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Nine years ago, the stars fell on the lost city of New Babylon.
Molly and Ethan Sparrow barely escaped that night, saved by their aunt who drove them through mists until the road led somewhere else entirely—to another world, to Earth.
Now, nine years later in New York, Molly can't forget the voice that spoke to her from the dark sea on the night their city burned. Something ancient watched her with crimson eyes from the depths of her dreams. At seventeen, the voice is calling again: the tide is rising.
Ethan buried himself in normalcy-he's a journalist now, raising his sister alone since their aunt vanished. But he can't shake the memories of a city that supposedly never existed. An impossible metropolis rising from endless shores. No maps show it. No records remain. No one believes.
But New Babylon endured.
And from there, forces are hunting them:
A corporation with divine ambitions. The city's monstrous theocracy. A mysterious cult. Even the cosmic overseers of reality itself—all converging on two siblings they believe are supposed vessels for powers so terrible they might tear reality apart.
Powers who call them back home, to the edge of existence.
To awaken once more.
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DIVINIUM is a dark modern fantasy, told through dual first-person POVs of the Sparrow siblings.
An epic genre-bending narrative that includes themes of cosmic horror, soft sci-fi, post-apocalyptic, action-packed mysteries with slow-burn romance arcs, LGBTQ+ themes, and complex family dynamics, as well as immersive worldbuilding and lore.
Content Notes: Violence, strong language, death/grief, religious trauma, substance abuse (fictional), and horror elements.
Part of the Realms of Kiyum series, which shares a universe with the WIP interactive fiction game The Bar on the Abyss.
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(Warning! The Following segment contains spoilers for future chapters. )
Protagonists:
Molly Sparrow (She/her) - A 17-year-old artist obsessed with finding her lost homeland of New Babylon, painting her dreams of an entity in the dark waters.
Ethan Sparrow (He/him) - A 29-year-old journalist raising his younger sister alone, desperately trying to maintain a normal life while suppressing memories of their catastrophic escape from their childhood home.
Core Cast:
Alyx Mars (She/her) - A lethal agent of the Prometheus Corporation, equipped with superhuman abilities and deep knowledge of the siblings' past.
Lin Doan (She/her) - Ethan's fearless and outgoing best friend and docu-filmmaker who refuses to let him face the unknown alone.
Vincent Gills (He/him) - Ethan's childhood best friend who survived the starfall to become a detective in New Babylon, now struggling with addiction to the divine drug Magnum.
Steven Main (He/him) - Ethan's first love, who chose safety over their relationship, now works as Vincent's partner-detective while maintaining a devout Chapel marriage to Lucia.
Pazu (He/him) - The prodigal son of the Adamants' spiritual leader, who left his people's forest sanctuary to join the criminal underground of New Babylon and the Burning Foxes gang.
Supporting Cast:
The Tachav (They/them) - The spiritual leader of the Adamants, the indigenous people of New Babylon who retreated to the Endless Forest after being driven from their lands by the Chapel of the People.
Angelica Weld (She/her) - A trans woman who leads the Burning Foxes crime syndicate with ice-cold efficiency and sharp intelligence.
Sam Balov (He/him) - The muscles and enforcer of the Burning Foxes and Angelica's devoted boyfriend.
Hermes (They/them) - The tech-savvy hacker of the Burning Foxes who navigates New Babylon's digital underground.
Emir Jev (He/him) - The enigmatic CEO of Prometheus Corporation, who's locked in a cold power struggle with the Chapel's Zealots.
Sacred Naomi (She/her) - The mutilated prophet of the Chapel of the People, shaping New Babylon's oppressive theocracy from the insides of an iron maiden.
Mike Levi "Elder Zion" (He/him) - A former rabbi turned crime boss who survived the starfall by playing all sides in New Babylon's power struggles.
The Tattooist (?) - A mysterious serial killer targeting authority figures across New Babylon, leaving cryptic messages carved into their victims.
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"We stopped doing makeshift memorials years ago. What was the point? There was no grave to visit, no monument to what we lost. No bodies to bury. Only memories of a place that didn't exist, of parents who had no death certificates, of a catastrophe no one else remembered.
The first two years, we went to random cemeteries, just to have somewhere to pour our grief. We'd stand before strangers' headstones, pretending they belonged to Mom and Dad, leaving flowers for the wrong dead. It felt like lying even to ourselves.
I moved on quickly. I had to. But Molly never did. Never stopped believing. Her childhood memories calcified into something mythological and sacred. New Babylon became her Zion, her Atlantis—the impossible city stretching along endless shores, surrounded by mists, somewhere in nowhere."
