Visiting Centre
Wardens’ Staffroom
Education
Therapist
Library
FIRST FLOOR
Girl’s Wing > showers, leisure area
Boy’s Wing > showers, leisure area
Mess Hall
SECOND FLOOR
Solitary Confinement
Training Room
Green Room
THIRD FLOOR
Blood Trials Arena
Infirmary
Morgue
Laboratory
THE TOWER
(located on the third floor, upper left)
Governor’s chamber
Izora’s new cell/room
Staff quarters
Appendix iii - CHARACTERS
INMATES
Izora Dawn, arena trainer
Axel, trainer, chef
Memphis, arena trainer
Coen, arena pack alpha
Tyler, arena pack beta
Sharon, Blood Trials committee member
Abigail
Kenneth, Abigail’s brother, deceased
STAFF
Zavier Gold, Governor of Shadowborn Prison
Shadow Warden (Derek) Luke, Izora’s Guard
Lieutenant Warden (Nathaniel) Kyle, Blood Trials Enforcer, Luke’s uncle
Gage Michaels, Therapist, also teaches at Shadowborn Academy
Scott Mune, Education Teacher, also teaches at Shadowborn Academy
OTHERS
High Warden (Athena) Greene, Izora’s mother
High Warden (Ezekiel) Greene, Izora’s step-father
Willow Greene, Izora’s step-sister
Emma Greene, Ezekiel’s former wife, Izora’s deceased nanny
Corvina Charles, Izora’s friend, Shadowborn Academy student
GODS & GODDESSES
Selena, Goddess of the Moon, Persephone
Danica, Goddess of the Sun, Aphrodite
OTHER GODS
(not featured in this book yet)
Hades, God of Darkness
Ares, God of War
Aeon, God of Life
Eris, Goddess of Chaos and Discord
Appendix iv - WARDEN RANKS
Grand Wardens - royal advisors, supreme judges, head of the High Table, the most powerful of all the wardens
High Wardens - member of the High Table that govern certain fractions of the forest and human world (like mayors)
Shadow Wardens - law enforcers, highly trained and skilled, powerful
Junior Wardens - still powerful, will advance up to a Shadow Warden
Keepers - protectors of Shadowborns and magic users, never really advance.
Appendix v - THE BOOK OF ZORYA
(how the Enchanted Forest came to be)
In the beginning…
Aphrodite and Persephone decided to create a magical forest for all manners of creatures. They appeared in their natural form, unearthly beautiful and fae-like, and brought with them their favourite stars - the Morning Star and the Evening Star. They each placed them in the sky, and one became the sun and the other the moon.
Aphrodite became known as Danica, Goddess of the Sun, and she created the Throne of Helios where she would reign over her part of the forest.
Persephone became Selena, Goddess of the Moon, and she created the Throne of Luna, again where she would rule her half of the forest. To their kingdoms, they became known as the Zorya Sisters.
As the Almighty Goddess of the Moon, Selena, walked through the forest at twilight, admiring her many creations, she came across a shard of glass gleaming on the forest floor. She used this to create the Fountain of Mene which allowed her to see whatever her heart most desired, and to guide her down whichever path she sought in darkness. Selena often used it to see her husband Hades and their children.
The Dark God, Hades, used this fountain to send her a cloak of darkness on their anniversary, which Selena wove it into a blanket of stars that became known as the night sky. Now the moon had stars, and Selena told her people to use them as guides and sources of light within the darkness, for neither of them should be feared since they cannot exist without the other; just like how Selena’s kingdom cannot exist without Danica’s.
Many decades later, a strange presence crept into the forest. Eris, Persphone’s half-sister, had grown envious of this Selena and Danica and she planned to spoil their New World.
First, she unleashed monsters into the forest.
Darkness.
The creatures of dark spread like wildfire, breeding chaos everywhere and anywhere they could. Danica tried to chase them back whence they came, but Selena pitied and grew to love them. Some even became her loyal servants. While she became occupied with her new settlers, Eris sent Danica the golden Apple of Discord, a feigned gift from Ares, which poisoned her.
Hearing of her sister’s illness, Selena rushed to her side. Nothing could be done to save Danica. Eris watched from the shadows as Danica’s light faded and her sun waned. But then Selena ripped out her own heart and pressed it into Danica’s chest. This allowed Danica to live, but Selena faded and died in Danica’s arms, before she joined the stars in the sky, and because of her sacrifice, she became one with the Evening Star and the Moon.
When Hades learned of what happened, his anger shook the realms. He used the fountain as a portal and managed to kill Eris, but without his wife to bring out the good in him, Hades’ grief drove him to insanity. He partnered up with Ambrose, the God of Life, and they waged war on the kingdoms. Hades killed Eris, but now that Danica had her powers and her sisters, she was able to severely injure him so much that he had to retreat back to the underworld and was stripped of his ability to return.
Peace settled among the forest for a time, and Danica gave the Throne of Luna to Ares, who was quick to succumb to the allure of darkness and he became the first Dark Fae—Queen Narah’s four-times great-grandfather.