PUBLIC DEMO - 05/11/2026 - Up to Chapter 2 (Total: 340k)
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You've always been angry.
Rage comes naturally to you. With how much life has messed with you it's only fair that you use your anger. That's why you became a boxer. The thrill of breaking an opponent. And hoping they might break you in turn. They never do though. Every fight is a disappointment, almost as much of a disappointment as they pay for each fight.
Enter Jackie Roth, club owner, mob boss, and former god. When she offers you a job you can't say no. Not that you would, not when she and everyone in her gang feel so familiar to you. At least with this job you'll be able to use that rage inside you more.
As you learn the ways of the criminal underground you reconnect with people you never met. Reforge bonds that you've never made. And recall memories you've never had. You were a god once upon a time, can you become one again?
God Syndicate is an interactive novel where you play the newest incarnation of Ares, The God of War. It's 18+ for violence, explicit sexual themes, drug use, morally questionable behavior, and more.
Customize your MC, play male, female, or nonbinary. With transgender options and pronoun selection. Customize your appearance and develop your personality.
Romance or befriend a cast of characters, including gods with more issues than you can count or even a mortal! Asexual and Aromantic options available.
Show the gods why you were feared all those years ago or prove that you're better than your past lives.
Uncover the mystery of disappearing gods as well as the mystery of your past.
Help out Elysium, the club where you'll practically live from now on. It seems to attract gods and that isn't always good.
Take out your anger on people who might even deserve it.
Zeus: Jackie Roth - She/Her. [Not an RO]
Jackie is The King of The Gods and she makes sure everyone knows it. Her word is law in Elysium and beyond. Fail her and you'll have a storm waiting for you. In the years since your disappearance Jackie's love for her family has seem to only grow. But she has a criminal empire to run and you're just the weapon she needs.
Hermes: Riley Liao Zhi - Gender Selectable. [RO]
The Messenger of The Gods. Or in Riley's case, the ever bored personal assistant to Jackie. Riley's an adrenaline junkie with a heart of gold. As the one who found you they feel almost responsible for you. But why do they also seem so afraid of you?
Nemesis: Verne Mercer - They/Them. [RO]
Protective? Vindictive? As the God of Retribution Verne can be described as both perfectly. As the bouncer of Elysium and Jackie’s right hand Verne refuses to allow a threat near them or their friends. And what are you if not a threat?
Apollo: Franco Valerio - He/Him. [RO]
As expected of The God of Music, Franco's your classic rich and famous rock star. Well he would be, if only he could get out of Elysium. His love of singing and love of his family are two chains he can't break that tie him here. Will your arrival help break those chains or tighten them?
Quiet and Serious, Dame is no longer The God of Love they once were. The passion of their life faded and now bitterness grows where love should. The only friend they have in Elysium seems to be their fiance, Johnny. To make their life even worse, you arrive.
The Mortal: Sigourney Hawthorn - She/Her. [RO]
Newly divorced from a god, Sigrouney struggles with juggling her (demigod) child, relentless job, and love life. As her daughter, Claudia, grows she wonders if she can keep up or if she'll be left behind. And now with your arrival Claudia's godly family gets bigger and her presence gets smaller.
Artemis: Rebel Reyes - Gender Selectable [RO]
How can The God of the Hunt thrive in the city? The prey here are either too weak or too annoying to hunt. The only thing Rebel craves is to feel that thrill again. With your arrival they have a perfect chance, who better to hunt than the God of War? They can't wait to meet you.
The Old Flame: Harper Ward - Gender Selectable [RO]
A friend from a better time. Harper and you were once inseparable. They saw you at your darkest and kept you calm. Years after an explosive break up they've reemerged into your life far different than you knew them. Can you find the dying embers of your old friend? Is it even worth the pain?
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I think that most of the ancient texts making Ares a cunt that nobody liked and humillated him were made by Athena worshippers (Athenians). Thats why I take roman myths more seriously.
