"They called her a nobody. They tried to break her spirit. But destiny had other plans." Elara Moonstone was raised as an orphan child in a cruel family, until her 18th birthday, when a sudden mark appeared on her chest and everything changed the next day after she went to school. Elara's life shatters when she learns of her royal Lycan lineage. Thrust into a world of magic, politics, and danger, she must embrace her true self to unite warring factions and reclaim her throne. With powerful allies by her side and love complicating her path, Elara's journey is one of self-discovery, resilience, and destiny.
view moreElara Moonstone, an orphan raised in a cruel family, learned early how to disappear. How can she get quiet when everyone is being cruel to her?
She feels safer in the shadows, behind lockers, crowds, and silence.
In a town that looked at her as peculiar, she carried invisibility as a second skin.
She had no history of how she got there, no childhood pictures, no tearful relatives to claim her when she was left on the doorstep of the Harrow family when she was six with nothing but a little pendant and a name.
And Harrows, they were cruel.
Their Morrow Street house felt cold even when the furnace burned. Mr. Harrow spent his nights working and his days drinking. Mrs. Harrow smoked on the living room sofa, watched soap operas all day long, and feigned Elara's existence if it wasn't to clean something. Three years older than Elara, their son Garrett used her as a rumor he'd treat with scorn whenever he wasn't taunting her bizarre dreams and mumbling "freak" in the high school corridors.
But Elara no longer wept.
She traversed the world silently, hidden behind a veil of numbness. She obtained good grades, but not the type that garnered applause. She read books, but not the type exchanged in class. She drew items, ancient trees, howling wolves with piercing eyes, moons that fractured like glass, without knowing the reason they resided in her mind.
Until the day she turned eighteen.
It started with a dream.
She stood barefoot in a field of black flowers, the sky a velvet curtain of stars. A wolf with silver eyes approached her, silent and reverent. Behind it, a figure cloaked in shadow watched, unmoving. The wolf bowed. The figure vanished. When she looked down, the flowers had turned to ash.
She woke breathless. And then she screamed.
Because glowing on her shoulder, just below the collarbone, was a mark she had never seen before, circular, etched in what looked like light itself. The shape of a crescent moon with a slash through it.
Panic gripped her chest.
She scrubbed at it. Nothing. She tried to cover it. It bled through the fabric like a hidden truth finally revealed.
“Elara!” Mrs. Harrow’s voice banged at the door. “What are you doing in there?”
“Nothing,” she lied, throwing on a hoodie and hiding the mark as best she could.
The school that day was a blur. Her skin itched beneath her hoodie, the mark pulsing like a second heartbeat. People stared more than usual. Garrett laughed louder. But something was different. She could feel it.
Like her senses had sharpened overnight.
She could smell emotions, anxiety, desire and fear. Hear heartbeats in the silence. And worst of all, she could feel something watching her. Not from school. Not from town. From something older. Something hungry.
After her last class, she bolted, the need to get home replaced by the instinct to hide.
But she could not hide.
She rushed towards the forest to take a deep breath, to think about what was going on!
But she didn't know, as the moment Elara took a step in the forest, to sort things out, a sudden figure with shiny eyes, a fearsome personality, suddenly appeared, like he wanted to kill her. Elara screamed and started running deep into the forest.
