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<p>The gods are broken.</p> <p>The heavens have fallen.</p> <p>The war continues.</p> <p>Awakening in a pit of decay missing a week's worth of memories and implanted with a divine engine, Avo, a ghoul by creation and Necrojack by trade, finds himself the newest player in a cold and ancient war between the Eight Great Guilds that dominate the hive city of New Vultun. With the midnight hour fast approaching and the war for utopia coming to an end, the eight great powers will muster all they have left for a final showdown to usurp reality and install a paradise of their own making, uncaring of the devastation their actions will wreak upon the helpless masses they exploit and use to fuel their divinity nor the fragility of existence as is.</p> <p>Out of his depth and surrounded by deceit, only by grafting the corpses of fallen gods to himself and wielding reality-rending powers can Avo rise beyond his savage nature and stop the Guilds from committing the ultimate transgression. But even should he surmount the odds, the question of whether he will be swallowed by his power and fall to the delusions of the false apotheosis remains...</p> <p>Godclads is a story about a semi-ethical man-made monster's journey to achieving apotheosis using the metaphysical corpses of dead gods as implants, meet new people (and possibly cannibalizing them), and experiencing all the wonders provided by a city built by godpunk magitechnology that is also running on necro-economics.</p> <p>If you like violence, non-generic science-fantasy settings, or characters constantly getting beaten over the head by the consequences of their actions, give Godclads a try. If you like friendship, community, ruminations on philosophy, and what it means to be ethical when physiologically divorced from commonly understood morality, maybe also give Godclads a try. If you like weird magic systems that have characters gaining reality-warping powers by grafting eldritch god-corpses to themselves, read Godclads. If you like space-faring alien refugees playing realpolitik with humanity and negotiating alien god-hunting rights, there's some of that here for you too.</p> <p>Look, you should try reading Godclads. It'll be fun. And if you don't like it, perhaps you can also find great fun in writing a review constructively roasting the author for their failings. This is my way of asking for feedback. I will be most thankful.</p> <p>Disclaimer: Godclads features extremely graphic violence, moments of introspective cannibalism (inflicted on "deserving" parties), casual use of nuclear weapons, body horror, psychological horror, paranormal horror, use of fantasy drugs (some of which allow metaphysical hounds to eat your wounds and transfer them to other people), weaponized depression, some metaphysical thalassophobia, swearing, characters having mental breakdowns, family trauma, and spider-rat hybrids that like to lay eggs in the ears of people while they slumber. There is no active use of sexually traumatizing content mainly due to physical sex being outlawed in-setting after a "mishap" broke the metaphysics of physically conducted coital interactions.</p> <p>Chapters will usually be around 2.5 to 3k words. Releases Monday through Friday. Maybe Saturdays when the author if the author is not in a fugue state after working.</p> <p>If you develop a sudden outbreak of rash after reading Godclads, it's not the story. But go see a doctor. Just in case.</p>
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