Rimitorry: Daughter of the Dark Alpha

Rimitorry: Daughter of the Dark Alpha

Cover of Rimitorry: Daughter of the Dark Alpha
Author	Tony James Nelson II writing as Tribal Brown
Country	United States
Language	English language
Series	Children of the Dark Alpha
Release number	1
Genres	dark fantasy, young adult fantasy, epic fantasy, coming-of-age fantasy
Publisher	Roovet Books
Publication date	11 July 2026
Media type	E-book (PDF and EPUB); paperback
Pages	352
ISBN	979-8-235-42780-8 (e-book)
Website	https://roovet.com/books/rimitorry-daughter-of-the-dark-alpha-2

Rimitorry: Daughter of the Dark Alpha is a 2026 young adult dark fantasy novel by American author Tony James Nelson II, writing as Tribal Brown. Published by Roovet Books, it is the first novel in the Children of the Dark Alpha series and an entry in the larger Tribal Universe. The digital edition was published on July 11, 2026, in PDF and EPUB formats; Roovet lists the edition at 352 pages.

The novel follows Rimitorry “Rim” Ka’ Tora, the daughter of the Dark Alpha and Utrea, from her lonely childhood on Murder Island to her emergence as a formidable but morally conflicted warrior. After a kidnapping draws her into the destruction of Nhem’Rakul, Rim grows up within the expanding Ka’Rukan Empire, where family, warfare and supernatural power are inseparable. Her discovery that killing can increase her Ka’ru turns a survival trial into a struggle against an increasingly addictive hunger for power.

Told in Rim’s first-person retrospective voice, the book centers a child’s view of conquest and chosen family while examining sisterhood, inherited violence, identity and the difference between protection and control. Although its story connects to Tribal Bloody Beginnings, the novel is presented as a separate young adult entry point into the Tribal Universe.

Premise

Rimitorry is born on Murder Island to two warriors whose growing power will reshape the island. Protected by adults but isolated from other children, she longs for a sibling and becomes vulnerable to the first Conri Tora, who exploits her loneliness. At four years old, she is taken to Nhem’Rakul as leverage against the warriors later remembered as The Five. Her family’s rescue destroys the settlement, but it also brings survivors into Rim’s life—most importantly Eshari, a green-eyed girl who chooses to become her sister, and Polezah, a traumatized boy whose curiosity about bodies foreshadows his later path.

As the Ka’Rukan Empire rises, Rim and the other children are raised inside a household built by warriors, refugees and expanding political power. Rim learns to fight with twin chakrams and discovers that Ka’ru can be strengthened not only through discipline and pain but also through death. When she is sent alone into the Koth’Mara Wilds, the lesson becomes dangerous: each defeated warrior makes her stronger, and survival begins to feel like appetite. The approaching Gia Calling forces Rim to confront what she has become just as her family prepares to leave Murder Island.

Plot

⚠Spoiler warning: The following section contains plot details that may reveal important story events.

Childhood and Nhem’Rakul

Rim narrates two competing accounts of her birth. Utrea remembers a peaceful night beneath the stars, while Rim’s father remembers fire and warfare. The contradiction establishes the forces that shape her childhood: tenderness and violence, home and conquest, love and fear. Though watched over by her parents, Kavumo, Knargz and Zuberi, Rim is the only child among them and grows increasingly lonely.

The first Conri Tora approaches Rim in the forest and persuades her not to resist a group of kidnappers. She is carried to Nhem’Rakul, a settlement hidden inside a volcanic hollow, where her captors intend to use her against the Five. Rim meets children who have survived very different forms of fear, including Eshari and Polezah. Her family eventually reaches the settlement, and the rescue becomes a massacre that destroys Nhem’Rakul. Eshari survives and declares herself Rim’s older sister; Polezah is taken into the emerging Ka’Rukan community.

The rise of Ka’Rukan

The survivors grow up as the Five consolidate territory and construct the Ka’Rukan Empire. Rim watches a temporary alliance become a permanent civilization of walls, training grounds and military law. The household expands beyond the original Five when Zuberi’s wife, Nim’Raza, is recognized as an equal power, complicating the name by which the founding warriors are remembered.

Inside the Six-Flame Palace, family is defined as much by protection and choice as by blood. Rim’s circle grows to include her younger brother Sakori, the rescued Zafira and the unsettling infant Khalembo. Their childhood contains games, jealousy and affection, but every ordinary moment is shaped by the expectation that they must become warriors. The adults teach tracking, discipline, pain tolerance and combat because weakness on Murder Island can endanger the entire household.

