#soulmythos: maroth

[soulmythos]

INTRODUCING... SEVERED DAWN, SUNDERED NIGHT

— summary. — set in the soul mythos — adult fantasy space opera when vitoria is resurrected after a century adrift in space, she must find a way to unshackle her imprisoned gods before the monstrous plague beasts that destroyed her world infest the divines. all the while, the heretic who chained the gods whispers temptation, urging her to kill the deities she seeks to save.

pinterest board | lyrical playlist | instrumental playlist

— word count. — currently drafting — 10,070 of ~100,000

— contains. a main character with chronic pain, queer enemies to lovers, a prophet who suffers the wounds of her bloody visions, fantasy religion, cities within worm-leviathans, beasts that scribe runes on brains to birth more of their kind, a heretic who imprisoned the gods and now seeks to kill them, a fairytale-like journey to forge a weapon that will destroy divinity, and two dumbasses bickering about theology as they fall in love for 100,000 words.

— aesthetic. a forest of eternal ash, white flame flickers in a silver censer, leatherbound scriptures drape from a belt, beasts of void and tooth, a prophet born of the sea wreathed in starlight, an iron fortress spires into lightning-corded heavens, lungs heavy with incense, a sainted sanctuary amongst the cosmos, and the terror of starved gods infested with plague.

— plotline and visuals.

THE TOVAZOTH + THE SRASZA — a century after her death in the final battle for her world, vitoria is resurrected by her gods. she wakes to maroth, the heretic who imprisoned the divines, and he makes her an offer: kill the gods with him and take what they leave behind. vitoria refuses and returns to a people who have lost faith. she struggles to unite them against the plague beasts threatening their deities, and as she protects mortaldom’s final sanctuary, she is increasingly drawn to the heretic who continues to appear to her and the power they can provide her. — main characters. — Vitorael of Vyserth: 121, she/her — Maroth: ~1,000, he/they

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[soulmythos]

characters of: SEVERED DAWN, SUNDERED NIGHT

Maroth the Undying

love interest | ~1,000 | he/they | bi

For the crime of imprisoning the Eldyseer-thoth, the heretic’s name will be stricken from all texts and any who utter it shall be guilty of blasphemy. Agony will chase his heels for eternity, and the forgetting will take him, until he is nothing but despair. —Exalted Saint Rosyth of Vyserth

—personality. a smile that shrouds all they feel, arrogant, believes mortals to be unworthy, willing to destroy any who prevent them from killing the gods, a yearning to free those beneath divinity, to be accepted, a fool in love, secretly the softest little baby, and would go to any lengths to protect those they care for.

—history. Chosen by the god of hope, Irzir-oth, Maroth is raised in the divine court of Dawn.

In their 20th year, they abandon their god and seek alliance with the Nyzlecz'nieth and other profane creatures in the dark of Dawn's forests. They seek immortality, and soon secure the path.

With the power of undying life and an army of monstrous beasts, he wages war on Irzir-oth and the twenty other gods of the Eldyseer-thoth. The worlds of the faithful fall to ruin, and the holy battle stretches onward.

In the 777th year of the Dyrthoth, Maroth enacts a ritual to imprison the twenty-one divines within each of their seven worlds. The war ends, and he passes a millennia in silence, hunting the knowledge that will allow him to destroy divinity.

His answer arrives with the resurrection of a prophet.

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