Nyxaria is born of impossible balance. One quarter Grace-born, one quarter Shadow-born, and half human, she is a living contradiction bound to both light and shadow. Her body bears the golden lines of celestial blood and the dark undertones of infernal fire, but her heart belongs to the fragile mortal world. In Greyvale, superstition turns her heritage into a curse. The villagers call her damned. Her mother calls her chosen. Only Starwhisper, another outcast child, sees her as something beautiful. Their friendship becomes love, and together they imagine a world unruled by fear. That dream dies beneath a blood-red moon. A Desire from the shadows awakens in Nyxaria’s veins. The act fractures her heart and her soul, casting her from the mortal plane into exile. Through the Trial of Glory, Nyxaria endures torment meant to unmake her, but it only refines her into something beyond divine design. She learns that creation depends on imperfection, and that balance is not born of purity, but of coexistence. When she returns to the world, centuries have passed, but her vow remains. Once consumed by shadows, she rebuilds among ruins, shaping small mercies into a legacy of hope. Across centuries and realms she wanders through forgotten and silent places, searching for meaning in what she has become. The gods see her as defiant. Humanity forgets she ever existed. In the end, she becomes myth. The fallen with a shattered halo who refused to belong to Grace or Shadow. Her story survives in whispered prayers and children’s songs, a tale of the one who bore three natures and proved that love, not light or darkness, is the truest divinity of all. This is not a tale of destiny fulfilled. It is the story of a woman who defied fate itself. It is a tale of grief turned myth, of love that lingers beyond death, of a broken halo that still burns against the dark. Nyxaria The Shattered Halo is an epic fantasy of tragedy, redemption, and legend... for readers who believe the greatest battles are fought not with swords, but with the choices that shape who we become.