
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Heather L. McMillan 39 episodes Nov 9, 2026
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories is a fantasy audio drama set in the long-peaceful world of Anturia. Bryn Tal, a servant of the Council of Elders, begins to question her government when an off-world stranger arrives with a portal to Earth and a plan to exploit human resources. The story follows Bryn as she confronts the regime’s hidden exploitation and makes choices that alter the fate of both Anturia and Earth. A woman taken from Scotland in 1371 is brought into Anturia, raising the question of whether she will save the world, destroy it, or do both.
Episodes

Season 5: Episode 4- The Experiment
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Flandan Reynolds has survived the brutality of Bolat Latto, but his ordeal is far from over. When he awakens in a sterile medical room, doctors treat his injuries, and his condition improves. For the first time since his imprisonment, he has reason to believe he might recover. But the people caring for him aren’t interested in his recovery for the reason

Season 5: Episode 3 – The Silence in the Cells
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Legate Caius Regillus has endured battles, witnessed death, and commanded thousands of soldiers. But nothing in his years of service to Rome prepared him for Bolat Latto.Separated from his legion and imprisoned beneath Staranthea, Caius must rely on the discipline that has defined his entire life. Every sound beyond his cell offers another fragment of informat

Season 5: Episode 2 – Below the Keep
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Flandan Reynolds survived a plane crash that should have killed him. Now, he faces a very different kind of nightmare.
Deep beneath the streets of Staranthea, the Immortaleum are separated, imprisoned, and cut off from everyone who might help them. With no way to communicate and no understanding of what their captors intend, Flandan struggles to hold on to

Season 5: Episode 1 – The Parade of Lies
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
The Ninth Legion’s commander has faced enemies before, but never quite like this. Taken far from Baliya Island, Caius Regillus and the other Patriciates find themselves at the mercy of an empire they barely understand. Every unfamiliar sight brings new questions, and every act of apparent kindness gives them another reason to be suspicious.As they strugg

Season 4: Episode 11 – The Silence Left Behind
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Waylaid by storms, Kylah Marie and the Velg’lan fighters arrive at Baliya Island later than they intended. Transmissions fail. So when Kylah arrives at the island, she expects a fight. Instead, she discovers something she doesn’t expect, and it may be more terrifying than any battle.© 2025–2026 Heather McMillan. All rights reserved. Antu

Season 4: Episode 10 – The Last Crossing
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
For the Legate, the day starts out as an ordinary day on Baliya Island. He decides to host some residents of Facility Two on the training field to watch the IX Hispana Legion train, but an urgent transmission from Bryn shatters the day’s plans.
Some residents evacuate, while others stay behind to face whatever fate has in store for them. The Legate r

Season 4: Episode 9 – The Edge Holds
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
After days alone in her room in Facility Two, Karrah MacMillan decides she has had enough. She returns to her training, her sister, and the people she has begun to know on Anturia to prove to herself that she can find her place amongst them.Maybe things aren’t as different as they feel. Maybe some things haven’t changed one bit. Maybe Karrah is go

Season 4: Episode 8 – The Fault Line
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Flandan Reynolds thought surviving the impossible had given him another chance at life. But hope can be dangerous when it grows around things left unsaid.As relationships deepen on Baliya Island, Flandan realizes that some truths can no longer be avoided. He wants to do the right thing before anyone gets hurt, but sometimes, the truth comes too late. Then ther

Season 4: Episode 7 – The List
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Bryn Tal, Dahlfia Dewr, and Myr Seren have narrowed over 10,000 Immortaleum down to 100 humans selected for leadership roles across the continent of Landoris to help the Council of the Wise combat Emperor Daxingovan and the threat he poses to their way of life.
Now they must deliver the news to those who are chosen. Some of the chosen are unimpressed, some

Season 4: Episode 6 – Where I Stand
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Karrah MacMillan has never known a life without her twin sister beside her.Now, stranded thousands of years from everything she knew, she is grieving the family she lost while trying to understand the strange new world that saved her life. Anturia frightens her in ways it seems to fascinate Kerrih, but it also offers Karrah something she never expected. A cha

Season 4: Episode 5 – The First Decision
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
The Ninth Legion survived Rome. Now its Legate must decide what comes next.More than five thousand soldiers look to Caius Regillus for purpose, but the war Bryn Tal has asked them to join is not theirs. They know little of Anturia, its politics, or the enemy they may soon be asked to fight.For Caius, choosing a side means gambling with every life under his com

Season 4: Episode 4 – What Holds—What Breaks
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Dahlfia Dewr trusts observation more than assumption. As the newly arrived Immortaleum adjust to life on Anturia, she begins evaluating how well they are adapting, not only to their new world, but to each other. Most respond in ways she can understand. The twins are different.Kerrih and Karrah have spent their entire lives side by side, but Dahlfia wants to kn

