Chapter 0

⚠️WARNING⚠️

The informations contained in this chapter from the past is essential to understanding the plot, but it contains spoilers. I strongly recommend reading it only after you have finished Chapter 10.

- Moonridge, 1700 -

During the 1700s, the world was no longer a single entity.

Artemys, Witch and Daughter of Light, created two parallel realities to preserve the balance between magic and humanity. Two worlds separated by an invisible and impenetrable barrier.

On one side, the magical world.

On the other, the human world.

Those who possessed magic could not cross it.

Those without it could not even touch it.

The witches were led into their world.

The Guardians, humans without powers, were left behind. Separated from their witch or wizard.

Couples torn apart, and broken relationships

It was the only way, according to Artemys, to end the war... and the witch hunt.

Yet even her power wasn’t enough to fill the void she felt inside

Because Artemys, the most powerful witch who ever lived... had fallen in love with a human. Tristan.

She longed for a simple life. A real one. Together with her beloved.

So she made the hardest decision of her life: to give up her powers.

She sealed them in her amulet, along with her Book of Spells, and entrusted the magical world to her trusted witches. They thus created the “Council of Witches”: a select group to maintain order and protect the balance of the two worlds, and the barrier.

So, Artemys became human and stepped through the Portal.

But her disappearance did not go unnoticed.

Selene, her sister, a witch and Daughter of the Shadow, immediately sensed that something was wrong.

When she discovered the truth—that Artemys had gone to the human world, to Tristan—anger took hold of her.

The Council tried to stop her. But their words were useless.

Selene destroyed the barrier; the boundary between the two worlds shattered.

Wizards and magical creatures invaded the human world, while others desperately tried to restore the balance.

It was a chaos.

In the midst of it all, Artemys’s Guardian was chosen: Arthur.

The Council summoned him to the magical world and entrusted him with the amulet.

His task was clear: to find Artemys... and restore her powers.

But the boy never reached his destination.

Selene found him first.

With a single gesture, she turned him into a cat... He tried to escape.

But immediately afterward... he turned to stone.

Meanwhile, the Council managed to recreate the barrier, but it was never as powerful as Artemys’s.

Some managed to remain in the human world.

Among them... Selene, with her guardian Corbin

And a young witch destined to change everything: Quinella Brown

Selene found Artemys.

No longer a witch... but a woman without powers. She lived in a castle, alongside the man she loved. But Tristan was also the man loved by Selene, her sister.

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The two clashed. Words turned into accusations, and accusations into anger.

Selene felt betrayed by her sister. Artemys tried to explain, to stop her... but she wouldn’t listen.

Magic slipped through her fingers. Selene cast a spell.

But her sister wasn’t hit. The Prince Tristan stepped between them.

In an attempt to save his beloved... he took the blow in her place.

Selene and Artemys rushed toward him, but it was no use.

The prince lay motionless, his life ebbing away in their trembling hands.

Selene felt an icy emptiness inside her. Artemys, her heart wrung with grief, realized that... she should have been there in her man’s place...

Time, in that instant, seemed to stand still.

That was when Quinella intervened, and Corbin was with her... he wasn't Selene's true guardian, or rather, he was at first, but his plans had changed. 

The witch proposed a deal.

If Selene gave up her powers, the prince would be saved.

Artemys tried to stop her.

She sensed something was wrong; the man couldn’t be brought back to life—it was impossible.

But Selene agreed. She sealed her power within her amulet, and in that instant... everything changed.

Stripped of her power, Selene left in the hands of Quinella and Corbin not only her power, but something far more dangerous: control over destiny.

The pact was a lie. The witch lied; she didn’t bring Tristan back to life, but killed both Artemys and her sister. Now powerless, the souls of the two sisters were sealed inside their amulets.

But there was one thing the two didn’t know… They couldn’t open the amulets; only the daughters of light and darkness could do so.

She created a new barrier.

Not to protect, but to hide.

An invisible veil that obscured from the magical world everything that happened in the human world...

Preventing the Council from seeing, intervening... or even suspecting

From that day on, the two worlds continued to exist. Separate. But no longer safe.

They tried to open the amulets in every way, with every spell, but to no avail. For years, together, Corbin and Quinella remained in the human world, trying and devising plans...

They waited for the new daughters of light and darkness. 

Until one day... they discovered that the souls of the two witches were imprisoned within the amulet. For this reason, the chosen ones could not be reborn.

So Quinella searched for a powerful spell capable of transferring only the powers to the new Chosen Ones.

But that spell also caused a time jump: to the year in which the heirs would be born.

The powers finally reached the new Chosen Ones.

Quinella, however, lost all her magic... finding herself in the human world, in a new century, alongside Corbin. An unfamiliar era, far removed from everything she knew.

She was now powerless... but not defeated.

She waited, alongside the guardian, watching events unfold from the shadows, ready to intervene at the right moment.

Because their plans... never stopped.