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<p>Five moons rise over Evanir, each in her own cycle, and each moon is also a god, one of five sisters.</p> <p>Many gods create spirit attendants and companions, brought forth fully-formed. Long ago, the moons worked together to create a lineage that are, instead, humans transformed by the mingling of blood.</p> <p>They intended them to be long-lived and to draw their strength directly from the light of the moon who chose each individual. The five sisters had different goals in mind – one wanted it to be a blessing for scholars and artists, to give them more time and fewer physical distractions; another wanted them to have an animal form, different for each, to keep them more in tune with nature so they could serve as guardians of the wilderness.</p> <p>There are drawbacks to their children having human lives and personalities before being chosen: not all share the goals of their divine mothers, and some choose to put their gifts to darker uses.</p> <p>Those carrying the blood of one woman, fleeing the corruption in search of a quiet life, take a different path.</p> <p>-=-=-=-=-</p> <p>Moonblood isn't so much a novel as a series of adventures of varying length. They involve a core group of people, which does grow over time. They take place in a fairly low-magic world, but despite that, our core cast are directly connected to the moons and have various abilities, including limited shapeshifting to a single individual animal form.</p> <p>As with all my work, unless gender, orientation, or other aspects of sexuality are explicitly stated, I suggest not making assumptions. Probably most significant, I think, is a major trans character who appears about 80K words in - no spoilers, just a note for those who care about that one way or the other.</p> <p>I have an extensive amount of Moonblood already written and polished (over 200K words in 9 stories ranging from a 5K word short to novel-length arcs). New chapters will be posted Mondays and Thursdays.</p>
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