always satisfied.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

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For over 10,000 years, the stories in Anturia were written down, spoken, or stored in technology. For the first time, Kylah begins documenting her experience in real time using something her species already had but didn’t realize, unsure whether she will survive long enough to share it with anyone.

Exiled to the desert of the unforgiving Plains of Du’Roi, she is left with nothing but her instincts, her anger, and a voice guiding her from the shadows. The voice is one she does not recognize, leading her to a path that she does not trust. The desert does not forgive. As the heat rises and the distance stretches endlessly ahead, survival becomes more than endurance. Out here, strength and endurance are not enough. Every step is a decision, while every mistake is final.

However, the desert is not as empty as it seems, and Kylah is not as alone as she believes. This is where the first record is made: an imprint.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.