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FILE · EDN/215/1223 — First Printing

Eden·Nightingale·Catherine 伊甸·南丁格尔·凯瑟琳

BORN
215·12·23 · the northern Empire
OCCUPATION
Physician · Scholar · Mage
AGE
23
WORLDS
ASTRAY → JUNOXIA
READ
Eden, with a pair of vast black wings, sits on a rock, raising an oil lamp in a black-gloved hand as she looks back.
PL.09a · 2024·05 A Lamp, a Flame 一盏灯，一团火

Plates

SHOWCASE13 plates2022—2026

Young Eden sits in a bronze-toned carved wooden wheelchair in a long white coat, holding an oil lamp; her ankles are bandaged and she looks quietly at the viewer.

PL.05 / 2022·08 / PORTRAIT

With Lantern

提灯

ASTRAY · The apprentice years

Young Eden in a carved wooden wheelchair, wrapped in a long white coat, holding an oil lamp.

→ Read §2.3 Apprentice, Daughter

In a many-storeyed academy library lit by the setting sun, fair-haired Eden reads at a desk in her wooden wheelchair, with armillary spheres hanging above, skeletons on display and scholars passing by.

G-01 / 2026·07 / SCENE

Sunset in the Academy Library

日落 · 学会图书馆

ASTRAY · The Continental Academy

Late sun slants through a many-storeyed academy library where Eden reads at a desk in her wooden wheelchair, among armillary spheres and skeletons.

→ Read §2.4 Doctor, Scholar

In night quarters Eden rests her head on a desk beside a typewriter, glasses off and eyes half open; an oil lamp burns, the curtain lifts in the wind, moonlight falls, and an iron bed stands behind her.

PL.06 / 2023·07 / SCENE

Late Night, at the Desk

夜阑伏案

DEATH BE NOT PROUD · New Grandon · a sleepless night

Late at night Eden rests beside her typewriter with her glasses off, as moonlight slips past a wind-lifted curtain.

→ Read §3.2 Eden as Seen by Others

Light slants into a ruined old room; Eden, in glasses and a dark coat with a cross armband, sits against a pile of books looking down at a kneeling girl in a white coat who looks almost identical to her, while blue starcrystal grows among the rubble.

PL.16 / 2025·10 / SCENE

The Twins

双子

DEATH BE NOT PROUD

Slanting light enters a ruined room: Eden, wearing an armband, leans on a pile of books and smiles down at a kneeling girl in white who looks almost exactly like her; blue starcrystal grows through the rubble.

→ Read §3.2 Eden as Seen by Others

A long allegorical scroll: on the right Eden in white and glasses reads on a giant mushroom-covered beak mask with a nightingale on her head; on the left a hooded figure holds a lamp and fire above bones and red branches, with crows flying between them.

PL.13 / 2025·11 / SCENE

Nightingale

南丁格尔

DEATH BE NOT PROUD

A scroll-like allegory: on the right, Eden in white reads atop a mushroom-grown beak mask with a nightingale on her head; on the left a hooded figure holds a lamp and a flame, its palm bleeding.

In darkness Eden raises a lamp toward a huge beast with starcrystal clusters on its back and a face like melted bone; the light bursts into dots against the ink.

PL.10 / 2024·10 / SCENE

The Lamp and the Starcrystal Beast

灯与星晶之兽

DEATH BE NOT PROUD · The crater · the last expedition

In the ink-dark she raises her lamp at a beast crusted with starcrystal, its face like melted bone; the light bursts into points.

→ Read §3.1 Synopsis and Excerpts

In a round glass chamber Eden, in glasses, a deep purple coat and a lace cravat, kneels on a dais with arms folded beneath a skeleton growing crystals; the glass is cracked and starcrystal sprouts among foreground plants.

PL.23 / 2026·06 / SCENE

Night Baptism

夜洗礼

DEATH BE NOT PROUD

Inside a round glass chamber Eden kneels on a dais with her arms folded, beneath a skeleton sprouting crystal; the glass has begun to crack.

→ Read §3.2 Eden as Seen by Others

Eden, with a pair of vast black wings, sits on a rock, raising an oil lamp in a black-gloved hand as she looks back.

PL.09a / 2024·05 / FIGURE

A Lamp, a Flame

一盏灯，一团火

DEATH BE NOT PROUD

Beneath black raven wings she lifts an oil lamp: the nightingale’s light in the crow’s shadow.

