Three worlds · one recurring wound

Every story starts with a crack.

Three people lose the person who anchored them. One chooses vengeance. One refuses to. Two mistake fear for devotion. Same wound, three different answers — step into the one that finds you first.

Sajal Arikazuta, author portrait

About the author

Sajal Arikazuta

Sajal writes emotionally driven fiction where fantasy and human psychology intertwine — less about grand battles, more about the invisible scars that shape the people fighting them. Across a broken heaven, a fate-defying system, and a steampunk marriage, the same question keeps resurfacing: what happens the moment someone finally says the thing they've spent the whole story not saying?

When he isn't writing, he's studying, building new fictional worlds, or expanding his long-running fantasy projects.

The novel universe

Three standalone worlds.

Not a trilogy — three separate fractures, each with its own physics, its own damage, its own color. Hover a world. It bleeds into the page.

Thronefall: When the Heavens Bled — cover art
Aren NocthyrLunethraThrone Breaker

"They didn't call him a criminal. They didn't call him a murderer. They called him Calamity."

Aren's wings have always been black in a heaven built entirely from white. He starts the story restrained, quiet, a librarian's kind of patience with Lunethra, Goddess of Seasons. He does not stay that way. After her fall, grief stops asking politely — Aren is designated a "Throne Breaker," gods start hunting him, and the boy who once stood quietly in a garden becomes the thing heaven is now afraid of.

This is not a gentle book. It's a study of what grief does when nothing stops it.

Fate Simulator: The Legend of Mystic Masters — cover art
Eden CrestfallAria VelshineRedfall

"I lost my parents. You lost your daughter. Pretty weird, don't you think?"

Zero — the legendary Mystic Master who ended a war 768 years ago — is history by the time this story starts. Aria Velshine is his rightful successor. Eden Crestfall isn't supposed to be anyone's successor at all — until a forbidden system activates inside him anyway, and fate itself logs the error: two successors, one throne. One inherits light. The other inherits ruin.

Told with literal in-text status readouts — [WRATH CONTRADICTION: DETECTED] — like the story is narrating its own HUD.

The Love That Taste Like Blood — cover art
DamianDamitaGearford

"Love should not feel like a prison. It should feel like coming home without losing yourself."

In the flying steam-city of Gearford, Damian's grip on his new wife tightens with every Dust Storm, while Damita quietly measures her worth in how well she appreciates what she's given. Neither of them is trying to cause harm. Both of them are running from the same old wound in opposite directions.

A five-part novella — a rare finished project, by the author's own admission.

World encyclopedia

Look anything up.

A preview of the full Fandom-style database — powers, artifacts, locations, and terminology across all three worlds. Try the search.

Power · Fate Simulator

Mystic Master

The rank behind the legend of Zero, centuries before Eden's story starts. A living rebuttal to the idea that fate can't be fought — which is exactly why Eden keeps getting compared to one.

Artifact · Fate Simulator

Crysto-Card

A crystal-coated card carrying a bound entity. Playing one mid-fight can overwrite what its user is capable of — and, in Eden's case, who he briefly becomes.

Symbol · Thronefall

Black Wings

Aren Nocthyr's wings — the one color heaven has never explained and never let him forget. Not corrupted. Not stained. Simply black.

Event · Thronefall

The Fall

The night the sky cracked and Lunethra fell — silver fractures of light across the firmament, quietly rewritten by history as an accident.

Location · The Love That Tastes Like Blood

Gearford

A steam-powered flying city where cargo airships cast shadows over the market and a Dust Storm can change a marriage overnight.

Phenomenon · The Love That Tastes Like Blood

Dust Storm

Gearford's recurring hazard — rare in some districts, deadly to the unprepared, and the event that first cracks Damian's composure open.

Location · Fate Simulator

Historia's Wild Mansion

Where a routine academy assignment — the Red Star Task — pulls Eden Crestfall into the fight that defines the rest of his story.

Classification · Fate Simulator

Redfall

The academy's term for a mystic user gone corrupted and dangerous. The Redfall behind this story's central fight has a name: Sebastian. He lost a daughter. Eden lost two parents. Neither of them planned on that mattering.

No entries match that search — the full encyclopedia (with every character, organization, and relationship) ships in phase two.

Where to start

There's no wrong order.

These are three unconnected standalone worlds, not a numbered series — so start with whichever ache you're in the mood for.

If you want quiet that curdles into rage

Start with Thronefall

Restrained at first. Then a designation, a manhunt, and a boy heaven decides to call a calamity.

If you want a system with a conscience

Start with Fate Simulator

Destiny as a mechanic you can actually fight — and a protagonist who refuses the easy, violent answer to his own grief.

If you want something intimate

Start with The Love That Tastes Like Blood

A short, finished novella about a marriage learning the shape of its own fear.