Hello!
I'm Faria/OLA

I'm a Narrative Designer, writer and hobbyist composer experienced in creating fiction for various forms of media. Currently, I teach Creative Writing.
In my works I try to blend the boundaries between the worlds of literature, games and music. I value the emotional impact of words and always try to incorporate it into my writing.

My games

I am the Narrative Designer of "I Hate This Place" survival horror game.
I was responsible for creating the general story structure, descriptions of some characters and locations, detailed narrative of most of the quests, writing dialogues and other in-game texts.

I also published a text game inspired by the magical realism genre where you make a candle that brings back memories.

My writing

My short story called "Brak" won the Grand Prix in Fantazje Zielonogórskie XV Literary Contest. You can buy the book of short stories, including mine, here:

My other literary achievements

Wszystko dobre, co się źle kończy Writing Contest organized by Empik Selfpublishing, 2023 - DISTINCTION for a short storyNaśladowanie Szymborskiej Writing Contest organized by Jagiellonian University, 2023 - FIRST PLACE WINNER for a poemNowodworska Nagroda Literacka Literary Contest organized by I Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Bartłomieja Nowodworskiego w Krakowie, 2019 - FIRST PLACE WINNER for a book of short stories and poetryHistoria przyszłości Writing Contest organized by Muzeum Pana Tadeusza we Wrocławiu, 2017 - FIRST PLACE WINNER for a short story

My book

I'm currently looking for a Polish publisher for a fantasy book called "Chiaroscuro" which I have been writing since 2021.
It tells the story of Erven, the alleged promised savior from the prophecy, and Captain Drachenerg - a royal guard who is secretly the killer of Erven's father.If you are a Polish publisher and topics like the messiah complex, morally-grey characters and self-fulfilling prophecies sound interesting to you, feel free to send me an e-mail for more details about this book!

If you want to read more about this universe - click here:

My MUSIC

I'm also a hobbyist musician and publish music on YouTube - mostly chilling and emotional guitar, piano and orchestral pieces. Some examples:

The Lightrose Universe

One war, two prophecies
Most of the stories that I write are set in a fictional country called Sethubithia, also known as The Lightrose Country. The titular lightrose is a sacred flower that grows only there and looks like a golden, shining rose without thorns – and this sole symbol perfectly summarizes Sethubithians and their admiration for all the seemingly ideal things.
Sethubithians are infamous for their almost blind faith in prophecies and constant fear of The Wavering – a foretold ruination of the world’s natural harmony that will bring doom to the whole continent. For centuries, they have been waiting for the mysterious “The Light and The Shadow” that is supposed to save them from this kind of end. Prophecy also states that for Harmony to prevail, the middle of the continent called The Bone has to belong to Sethubithia – but there is one great problem. Their neighbor country, Kaldrenia, has its own prophecy, and it claims that The Bone is theirs to have.
Both countries are suffering for ages from devastating wars, rulers blinded by faith and people who claim to be the chosen ones from the prophecy but often end up showered in madness. In my stories I explore the borders that characters are willing to cross to prove their points. All of them have one thing in common and that’s what I try to achieve in my works in general – I want to show a world where there is no “good and evil”… because how can we speak of good and evil when both sides of the conflict have equally good reason to fight?

“Can’t you see? You waver the world to stop it from wavering.”

All are equal, two are the most equal
Another one of my goals while creating this universe was to picture a world where there is no traditional divide between magical and non-magical people. In The Lightrose Universe everyone wields magic gifted from one of the eight gods that represent four pairs of opposite forces ruling the world: Fire and Water, Earth and Sky, Sun and Moon, Light and Shadow. Power manifests itself in a form of an aura – a colorful essence floating around the body that becomes visible when someone uses magic or experiences particularly strong emotions.
The whole universe deeply believes in natural harmony and that the opposite powers perfectly complete each other. Sethubithia is the only country that took this to another level: it has diarchy as the political system, so there are two equal rulers on the throne. I was always fascinated by this kind of system and the fact that we hardly see it both in the fantasy genre and the real world. Is it really that flawed that no country wants to use it? I’m not here to judge, but I came up with a lot of potential problems that diarchies could have. If we have two equals, isn’t it likely that one of them will always want to be… more equal? And what if one of the rulers strongly disagrees with the other – who are their guards supposed to listen to?
And what if one of the rulers becomes a threat to another?

“Nobody should have a power like that. Not even the king.
Especially the king.”

One person, three aspects
Most people in The Lightrose Universe believe that there are three aspects of every person – the body gifted by the earth, the aura gifted by The Eight Gods and the soul gifted by Czhar; a ninth god, the ominous ruler of life, death and time that nobody prays to. After death body stays on earth, soul is ascending to The Nothingness – an eternal illusion of happiness created by Czhar – and aura turns into a colorful ghost in the shape of an animal called spiritae. Spiritaes are an important part of the world; most of them are harmless and live in the wilds, but some of them can become aggressive and attack villages and cities. There are people trained specifically to capture them called Spiritians. They use lassos with chrome, the only known substance that can harm spiritaes.
The more I thought about spiritaes, the more interesting questions I had. Are they intelligent? Do the feel pain? Do they remember the person that had the power which birthed them? And… can people control them?

“I heard that just before you die you realize what animal
will your spiritae look like - even though you will never see it.”