There’s something deeply healing about pausing the chaos of everyday life and slipping into fantasy coloring books, where worlds are built entirely from lines, shadows, and color. And imagination. In those quiet, personal moments when your pencil touches the page, a transformation begins. Not just of the illustration before you, but of your inner state. And that’s what Varius Chronicles is all about.
We’re Adriana and Mihai Iancu, storytellers, partners, and parents who chose to build a life around what matters most: raising our two sons together and creating art that speaks. Varius Chronicles began as a shared vision for calm, meaningful creativity, and today it has grown into a world of its own. A world of fantasy, feeling, and beautifully imagined detail.
A New Creative Chapter: Three Fantasy Coloring Books, One Evolving Universe
With our latest releases, we’re exploring something new: emotional storytelling that deepens the coloring experience. But it all starts with three books that each offer something unique, yet remain connected through a shared world and emotional pulse.
Fractured Realms – Shards of Mystery: A Gentle Fantasy for Reflection and Stillness
This grayscale coloring book invites you into a realm of quiet beauty and introspection. Each of the 60 portraits appears through softly glowing mirror shards, as if you’re glimpsing distant souls or forgotten selves. There’s no written narrative — just a whisper of memory in every face.
Shards of Mystery is about soft escapism. It doesn’t ask for answers; it invites you to slow down, breathe, and explore what stirs within. It’s ideal for cozy evenings, journaling breaks, and moments when the world outside feels a bit too loud.
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Fractured Realms – Visions from Beyond the Veil: A Dark Fantasy for the Curious and Brave
Where Shards of Mystery is gentle, Visions is haunting. This portrait-based grayscale coloring book features beings who seem to exist in the in-between — between worlds, between thoughts, between what is seen and what is only felt.
There’s an eerie calm in this book. A surreal beauty. The eyes in these portraits seem to follow you, suggesting stories that will never be told.
Visions from Beyond the Veil is for those who find comfort in the mysterious, and peace in the unknown. It’s a dark fantasy for those who enjoy creating meaning from silence.
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Witch Hunt – Firelight: A Story-Driven Fantasy Coloring Book about Persecution, Judgment, and Rebirth
This is where the fracture begins.
Witch Hunt – Firelight is our most ambitious project to date — a story-driven grayscale fantasy coloring book told through 60 illustrations, structured in three arcs. Each arc begins with a short story that sets the emotional and narrative tone for the 20 illustrations that follow. But it’s not centered on one character. It’s about an entire community, and the larger forces of fear and control that shape their fate.
Through three arcs, the book follows a community unraveling under the weight of persecution, then rising against the forces that condemned them. The Witch Queen, a symbolic figure, tears the veil between worlds as vengeance gives way to transformation. This act of rebellion is what shatters the realms, setting the stage for the haunting beings you meet in Fractured Realms.
Every image in Witch Hunt carries weight: a moment of silence, defiance, or quiet power. It invites colorists to not just unwind, but to reflect — to confront and transform the emotions beneath the surface.
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How They Connect: From Stillness to Shattering
These three fantasy coloring books live in the same imaginative universe. Shards of Mystery and Visions from Beyond the Veil came first — visually, conceptually, and emotionally. They were created as quiet escapes, centered on the inner world. But from their fractured beauty came an idea: what if these were the remnants of a world already torn apart?
That idea became Witch Hunt – Firelight. In this book, we go back to the source of the fracture. The beginning of the unraveling. And through that lens, the portraits in Fractured Realms are no longer just mysterious faces — they are echoes of a broken history, living on in shadow — a subtle glimpse into the consequences of what the Witch Queen unleashed, and a quiet prelude to the next chapters of the story we’re beginning to tell.
Together, the three books offer different ways to connect with imagination:
- Shards of Mystery for softness and emotional reflection
- Visions from Beyond the Veil for depth, darkness, and curiosity
- Witch Hunt – Firelight for story, transformation, and justice
A New Direction, Rooted in What Matters
At Varius Chronicles, we’re not moving away from what we love. We’re expanding it.
We will continue to create fantasy coloring books for relaxation, mindfulness, and quiet joy. But now, we’re also exploring the power of story-driven experiences.
Books like Witch Hunt are not just to be colored — they’re to be felt. Lived. Questioned. They open a new path for our creativity and for the dreamers who follow our work.
So whether you’re here for the story or the stillness, the rebellion or the reflection — welcome. This is just the beginning.
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Happy coloring!