Rim’s early training includes the sleeve knife, a concealed blade designed for use after an opponent believes she has been disarmed. Her first kill marks the end of childhood innocence and teaches her that violence can be both horrifying and rewarded. She later develops twin chakrams linked to her fighting style and Ka’ru, weapons that allow her to turn speed and precision into a distinctive form of combat.

Fracture and the dark year

The apparent stability of Ka’Rukan weakens as the adults’ ambitions begin to pull the family apart. Kavumo answers the Terra Calling and leaves, making clear that even a family powerful enough to build an empire cannot remain untouched by the larger political system. Rim experiences the departure as abandonment. Her grief hardens into what she calls her dark year, a period in which training becomes both escape and self-punishment.

The children also begin to develop separate identities. Eshari remains Rim’s closest emotional anchor; Sakori grows beneath the weight of his parents’ expectations; Zafira carries the damage of her rescue; and Khalembo’s unnatural promise creates unease about what he may become. The palace protects them, but it also turns childhood into preparation for future wars.

The Koth’Mara trial

At seventeen, Rim is sent into the Koth’Mara Wilds for fourteen days. The trial is designed to prove that she can survive without the empire, her parents or her siblings. Armed with her chakrams and carrying a stone given to her by Eshari, Rim initially kills because she is threatened. She soon realizes that the Ka’ru of a defeated warrior can strengthen her own.

That discovery changes the purpose of the trial. Rim begins seeking opponents rather than merely avoiding them, and each victory makes the next death easier to justify. Her confrontation with Varek Osh forces her to recognize that the hunger is no longer just an instinct for survival. When she later spares a fleeing warrior, the act becomes evidence that she has not completely surrendered her ability to choose.

Rim returns to Ka’Rukan physically stronger and accepts the shorter name “Rim,” but understands that she has brought the Wilds’ hunger home with her. Soon afterward, Utrea answers the Gia Calling, defeats the other candidates and prepares to leave Murder Island. She takes Rim and Sakori with her, while Eshari, Zafira and Khalembo remain behind. The ending turns a public victory into another family rupture and positions Rim for her later life in Gia.

Major characters

Character	Role in the novel
Rimitorry Ka’ Tora	The protagonist and first-person narrator. A lonely child who becomes a gifted warrior and develops a dangerous hunger for Ka’ru.
The Dark Alpha	Rim’s father, a conquering warrior whose immense power and protective instincts shape Ka’Rukan.
Utrea	Rim’s mother, a formidable warrior whose discipline and eventual victory in the Gia Calling redirect the family’s future.
Eshari	A survivor of Nhem’Rakul who chooses Rim as her younger sister and becomes her closest emotional bond.
Sakori	Rim’s younger brother and one of the children raised under Ka’Rukan’s expectations.
Zafira	A rescued child brought into the household, where she becomes part of Rim’s extended family.
Khalembo	A child whose unusual nature and potential foreshadow a more dangerous generation of Tribal Universe warriors.
Polezah	A traumatized survivor of Nhem’Rakul whose fascination with anatomy anticipates his adult identity.
Kavumo	A member of the Five whose decision to answer Terra’s Calling creates the first major fracture in Rim’s family.
Knargz	One of Ka’Rukan’s founding warriors and a protective figure in Rim’s childhood.
Zuberi	A founding warrior whose relationship with Nim’Raza broadens the alliance beyond the original Five.
Nim’Raza	Zuberi’s wife and a power in her own right, associated with the six flames represented by the family’s palace.
Varek Osh	A warrior encountered during Rim’s wilderness trial whose fate exposes the moral cost of her growing hunger.

Setting and mythology

Place or concept	Significance
Murder Island	The isolated and violent homeland in which survival, rule and supernatural power are closely connected.
Nhem’Rakul	A hidden settlement inside a volcanic hollow and the site of Rim’s childhood kidnapping.
Ka’Rukan Empire	The expanding state created by Rim’s family and allies; it is both her home and the institution that trains her for war.
Six-Flame Palace	The Ka’Rukan household where the children are raised. Its name reflects the alliance’s expansion beyond the Five.
Koth’Mara Wilds	The wilderness in which Rim completes her fourteen-day survival trial.
Gia	Utrea’s destination after winning the Gia Calling and the setting of the family’s next political era.

Ka’ru

Ka’ru is the living supernatural energy carried by the setting’s warriors. It can influence strength, speed, endurance, instinct and recovery. Training, pain and combat can develop it, but the novel’s central danger is the possibility of taking power through killing. Rim’s ability to feel and absorb the Ka’ru released by death turns a shared system of magic into an intimate moral conflict.

