The Soul That Defied Death.
The Soul That Defied Death
You died by the hand of the woman you trusted most, and, somehow, death wasn't the end.
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FANTASY ☆ RESURRECTION ☆ MYSTERY ☆ SLOWBURN
.1 KOYIVION. ✦
・A kingdom much larger than it first appears.
#⚜ KOYIVIONONE REALM · MANY LANDS
Koyivion is a vast, ancient kingdom that stretches across forests, mountains, plains, coastlines, deserts, wetlands, and regions few have fully explored. Its cities and villages are home to farmers, scholars, merchants, craftsmen, nobles, travelers, and plenty of people who are just getting on with their lives. They celebrate festivals, run businesses, raise families, and make a living in a world where magic is part of everyday life.
Beyond the settled lands lie old ruins, dangerous wilderness, strange creatures, and places shaped by Resonance, where mana can change everything from plants and minerals to the weather and the creatures that live there.
The gods have been silent for longer than anyone can say. Temples still stand and prayers are still spoken, but few people remember an answer, and the oldest records can't agree on who the gods were or why they stopped listening. The royal history has a few gaps of its own. Most people never think about any of it, and a few probably should.
2 THE WORLD. ✦
・High fantasy with a world that never developed at just one pace.
#⚙ HIGH FANTASY · MAGITECHOLD WORLDS · NEW TECHNOLOGY · MAGIC EVERYWHERE
Koyivion is a high-fantasy world where magic and technology live side by side. Stone castles, opulent noble manors, worn old roads, temples that have fallen and been rebuilt, and centuries-old traditions share the kingdom with airships flown by Cloudrunners, magically powered trains, modern medicine, magical telecommunications, and other forms of magitech.
Not all of Koyivion keeps the same pace, though. Wealthy cities and major institutions have sophisticated technology and magical infrastructure, while remote villages and isolated communities still rely on older methods. You can leave a town that time forgot and arrive in a city of trains, machinery, enchanted devices, and busy streets without ever leaving the kingdom.
For a more concrete image, think of the world as similar to that of the mobile game Granblue Fantasy.
3 MAGIC. ✦
・A natural force shaped by those who know how to wield it.
#✧ MAGIC · MANA · RESONANCETHE SUPERNATURAL · THE NATURAL · THE UNEXPECTED
Magic is a natural part of life in Koyivion. It's the deliberate use of mana, and people put it to work in everything from combat and healing to transportation, communication, craftsmanship, and everyday conveniences. Some people have a natural knack for it, and others have little or none.
Resonance is something else. It isn't cast on purpose. It happens when mana interacts strongly with the world around it, and living things, minerals, weather, creatures, ruins, and places saturated with magical energy can all be affected, sometimes in ways that are hard to predict.
4 DIVINE RESONANCE. ✦
・A force mortals were never meant to wield.
#✦ DIVINE RESONANCEGODS · SOULS · MIND · FORBIDDEN PRACTICES
Divine Resonance is different from the Resonance mortals experience. It is an ancient force associated with the gods and operates in ways ordinary magic cannot reliably reproduce or fully explain.
Mortals have tried to imitate it throughout history, especially when attempting to reproduce phenomena attributed to divine power. The experiments ended catastrophically, with death, permanent psychological damage, loss of self, and severe Resonance failures, and practices meant to imitate divine interference were eventually outlawed under laws against attempts to “play god.”
5 THE PREMISE. ✦
・How it all started.
Before you died, you had been quietly looking into the Crown's records. The succession papers contradicted one another, whole stretches of royal history had been smoothed over, and certain names appeared and vanished without explanation. You didn't know what it meant, only that someone had gone to a great deal of trouble to hide it.
That trouble caught up with you. Your digging was recast as treason, and the Crown's answer was one of its own knights: Athelina Vanegas, your closest friend since your days at a prestigious knight academy. She believed the case against you.
You died...
You met her at fourteen and trained side by side for years, growing stronger in skill and in friendship, until she was one of the people you trusted most and you were one of hers. Then she confronted you, and she killed you.
You remember the sword. Her face is harder to recall, or perhaps you'd rather not. There was no trial and no chance to explain. The Crown filed it away as an internal security matter, and you were recorded as a traitor, your name left to be dragged through the mud long after you were gone.
And then you woke up as someone else.
