One choice, at the beginning of everything — still echoing across eternity.
Told through many voices — from creation myth to intimate journal to documentary chronicle.
“I would rather cease to exist as myself than exist forever unable to know you.”
“I would rather become nothing than remain something that can never touch what I love.”
Before time began, Solus and Luna shared one world but lived in two — one of endless light, one of endless shadow — each aching to show the other what only they could see. It was the first loneliness.
“But love without touch is a kind of starvation. Knowing without meeting is a kind of ignorance. Being together while forever apart is the cruelest form of solitude.”
Rather than stay apart forever, they chose to dissolve — to spread themselves into everything that would ever be.
From that surrender came time, change, and the possibility of connection itself. Everything after is the story of that gift: an age of harmony, a severing that tore the world in two, a long silence of forgetting, and the choices made along the way.
Here the light learned to love the shadow.
Here the shadow learned to trust the light.
Here they met in water that held them both,
And from that meeting, we were born.
From the moment before time to the prophecy’s return — trace the shape of the saga.
Three thousand years of unity. Children learn to weave solar warmth with lunar cool. Integration is not just practiced—it is the foundation of civilization itself.
“Eclipseborn is a labor of love. Years of writing, rewriting, and discovering what the story wanted to be. I hope it offers you something worth the journey, and that some part of it reaches you across whatever distance lies between us. Ashara.”
— Scott Matthews