A 17+1-Ending Interactive Fantasy Book and the AURALIS Universe

Instead of one linear ending, I am building a structure in which choices branch into 17 designed endings and one open ending. The hand-drawn flowchart is the first prototype I used to plan how the same decision can connect to radically different outcomes through different paths.

A reader's decision changes not just the next page, but alliances, character relationships, the outcomes of wars and the world they encounter at the end.

Seventeen written chapters and regions—including Yolgezer Camp, Neidan, Leadows, the Great Library, the Elven Kingdom, Anthropos and the Two Gates—connect through a shared cause-and-effect network.

The map, time pressure, tarot cards, encounters and previously earned trust determine the cost of later options. Choice becomes more than a button in the text; it becomes the system's memory.

With its glass-and-crystal architecture, spiral White Tower, four house towers, Council of Light and resonance technology, AURALIS appears to be a flawless city close to the sky.

In this universe, light is energy, belief and social status. A power system that makes the body ill when overused turns the lost knowledge of Light Engineering into both a scientific mystery and a political threat.

The Underground, beyond the reach of light, shelters the people left beneath AURALIS's social order. A 40,000-lumen birth destabilises both scientific and religious power, while two childhood friends from the same past become representatives of opposing systems.

I am developing the anime concept not simply as a sequence of events, but as a living world that carries conflicts of class, belief, technology and belonging together.