a philosophical fantasy about the forces that make us — and the light we forget we're carrying.
it begins at dawn, in the hour of cochineal pink — the rose that comes from death turned into beauty. in a hidden valley where three mountains meet, a boy whose eyes hold universes is about to complete a ritual of transformation.
it breaks.
the energy fractures, and into the absence flows zahama — the darkness before dawn. not destruction: the emptiness from which creation becomes possible. the boy walks out whole, but not complete — carrying both the power and the dark.
years later, the fracture starts to spread. and four forces wake. not the four horsemen of the apocalypse. the four horsemen of creation.
raw creative chaos, magnificently indifferent — transforming everything it touches. (it also, once, becomes an interdimensional cookie monster. you'll see.)
the cosmic rabbit who traces the paths between what is and what could be — and makes room for each being to find its own way.
the ancient keeper of truth — who has lost the ability to see the sparkles, the flickers of potential in the eyes of living things.
the boy from the broken ritual, now in budapest, holding creation and destruction in a single, fragile balance.
set between the italian alps and budapest — a city split, then joined, by its river. fantasy adventure and inner journey at once.
the four don't become masters of power. they become keepers of possibility — guides for anyone who has forgotten their own light. and the truth they reach is the one this whole company is built on.
i shaped the idea, the characters, the story, and the art direction, and worked with ai to write, edit, and illustrate — reviewing and approving every word, taking full responsibility for all of it. a human refusing to let the machine make it soulless. amplified by ai, never abandoned to it.
it's also my debut — as an author, or co-author: human + ai. i wrote it two summers ago, for love, in a handful of days, when someone reminded me of my own sparkles. the rest of that story lives in the creator's journey.
the map of the misalignment, and the way back, told as a story. the alliance reads it first.