Prelude to Darkness

Prelude to Darkness is among the first in a series of games to follow called Hymns of our Discord. Like many that are to come, this game was greatly inspired by the Fire Emblem series. Included here are the Base game and its patches.

## Development

While the project is technically finished and ready for distribution, plans of remaking the gameplay mechanics are in the works.

## Story

The game takes place mostly on the continent of Consus in the central sovereign nation of Zerachiel. To start, a young woman named Leah is living alone in the hamlet knees-deep in regret over how she was unable to save the only person in the world who cared about her, or for that matter knew her. Shortly after, as if by ill-determined fate, a man with long, flowing blue hair and a cloak can be seen trying to evade the pursuit of bandits hot on his trail, and he introduced himself as Zephyr. Though their meeting was only brief, Zephyr and Leah are forced together when Agnew and his crew capture them both, but not before Leah skewered and killed one of his men. Shortly after the bandit’s incursion upon the clearing, the two seek shelter in her hamlet before setting out on a journey across the conservative state of Concordia to return a parcel the king of Hiram by his majesty’s orders. While Leah has lived her entire life in isolation, there was nothing left for her after her grandmother died and only when she came face-to-face with death on that day has she finally mustered the courage to leave the hamlet of her own volition. Throughout their time together, they would travel through some of Concordia’s landmarks and encounter allies along the way as Leah discovers something that will forever change her path in life.

## Character

### Leah

There is much to know about Leah, but for now I’ll leave this a secret until some more time passes.

### Zephyr

Born Zephyr Eplhin Wyrmsbane, he was raised into a dark cult after attaining a certain age at the behest of an undisclosed leader his birth parents were hopelessly devoted to. While he never had the aptitude to practice dark magic like his brothers, he had a natural affinity for use of a bow and possessed unparalleled sight with which he could see far into the distance. Shortly before the events of *Prelude to Darkness*, their Base of operations had been compromised by the King of Hiram and his Red Wolves, and in those moments the zealots and trainees were slaughtered one-by-one until it was only Zephyr himself. Scared and fearing for his life, he seized Zephyr and decided to rehabilitate him himself by means of work in his court as a courier. To this day, he has since suppressed the past before he served his king.

### Blair

Blair Elissa Lorita is a simple young girl living in Amani Village. Before she was kidnapped by bandits, Blair lived with her mother who got sick so easily and she would only leave their house a few days at a time even if it was something so small as a simple errand in town. Besides her own mother, the only other person she has ever come to befriend was the blacksmith’s son Bran who was around the same age as her and Blair looked past his obvious ‘flaw’ as people came to call it. Shortly before the events of their in-game debut, the two of them made plans to meet in the meadow just outside their village and Blair was intent on confronting him on matters of the heart. However, before she could ever leave home bandits barged in and snatched her up with the sole purpose of sullying her virginity.

### Bran

Bran Wyot Thornton is the son of Amani Village’s blacksmith who aspired to become a watchman posted at the town gates. Even though he shows great promise, he was stigmatized since his childhood and isolated due to his heterochromia leaving him with 1 brown eye and 1 blue eye.