On one hand, I agree with you. Every myth and story has politics surrounding it that we'll never be able to full dissect. There were certainly wars about gods, and there are certainly gods that won over others, and cults that grew and pushed other cults down. That's just human nature. I don't think there's a single myth out there that isn't influenced by ancient politics.
On the other I don't really see Ares/Athena as a binary, and there are a lot of myths where Ares is objectively a good guy in them, and we don't really have a lot of proof of Ares being worshiped widespread anywhere. Ares certainly DID have cults that thrived, but they were small, without really a city that he was ever the patron of. People point to Sparta, but Sparta's patron god was Athena, just like Athens. We don't really have a city that worshiped Ares at all, there are just a lot of better gods to be the patron of your city than Ares.
As for Rome, their religion and culture didn't actually come from Greece. Yes, Greek culture and myths certainly bled over, but Roman Mythology comes from the same like original Proto-Indo-European source that Greek Mythology also came from. They're two rivers that diverted. Rome developed alongside Greece, only booming as it did after Greece began to fade from power.
But their mythologies are different because they grew in different ways, not because Rome is a more trusted or serious source than Greece.
People jump immediately to Kratos because a lot of people only know of myths from games he is in. So they insert him into everything and some of them think he's real.
Super true, but I think I get a disproportionate amount of people talking about Kratos simply because of his association with Ares. When GS is done and I inevitably switch to a demigod game I'm going to get a lot of Percy Jackson talk most likely.
I'm wondering how Kratos would fit into the story (Both the old, atoning God of Hope and his past self murder machine that made Ares look like a pacifist). So far the Ares we hear of reminds me more of him than actual Ares (Greek mythology wise at least, might line up a bit more with Greek religion, important distinction)
So in greek myths, Kratos is the god of strength, Elpis is the god of hope, but both are like super minor gods that weren't worshiped at all afaik. If you mean Kratos from God of War, then thats a guy from a video game and I have no desire to put him in my story or really discuss that, and I'll get into why at the end of this. first though i want to focus on the last thing you said. It made me think of how Ares is shown in the myths, and I looovvveeee talking about Ares so much. And I love talking about why I write characters the way I do. So, this isn't me hating on you for asking this question, but i'm using it as a chance to blab haha.
(tw sa under the cut)
Before we begin, I'll acknowledge that you did make sure to note the important distinction between the myths and religion, and this is me following up on that mostly. But also, I don't think you really can separate the two, at all, its impossible to cut Ares out of the religion in a way that makes sense, because if you do then he loses everything about him.
Back in the day the gods were more than their myths. They were worshiped and feared in their daily lives for very mundane reasons. You want it to rain? You pray to Zeus. You're going fishing with your dad and you want to impress him by catching a big fish all by yourself? You pray to Poseidon. You want your mom to stop being angry at you for breaking her favorite cup? You pray to Hera.
That said, Ares was prayed to only in times of crisis.
Ares was prayed to because your son was going to war and he may get brutally killed. Or if your city was being sieged and you're a father who has daughters, and you know if those gates break then you're dead and your daughters will be (at best) raped and sold off.
Ares, by his very nature, is something you fear and that's why people hated him so much. War is a very scary thing, especially back in the day. And yeah, you can pray to him for a number of other things, even positive things, but the times you made sacrifices, begged him to intervene were only when you were about to die, or when you were about to kill.
He's beaten in the myths so often because he's a representation of violence and to beat him is either 1.) functionally to show that you're stronger than war itself, or 2.) as a metaphor.
For point 1: The giants put him in a jar to show how strong they are, Hermes and Artemis beat the giants with guile, turning their own strength against themselves. Functionally, its telling you to work smarter. The Ancient Greeks loved their trickster heroes because the Ancient Greek culture was very centered around intelligence.
Mostly though, I'm far more interested in point 2, the metaphor. And for that point: Aphrodite soothes him with love, Athena beats him with strategy, Hera commands him to stow his aggression. These are major metaphors that do come into every day life. Which is why Ares is so strongly associated with those three gods more than anyone else.
