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<p> A dark & psychedelic tragedy where the magick of the world is largely of the realm of illusion, occult ceremony & the power of perception. Fantastical elements inspired from Greco-Roman & Germanic/Viking influences in a fictional setting of war & woe. </p> <p> Marked by the gods as a seer, a promising oracle, Azarra, is sworn to a life of seclusion & severe vow of chastity devoted to pure communion with the Fates. When an upstart warlord visits her temple and forces her to break her oath, she inverts a sentence of death or disgrace to claim a vengeful destiny of her own by proclaiming the child born of unwanted union as a divine incarnation of their pantheon's highest Lord and Living Light of the breathing cosmos. She mothers her son, Drakkon, to believe in the divine image she cultivates for him; to become an icon and instrument of retribution. </p> <p> Azarra shapes his mind for war against those who wronged her, raises him to embrace a grandiose destiny and change the world. Yet the delusions Drakkon is swathed in come to define him. And as their manifold foes fall and their rightful Imperium forms, a Drakoni cult, from their toil & strife, the Lord she bore & crowns turns into travesty of tyranny and wicked reflection of those same despots they fought to topple. All are left to war for a fate of their own and struggle against the very visions they helped make manifest... </p> <p> (This is my first time posting any of this story publicly. Although I do eventually plan to publish via amazon or kindle direct I'm hoping to test the mettle of this atmospheric & metal tale of tragedy and characters of villainous sway in a world of witchery & want for a better one. Most of the draft is written but not quite ready. Also aiming on doing a book trailer with miniatures & abstract sets but for now I am hoping this work is unique and interesting enough to be worthy, that I can start posting chapters and refining the flow. While there are dark themes, sensual moments & intense circumstances, the worst of it is implied or euphemistic. There is also hope among the existential issues characters deal with. At least I'd like to think the horror of it is lined with meaning & excites an audience.) </p>
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