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.

Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories

The Porta Segreta was supposed to be under control. All the reports said the humans were calm, even grateful. But they were very wrong. When violence erupts inside an Anturian observation facility, Bryn Tal is pulled back into the heart of governance and into the first undeniable proof that the door between worlds has already begun to push back.

Humans are dead, and guards are slain. Three humans have vanished into the streets of Teithia, armed with knowledge no one believed they could wield. As the council scrambles to contain the damage, the lines harden. They bury fear beneath procedure and softening words. For the first time, Bryn finds herself openly at odds with the leadership she once trusted.

This episode marks the moment when restraint fractures into secrecy, and power chooses silence over accountability.

© 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 council insists the situation is contained; however, Bryn Tal knows it isn’t. As evidence mounts that humans are being bought, sold, and quietly embedded across Anturian society, Bryn demands answers that the council refuses to give. Language softens, and accountability is buried beneath procedure.

But the truth stops being abstract when it walks into the home of someone from the Council of Elders. What Bryn discovers behind a familiar door shatters the illusion that this crisis can be managed quietly and forces a choice between obedience and conscience. When the council chooses silence, Bryn chooses the public, and the consequences are immediate. The blood is undeniable, and the line between governance and war finally disappears.

This episode marks the moment when neutrality dies, authority hardens, and Bryn Tal knowingly lights the match that will burn the world she was sworn to protect.

© 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 city is unraveling while violence has become ordinary. Mallaidh has stopped pretending this is about order, and Bryn Tal walks through a Teithia she no longer recognizes.

When the council calls an emergency peace meeting framed as reconciliation, everyone knows what it really is: a trap. Tynaref warns her to run. Oswalt begs her not to go. Dahlfia refuses to let her go alone.
Bryn goes anyway.

The chamber doors open, and what happens next will decide whether the council survives the night or whether Teithia burns. This summoning changes everything.

© 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 chamber doors close. What was promised as reconciliation becomes something far older and far more dangerous. In one single afternoon, alliances fracture, silence fails, and the Council of Elders is forced to remember the last time it chose power over wisdom. Across Teithia, confusion turns to chaos as messages spread, narratives harden, and history is rewritten in real time.

Bryn Tal walked into the chamber knowing the cost of defiance, but she did not yet understand the cost of survival. This is the fall of a government, and the very end of neutrality. This is the moment that what is left of Anturia turns on itself. Season One ends where illusion dies, and the war no one wanted can no longer be denied.

© 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 new civil war didn’t begin with a battle. It began with what no one chose to see. Beneath polished alliances and carefully maintained order, cracks are already spreading. In the aftermath of Teithia’s fall, leaders maneuver behind closed doors, shaping a future no one will admit out loud.

Bryn Tal and Dahlfia carry the weight of what they set in motion while other forces move just out of reach, tightening their hold across Anturia. Every message carries risk, and every alliance comes with a cost. Kylah’s fate is already in motion, and she doesn’t know what it will demand of her yet. Here control slips, and consequences start to take a different shape.

© 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.