Season 4: Episode 3 – What Rome Brought
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Rome gave Caius Regillus everything a commander needs: discipline, structure, purpose, and an enemy. Anturia has given him none of those things.As the Ninth Legion trains in an unfamiliar world, Caius struggles to maintain the order that once defined both him and his men. His soldiers can still march. His officers can still command. The discipline Rome forged

Season 4: Episode 2 – The Difference Between Them
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
The first lessons are underway, and not every student learns the same way. As the newly arrived humans begin adapting to life on Anturia, Kylah is given a job she’d rather survive than enjoy: teaching a group of bewildered newcomers how to use technology that feels impossible to them. Between chaotic training sessions, unexpected personalities, and more

Season 4: Episode 1 – After the Platform
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Something happened on the platform that no one can explain. As thousands of newly arrived humans settle into life on Baliya Island, Bryn and Dahlfia quietly isolate a young woman whose actions defy everything they believe is possible. What begins as a private conversation quickly becomes an urgent investigation as strange questions emerge without comforting a

Season 3: Episode 9 – The Soul That Would Not Die
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
The future cannot be summoned without consequence. As the next wave of humans arrives from Earth, Bryn and the Council discover that not every soul crosses the Porta Segreta in the same way. The careful plans that worked before begin to unravel as fear, grief, and confusion spread through the staging grounds. Every arrival brings new questions, and every answ

Season 3: Episode 8 – What Crosses Over
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Some forces do not need time to become dangerous; they arrive ready. As Baliya Island prepares to receive thousands of humans pulled from Earth, Bryn and the Council believe they have accounted for injury, confusion, fear, and resistance, but they are still not prepared.The first group crosses through the Porta Segreta in perfect formation with no panic, diso

Season 3: Episode 7 – The Line We Cross
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
The crisis on Baliya Island is over, but the consequences are only beginning. With the Porta Segreta finally under their control, Bryn and the Council of the Wise face a discovery that changes everything they thought they knew. The off-world machine was never simply a gateway between worlds; it can target specific people from specific moments in time. It is a

Season 3: Episode 6 – The Broken Gate
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
The gate was never meant to remain open, and now an entire world is paying the price. When Bryn, Dahlfia, and their team arrive on Baliya Island, they discover a humanitarian catastrophe beyond anything they imagined. Thousands of frightened humans continue pouring onto Anturia while disease, starvation, and violence spread faster than anyone can contain. Eve

Season 3: Episode 5 – The Ground We Stand On
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
War may be over, but peace is another matter entirely. As Teithia begins the long process of healing, Bryn and Dahlfia struggle to rebuild lives forever changed by the battle. But unanswered questions surrounding the attack refuse to stay buried, and disturbing new evidence suggests the enemy knew far more than anyone believed.Old secrets finally come into th

Season 3: Episode 4 – The Cost of Victory
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Victory demands payment. As the battle for Teithia finally begins to turn, Bryn leaves the safety of the command post to search for the one person she cannot afford to lose, Dahlfia. But the city she enters is no longer a battlefield; it is a graveyard.As enemy forces strike from the shadows and familiar streets become killing grounds, an unexpected form of s

Season 3: Episode 3 – The Shape of Legend
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Legends are not born in peace. As the battle for Teithia rages across streets, courtyards, and shattered strongholds, Kylah finds herself at the center of the chaos. Outnumbered, wounded, and driven by equal parts fury and determination, she becomes something more than a soldier in the eyes of those around her: a symbol. A story already takes shape before the

Season 3: Episode 2 – The First Breach
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
The first breach is only the beginning. As Bryn’s forces launch their attack to retake Teithia, the plan appears to be working. Gates fall. Armies move. Hidden tunnels open beneath the city. For one breath, victory feels possible, but in war, every advantage can become a trap.As transmissions fracture and forces collide across multiple fronts, Bryn must comma

Season 3: Episode 1 – Before the First Move
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Before wars are won, someone has to make the first move. As the survivors of Landoris prepare to strike back against Mallaidh’s forces in Teithia, Bryn and the remaining councilors race against time to organize a desperate plan to reclaim the city before their advantage disappears. Armies gather in Graywood, and alliances are tested. Every decision carries th

Season 2: Episode 9 – The Gathering Storm
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Some storms can be seen long before they arrive. Other storms are already upon you before you understand what they are. As forces begin to shift across Anturia, what once felt distant now moves with undeniable purpose. Old alliances are tested, while new threats emerge. The fragile balance holding everything together begins to fracture.For Kylah and those bou

Season 2: Episode 8 – What Alltud Knows
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
In Alltud, nothing is forgotten, and nothing is judged lightly. After the trial in the desert, Kylah returns to a community that sees more than she expected and understands more than it reveals. Here, survival is not the end of the story. It is only the beginning of what comes next.As questions of justice, choice, and consequence rise to the surface, Kylah mu

