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Nixara's Awakening: A Forbidden Quest

First entry point into Nixara’s Awakening Universe™

 

Age rating: YA+

Genre: Adventure Fantasy

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Portrait of Nixara from Nixara’s Awakening: A Forbidden Quest, part of Nixara’s Awakening Universe™.

NIXARA

  • Race/Faction: Human, Elmsreach

  • Skills: Archery, hunting, tracking and herbalism

  • Home township: Elmsreach

  • Best friend: Chip

  • Known facts: Her village is bound by a curse that traps its citizens at the age of eighteen forever.

  • Personality: Loyal, patient, courageous and curious, with an enduring determination to keep going despite the obstacles she faces.

Portrait of Chip from Nixara’s Awakening: A Forbidden Quest, part of Nixara’s Awakening Universe™.

CHIP

  • Race/Faction: Human, Elmsreach

  • Skills: Woodworking, timber cutting, axe handling, hunting and tracking

  • Home township: Elmsreach

  • Best friend: Nixara

  • Known facts: His name is Richard, but everyone calls him Chip after a childhood accident left a notch in his ear.

  • Personality: Loyal, hardworking and light-hearted, with a hearty appetite and a joke for most occasions. Quick to find work at timber mills in settlements along the way to earn coin.

Portrait of Avelar from Nixara’s Awakening: A Forbidden Quest, part of Nixara’s Awakening Universe™.

AVELAR

  • Race/Faction: Shadow-born, Morrath

  • Supernatural abilities: Fast healing, heightened strength, exceptional agility and vision in low light

  • Combat skills: Swordsmanship, weapon mastery and military strategy

  • Special abilities: Can go days without food and hear Shadow Envoys from the Dead Zones

  • Home township: City of Morrath

  • Languages: Morrath, Common Tongue and Sombrith

  • Known lore: Referred to by humans as a “Daywalker”, reflecting her heritage and ability to walk between the light and dark realms

  • Magical abilities: None

Portrait of Lirian from Nixara’s Awakening: A Forbidden Quest, part of Nixara’s Awakening Universe™.

LIRIAN

  • Race/Faction: Shadow-born, Sombrith

  • Supernatural abilities: Fast healing, heightened strength, exceptional agility and vision in low light

  • Magical abilities: Arcane magic

  • Feeding: Draws dark souls from people to sustain himself

  • Home base: Sombrith Castle

  • Languages: Sombrith

  • Known lore: His eyes glow red. He becomes Nixara’s platonic guardian, bound by an oath to protect her.

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Where Shadows Bloom: Tamed by Instinct

Second entry point into Nixara’s Awakening Universe™

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Age rating: 18+

Genre: Dark Fantasy Sapphic Romance

 

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Portrait of Alex Harkon from Where Shadows Bloom: Tamed by Instinct, part of Nixara’s Awakening Universe™

ALEX HARKON

  • Race/Faction: Half human, half Sombrith

  • Abilities: Heightened senses, fast healing and exceptional agility

  • Skills: Tracking and hunting

  • Father figure: Kael the Noctorian

  • Familiar: Dewdrop the python

  • Home township: Ravenglade

  • Occupation: Huntress for Lady Bellara Vex’s apothecary

  • Personality: Unruly, outspoken, vulgar, mischievous, fiercely loyal and stubborn

    • Magical abilities: None

Portrait of Lady Bellara Vex from Where Shadows Bloom: Tamed by Instinct, part of Nixara’s Awakening Universe™.

LADY BELLARA VEX

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  • Race/Faction: Lothari Sorceress

  • Magical abilities: Lothari magic, offensive fire magic and ShadowCraft

  • Skills: Apothecary practice

  • Scholarship: Lothari magic and runic studies

  • Current township: Ravenglade

  • Occupation: Owner of the Velvet Vial

  • Personality: Aristocratic, disciplined, controlled, intelligent and unsettlingly calm

Portrait of Madame Crush from Where Shadows Bloom: Tamed by Instinct, part of Nixara’s Awakening Universe™.

MADAME CRUSH

  • Race/Faction: Mirewyn Witches

  • Magical abilities: Healing and earth magic, connected to the ground

  • Special abilities: Tarot reading and prophecy

  • Skills: Herbalism, cultivation of mushrooms, fungi and toadstools, and preparation of healing remedies using ingredients grown on her own body

  • Occupation: Unregistered healer on the outskirts of Ravenglade

  • ​Personality: Unhinged, vulgar, with grotesque humour, bizarre wisdom and a nurturing streak beneath her unsettling manner

Portrait of Kael from Where Shadows Bloom: Tamed by Instinct, part of Nixara’s Awakening Universe™.

KAEL

  • Race/Faction: Noctorian, Bear/Human

  • Abilities: Noctorian strength and animal instincts, with a bear’s keen sense of smell, acute hearing and powerful claws

  • Family: Father figure to Alex, sharing a cabin in Ravenglade with her and Dewdrop

  • Favourite foods: Pickled eggs and porridge

  • Likes: Cooking and looking after his family

  • Dislikes: Lady Bellara Vex

  • Home township: Ravenglade

  • Occupation: Assists the rangers and occasionally takes paid work at the apothecary.

Portrait of Kardak from Where Shadows Bloom: Tamed by Instinct, part of Nixara’s Awakening Universe™.

KARDAK

  • Race/Faction: Noctorian, Wolf/Human

  • Abilities: Noctorian strength, animal instincts, pack behaviour and an exceptional sense of smell

  • Skills: Tracking and hunting

  • Combat skills: Axe mastery and fighting with his claws

  • Family: Lady Eledine, a human who is his mother figure

  • Best friend: Alex Harkon

  • Occupation: Works at Ravenglade’s timber mill

  • Home township: Ravenglade

Portrait of Gus from Where Shadows Bloom: Tamed by Instinct, part of Nixara’s Awakening Universe™.

GUS

  • Race/Faction: Noctorian, Mouse (full-bodied)

  • Appearance: A mouse with the ability to speak

  • Skills: Scholarship and an understanding of Lothari magic and runes

  • Personality: Intelligent and studious

  • Home township: Eldrin Hallow, where he is held against his will

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