→ Read §3.1 Synopsis and Excerpts

Eden, long hair over her shoulders, kneels beside a sleeping dark-haired boy; violet light and plants rise from a wound on his chest while a translucent whale-like aerial creature looks down, surrounded by coral-like branches of light.

PL.21 / 2026·06 / COVER

The Deep Valley: Quickening

深谷 · 苏生

JUNOXIA · The Deep Valley

Cover for The Deep Valley: Eden kneels beside a sleeping dark-haired boy as violet light and plants rise from his chest, while a vast whale-like aerial creature looks down.

→ Read §4 Junoxia

Eden in a horned hood and blue-black cloak stands in an arched niche surrounded by lambs, ravens, a black serpent on a branch and red apples, with red silk ribbons flying; on the left is a huge close-up of her profile with eyes closed.

PL.27 / 2026·09 / SCENE

Festival Night

祭典之夜

JUNOXIA

In a horned hood and blue-black cloak she stands in an arched niche, ringed by lambs, ravens, a black serpent coiled on a branch and red apples, red silk streaming.

→ Read §4 Junoxia

By the summer sea, Eden with a long braid and glasses kneels in shallow waves, holding a wicker basket in one hand and reaching down for a shell with the other.

PL.25 / 2026·07 / SCENE

Summer: Gathering Shells

夏 · 拾贝

Four Seasons · Summer: by the midsummer sea, Eden kneels in the shallows with her long braid and reaches for a shell.

Eden, draped in white cloth, bows her head in tears holding a weeping infant; a crying sun, eye-shaped stars, tearful faces, an embryo, a shell and a weeping fish float in the deep blue background.

G-03 / 2026·09 / SCENE

Pietà

圣母怜子

Draped in white, Eden bows her head in tears, holding a weeping infant; in the deep blue float a crying sun, eye-shaped stars and a weeping fish.

Render of an unpainted garage-kit figure: Eden in a horned hooded cloak holds the hood with one hand and bows her head, a long braid over her chest and robes lifting in the wind.

PL.26a / 2026·08 / FIGURE

Festival Night: The Unpainted Sculpt

祭典之夜 · 素胚

JUNOXIA

A render of the unpainted garage-kit sculpt “Eden · Festival Night”: a horned hooded cloak, one hand on the hood, robes lifting in the wind.

Archive of Plates 图版目录 29 plates in all · 2022—2026

PL.05 / 2022·08 / PORTRAIT

With Lantern

提灯

ASTRAY · The apprentice years

Young Eden in a carved wooden wheelchair, wrapped in a long white coat, holding an oil lamp.

→ Read §2.3 Apprentice, Daughter

G-01 / 2026·07 / SCENE

Sunset in the Academy Library

日落 · 学会图书馆

ASTRAY · The Continental Academy

Late sun slants through a many-storeyed academy library where Eden reads at a desk in her wooden wheelchair, among armillary spheres and skeletons.

→ Read §2.4 Doctor, Scholar

PL.06 / 2023·07 / SCENE

Late Night, at the Desk

夜阑伏案

DEATH BE NOT PROUD · New Grandon · a sleepless night

Late at night Eden rests beside her typewriter with her glasses off, as moonlight slips past a wind-lifted curtain.

→ Read §3.2 Eden as Seen by Others

PL.16 / 2025·10 / SCENE

The Twins

双子

DEATH BE NOT PROUD

Slanting light enters a ruined room: Eden, wearing an armband, leans on a pile of books and smiles down at a kneeling girl in white who looks almost exactly like her; blue starcrystal grows through the rubble.

→ Read §3.2 Eden as Seen by Others

PL.13 / 2025·11 / SCENE

Nightingale

南丁格尔

DEATH BE NOT PROUD

A scroll-like allegory: on the right, Eden in white reads atop a mushroom-grown beak mask with a nightingale on her head; on the left a hooded figure holds a lamp and a flame, its palm bleeding.

PL.10 / 2024·10 / SCENE

The Lamp and the Starcrystal Beast

灯与星晶之兽

DEATH BE NOT PROUD · The crater · the last expedition

In the ink-dark she raises her lamp at a beast crusted with starcrystal, its face like melted bone; the light bursts into points.

