Duality
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Last published Wed, Mar 5, 2025
This world has long been divided.
Between light and darkness, hope and destruction.
On one side, the human world continues to move forward without looking back. Their cities expand, swallowing forests and rivers, leaving cracked land and burning skies. They call it progress, but the land itself whispers of something they have long forgotten.
On the other side, in a place hidden between shadow and light, another world breathes silence. They call it Lumora-a world born of fragile balance. There, every tree has a memory, every river has a voice, and every open crevice is a bridge to a forgotten truth.
But now, both worlds are beginning to shake. The cracks are growing. Light and shadow no longer fit together. The real world drags the other world into its destruction, and the hidden world struggles to survive with the remnants of harmony that remain.
And between these two worlds, there is a guardian who never asked for this role.
Issi.
He does not know if he has come to save, or simply to bear witness to the inevitable destruction.
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