The Shattered Echo

Eurydice was never meant to be remembered only as a shadow in Orpheus's song. She was a nymph of sunlight and meadow, a daughter of Apollo, whose love was fierce and whose fate was cruel. Pursued, bitten, silenced - her life ended before it began, her voice swallowed by the Underworld.

But death did not erase her. Her story begins where Persephone's ends, in the halls of shadow, where resilience is forged and silence becomes defiance. Though Orpheus's music softened the hearts of gods, though his love nearly carried her back to the light, Eurydice's fate was sealed by doubt and longing. She vanished once more into darkness - but this time, she endures not as a victim, but as a voice.

The Shattered Echo is the second branch of the Daughters of Defiance, a mythic cycle where heroines reclaim agency from captivity. Eurydice's tale is one of love and loss, but also of courage: the hymn that refuses to be erased, the echo that survives even in silence.