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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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Alright, I’ve seen warrior nun and here are some thoughts.
(spoilers)
1) Beatrice is Bae
2) Watching Mother superion’s glow up from “Harsh headmistress” to MILF was delightful
3) The costumes were fabulous. They didn’t always make sense, but boy were they fun to look at. (Lilith’s glittery blue scale eye makeup? Slay, girl)
4) it is criminal that Ava and Bea didn’t figure out their feelings before hiding out in the Alps together, because that would have been a lovely honeymoon.
5) It is CRIMINAL that Mary never came back. I mean, I’m sure the actress had better things to do season 2, but as she was the objectively best character of season 1--we were robbed, okay? Lilith, in particular, was robbed. She needed Mary back bad. Also, I see you gun-wielding black nun added in for the final battle. You aren’t Mary. We aren’t fucking fooled. Mary isn’t that easily replaceable--no scabs!
6) what the fuck was that plot, though?
6a) Adriel makes it clear that he is telepathically linked to divinium, because its his armor. we know this is true because he used it to talk to Miguel (even though he does not appear to be wearing armor in the flashback, and we see him making armor out of trask bones, so...bit fuzzy on what constitutes as “his armor” exactly) point being: why the fuck wasn’t that developed into a plot point in season 2? Why did the nuns keep using divinium weapons and wearing divinium jewelry, etc? Why wasn’t every piece of divinium (including badboy- priest’s tattoos) considered a security risk? that would have presented a super compelling limitation on our heroes...but no. disregarded completely.
6b) For an underground sect whose primary millenia-long mission was to exorcise wraith demons out of people, they did an awful lot of none-of-that when encountering countless possessed “zealots.” Hard to root for “saviors” who see possession was grounds to kick them around and stab them impressively--as opposed to, you know, saving them from trauma or damnation. while it didn’t track for the characters to actually feel that way, the writing set it up as if they did by never showing them in the process of saving anyone, even in cases where they weren’t outnumbered.
6c) If divinum is the only thing that can kill demons and you can’t use divinium anymore on account of Adriel spying on you through it--fine. Tragic cost of the high-stakes situation. It’s hard for the audience to see innocently possessed people getting beaten up, but it’s hard for the characters too. We’re all in it together. If, however, you get to keep your divinium due to some gaping plot hole f*kin stab the f*kin demons with it! G*D!
6d) Why the hell did Reya leave without her Halo? Has she not been sending trasks after it for Millenia? Could she not have used her “vast powers” to cross the room? She could even have left Eva some divine life-support as a “thank you” compensation.
Alright, if divine beings have divinium skeletons... How the Hell did Ava phase through Adriel, and Lilith? She couldn't phase through Vincent, while he only had a bit of divinium in his tattoos.
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