series details

Status: Fully developed with multiple episodes written and extensive worldbuilding.


  • Genre: Fantasy Drama / Prestige Dark Fantasy
  • Format: 1-Hour Serialized
  • Completed: Pilot, Episodes 2-5, Pitch Deck
  • Seasons Planned: Multi-season arc

After surviving brutal captivity, a woman with an ancient power is taken into a remote military outpost, where rising dark forces and buried loyalties collide, pulling her into a fight for her people’s survival.


KAILAN KINTHER (32) is a Windturner, one of the rare women born with the ancient ability to command air itself. Once sacred defenders of the realm of Verynthal, Windturners have become targets of a rising power: the MIRKA, a monstrous and enigmatic faction that hunts, enslaves, and performs brutal experiments on Windturners in hidden strongholds known as Witch’s Nests.


After being betrayed by her own brother and sold to the Mirka, Kailan is stripped of her name, her tribe, and nearly her life. When she escapes captivity, her broken body is found in the wilderness by COOP (38), a loyal but rigid officer en route to his new post at the Scantos Garrison, the last military outpost before the desolate mountains. Posing as a nameless recruit, Kailan adopts the alias "KINTH" and buries her past. But her purpose is clear: train harder than anyone, uncover the Mirka’s true intent, and save the remaining Windturners from extinction.


Kinth integrates into an elite strike team at Scantos, where trust is earned in blood and strength. Her ferocity earns admiration, and friction, especially from BEAR (30), a bold and confident soldier whose charm masks a guarded core. The team is rounded out by D.L. (37), a hardened combatant shaped by loss; her partner LONA (36), an intuitive blade-wielder with unmatched emotional insight; GRIFF (32), a steadfast warrior with a quiet sense of duty; and WALLOND (35), a calm tactician who sees more than he says.


Under Coop’s leadership, the group embarks on raids against Witch’s Nests, finding them littered with sigils, remnants of Windturner captives, and disturbing signs of an evolving threat. When Kinth discovers a symbol she recognizes from her past, it becomes clear the Mirka’s network is larger and older than anyone realized. She begins to suspect there are traitors among their ranks, and that the fall of her tribe was not an isolated event.


As the season unfolds, Kinth’s wind powers grow stronger, but so do the stakes. Her impulsive actions and emotional outbursts threaten the team’s stability, forcing Coop to walk a line between discipline and protection. Flashbacks reveal her once-noble lineage in the Woodcrest Tribe and her slow transformation from Kailan, a daughter of peace, to Kinther, a warrior forged by loss.


Windturner is a grounded, emotionally charged military fantasy drama about reclaiming identity, surviving trauma, and choosing to rise when the world turns against you. Set in a mythic realm on the brink of collapse, the series explores what it means to lead when everything sacred has been stolen, and how defeating an enemy begins with remembering who you are, and deciding who you’re willing to become.


Set in the war-torn realm of Verynthal, Windturner follows Kinth, a warrior born with the rare ability to command the wind, a gift that made her hunted, captured, and nearly destroyed. Now freed and taken in by a rigid military unit, she must navigate suspicion, trauma, and the unraveling mystery of the witches threatening to consume the land.


As Kinth rebuilds her strength, she uncovers a network of dark experiments, vanishing Windturners, and a growing conspiracy that reaches far beyond her past. What begins as survival becomes a rebellion, one that could unite the tribes, expose hidden betrayals, and reignite a myth long thought dead.


Windturner is a grounded, gritty military fantasy about identity, destiny, found family, and the fire it takes to rise again.


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The World of Verynthal

THE WINDTURNERS

THE WITCH'S NESTS

THE WITCH'S NESTS

Born with the rare power of windcraft, the Windturners once sustained the realm, generating energy, nourishing crops, and shielding humanity from destruction. But a shadow has risen, and now they are hunted for the very gift that once made them sacred.

THE WITCH'S NESTS

THE WITCH'S NESTS

THE WITCH'S NESTS

Disguised as forgotten structures, the Witches’ Nests are silent traps, designed to ensnare Windturners, unravel their power, and feed a force older than the realm itself. And now that force is rising, spreading its reach from nest to nest like a plague no wind can break.

THE GARRISON

THE GARRISON

THE GARRISON

Deep in the Scantos woods, the garrison endures as the realm’s last barrier, isolated, overrun, and encircled by mounting threats. Within its walls, every choice carries weight, and every soldier feels the pressure of a war closing in.

THE REALM

THE GARRISON

THE GARRISON

A land held together by windcraft, duty, and fragile alliances, the realm now faces a rising darkness, one that threatens to unravel everything its people have built. As fear spreads across its borders and old protections begin to fail, the realm teeters on the brink of a reckoning long overdue.

Behind the Scenes of the Creator

season 1

Episode 2: Remnants

Episode 4: Absolution

Episode 2: Remnants

When the Tiryngar infiltrate a deserted Witch’s Nest, Kinth unleashes a deadly tornado, injuring Lona and jeopardizing the mission.

Episode 3: Unmade

Episode 4: Absolution

Episode 2: Remnants

In a sweeping flashback, Kinth’s past unfolds from a peaceful life in the Woodcrest Tribe to  betrayal at the hands of her brother, Ecktan.

Episode 4: Absolution

Episode 4: Absolution

Episode 4: Absolution

Kinth and Griff go rogue, infiltrating a Witch’s Nest in the Ribbian Mountains to rescue Windturners and uncover a Mirka secret that reshapes the war ahead. 

Episode 5: Echoes

Episode 4: Absolution

In the aftermath of the Witch’s Nest carnage, revelations ripple through the ranks, heightening the threat within the garrisons and across Verynthal.

Episode 6: Prophecy

A prophet arrives with a message that unsettles command and shifts the nature of the Mirka threat. Coop discovers the truth about Kalimar. 

Episode 7: Reckoning

Kalimar vanishes with Kinth and several Windturners, leaving the Tiryngar blindsided and scrambling for answers.

Episode 8: Bloodlines

Episode 8: Bloodlines

Episode 8: Bloodlines

Coop takes command at Scantos, while Kinth comes face to face with Ecktan, setting off a reckoning that could decide the fate of Windturners.

about the creator

Writer • Creator of Windturner

Before it was a series, Windturner was a world Katie built quietly over years, first as imagery, then as a mythology, and finally as a story with characters who demanded to be written. 


The project evolved into a multi-season fantasy grounded in emotional stakes, structured worldbuilding, and a deep exploration of identity and survival.


Windturner is the foundation of Katie’s creative slate and the lens through which she approaches genre storytelling.

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