#btw maritime asia usually includes everything from west india all the way to japan

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THE KNIGHT VAGRANT is out now on Royal Road! though patrons will always be at least 1-2 chapters ahead.

Below is the synopsis.

Death held them, once, for the quickest second. Until the Adamantine Path reaped its due.

Raxri Uttara the Once-Dead walks again, rejuvenated by the Medicine Awoken. Arisen, without memory, they must wander again this Wheel of Wandering. They must seek revelation from their past, understand again the vaunted world of the Utter Islands, and choose, ultimately, between vengeance or enlightenment.

And within that moment, let their enlightenment be that such a duality is delusion.

THE KNIGHT VAGRANT is the first volume of THEY WHO DANCE AGAINST THE HEAVENS, a new weird Bladepunk fantasy web novel set in the dharmic fantasy world of WANDERING, grounded on concepts from Esoteric Buddhism and Maritime Asia. Inspired by the likes of the Abhorsen Trilogy, Demigods and Semidevils, Florante at Laura, Elden Ring, Tears of the Kingdom, Wuxia, Westerns, and Vagrant Story, the web novel explores themes of vengeance, memory, being, violence, peace, forgiveness, and emptiness in the face of betrayal, wrath, and war.

THE KNIGHT VAGRANT follows RAXRI UTTARA, a once swordgendered being now having forgotten all their accomplishments in the past. They must needs wield the flame of remembrance to burn away the dirt of forgetfulness, so that they may arrive again at the truth.

Upon that peak, will they choose the right blade?

Giant cats turned into apartment complexes, ghost horse steeds that tire not, walking giant mechanical armors turned into public transportation, charnel wizards summoning the long-dead, witches wielding the Pureflame of Creation, the Machine God beginning its slick advance into forever progress... the Age of Furor is upon us.

The Latter Day of the Law.

As you walk your Path, Kill God Yourself.

over on the patreon I've released the first few chapters of THE KNIGHT VAGRANT, a new weird bladepunk fantasy web novel I've been outlining and researching for years now, stemming from a fascination of the pan-Asianness of Buddhism. It centers an amnesiac non-binary sage knight on the path to vengeant enlightenment

it has some exploration of how buddhism fused into local traditions, seasian buddhist ethics, the interconnectedness of maritime asia, the plausible intersection between esoteric buddhism and anarchism

though, really at its core, its a wuxia-silat-chivalric romance vengeance story drawing from water margin, new weird, clark ashton smith, jin yong, westerns, and even florante at laura