Eclipsed Twinlight

He was born in the dark, and that’s where they meant for him to stay. Caelvir is eighteen—thin, starving, and barely alive in the stone belly of the colosseum. The world sees him as weak, disposable, a bloodstained number in the endless cycle of gladiator death matches. But his suffering isn't by accident. It’s by design. His mother—the cold, merciless Queen of Velrane—once clawed her way to the throne by seducing the royal line. But Caelvir? He’s not the king’s son. He was born before the crown, to a father whose death on the battlefield remains wrapped in whispers and lies. A reminder of her past. An embarrassment. A threat. So she locked him in chains and gave him an impossible sentence: Win a thousand battles—or die trying. Kept starving to break his will, thrown into fights meant to kill him, Caelvir survives through sheer silence, slow-burning hatred, and unthinkable savagery. He doesn’t scream. He doesn’t cry. He saves every ounce of pain, every tear, every scream—for her. But fate shifts when he meets another gladiator—a cunning female warrior fighting for scraps of hope—and the small, fragile sister she wants to find and protect. For the first time, Caelvir finds something greater than vengeance: a reason to live, a reason to love. A thousand fights. A thousand chances to become more than what she made him. Will Caelvir survive long enough to face the queen who made him a weapon? Will he fall before the war inside him ever sees the light? Or does fate have other plans for him?