From the Sacred Archives of Lucria, before the Great Shattering.
Before time had rhythm… before flame kissed sky… there was only the Aether.
An endless silence. A breathless void.
From this divine nothingness emerged The Grand Order Court of Judgement — five eternal beings, each born of essence, tasked with shaping the cosmos.
They were:
Grand Master Kala, The Architect of Order — time's first breath, the hammer of structure.
Void Goddess Virtue, The Oracle of Balance — keeper of law, prophecy, and shadowlight.
Goddess Isarosa, The Weaver of Life — mother of all birth, beauty, and bloodlines.
God Hecron, The Veilkeeper — guardian of the dead, harbinger of endings.
God Tyrin, The Dreammaker — artist of chaos, father of wild imagination.
Together, they created the Realm System: a sacred wheel of connected kingdoms, each designed to protect a branch of existence. These realms were woven like threads around a central pulse — Lucria, the beating heart of rare creatures, mythborn beings, and elemental royalty.
There were dragons and phoenixes, frostbite wolves and golden sphynx cats, fox spirits and lionesses born from sandstorms, and even sea-born creatures that could breathe memory into tide.
Each species was given a Realm of Origin and its own star in the sky.
But the balance would not last.
With creation came conflict.
The Rareblood Vampires, powerful beings born from the void between stars, were cast out of the Realm System and given a twilight realm of their own — Bloodfang — ruled by no god, no law.
These vampires, unlike any others, could walk through flame, vanish in mist, and drink magic itself.
The gods feared what would happen if such creatures mingled with the divine-blooded races. And so, under Virtue's decree, the Law of Sacred Separation was forged:
"Rareblood vampires and divine-born creatures shall not unite. Their offspring shall be forbidden, their love erased."
The Seven Rubies of Honor, fragments of Virtue's own soul, were sealed and scattered — destined to awaken only in seven royal daughters born from divine species, far into the future. These rubies were the Realm System's final safeguard, the keys to balance in case the wheel fractured.
But then came love.
And it was not part of the plan.
Ryoba, the Star Dragon Empress of Starlonia — a creature of celestial fire, prophecy, and wisdom — fell in love with a shadow.
Riku, the last known Bloodphantom Vampire, warrior of silence, fireblood, and midnight mist. He was supposed to be her enemy on the battlefield… but he saved her. And she let him.
Their union was sacred, secret — a flicker of starlight in a dying world.
But when their bond was discovered, the Grand Order sent a Hollow Keeper to destroy them.
Rather than let their love be erased by law, Ryoba and Riku chose the impossible.
In the middle of a collapsing starfield, they unleashed a forbidden ritual. Ryoba split her essence into an unborn egg. Riku cast his bloodline into the mist.
And then… they vanished.
No grave. No realm. No memory.
Only echoes.
And so time passed.
The Realm System cracked. Lucria fell into silence. The rubies dimmed. The gods faded behind the Veil.
But in the shadows of Bloodfang, seven vampire princes were raised by a matriarch of midnight — Mistress Belladonna, guardian of the old blood.
And across the forgotten Realms, seven princesses were born, scattered, silenced, lost.
Until now.
Now, the rubies begin to stir.
Now, the stars burn again.
Now… the curse may finally be broken.
"Let them love. Let them rise. Let them rewrite the stars."— Void Goddess Virtue, at the hour the Law was lifted.
✦ END OF PROLOGUE