→ Read §3.1 Synopsis and Excerpts

PL.23 / 2026·06 / SCENE

Night Baptism

夜洗礼

DEATH BE NOT PROUD

Inside a round glass chamber Eden kneels on a dais with her arms folded, beneath a skeleton sprouting crystal; the glass has begun to crack.

→ Read §3.2 Eden as Seen by Others

PL.09a / 2024·05 / FIGURE

A Lamp, a Flame

一盏灯，一团火

DEATH BE NOT PROUD

Beneath black raven wings she lifts an oil lamp: the nightingale’s light in the crow’s shadow.

→ Read §3.1 Synopsis and Excerpts

PL.21 / 2026·06 / COVER

The Deep Valley: Quickening

深谷 · 苏生

JUNOXIA · The Deep Valley

Cover for The Deep Valley: Eden kneels beside a sleeping dark-haired boy as violet light and plants rise from his chest, while a vast whale-like aerial creature looks down.

→ Read §4 Junoxia

PL.27 / 2026·09 / SCENE

Festival Night

祭典之夜

JUNOXIA

In a horned hood and blue-black cloak she stands in an arched niche, ringed by lambs, ravens, a black serpent coiled on a branch and red apples, red silk streaming.

→ Read §4 Junoxia

PL.25 / 2026·07 / SCENE

Summer: Gathering Shells

夏 · 拾贝

Four Seasons · Summer: by the midsummer sea, Eden kneels in the shallows with her long braid and reaches for a shell.

G-03 / 2026·09 / SCENE

Pietà

圣母怜子

Draped in white, Eden bows her head in tears, holding a weeping infant; in the deep blue float a crying sun, eye-shaped stars and a weeping fish.

PL.26a / 2026·08 / FIGURE

Festival Night: The Unpainted Sculpt

祭典之夜 · 素胚

JUNOXIA

A render of the unpainted garage-kit sculpt “Eden · Festival Night”: a horned hooded cloak, one hand on the hood, robes lifting in the wind.

Epigraph

§1 Who Is Eden?

  1. In the face of death, must life be prolonged at any cost?

  2. When life is granted anew, what makes it worth living?

  1. A.

    Eden confronts this question as both physician and patient, ultimately offering her answer through her own sacrifice.

  2. A.

    Eden’s story in this world has only just begun. Yet in time, she will find an answer of her own.

Eden Nightingale Catherine, female, age 23. Physician, scholar, and mage. An illness in early childhood left her permanently paralyzed in both legs. She devoted her life to advancing modern medicine and ethics, making major contributions to the treatment and cure of numerous diseases while also bringing about significant advances in social welfare.

By the fourth year of her struggle against Starcrystal Disease, years of relentless overwork and the weight of unresolved moral dilemmas had brought her mind to the brink of collapse. In the end, she chose to undertake a research expedition from which she knew she would never return. At the cost of her own life, she recovered a primary sample of the disease, giving ASTRAY renewed hope of survival.

The disease destroyed her body, but her soul endured, crossing the boundaries of time and space. In Junoxia, an entirely new world, Eden begins life anew.

Read the prologue

Contents

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Full contents

  1. Who Is Eden

    Prologue 序章

    1. §1 Who Is Eden?

  2. ASTRAY

    The First Life 第一人生

    1. §2.1 Essential World Context
    2. §2.2 Orphan, Beggar
    3. §2.3 Apprentice, Daughter
    4. §2.4 Doctor, Scholar

  3. A Novella

    Death Be Not Proud 死亡，你莫骄狂

    1. §3.1 Synopsis and Excerpts
    2. §3.2 Eden as Seen by Others

  4. JUNOXIA

    The Second Life 第二人生

    IN PROGRESS
    1. §4 Junoxia

Chronology

ASTRAY → JUNOXIA

  1. 215·12·23 Born in a mining city on the Empire’s northern frontier
  2. early 221 Trafficked and trained to beg
  3. late 221 The polio epidemic; Luo Ze saves her
  4. age 8 The anatomy lesson in the basement
  5. winter 227 Into the epidemic zone with Luo Ze
  6. age 17 She loses her father and returns to the Empire
  7. age 18 Standing council of the Continental Academy
  8. age 19 Starcrystal Disease; New Grandon is built
  9. year three The new drug enters clinical trials
  10. year four The last expedition; she becomes that star
  11. anew She falls into the Deep Valley and meets Onda