#soulmythos: vitoria

[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.

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— 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

Vitorael of Vyserth

protagonist | 121 | she/her | bi

In the 1,777th year of the Dyrthoth, a prophet was born of the Shallow Sea to the people of Vystha-azoth. They named her Vitorael, for she would bring us victory and deliver the divines from imprisonment. —The Prophet’s Felling, an excerpt of texts by Yrsziel of Mederzda detailing the final battle lost to the Morzlyeth.

—personality. holier than thou (because she is), solemn, immense protectiveness toward her people, rage at any who threaten her gods, yearning for a martyr's death, an inability to see when she's in the wrong, and a willingness to sacrifice all for those she loves.

—history. Born from the Shallow Sea of Night, Vitoria is the first divine act of the Eldyseer-thoth in almost a thousand years. After witnessing her birth on their soulbinding pilgrimage, the Hearth-Priests of Vyserth adopt her as their daughter.

As Vitoria grows older, dreams turn to messages of dire warning from her gods. Her visions leave wounds, and she learns to fear sleep.

In the 16th year of her life, the Morzlyeth emerge from the cosmic void and descend on the seven worlds of the Dyrthoth. The plague beasts overwhelm the realm of Night, and in the 21st year of her life, Vitoria dies in the final battle to banish the creatures from her world.

A century passes, and Vitoria awakes on a derelict vessel adrift in space. In the darkness, the heretic who imprisoned her divines appears to her with an offer: kill the gods with him and take what they leave behind.

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