The Breaking Series
a psychological dark fantasy of horror, domination, and survival told through interconnected sagas
Start Reading“I feel like I should earn my psych degree by the end”
Horror is the furnace. Philosophy is what survives the fire.
Breaking is a descent into horror, domination, and pain where every day demands surrender. It explores survival under pressure, how a person copes moment by moment, day by day, when they are stripped of control, identity, and safety.
Psychological dark fantasy grounded in horror and myth, with literary weight but narrative drive.
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These stories contain non-consensual sex, psychological manipulation, power imbalance, humiliation, dehumanization, and other dark, disturbing themes.
A saga designed to be read out of order! Jump to the story that has the emotions that fit your current mood. Satisfy your curiosity and read ahead. The story is in the journey, not the ending.
“I can’t stop reading this your writing has me hook line and sinker.”
Scaldmere lost the civil war against the Water Sanctum. Damion, Scaldmere’s pride, is taken prisoner and transformed into its shame. To be a symbol. To be a lesson.
To become a pet.
This is a brutal unraveling of identity told moment by moment, with no relief and no time skips. You live inside Damion’s mind as he is stripped of his name, his choices, his self.
What survives when everything else is stripped away?
Told in real time. Begin here if you want to witness the full collapse. Move on to Breaking Free when you’re ready to see his recovery.
“I cried, cried, cried and read. I want to hug him and stroke his head.”
Mulsae kept him as a pet. Now Damion has to learn how to be a person again.
Slavery is banned in Harmura. When the other Sanctum Masters learn how Damion is treated, they hold a summit to judge whether Water Master Mulsae has broken the law.
Damion is freed. But freedom is unfamiliar. How do you ask for things? How do you make a choice when you’ve been trained not to?
This is a slow, painful journey through trauma, dignity, and reclaiming the self.
The story unfolds one day at a time, with no skips and no glossing over. Every moment is lived as Damion lives it, from awkward breakfasts to aching flashbacks. Healing isn’t summarized. It’s witnessed.
Still in progress but planned with a full arc.
“He is getting exactly what he deserves.”
It begins on Day One of Zudaeshi’s reign, the self-proclaimed Harmonarch of the Eight Sanctums. She rules Harmura with stolen magic and brutal charisma. Zudaeshi is the tyrant, the tactician, the master of a reign built on fear, control, and spectacle.
Mulsae serves at her side and in her bed. Damion kneels at their feet. They're trapped together in Zudaeshi’s occupied palace, forced to discover who they really are when everything else is stripped away.
Zudaeshi saw Mulsae break Damion. Now she wants to learn how it was done so she can break Mulsae, too. And she plans to enjoy every second of it.
Told in real time, this is a close, unblinking descent into survival and the parts of identity that only emerge under pressure.
Breaking a Warlord showed what a responsible pet owner looks like. This is what happens when a sadist gets hold of the leash.
You do not need to read Breaking a Warlord or Breaking Free to understand this story.
Told as an ongoing serial of their day-to-day life. Move on to Breaking Out when you’re ready to see their escape.
“… you got me to cry on an original character so yay?”
Mulsae has been Zudaeshi’s weapon for forty-nine years. He's been her whore, her weapon, her enforcer. He's done whatever it takes to survive in order to protect the city of Lirae, and keep Damion alive at his side.
But now a human has appeared that makes all the Sky-Touched feel... relieved. After the pressure of living under Zudaeshi’s rule, this relief is addictive. But why is this happening? And what does this mean for the fate of Harmura?
This strange human’s presence sends cracks through everything he thought he could endure. Damion sees the change. Nori feels the shift. And Zudaeshi isn't blind. She knows how to break a male who thought he'd already been broken.
A direct sequel to Breaking the Breaker. Doesn’t require reading previous books. Contains a brief recap.
Currently unfinished but planned as a complete arc.
Stories Pending
Breaking In: How to Come Home — Mulsae, Damion, and Nori, as well as Ellara and Garrick, all have figure out how to recover from their trauma and live in freedom again. But there is a looming threat: Now that sanctions have been reapplied to Shinra, they are preparing to strike while Harmura is weakened.
Breaking Ground: The Shape of Peace — Shinra has landed on the shores of Harmura. Ellara wants to defend her people. Mulsae does not want to be caged in a sadistic reign again. They all fight to keep their fragile freedom from shattering.
Stories take place in the world of Harmura: a land shaped by the Eight Elemental Trigrams of the Bagua. Immortals reign, and magic both empowers and corrupts. When rule is divine and lifespan long, corruption grows slowly... but so does the chance for transformation.
Here, sacred forces shape the land, identity tangles with power, and survival means more than staying alive. Come to explore the unanswerable moral questions but stay to hang out with the cute cleaning spirit who thrives on your messes and praise. Learn more about Harmura »
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