A legend is not a memory.It is a seed.And when a child opens the book again,It does not read the past—it writes the future.The Spiral Tree was hushed that morning. Dew beaded on the leaves, jewelled and trembling, as if every branch bore the weight of a thousand untold stories. Dawn crept through the canopy, pouring slow rivers of gold across the Archive floor—a floor not made of dead timber, but of living root. Moss and petal glass softened each footstep, blurring the boundary between building and being.Inside the Archive, it felt as if the world itself was pausing to listen.No birds sang. No footfalls echoed from the market lanes. The city beyond was just awakening, the aroma of baking bread and cool, loamy earth drifting in through the vine-draped entrance. But inside, only silence reigned. The kind of silence that is not absence, but presence—a silent invitation for the next story to unfold.At the Archive’s heart, where root-wood curved in a natural spiral, a pedestal awai
Some stories are written to be read.Others, to be remembered.Elara’s story was never hers alone.It was always the realm’s.And when the Archive Keeper came to its final page, he found it blank.The Archive rested deep beneath the roots of the Gathering Tree, in a chamber neither hidden nor revealed—a place both timeless and easily overlooked by those who had long since learned to look forward, not back. It was cool beneath the earth, the air heavy with the scent of dusk petals and old parchment, filtered sunlight tracing uncertain paths through veins of rootglass and living bark.Here, the Keeper dwelled.Older than roots, or perhaps not old at all—simply enduring, as all true memories do.He bore no name that would be remembered in song or written in ink.He was a silent steward of stories: the first to witness Elara’s rise, and the last who ever wrote her name by hand.He had chronicled everything.The child who wept beside the roots, hoping for someone to call her name.The quee
A realm once divided by blade and blood now grows by root and choice.This is not a tale of conquest.It is a testament—etched in soil, sung in every window-lit village, whispered from elder to child—of what becomes possible when a people choose the light, again and again, even when it seems easier to hide in shadow.Eldoria no longer feared the dark.Shadows still pooled at the edges of dusk. Thunder still rolled off the high crags. But the people did not shrink from these things anymore. They understood: darkness was not the enemy. It was simply a space waiting for the next story, the next act of courage, the next child’s laughter to bloom.And so, in those places where fear had once thrived, they planted lanterns.Spiral lanterns—soft-glowing, etched with the sigil of Elara’s spiral, woven with the golden threads of stardust and the translucent veins of dreamroot. Each one was a living vow: We remember what it cost to build this peace. We honour it. We protect it, every dusk, every
Elara never named an heir.But the land did.Not one child.But many.Born in peace. Bound by root, star, and spiral.They were not born in castles.They were not prophesied by scroll or oracle.There were no choirs of angels.No signs carved in the sky.They came quietly.Into villages tucked beneath mossy cliffs.Into forests that once burned but now sang with birdsong.Into borderlands where once only soldiers walked.Into outposts rebuilt by hands that once held blades.The children of hunters and moon-priests.Of warriors and flame-keepers.Of witches who once walked alone and druids who dared to love beyond bloodlines.They came from every race.And they were hybrids.Not in the old way.Not in the way the world once feared—half-bloods forced to stand between wars.In a new way.Balanced. Whole.Made not from compromise, but convergence.And each carried a mark.Not all the same.Some bore spirals upon their palms.Others had birthmarks in the shapes of vines, flames, or moons.
A realm once divided by blade and blood now grows by root and choice.This is not a tale of conquest.It is a testament to what happens when a people choose light, time and again.Eldoria no longer feared the dark.The shadows still fell at dusk. The storms still rolled through the highlands. The fog still crept through the Vale of Ash before sunrise.But the people no longer shrank from them.They no longer barred doors or buried hope.They understood now—Shadow did not mean danger.It simply meant a place the light had not yet reached.And in those spaces, they planted lanterns.Spiral lanterns—woven with stardust and dreamroot, soft-glowing in colors that changed with the seasons. Etched with Elara’s spiral mark. Hung from branches and archways, or set upon the earth beside footpaths and doorsteps.Each one was a vow:We will not forget what it cost to stand in peace.The Gathering Tree had grown.So wide, so deep, so sacred that its roots touched all seven provinces. Whole villag
Seren never wore a crown. Never sat a throne carved of bone or gold. Yet when she spoke, the world grew quiet—not because she commanded it, but because something in her presence called to the listening part of every heart.She was not the last queen, nor the first. She was not marked by destiny, not in the way that demands bowing or blood. But in the years since the flames had faded and the wars grown old, her voice had become a gentle tether—a way for scattered souls to remember what it meant to belong.She walked the Eternal Garden with unhurried steps, as if the roots beneath her feet could carry the weight of every sorrow. And perhaps they could. For the garden itself was no longer just a place, but a memory made living—a quilt of wildflowers, shadowblooms, and vines, every petal a fragment of a story, every stone humming with old magic.It was said that the arch at the garden’s heart had been shaped from the last branches of the First Tree, and beneath its flowering curve, Seren
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