The Karsk Phenomenon
Cheryl, Marie, and Fiona all have things in common: they each are haunted by the Spiral, a world-domineering religion with as many offshoots as a tree’s roots; they share strange dreams - visions of the Great Karsk War; they each experience another world, one of ruin and rot and darkness. As bonds are tested and relationships are shattered, these three must fight, not only to stop the looming Rizen threat, but to uncover the truth about the Great War and the Goddess that ended it.
Three young woman. Three overlapping experiences. Three echoes of a Goddess long-defiled.
Cheryl is the family scion, the next in line to inherit her family’s status. She tries her best to uphold the family image, but everyone has a limit and Cheryl’s limits are stretched far too thin. Seeing the supernatural and stumbling into a “nightmare reality” take a toll on even the strongest souls. Despite this, Cheryl tries her best to stand strong, even when the metaphorical chains tighten evermore around her.
Marie never felt a connection to the Spiral. She didn’t feel it as a child, nor when she saw her first spirit. She still doesn’t feel it, even when her family switches from the Spiral faith to it’s evangelical Rizen counterpart. Marie sees the “otherworld” as a cold comfort, a familiar hell to distract from the growing strain her family situation is putting on her.
Fiona has always been sheltered. Her best friends were the kids in her family library, followed by the family butler Anton. For Fiona the “dreamscape” is a welcome escape from the banal normality she’s stuck with. She can’t leave the manor, so she has learned creative ways of hiding between it's seams.
These three disparate people share otherwise impossible things: the never ending nightmare, a sense for the supernatural, and an unquenchable thirst for truth about the Great War.