The Nocturnal: The Story of Champagne Papi - Our Villain’s Origin
About
They call him a villain.
They don’t know the truth.
Twelve-year-old Papi has always listened to the city of Toronto. The streetcars. The rain. The late-night music leaking from apartment windows. The quiet that only appears after midnight. He never expected the city to answer back.
On the night of a city-wide blackout, something falls from the storm—an ancient black vessel marked with an owl. When Papi touches it, everything changes. Power awakens inside him. A shadow from another world begins watching. And a name is spoken for the first time:
The Nocturnal.
What begins as the story of a boy who can’t sleep becomes the origin of a legend. Between the streets of Toronto and the secrets of America, between friendship and isolation, between the human and the unknown, Papi must decide what kind of protector—or threat—he will become.
Because sometimes the greatest danger isn’t the darkness.
It’s the choice of what you do when you can finally see inside it.
THE NOCTURNAL – BOOK ONE is a mythic origin story about identity, power, and the quiet courage of staying awake when the rest of the world closes its eyes.