Alexios-Alethia
This is a character-focused prequel exploring the world before the main story.
The world ended quietly.
Not with fire or war - but with convenience, control, and loss of hope.
Yami lives in what remains.
A city where movement is restricted, jobs are assigned, hope is treated as a disease, and the past has been rewritten. Religion teaches that hate is necessary. The Council teaches that obedience is peace.
But Yami remembers things he was never meant to know.
Raised by foster grandparents who believed in myths, he grew up on stories of a forgotten empress, a world that once held colour, and ruins that refused to stay silent. Now an information broker, hacker, and branded a criminal, Yami simply survives.
This is a story of the waiting.
Before hope returned.
Before the world remembered.
Before everything changed.