If two people are angry and about to come to blows, but you come in with a compromise? That's Athena beating Ares. When your husband is furious about a competitor winning something over on him, but you calm him down with a soft voice, that's Aphrodite beating Ares. If your kids are fighting and you grab them and shove them into corners to calm down, congrats, Hera just beat Ares. I can go on.
To put it simply Ares in the myths seems weak (comically so) is because by our nature humans don't like violence and that's what Ares is, he's a tool in the myths, a lesson that we're better than our base instincts.
So all of that is what I'm taking inspiration from. In God Syndicate I'm trying to let the main character be both the thing people lose sleep over and fear, and dread that one day you'll return worse than before, AND be the thing that is easily conquered and calmed.
(also, just going to add a note here: I'm not a scholar on greek myths/classics and I have no desire to be. This is my interpretation, if you are an expert and know that i'm talking out of my ass here please forgive me and educate me, i love hearing experts talk.)
I do get why people see God Syndicate, and Ares, and immediately jump to Kratos from GoW, because functionally those games are doing the exact same thing if you play them all. Whether or not it's as intentional as what I'm doing, idk. But that's kinda why I'm not really interested in talking about God of War, or many other things that are inspired by Greek Myths, because I can't really connect with those. To me, it feels like trying to connect God Syndicate to The Godfather. Like, there are themes that match, but they're very very different types of media, and their stories are not close enough to being the same for me to do a character study like that.
So the last update was extremely chunky and so obviously took a super long time. Are you planning to make the next update just as large or make smaller updates ?
Atm this chapter is kicking my ass so idk, most likely something still chunky but not nearly as chunky as the last update.
But plans change, and idk if it’ll stay that way, we shall see!
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Sigourney in the getting shot route in her own like "Local Woman Too Angry To Die; Hot!" as she rapidly re-evaluates her sexuality for the 7th time in the last 2 weeks
Sigourney while she sits on top of Ares, doing her best to not get bitten while helping hold them down, AND having impromptu surgery on a patient who's healing around her tools: "this is NOT how i wanted to ride you!"
Why is Ares regeneration better than the others 🤔 ? (Unless this is spoilers)
When I replayed for the “getting shot” route I think Jackie and the others said if they were in a similar circumstance like Ares they all would only last like a couple minutes whereas Ares obviously lasted much longer.
Hi, so uh... does mcs regen/healing/idk come into play during sex?
Headaches, soreness, Muscle fatigue from repetitive actions, that kinda stuff.
Raging in the streets, war of attrition in the sheets.
For a sex vice Ares, absolutely, but for a drug/alcohol vice Ares, probably not no. I mean once Ares gets control of their powers then yeah they can use it for any number of things, including sex. But for now Ares can only unintentionally use it for sex if thats their vice.
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Do you plan on making a POV of Rebel? I'm soooo curious to know what's going on inside their head in the end of the chapter, especially if they end up kissing Ares. Are they a victim of love at first sight? Or lingering feelings of Ares's past life?
I do! At some point, but POVs give me a headache, I need to be in the right headspace to make it perfect. Right now I’m finishing up Dame’s alphabet, and I’ll probably do a q&a for the cast, and then I’ll do another POV. The q&a wouldn’t be huge, so it’d be something mid month, instead of at the start like it normally is. But after I post the alphabet, I’ll make a poll for whose POV should be next.
One day imma hit him with a rock and see what comes out
He’s so fun to write, he’s kinda just a guy. I think the getting-shot route is my favorite for him, where he hits Ares with a van to try and save them, he’ll have more scenes in the future, for sure.
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My theory with Athena is that they got eaten by their twin in the world for this cycle. Kinda weird for Franco but eh, maybe Athena emerged as The Mustache
You're thinking of Artemis, who's Rebel, but thats okay because you're right still.
Is there a reason Athena hasn't been included in our Cast of troubled Gods? Or... is this a spoiler
There is a reason, I haven't seen anyone guess it, and there have been a good number of guesses for gods that aren't here (Athena, Hera, and Hephaestus the most) but I don't publish theories a lot because I don't want to give credence to any specific one. Athena is a popular one that people throw theories to me about.