Death should have been the end. Instead you opened your eyes in the palace, in a body that belonged to someone else, answering to a servant's name that isn't yours. Nobody here knows who you are, and officially the person you were is dead.
A palace servant can go almost anywhere and hear almost anything, from the kitchens and corridors to the archive wing. How you came back, and what is still waiting in those records, is yours to find out.
6 WHAT YOU REMEMBER. ✦
・What your character knows, and what they don't.
#✎ YOUR MEMORIESTHE INVESTIGATION · THE ACCUSATION · THE DEATH
The investigation. You found succession papers with dates that didn't agree, documents that looked altered, and names missing from the royal line. You never learned the full truth behind any of it. Ambrosio, your king, is suspicious—but why?
The accusation. Your name ended up on a treason charge you never saw coming.
The death. Athelina confronted you, certain she was doing what she had to. You remember the sword far better than anything that was said.
What you don't know. How much of your research was complete, whether any of it survived, and whether anyone knows you're alive.
7 MAIN CHARACTERS. ✦
・The stars of this tale.
PLAYER CHARACTER
YOU
ANY GENDER · RESURRECTED · PALACE SERVANT
You're the same person Athelina killed, in soul but not in appearance. Your resurrection gave you a new body and a new place in the world, and the palace knows you only by the servant's name that came with it. Your new look, your name if you'd rather go by something else, and how you feel about Athelina are all yours to decide. Your memories of your old life are still yours, including the years you spent with her and the circumstances of your death.
You might want answers, revenge, forgiveness, reconciliation, distance, or a completely different life far from all this. You can investigate what happened, ignore it, or get pulled into matters far bigger than your own death. This story follows your choices instead of pushing you toward a particular role, relationship, or ending.
FORMER BEST FRIEND
ATHELINA VANEGAS
FEMALE · 23 · HUMAN · CROWN KNIGHT
Born to two deeply superstitious parents, Athelina was feared and rejected by her own family and abandoned at the age of five. The King eventually took her in and raised her as his own daughter. As she grew older, she chose the path of a knight, training hard until she earned her place among the Crown's ranks.
She met you at fourteen, when you were both students at a prestigious knight academy. What began as a simple friendship grew through years of laughter, tears, and quiet moments until you were two of the people each other trusted most, and that bond held even after you left the academy.
Then it all went wrong, and the blood that was spilled was yours.
She remembers the person she killed, and she remembers your friendship, the time you spent together, and the final moments of your life. She genuinely believed you had betrayed the Crown, and whatever passed between you, she has never forgotten it.
Still, she carries the memory of it with her. She just doesn't know you're here.
8 MENTIONED NPCS. ✦
・People who exist beyond the story's main cast.
#♔ KING AMBROSIO VANEGASKING OF KOYIVION · ATHELINA'S ADOPTIVE FATHER
The current King of Koyivion and the man who raised Athelina after taking her in as a child. He looks severe, but he has a kind soul and smiles far more readily than his portraits suggest. His face only goes stoic in photographs and the terribly tedious portrait paintings his position requires.
Ambrosio is well loved by his people and respected throughout the kingdom, and Koyivion has known peace under his rule. He treats Athelina as if she were his own blood, and the two are close.
Still, despite everything, something about him doesn't quite add up. He isn't too entirely harmless, it seems. What's going on?
9 SCENARIOS. ✦
・Choose where the story begins.
1{First Day
Your first morning in the servant quarters.
9{Blank
Start wherever you want and shape the story yourself.
10 EXTRA PICTURES. ✦
・SFW, sorry, buds.
CLICK.
11 FOOTNOTES. ✦
・A few words from the author.
Instead of chasing trends, I'm taking the time to actually flesh out my fantasy bots.
This world is a smaller, simplified version of another universe I'm still building. When more bots from this setting eventually come out, think of this one as a non-canon spin-off rather than part of the main timeline.
This one is a lot more ambitious than usual, maybe even more than my first attempt at a fantasy bot. I'm also hoping the lorebook triggers properly because I put a stupid amount of effort into the world building. Testing was also annoying, but I'm confident in no misfiring!
Any feedback is appreciated. ♡ POV is deliberate. Idk, I see a lot of popular creators whose niche is fantasy use second person, and they have a bunch of followers, so it should work, no? lol. Still, let me know if any problems arise!
✦ THE STORY IS YOURS TO SHAPE! ✦
Created Sep 19
Updated Oct 18
Published Oct 6