Hi, everyone!
I promised last week I was going to talk about the world of Era: Forbidden, so here we are!
Imagine the modern world.
Now imagine that angels and demons appeared out of nowhere, attacking each other, fighting and not really caring about humans. Aside from demons choosing to feed off humans, that is – Angels simply crush people under foot.
This is the world of Forbidden: civilization has been destroyed, there’s not really a lot left. It’s all ruined, broken.
Humanity is broken too, but not in the same sense. They run, they hide, they cower, they pray that they will not be found. They have no means of fighting back.
But Angels and Demons are pretty careless. They leave their weapons strewn around the battlefield, along with armour and items that do amazing things.
If a human touches one of these, there is a 75% chance that they burst into flames, turn into ash in moments. However, the ones that survive become bigger, stronger, faster, cleverer… enhanced in every way. Their soul is ripped in half to power this “Remnant”.
That’s exactly what happened to our main character in Demon Sword.
The thing is that she had a passenger in the sword that she touched: Krel’noth. She didn’t expect it. She’d never heard of anything like it, and nor had he.
So now Athena is roaming the world, trying to escape, trying to find out how to survive in this place as a Forbidden, shunned by Humans (because if Angels discover a Forbidden with Humans, they’ll slaughter them!) hunted by angels, hated by demons.
A threat. Not a large threat, but able to kill Angels and Demons, at least the weakest ones.
Athena has to live on wits and Guile, just like the other Forbidden. So far, she’s managed to survive, but we’ll see how long that lasts…
– Ed