Well of The Divine - a work in progress Interactive Fiction Story

Well of The Divine is a 18+ fantasy text-based game built using ChoiceScript. Rated 18+ for explicit language and optional sexual content.

The Story The Well of The Divine has been compromised. Once the source of the Gods strength, it is now closed off to them leaving them truly vulnerable for the first time in their long existence. They are scared.

What does this have to do with you?

Found as a new-born, abandoned by those that brought you into this world, you never knew your birth parents. Only those who took you in. The problems of the Gods had never involved you until now. Divine blood flows in your veins. An encounter with your Godly parent brings death to your village. Those who hunt the Gods have come for you too.

Now, who are you?

I did it!! I finally fixed the bug at the end and I finished it!!

Couple notes for this update and future ones!

This game will have a happy ending. Despite the way it starts- having to endure without hope, having to face daunting tasks, having to fight and rebel to make the world a better place- the game will end happily.

Aside from primarily being an allegory about the use of AI and the negative impact of it, the story is meant to be a reflection of many things I experience as a trans POC in the United States, and written as a way for me to express my thoughts on many of these things.

I found I couldn't write this story without a happy ending. There are so many things in the world today to fight for and speak out against, but I have hope that we can do it, and we can have our happy ending too.

That being said, there are a lot of themes present in the story not all audiences may be comfortable with. Please read the content warning carefully and contact me if you have any further questions on the content or believe I need to add other content warnings.

Thank you for playing The Kingdom of Auseda and I hope you have a lovely time of it!

Play the update here!

-Oliver 🪿

P.S. Unfortunately there was no space for geese in this chapter. You'll meet one next chapter :)

Don't Cry For Me is the working title of the interactive fiction novel I am working on.

The Empire of Dacian has been ruled for the last one hundred and twenty-three years by the Daken Royal Family. In the twenty-eighth year of the reign of the Fourth Daken Emperor, a barbarian king began his war to take the Empire for himself.

During the thirty-second year of the reign of the Fourth Daken Emperor, he succeeds.

Your father, a fierce supporter of the Fourth Emperor, is told he must send both his daughters to serve the new Emperor as his concubines ten days after your and your twin sister's eighteenth birthday.

There's a voice in your head, and it won't go away.

The Book of Caelys, Chapter V: I-III

5 And the Messenger bellowed out to the crowd down below, “The skies shall call for a great slayer, who will bring both sorrow and retribution. ² They will cleanse the rot of this world and break the shackles that bind the innocent, wrought by false protectors. ³ And when this slayer descends, the streets will dye red from the blood of the shameless.”

Before you were even born, there have been tales and ballads of a Great Slayer who will bring salvation to the world. Strange it is, how the verses echo your very visage, but what salvation could you possibly bring? You’re only a temple child, dreaming of knighthood and glory after all.

The rebels have been at odds with the King for many years now. A self-proclaimed son of a god; a man who singlehandedly formed the Kingdom of Valeria after usurping it from the previous king. With how long he’s been alive, many are inclined to believe in his divinity, but their conflicts have left fields razed, streets ransacked, homes bloodied, and families torn apart. Perhaps this is the evil the scriptures the Great Slayer will save us from? Who knows, but in such a time and place, salvation really is the miracle everyone needs.

Act 2, Chapter 7 – Into The Void & Chapter 8 – A glimpse to the past

Secrets lurk in the darkness of the Void, but will you get the answers you seek?

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Chapters 7 & 8 are out on Itch.io now! With this we're only one chapter away form the end of Act 2! I'm very excited to continue and get to Act 3. We've come so far already… But there's still a lot of Remnants to see!

Click here to read the new update, and come back to tell me what you think when you finish it! Hope you all enjoy the double chapter! 😄❤️

As the child grows, they are drawn into a world of magic and mystery far larger than the quiet village that raised them. Five realms exist beyond the forest. Each one has a core — a living heart of power that holds the realm together. Someone has been breaking them. And the child Willow found in the ferns turns out to be the only one who can heal what has been broken.

But healing comes at a cost. Every core restored deepens a connection the protagonist does not yet understand. Their choices will determine not only their own fate, but the fate of all five realms — and the fate of something ancient and patient that has been waiting in the dark beneath them all.

This is a journey of self-discovery, of uncovering the truth of a birth shrouded in mystery, of heartwarming reunions and heart-wrenching choices. And at the centre of it: a question even the entity did not expect.

What happens when the trap chooses to fight back?

Romantic Options

Augustus / Aelia —

A childhood companion from Willowbrook, known to you since before you were old enough to hold a training sword. Quiet, attentive, steady — the kind of person who always makes room without being asked and notices the things you think no one sees. They have been beside you your whole life. The question was never whether they would stay. The question was whether you would finally let yourself look.

Harrison / Hadley —

The heir of Solenne — ocean-blue eyes, effortless charm, and a talent for appearing exactly where they’re needed. Playful until the playfulness drops and the honest thing shows through. They said they’d write. Then the Mirror showed Solenne what was moving toward Errath, and they crossed a realm without being asked. Their motives are no longer uncertain. The only question left is whether you’re ready to believe someone who moves that fast.

Tristan / Talia —

An ancient fae who has existed for a thousand years and spent most of them watching over you from behind the Mirror. Deliberate, certain, quietly overwhelming — they do not ask permission, they do not explain themselves, and they have never once looked at you like you were too much to hold. What does it mean to be loved by something older than language? You are still working that out.

Marcellus / Minerva —

The heir of the Hollowed — sent to find you, map you, and facilitate your destruction. Cold-bright eyes and an aggression that turns out to be a door rather than a wall. They came to break what you are. They didn’t. They are still working out what that means, and so are you. The darkness in them is real. So is everything else.

Four routes. One locked heart. An entity that was certain it had already won.

It was wrong.

Rated 17+ — violence, emotional difficulty, mature themes.

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