Season 2: Episode 7 – Mercy in the Desert
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Not every victory feels like one. In the unforgiving expanse of the Plains of Du’Roi, Kylah follows a trail that leads her to the one confrontation she cannot avoid. What began as training has become something far more final. Out in the midst of the desert, there are no witnesses, rules, or second chances.When the moment comes, what stands before her is not t

Season 2: Episode 6 – The Waters of Rhisari
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Not all who wander the desert are meant to survive it while others are meant to be changed by it. As Kylah’s journey through the Plains of Du’Roi pushes her beyond the limits of endurance, she finds herself on the edge of something she cannot explain, caught between pain and peace, reality and something far less certain.Drawn toward water where none should ex

Season 2: Episode 5 – What Cannot Be Trained
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
In Alltud, survival is only the beginning, and then you have to earn it again. As Kylah begins her training within the hidden desert city, she quickly learns that strength alone will not be enough to secure her place among its people. Lessons and skills are meant to help you but offer no guarantee because not everything can be taught.Some enemies are not plac

Season 2: Episode 4 – The First Record
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
For over 10,000 years, the stories in Anturia were written down, spoken, or stored in technology. For the first time, Kylah begins documenting her experience in real time using something her species already had but didn’t realize, unsure whether she will survive long enough to share it with anyone.Exiled to the desert of the unforgiving Plains of Du’Roi

Season 2: Episode 3 – The Acceptable Cost
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Inside Che’el de Velg’lan, the weight of rumor has become something far more dangerous. What began as whispers has now reached the Velg’lan council, and they are no longer willing to ignore it. Kylah is no longer just a question; she is a liability.
As pressure closes in from all sides, Bryn and Dahlfia realize that protecting their friend may cost t

Season 2: Episode 2 – The Poisoned Story
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Inside Che’el de Velg’lan, Bryn struggles to regain her strength while Dahlfia works to hold the fragile resistance together. But beyond the walls of the underground city, something more dangerous is spreading. Rumors about Kylah.
Accusations surface, and loyalties are questioned. As advanced as the Velg’lan are with intelligence, every report that a

Season 2: Episode 1 – Beneath the Façade
Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories
The new civil war didn’t begin with a battle. It began with what no one chose to see. Beneath polished alliances and carefully maintained order, cracks are already spreading. In the aftermath of Teithia’s fall, leaders maneuver behind closed doors, shaping a future no one will admit out loud.Bryn Tal and Dahlfia carry the weight of what they set in

Season 1: Episode 7 – The Last Council
Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories
The chamber doors close. What was promised as reconciliation becomes something far older and far more dangerous. In one single afternoon, alliances fracture, silence fails, and the Council of Elders is forced to remember the last time it chose power over wisdom. Across Teithia, confusion turns to chaos as messages spread, narratives harden, and history is rewr

Season 1: Episode 6 – The Summoning
Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories
The city is unraveling while violence has become ordinary. Mallaidh has stopped pretending this is about order, and Bryn Tal walks through a Teithia she no longer recognizes. When the council calls an emergency peace meeting framed as reconciliation, everyone knows what it really is: a trap. Tynaref warns her to run. Oswalt begs her not to go. Dahlfia refuses

Season 1: Episode 5 – The Blood in the House
Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories
The council insists the situation is contained; however, Bryn Tal knows it isn’t. As evidence mounts that humans are being bought, sold, and quietly embedded across Anturian society, Bryn demands answers that the council refuses to give. Language softens, and accountability is buried beneath procedure.But the truth stops being abstract when it walks into the h

Season 1: Episode 4 – The First Fracture
Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories
The Porta Segreta was supposed to be under control. All the reports said the humans were calm, even grateful. But they were very wrong. When violence erupts inside an Anturian observation facility, Bryn Tal is pulled back into the heart of governance and into the first undeniable proof that the door between worlds has already begun to push back.Humans are dead

Season 1: Episode 3 – The Open Door
Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories
The Porta Segreta has changed Anturia, but not in ways measured in resources or reports. As the council recesses and life in Teithia settles into an uneasy calm, Bryn Tal steps away from governance and into the quiet rhythms of home: her garden, her granddaughter Afanen, and the fragile innocence of a world that still believes itself untouched. But Earth’

Season 1: Episode 2 – The Quiet Divide
Anturia Diaries Prequel Stories
Months after the Porta Segreta is activated, the first Anturian teams return from Earth unharmed. The portal works, and the technology holds. By every measurable standard, the mission is a success. That certainty unsettles Bryn Tal most. As they draft rules and set boundaries, confidence spreads through the council. Observation replaces caution, and curiosity

Season 1: Episode 1 – The Porta Segreta
Anturia Diaries: Prequel Stories
Bryn Tal records this account from captivity, long after the world she knew began to burn. Two hundred years before the war that would change Teithia forever, an off-world stranger arrives before the Anturian council with an irresistible promise: a doorway to a twin planet called Earth, rich in resources, opportunity, and untapped potential. Against centuries
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