The Five and the six flames

The Five are the dominant warriors around whom Rim’s early family is organized: the Dark Alpha, Utrea, Kavumo, Knargz and Zuberi. Nim’Raza’s place beside them exposes the limits of that familiar name. The Six-Flame Palace converts this revised family structure into architecture, making the household’s political alliance visible in its home.

The Callings

The Calling system allows major powers beyond Murder Island to summon candidates for leadership or service. In the novel, Kavumo’s response to Terra’s Calling breaks the household’s apparent permanence. Utrea’s later answer to Gia’s Calling ends the book by separating the children and moving Rim into a wider dynastic conflict.

Narrative style and themes

Retrospective narration

Rim narrates her childhood with knowledge she did not possess while living it. This double perspective allows the story to preserve a child’s immediate emotions while the older narrator identifies manipulation, political ambition and moral consequences that her younger self could not understand.

Sisterhood and chosen family

Eshari’s decision to call Rim her sister is one of the novel’s defining acts. Their bond contrasts with the instability created by conquest and the Callings: biological power determines Rim’s inheritance, but chosen loyalty gives her a sense of belonging.

Power as hunger

Ka’ru functions as both a magic system and a metaphor for appetite. Rim’s strength initially offers safety to the people she loves, but the Koth’Mara trial reveals how easily protection can become self-justifying violence. The novel’s central question is not whether Rim is powerful, but whether she can remain responsible for how she uses power.

Childhood under empire

The children of Ka’Rukan are loved, protected and trained, yet those same acts prepare them to continue the violence of their parents. The book treats empire as a family structure as well as a political one: affection, discipline, inheritance and conquest repeatedly occupy the same space.

Chapters

The published manuscript contains fourteen chapters:

1. “Born in Darkness”
2. “The Hollow Where Fire Dies”
3. “Children of a New Empire”
4. “The Ka’Rukan Empire”
5. “The Sleeve Knife”
6. “The Six-Flame Palace”
7. “The Brandy-Eyed Girl”
8. “The Blue-Eyed Child”
9. “The Road Without Mercy”
10. “The First Broken Silence”
11. “The Dark Year”
12. “The Mother’s Lesson”
13. “Names for the Dead”
14. “The Name I Brought Back”

Publication and editions

The title page identifies the work as “A Tribal Universe Young Adult Story” and Book One of the Children of the Dark Alpha series. It credits Tony James Nelson II as the author and states that he is writing as Tribal Brown.

Roovet Books published the digital edition on July 11, 2026. The publisher lists PDF and EPUB as the included formats, 352 pages, English as the language, and the internal identifier ROOVET-ISBN-260711-898C349C. Roovet Data records the same publication date, page count, formats, publisher and series position.

The commercially distributed EPUB uses ISBN 979-8-235-42780-8. Kobo lists the file as a DRM-free EPUB 3 and identifies it as the first book in its retail series record. A paperback edition was subsequently listed through Amazon.

The print interior is formatted at 6 × 9 inches and contains 352 pages. The front matter recommends the novel for readers aged fourteen and older and notes fantasy violence, death, kidnapping, emotional trauma, family conflict and survival danger.

Relationship to the Tribal Universe

Rimitorry: Daughter of the Dark Alpha revisits people and institutions that appear elsewhere in the Tribal Universe but changes the narrative center. Tribal Bloody Beginnings presents a wider adult dark-fantasy conflict involving the Dark Alpha, Utrea, the tribal empires and later generations; Rimitorry focuses on one daughter’s childhood and gives emotional context to the family formed around Ka’Rukan.

The book also provides origin material for Rim’s bond with Eshari, Polezah’s early development, Sakori and Zafira’s place in the family, Khalembo’s arrival, Kavumo’s departure and Utrea’s transition toward Gia. Its ending functions as a bridge from the enclosed world of Murder Island to the later political structure of the Tribal Universe.

See also

• Children of the Dark Alpha
• Rimitorry Ka’ Tora
• Family of Alpha and Utrea
• Tribal Bloody Beginnings (novel)
• Ka’Rukan Empire
• Murder Island
• Ka’ru

External links

• Official title page at Roovet Books
• Rimitorry: Daughter of the Dark Alpha at Amazon
• E-book edition at Rakuten Kobo
• Rimitorry: Daughter of the Dark Alpha at Campfire
• View structured data on Roovet Data