DIVINE (118k words)
They vowed to rebuild the planet on the backs of those who broke it.
The world was in ruins before they came. Arriving on Earth, the Divine set out as dictators, enslaving the remaining humans inhabiting the scorched planet. Their immortal genome placed them as gods over the oppressed, but it wasn’t long before a group of the Divine rebelled against the Divine Way, choosing the rights of the mortals over their own unity, their own people.
Hidden away as wanted outcasts, the Essentials attempt to blend in with the mortals as they scheme ways to sabotage the Divine’s efforts of ever leaving the planet.
Trapped and scared, Diana suffers at the hands of these immortal oppressors. Her reality is as bleak as it is cruel. Death always lingers behind her. Unbeknownst to her, the very fabric of the reality that she calls home is merely a simulation created by the Divine. Her family, her friends, what few joys she did experience, all a lie. A battle to fight the greater evil rages in Diana’s mind, a mind that she can no longer trust as newfound power begins to grow within her. With her anger compartmentalized and her focus clear, she swears to defeat the Divine.
That was before she met Rogue, before she began to relate to the same man who prolonged her torture.