#soulmythos: wips

[soulmythos]

INTRODUCING... WOUNDED DIVINE, WITHERED COSMOS

— summary. — set in the soul mythos — adult fantasy space opera when seven colossal beings of myth return after a millennia, they warn of a coming calamity that will destroy the universe, unless 777,777,777,777 mortals tithe their souls.

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— word count. — currently drafting — 4,756 of ~150,000

— contains. Women, chronically ill characters, sapphic enemies to lovers, cyst realms buried beneath the surface of reality, souls born from the wombs of planets, slumbering gods, a Lot of fantasy religions, magic and arcane focuses, and millennia-old empires ruled by saints. also angst. this book is just angst.

— aesthetic. cathedralian halo of thorned white stone, unending ocean wreathed in sun, cosmos burnished crimson with the heat of decay, a night sea misted with the glint of stardust, eyes wane opalescent with knowing, a thousand thousand burning incisions well light into the heavens, souls rend their scars of blight to seep a dying magic, slumbering gods whisper divine war, and worlds hiss their death elegy.

— plotlines and visuals.

THE WHITE WOLF + THE OBSIDIAN DRAGON — in the aftermath of a calamitous vision sent across the universe, Lysmara battles to reclaim the stolen body of her slumbering God from the empire her saintdom answers to. — main characters — Lysmara the White Srasza: 27, she/her — Ysythys the Obsidian Kostir-drac: 27, she/they

THE HOLY WAR + THE WORLD DEVOURER — prophesied to incite holy war, Vesper is torn between the hope of a universe without eternal imperial rule and the vengeance for her lost world that only a chosen of the empire can offer. — main characters — Vesper Sol’Necrosia: 22, she/her — Lylth Strathys: 26, she/her

THE CYSTIC SWORD + THE HERETIC GLAIVE — imprisoned by the Cystic Clerisy alongside her enemy, Fesra is forced to trust her survival to the heretic hunter who once sought her execution. as the cult augments them into a sword that will pierce into the secrets of forgotten realms, they struggle to maintain their mind as their body evolves. — main characters — Fesra Stalks the Cosmos: 20, she/they — Asyr: 23, she/her

THE WITCH-ZEALOT + THE THEURGIST — when her closest friend is stolen by the Cystic Clerisy, Gorgoneth forsakes the vows forced on her in exchange for undeath. knowing soul rot will slowly consume her without her promise to the Saints, she infiltrates the cult to discover the dark source of their power and sever it at the head. — main characters — Gorgoneth Sol’Monasra: 26, she/her — Nyphyr Sol’Aorsza: 27, he/they — Morgorz: 1037, they/them

THE SALVATION + THE DEPARTED — as the Annihilus Republic burns, Mordra shackles the Republic’s savior to her side and dooms the Annihilus people to imperial rule. with a slithering creature at the edges of her vision, whispering her onward, she delves into eldritch realms to restore her vanished motherworld. — main characters — Mordra Mothwym: 117, she/they — Wisthe Caerthe: 27, she/her

THE LIGHTLESS ANGEL + THE DEATHLESS SAINT — sent to retrieve a dead Saint, Isadothael discovers him alive and without memory. captured by the same cult of corpse-dealers holding the Saint prisoner, she’s forced to guide their ship into the starless, mind-bending dark of Gloom Space. — main characters — Isadothael Sol’Czaitov: 167, she/her — Scythe: 124, he/they

THE MARTYR + THE DEMIURGE — when the call for soul tithe reaches across the universe, Martyr’s imprisoned people are the first to be sacrificed. as her artificial body rapidly deteriorates with every use of a magic she shouldn’t possess, she races to board the ships ferrying her people to their deaths. — main characters — Martyr Cleaves a Million Chains: 27, she/her — Vaerathûn the Scholar-Sacred: ~7000, they/he

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and if you made it this far, bless you because this book is an absolute behemoth!

[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

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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[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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