Forgotten Sky

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This is a nostalgic tale of a daughter grasping at shreds of memories that reality decided were better left forgotten. The letters mix with tears as the bygones are unearthed one at a time. Oh great were her adventures…she wishes…Blind and ignorant of the truth of the world, she watches herself make mistakes that haunt her every night. With only blistered fingers as a pen, this unholy eulogy, crafted, says not to what consequences will be brought to one simple melancholic daughter…

From a slave with an unknown past, Tsuki, the heroine, blossoms slowly into someone able to unravel reality. Embracing madness and hopelessness from a life that seems to only pull her down a bottomless abyss, she becomes something she comes to despise. Like a nighty shawl blinding someone’s sight from what is true, she’ll unknowingly swim in a sea of lies, falsehood, mistakes, and innocence until she learns to see true. With gods and abominations of all kinds walking the land she finds herself in, every fragment of reality will become twisted.

Hiya, I’m Evra. Most chapters will be around 3000 words. I post once a week.

The beginning is slow and lacking due to my inexperience but I do believe the latest are a great improvement. I'm not natively English, so, do point mistakes, if you can, as it help me learn a lot.

Ps. Some tags only come into play later in the story... also... one day I'll remake the story and fix all my early mistakes.

Chapters(72 total)

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Community Reviews(4)

  • Sake VisionRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    Reminiscent of works such as dark souls, madoka magicka and alice in wonderland, this is a truly unique story.
    The author occasionally throws at us beautiful and flowery descriptions that are almost poetic in nature, I mean look at this sentence:
    In the darkness of the night, the moon would create scary apparitions from the shadow of the dark green leaves
    Such prose invokes the feelings of fable like melancholia, and is further enhanced by the events of the story and the author's unmatched imagination.
    The various fantastical creatures, moments of light, and moments of blood colored darkness, all come alive thanks to detailed and fantastical descriptions.
    I mean, a turtle like monster with moss like shell, fish like head and transparent breathing sacs instead of hair? Pretty cool if you ask me.
    And another thing that is pretty cool...
    is how mc is dellirious and her perception of reality changes depending on her mental state, including some visions I'd expect to see on certain hallucinogenic substances. I don't see it done often in fiction, and it's done quite well here.
    The main plot revolves around the themes of death, rebirth, irreversible loss, and impending tragedy. Before going to this work, probably reading synopsis is enough.
    Do not skip the prologue!!(I know some people do that....)
    However, there are some issues.
    Major problem lies in grammar. The author's first language isn't english, and it shows. There are many repetitions, overusing "would" and "had", mixed tenses, mixed plural with singular, some spelling issues....
    Becuase I liked this story so much, I took it upon myself to help the author out, and fortunately with my advice a lot of these problems will start disappearing.
    Already I can see that later chapters are much better than early ones, as far as writing in correct English is concerned, which is a very optimistic trend.
    However, at no point did this impede me from enjoying this work, and despite these linguistic issues, most of the time I had
  • RN204Royal Road
    ★★★★★ 4.5
    Odd... and pleasantly suprised? I came upon this novel using RR's "Surprise Me!" button and quickly read through (sorry author) until chapter 10. Long chapters with great prose mangled with dark themes. With the plethora of novels I bookmarked and kept in my back pocket, I'm perfectly fine with continuing this, digesting it fast as I read through. Grammar isn't so much of a thing one can notice at a quick pace, but upon further look... there are a few typos (but who doesn't have them?)
  • Mr Alex666Royal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    The story follows a little girl on her way from an escaped slave to becoming some kind of demigod, in order to battle an ancient plague (?) god.
    So far so good, it has much potential. It looks like around Chapter 10-12 is the point, where the "cheat powers" begin to make themselves known.
    STORY: it has potential. However, I failed to understand, why exactly the two girls wanted to escape their mistress. From what was written, it looks like the mistress isn't bad, or at least more or less nice to the girls. She rescued and healed one of the two (we never learned, how exactly the other ended up with her), they had their own tower, and could move freely inside the city. Besides this, there isn't much of a problem with the story, that starting point, however, raises some unanswered questions (as of Ch. 12) It would be unfair to give a four just because this, so a 4,5 it is. (you maybe could clarify, why the mistress was so bad, the girls needed to escape and were even willing to die)
    CHARACTER: finally a kid, that is behaving herself befitting to her age! If I remember correctly, she is 14 at most, and is behaving accordingly. She gets scared easily (you could even call her a coward), is dumb at times, and does not have much of a survival instinct. Or survival skills. After reading so many isekai, at certain points, I was waiting for her to go all-out murderhobo, slaying monsters, befriending powerful beasts and being the usual isakai/reincarnated/transmigrated OP MC. Exactly at those points, she did, what the average 14-year-old would do. i.e. run away or freeze up. Or do dumb things. As of Ch 12, there weren't many other characters, so the score is based solely on the MC. 5 stars. (However, sometimes you overdo the little kid-dumbness a bit)
    And we have arrived at the bad points.
    STYLE: it's almost like a mother reading a (bloody and terrifying) good-night tale to a child. That in itself isn't much of a problem, but I suppose, not for everyone. Unfortunately, the styl
  • OwenHGRoyal Road
    ★★★★ 4.0
    This is a story that will have its strong fans. It's a fairytale full of reach imagery and prose. It's meant for a patient audience, and the start of the story in particular sets a slower pace than most stories on RR.
    This isn't a story that's meant for everyone and I think that's okay. If you're looking for light entertainment and non-stop banter there's plenty elsewhere.
    This is a story that asks you to take a breath and fall into its rich world and if you do you will be rewarded for you efforts.