Across the Great Ocean
follows a sixteen-year-old girl named Nyla, as she navigates a world scarred by a devastating plague and teetering on the brink of war. Eventually, she learns that if you want to find hope in destruction, sometimes you just have to make it yourself.
Unprecedented times call for unprecedented heroes —
and that is exactly what Nyla and her ragtag group proves to be.
Nyla standing in the streets of Tinshe, captivated by the moon after a long shift at the factory.
BOOK I: Desolation
With nothing to her name except a flimsy wooden bow, Nyla has a choice: cower in the shadows and watch her land fall to darkness or become the light her people need.
Sixteen-year-old Nyla lost her mother, sisters, and only friends to a devastating plague that swept across the world, leaving the already-impoverished southern side of the Suhai Empire in ruins. With the arrival of the northern militia come promises of aid for recovery, but dark whispers of their ulterior motives closely follow.
Just when Nyla thinks she can’t endure any more loss, her father mysteriously vanishes. As her remaining family scrambles to find stability amidst his disappearance, her older brother is revealed to not only be a part of the southern underground resistance but wanted for treason by the militia. Refusing to lose anyone else, Nyla and her two brothers flee to evade execution, and on their desperate journey, they unveil the militia’s dark intentions - and they are far
more sinister than ever imagined.
BOOK II: Awakening
In a land scarred by war, hope flickers dimly amidst chaos and oppression. As darkness spreads across the West, a young warrior named Nyla rises to face the insurmountable odds threatening her people.
Determined to reclaim her homeland and end the tyrants’ war that engulfs her world, Nyla embarks on a perilous journey east in search of powerful allies. But her path is fraught with treacherous seas, ruthless raiders, and vengeful assassins—all while haunted by her
blood-stained past.
Nyla and Laago dancing at a festival in an unknown outskirt village, as lanterns fly into the sky around them.
BOOK III: Redemption
Nyla returns to the West not as a desperate survivor, but with powerful allies at her side and her name whispered across the realm as a hero.
Yet in the frozen kingdom that once strengthened her enemies and shattered her past, victory proves far more distant than it appears. Grief cuts deep, testing the fragile balance she’s fought to regain, and the darkness she escaped threatens to reclaim her. Across the snowbound land, divided peoples shaped by years of fear and false promises struggle to unite beneath a single cause. Every negotiation and every clash demands a sacrifice, and even her strongest alliances begin to strain beneath the weight of war.
With the fate of the West hanging by a thread, Nyla must decide what she is willing to sacrifice—her army, her allies, or the last pieces of herself—to end the war once and for all.
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Across the Great Ocean's artwork was skillfully crafted by Kayrunesh.
May he rest in peace, knowing his art lives on.