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How far would you go to save the one you love?

Everyone knows where the Lake of Mists lies, yet no one dares to go there.
No fish swim in its dead waters, shrouded in vapors that not even the brightest sun can pierce. No game roams the surrounding woods, only dark trees thinning into stunted shrubs along the still, lifeless shore.

And yet, the villagers swear an old woman lives there.
A mad hag who tricks travelers, they joke over tankards of ale.
A witch of dark power, they whisper instead by the firelight on the blackest nights.

Mhea, Robhar, Jaysan.
Three lives entwined by a ring of mist and blood, of love and despair. And by an ancient secret hidden within the coils of a cursed lake.

• Coming-of-age and self-discovery
• Family bonds and generational trauma
• Love, sacrifice, and moral choice
• Dark fantasy with sci-fi undertones

• Death
• Domestic violence

An ancient barrier. Two worlds. One lie.

Good and Evil are but two versions of the same story.

Faithful to a millenary alliance, the elemental shape-shifting warriors known as the Wardens watch over the border between the realm of Men and the lands cursed by a plague now lost to legend. For over four centuries, neither the infected nor enemy armies have appeared on the horizon.

When a multitude of exhausted exiles reaches the Barrier seeking sanctuary, Solanya rebels against the Gathering’s blind refusal. But in a world forged by shadows, mercy is a dangerous gamble. She ventures into their camps, only to find something unexpected. What is the unknown artifact that young Nekrem calls a key-device? And who are the beings hunting him, willing to do anything to reclaim it?

Torn between the kin of Men and the kin of the Wardens—an outcast to both as a half-blood—Solanya will discover that the line between Good and Evil does not run along the walls of the Barrier.
And she already crossed it in her mother’s womb, while clutching the hand of her twin, the dark mirror of her soul.

If you enjoy narratives that challenge your assumptions, reward attentive reading, and center complex, flawed characters over clear moral lines, you'll be in the right place.

THE OBLIVION GATES delivers:

• Shapeshifters with actual consequences
• Magic vs ancient alien technology
• Morally (dark) grey characters
• Found family that shatters
• Compassion weaponized against the hero
• Multi-POV including the villains
• Epic worldbuilding with sci-fi bones
• Dark fantasy that doesn't flinch
• Enemies forced into alliance
• Sibling dynamics (toxic edition)
• No chosen one. No prophecy. Just consequences.

At its core, The Oblivion Gates is a story about the blurred line between magic and technology, nature and science, good and evil. The story deliberately plays with familiar tropes and reader expectations, then subverts them.

Content / Trigger Warnings:

• Explicit violence.
• On-page Death of Major Characters (including a child).
• Body Horror / Transformation
• Trauma, grief and loss.
• Morally complex characters.
• Taboo/forbidden relationship between siblings.
• Coarse language.
• Emotional Manipulation / Gaslighting
• War Themes / Military Violence
• Betrayal / Trust Issues

Some labyrinths are made of stone. Others, of lies.

When Lyra vanishes into the Caves of No Return, Darien plunges after her with his friends and the one certainty he has left: his father was a hero who fell at the Barrier. But in the depths of the mountain, where something hungry hunts in the darkness and an old hermit guards relics from an impossible world, that certainty begins to crumble.

A mysterious stranger tells him a different story about his father, one of cowardice and betrayal. Now Darien finds himself trapped in two labyrinths: one of twisting tunnels ready to swallow him whole, the other of conflicting truths that threaten to destroy him.

In both, every step could be his last. In both, the only way out is through.

• Morally Grey Characters
• Found Family / Friendship under Pressure
• Dungeon Crawl / Labyrinth Exploration
• Mystery / Buried Secrets
• Mentor's Sacrifice / Heroic Sacrifice
• Coming of Age (Dark version)
• Unreliable Narrator / Unreliable Information
• Monster Hunt / Survival Horror
• Lost Technology / Ancient Mysteries
• Elemental Magic / Shapeshifters
• The Truth Hurts / Bittersweet Ending

• Violence / Gore
• Death of Major Characters
• Body Horror / Transformation
• Claustrophobia / Entrapment
• Parental Death / Grief
• Child / Teen in Peril
• Emotional Manipulation / Gaslighting
• War Themes / Military Violence
• Betrayal / Trust Issues