FOREWORD

You can always do better. Words for any decent writer to live by. I feel it when I write my non-fanfic works. I should feel it with my fanfic. I got carried away with the success of my most popular fanfic series, The Cetra Heritage Saga, that I thought I could do no wrong.

To be fair, the original version of Lux in Tenebris Lucet was a good story. It wasn't a bad one by any means. But when one reviewer pointed out that I was taking away almost everything that made Harry Potter badass in the books, well, it threw me into a crisis. I wanted to do both Harry and Alma justice. The point of Lux in Tenebris Lucet was Harry redeeming Alma. But it was almost at the expense of weakening Harry too much.

In addition, I had recently finished a playthrough of the first F.E.A.R game. While the Alma of the original Lux in Tenebris Lucet and the Alma from F.E.A.R could have been the same person, I realised that I was missing a lot. The Alma of my story was perhaps too wordy, too Attic when she needed to be laconic. And there were the Nightmares, which are summoned by Alma. Are they living embodiments of Alma's darker parts of her psyche? And I thought it was perhaps too much of an arsepull to have Alma somehow connect to Harry, without any real explanation. I decided to write in such an explanation, or at least a slightly less inexplicable one. It is a bit contrived, but as I have mentioned before, aren't many a crossover.

I had to sit down, and think very hard about how to do this story right. I've decided to abandon the flashback conceit of the original story.

It's probably worth noting that this is actually the third version of the story. I began with a second version, but that went nowhere, and this version will be somewhat different from the original version of Lux in Tenebris Lucet. I've given it the subtitle of Renovatur, or 'reborn' in Latin (I've probably got the wrong tense, though), to distinguish it from the original work.

Now, some disclaimers and warnings. First off, this is an M-rated fanfic. And given that this is based on F.E.A.R, horror, blood, swearing, and very disturbing concepts are givens.

Secondly, spoilers are abundant for both Harry Potter and F.E.A.R. If you don't want to be spoiled, turn back now.

Thirdly, I am annotating this work. You don't like that? Tough.

Finally, the following is a fan-written work. Harry Potter and F.E.A.R are the properties of their respective owners. Please, support the official release. Otherwise, ATC will be knocking on your door. Sorry, knocking DOWN your door…