The fulfillment of the Dark Prophecy has begun. And Tiro Viveri doesn't even know it. Worse yet, he's unaware of the extent of the special gift - the dai - he holds or how to use it.
After waking up to a scene of immense carnage, surrounded by the lifeless bodies of his family's male lineage, Tiro sets out on a paramount quest for survival where avenging his family must wait. Most of all, mastering his dai will be an extreme challenge as he makes sense of the events occurring in the eight regions within the Viverian realm, changing his name to Tratos to further hide his identity.
Tratos's mother and baby sister are alive and in hiding, but before they eventually meet, Tratos is imprisoned, enslaved, and hunted. He rallies support throughout the realm to defeat the spreading darkness and, along the way, meets friends who turn into foes, foes who become friends and discovers the extent of the dais and the ancient ways. Most of all, he will learn how to use his own dai to become a formidable enemy.
Estranged family members and holders of dais will aid Tratos in his cause to quench the spread of evil. Multiple players from the eight regions of the Viverian realm will either help or hurt the cause for freedom. Existing secret societies will aid their members in their respective goals; and, through a love interest who discovers his royal lineage, Tratos will align with an ancient secret society and become tutored by an old healer while developing a relationship that will ultimately be his weakness.
The marginalized Parakofs or half breeds in the North will become the last bastion and beacon of hope for the realm as they ward off their ancestral neighbors. The Rosians of the Northeast, who, many years ago, hid a High Family threatened with extinction and barricaded themselves from the rest of the realm, will reappear. They will forge new alliances and use their abilities to manipulate the physical elements for their own purposes.
The Rosian Dissenters will form a treaty with the Northern realms in an attempt to shift power to the North. Individuals in the Southern regions will use their gifts to survive and ward off the invading Northerners while other Southerners will undermine them. Perceivers will seek out and destroy holders of gifts throughout the entire realm, while the Light Colony seeks to bring balance.
Characters will fall in love, betray each other, destroy others or themselves. The re-emergence of the dais will be a source of contention for them all.
Can the Viverian realm withstand the development and mixture of the Viverian dais? Will it survive?
The descendants of the eight gifted Viveri family members will be on a tumultuous ride as they vie for power and control, subtly taking property, lives, and freedoms in their pursuit for total domination.
The Unbalanced Realm invites you into its world of intrigue. And the time to start is now...
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