Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories

Bryn Tal records this account from captivity, long after the world she knew began to burn. Two hundred years before the war that would change Teithia forever, an off-world stranger arrives before the Anturian council with an irresistible promise: a doorway to a twin planet called Earth, rich in resources, opportunity, and untapped potential. Against centuries of caution, the council approves the construction of the Porta Segreta.

What begins as progress soon feels like something far more dangerous. This opening episode marks the moment everything changes: before the fires, before the betrayals, before everything is lost.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories

Months after the Porta Segreta is activated, the first Anturian teams return from Earth unharmed. The portal works, and the technology holds. By every measurable standard, the mission is a success. That certainty unsettles Bryn Tal most. As they draft rules and set boundaries, confidence spreads through the council. Observation replaces caution, and curiosity begins to eclipse restraint. What was meant to remain distant and untouched slowly becomes familiar and tempting.

In the council chambers of Teithia, the language shifts. Discussions of restraint give way to justification. And beneath the calm surface of progress, something fractures quietly, long before anyone is willing to name it. This episode traces the moment when moral lines blur, and the first divisions take root not through violence, but through belief.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.

Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories

The Porta Segreta has changed Anturia, but not in ways measured in resources or reports. As the council recesses and life in Teithia settles into an uneasy calm, Bryn Tal steps away from governance and into the quiet rhythms of home: her garden, her granddaughter Afanen, and the fragile innocence of a world that still believes itself untouched. But Earth’s influence has already begun to seep into Anturian life.

Children learn about humans in school, while observation teams report worship where curiosity once stood. Language spreads, and myths take root. Small moments of conversations overheard, glances misread, kindness witnessed from a distance begin to harden into something more dangerous. This episode traces the cost of opening doors that cannot be closed again.

© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is an original work of fiction. All characters, locations, and events are fictional. Unauthorized reproduction or distribution is prohibited.

Music written, performed, and recorded by Michael Sawyer.
Velg’lan logo owned by Anturia LLC
Cloaked figure artwork by: Yves Muench Illustrator
Genres: Dark Fantasy • Epic Fantasy • Science Fantasy • Sapphic Fantasy.