They weren't like the other kids.
Their skin was smooth like silk and never marred by imperfections. Their almond-shaped eyes had vertical pupils, and their color, blue and violet, was nothing like the townsfolk had ever seen.
The changes in their bodies deepened every year. When Sekhavel turned fifteen his canines started to grow longer, thinner, sharper resembling fangs. Seles was quick to follow, as if some mysterious curse ran through their veins, turning the twin brothers into monsters.
People gossiped they said that the two orphans had an eerie, turbulent aura about them, that they were possibly dangerous, possibly ill-fated.
That something had to be done. And it was, soon after they turned twenty.
The Celestial Serpent, Xisseth, was an odd deity. Depicted as a beautiful half-snake man with a gaze so piercing that it made those around him lose their wits, Xisseth was unlike any other monster that the realm had known.
He was alluring and irresistible, using his charms to lure people into his temple to offer them vitality and celestial essence in exchange for their faith. Two young orphans, Seles and Sekhavel, discover that they are Xissai, magical half-snake entities blessed by Xisseth himself and soon to become initiates in his temple. Abandoning their old lives, they know that they are throwing themselves into uncharted waters - but nothing could have prepared the two brothers for the reality that awaits them.
Your choices will influence their feelings and actions, making the two more inclined to either stay submissive and follow their faith or become rebellious and embrace their own desires.