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Synopsis
Where Even Angels Fear to TreadThe Underworld. The graveyard of the universe. Where all dead things go: creatures, objects, worlds, memories. A vast realm of decay that draws in the fallen and holds them forever. Only the mad or the desperate would ever dare venture its nightmarish depths...but that's exactly where the angel called Rain must go for answers. Plunging into NightmaresSeeking closure for the tragic death of her mortal lover, Rain ventures to the one place in the universe she hates most: the Underworld. Every step in this terrible place is a struggle to move forward and confront the truth. Rain faces danger from more than just the unquiet dead as she battles her own inner demons. Everywhere she turns the realm of death seeks to sap her strength, to pervert her purpose and deny her that which she seeks.The Underworld itself hungers for her light and her quailing will. Not even an angel is safe from its corrupting grasp. As her body withers and her mind begins to fail, can her poisoned spirit endure the horrors that seek to shatter it? The Lost and the Fallen Rain faces worse than slavering demons in her lonely journey through the dark bowels of the cosmos. She comes face to face with the likes of the Nameless, who cling to any last shreds of their identities as the Underworld slowly leeches away elements their former lives. Then there is the grim sadness of the Forgotten, the people and their creations-even whole planets and stars-cast into oblivion when no trace of their memory remains in the living universe.Foul and unnamable things haunt the depths of the Underworld, in the Vanished Lands, where nothing is as it seems and even the physical laws of reality are forgotten. If she is to find her answers, Rain must find a way through a realm so ancient and vast that untold worlds sit cold in its skies like headstones.If Rain falters, the Underworld will also be her tomb. A Story of Searching for Meaning in LossNights into Nightmares explores the raw, powerful emotions we all experience in the wake of loss. The pain, the burden of survivor's guilt, the need to find a reason in it all. This story also explores the fear of the unknown, confronting the grinning skulls that leer at us in our darkest moments. But it's also a story of hope. We press on, even in the face of tragedy and terror, because we must. We seek answers because we have hope that there is something beyond it all. This is a story about how we look for light in our darkest hour. Even when things are at their bleakest, life finds a way to carry on. If we live in on the memories of those around us, if our actions ripple on long after we're gone, is anything ever truly dead? Nights into Nightmares isn't just about the long, dark nights when we grapple with loss. It's about the connections that are so strong they cause us that pain-and give us the strength to endure. Here are joy and agony in equal measure, embodied in an angel who walks in the shadow of fallen worlds.