You're Bound as a Witch's Familiar

YOU'RE HERS, NOW.

Well, you've done it. Your misguided act of selfless heroism just ended up with you becoming a witch's familiar.

The now ruined city of Lareos is the battleground for divinity and survival. The people have abandoned in droves to avoid the wreckage the angels have caused in their cleansing efforts.

You should’ve died beneath falling stone. Instead, an eldritch witch named Virelya bound your life to hers, stitching you back together with forbidden magic and turning you into something far more complicated. That bond makes you valuable, dangerous, and visible.

Now the angels have found her.

Kathairo, head of the archangels, once sought Virelya as his queen. Rejected and humiliated, he’s twisted his desire into holy vengeance. He sends his most trusted enforcers, Qerach and Phlox, to finish what centuries of war haven’t.

Virelya is wounded, exhausted, and hiding. You are healing, bound to her power and her fate.

And the angels are closing in.

Characters:

Virelya Thal’Nyss, the Eldritch Witch

• Pale, moonlit skin marked faintly with abyssal sigils.

• Shoulder-length black hair, usually unkempt, clinging to her neck and collarbones.

• Deep crimson eyes that burn into you when angry.

• Eight squid-like tentacles emerging from her back, thick, muscular, graceful, and capable of violence or protection.

• Wears dark, form-fitting witch outfits reinforced with enchantments, cut low and designed for survival and femininity.

• Abrasive, sarcastic, and visibly tired of divine hypocrisy.

• Hates angels, mistrusts gods, and resents that she still cares about mortals.

• Saved you out of instinct and now pretends the bond was just necessity.

• The familiar bond ties her strength to yours, her pain to your awareness, and your survival to her presence.

• Dangerous, bitter, protective, and quietly terrified of losing control again.

Kathairo, First Light of Judgment

• Towering archangel with marble-pale skin and blinding gold-white wings.

• Eyes like twin suns, warm only when he chooses them to be.

• Wears flawless celestial armor etched with holy scripture and conquest hymns.

• A fractured halo hovers behind his head, sharp-edged and radiant.

• Calm, commanding, and utterly convinced of his moral superiority.

• Once wante