Welcome to Novaia, a mystical world full of possibilities! Everyone here is born with a unique power, automatically generated by the world itself! Visitors must meet with either one of the remaining Arcanials, one of the Ennobled, or even Goddess Numine herself, if they wish to possess a power of their own! All in all, life here on Novaia is fantastic, and getting everything you could ever want is so simple!
But...is that the truth of this world? No. This world is the aftermath. Of what? The destruction or Arcana, of course! Have you not heard the story? An angered boy, of thirteen years, attempted to escape the Otherworld, the land known as Earth. He could not, unless he expended his life. So he created a world. This world was Arcana. He made a vessel, he helped along, and in the end? He grew to despise his creations. And so he ordered his vessel to destroy it at all costs. The vessel made friends, and in the end, cast them to Earth, the land that destroys all creations. For imagination shan't impose on reality. This new world, Novaia, is a world of chains. Those with power are blind to these chains, as these chains grant one power at the cost of their will. But those with weak powers can see these chains.
This is the story of those who reached out, and shattered these chains.
Elliot's partner was his whole world, but after Allan's death, his ghost haunts Elliot's dreams. Everyone tells Elliot to move on, but he isn't sure he can.
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It's been a year since the love of Elliot's life, Allan, passed away. Everyone thinks he should have recovered after that much time, but Allan still haunts Elliot every night. He struggles to maintain relationships with his family, and despite a coworkers interest he can't summon up the courage to date. Elliot is living for the past, because to live for the present means he'll have to live with a hole in his heart. But the question Elliot has to face chases him through his monotonous days: is mourning Allan with everything he has truly living?
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