Stygian Sun: Total Eclipse

Customize your MC's name, gender, pronouns, appearance, personality, and sexuality. Play as straight, gay, lesbian, bi, poly, and/or asexual. MC intro post here.

Shape your personality through your choices and see how it affects dialogue with other characters.

Navigate through the difficulties of court life in a foreign country.

Develop your magic—powers bestowed upon you through your divine bloodline.

Romance one or more of five romantic options, including your betrothed, the Lunar heir; your charming and overly flirtatious retainer; your acolyte, a priestess in training; a kind yet darkly mysterious Celestylian noble; or a peculiar and chaotic mage.

Develop deep and lasting friendships or make enemies. Platonic relationships will be just as deep as romantic ones.

Uncover a sinister plot that threatens everything you hold dear—and decide what you will risk to protect it.

Nour Al’Teia, your older sibling. (Gender dependent on MC’s.) Non-RO Once fifth in line for the Solar Imperial throne, Nour was perfectly content to play a supportive role to Parim, first in line, and the rest of their siblings. Now first in line for the throne, Nour is doing their best to step into a role they were never prepared to fill. Despite their best attempts to reassure you, you can tell this weighs more heavily on them than they let on.

Luca Lupine, your childhood friend. (Gender Selectable. She/her. He/him.) Non-RO Your childhood friend who, at the age of 13, perished in a fire, consumed so completely you were left with not even a body to mourn. Ever since then, whether as a manifestation of your guilt and grief, through some connection beyond the planes of life and death, or through some other means unbeknownst to you, they appear in your dreams, aiding you in parsing through visions and prophecies. [View: Character Profile]

Kieran Zeleskas, the Lunar Heir. (Gender Selectable. She/her. He/him.) RO The Crown Prince/ss of Celestyl. Though not of noble birth, events put into motion by their father have elevated them to this position, one they seem to have adapted to rather well by all appearances. Stoic and aloof, they seem less than pleased about this arrangement between the two of you. You’re inclined to agree. [View: Character Profile]

Alektis de Celestys, the lone princess. (She/her.) Non-RO The adoptive sister to Kieran. The slaughter of her family during the coup that brought Kieran’s father to power has rendered her irascible and hostile to most everyone. Though she mostly keeps to herself, with only her retainer, Nihm, for company, you often find her tumultuous glare trained on you, a complex look on her face you can’t quite decipher. [View: Character Profile]

Nihm de Circené, the guardian. (They/them.) RO Devoted retainer to Alektis and last surviving member of House Circené. Kind and sociable, Nihm is well-regarded in both noble and commoner social circles alike. However, their warm and affable disposition cannot completely hide the apprehension in their gait, nor the trembling in their hands. Still, they do their best to welcome you in a place where everyone seems dead-set on hating you. [View: Character Profile]

Aurynn Anouar, the retainer. (He/him.) RO Seeming to have appeared from out of nowhere, Aurynn rescued you from a dire situation during your first battle experience, and afterwards was appointed your retainer and has served you as such ever since. Charismatic, laidback, and flirtatious to a fault, Aurynn tends to either charm or annoy everyone he meets. Despite his insistence that he is an open book, sometimes you can’t help but feel the opposite; indeed, everything about him seems shrouded in secrecy. [View: Character Profile]

Samira Nahdiri, the priestess. (She/her.) RO Certain events left her family deeply shamed and nearly destitute until her exceptional accomplishments as a healer elevated her to the renowned position as your acolyte, drawing upon the power of your blood to learn healing magic in her pursuit to become a priestess. Strong, loyal, and compassionate, she is devoted to caring for her family above all else, and she counts you among them. [View: Character Profile]

Lilith/Lucien de Arcanis, the mage. (Gender Selectable. She/they. He/they.) RO The adopted heir to House Arcanis, a line of powerful and highly skilled mages. Wild-eyed with a wolfish grin, their peculiar and eccentric mannerisms tend to unsettle their peers, leaving them rather isolated in social circles—a circumstance which doesn’t seem to bother them one way or the other. For better or worse, it appears they’ve taken a rather intense interest in you. [View: Character Profile]

Poly Options (subject to change): any ROs will be able to be romanced independently or simultaneously.

Sibling Character Art: Farah, Nour, Aurora, Parim, Ember, Castor

Kieran: attempted workaholic but surprisingly reasonable if called out, though they aren’t pleased about it. They don’t like feeling like a burden or like they aren’t pulling their weight. Finds it hard to sit idle but will rest if chastised and called out.

Nihm: pretty reasonable. They’ll follow doc’s orders but their own ditziness can sometimes render them a dumb little mess in taking care of themself and they need some supervision. Idiot baby.

Alektis: very angy and stubborn. Makes for a rather frustrating patient if she disagrees with something or doesn’t fancy the taste of her meds. Sometimes is stubborn just out of spite. Can be eased into following directions if they come from someone close, like Nihm.

Lilith/Lucien: they will usually hide any symptoms like an animal hiding weakness as they don’t want anyone to ever know they’re sick or injured. They’re a good patient when under supervision, though very much a simpering attention-whore, but as soon as you take your eye off them, they go back to masking and trying to do things.

Samira: she’s actually very hypocritical in this regard—while she will abide by a regiment of healing, she will act like she’s not working when she is or is well enough when she isn’t. Can’t sit idle and works too hard. She’s not used to being the one cared for and it is an unfamiliar and therefore uncomfortable feeling at times.

Kieran: they aren’t inclined toward violence—the offense would have to be great to warrant death. And even so, Kieran—even in their anger—isn’t cruel. If they didn’t leave it up to a capital execution, they’d make it quick—a clean run-through with their blade.

Nihm: now it takes a lot to genuinely piss Nihm off, and even then they’d never hurt a fly—besides, they cannot stand the sight/smell of blood. It would take something of a very serious magnitude indeed to spur them to kill someone and be able to live with that person’s blood on their hands. (>:3) As for the method, well….spoilers.

Lilith/Lucien: they’ve killed before, but it’s never personal. They do have one person on their list they want dead and that is very, very personal. Their methods are usually much cleaner, but in this case they’d be emotionally volatile and violent—something like straddling their victim for a repeated stabbing while screaming. Babe would be covered in blood.

Samira: she does not relish in methods of violence—it would take a lot for her to resort to murder, but her anger would likely be a colder one. With her knowledge of poisons, venoms, and medicine, she’d make it look like an unfortunate accident—either a poisoning or snake bite, and she’d cover up the evidence afterwards.