Once a promising alchemist, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war and of her own mind. Her Resistance friends and allies have been brutally murdered, her abilities suppressed, and the world she knew destroyed. In the aftermath of a long war, Paladia’s new ruling class of corrupt guild families and depraved necromancers, whose vile undead creatures helped bring about their victory, holds Helena captive. According to Resistance records, she was a healer of little importance within their ranks. But Helena has inexplicable memory loss of the months leading up to her capture… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Graphic misogyny
- Rape & sexual assault (protagonist)*
- Intimate partner violence
- Emotional child abuse
- Infidelity
- Forced marriage
- Anxiety & panic attacks
- Amnesia & memory loss, including non-consensual memory alteration
- Nightmares
- Suicidal ideation & self-harm
- Alcohol consumption (on-page) & mentions of smoking
- Forced pregnancy & childbirth*
- Miscarriage & abortion mentioned
- Blood & injury depiction, including eye trauma/ loss of eye, seizures, broken bones, emesis, traumatic brain injury, weight loss & gain due to malnutrition, disembowelment & amputation
- Medical procedures, human experimentation. needles & surgery, including forced sterilization of a child
- Cannibalism mentioned (secondary characters)
- Murder & attempted murder
- Physical assault
- Attempted kidnapping
- Arson & bombing
- Imprisonment & captivity
- Torture, including sensory deprivation and solitary confinement
- War themes including war crimes & eugenics
- Animal death & cruelty (experimentation)
- Poverty
* Context: The female protagonist is raped by the male protagonist as part of a breeding program. The male protagonist cheats on his wife, who he was forced to marry and is also cheating on him, with the female protagonist.
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