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M O R D L U S T ; an eb garamond powerpoint introduction

so, i realized that it's been almost 4 years since i last made an intro for this wip, and it might help to explain what the actual premise is before april camp rolls around 😩 hope you like the new cover + map !

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THEWRITEBLRGARDEN'S GARDEN WALK ; introduction

❝Hell is inside me and laughs from all my mirrors.❞

genres ; gothic fantasy, romance, horror comps ; amadeus meets my sweet audrina tropes ; the horror of having a body, consuming passion, obsession, codependency, & the poison drips through

Everyone knows that Blythe Lyndwoode is her mother's shame, her grandmother's shame, that she's cursed. Perhaps this is the reason she lives in a colorless world, pinned beneath her father's thumb. Until the day a new dance company arrives in town. And their prima ballerina looks just sweet enough to eat.

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B R A N D O F T H E S E R V A T O R ; feature presentation

surprise !! welcome (officially) to the science fantasy, space opera, mecha lesbian hell i now reside in. this is still very much an idea-in-progress as i plot out character arcs, magic systems, and get back into writing something that isn't historical fantasy, but stick around for more to come ;)

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T H E   I N H U M A N   C O M E D Y ; an introduction by @serpentarii

❝Lifting his head from the pool and scrubbing the icy water from his face, he stared at his kill and his throat itched. He cupped his hands with seawater, burning as he swallowed, but it would be enough to distract him from the thirst. For now.❞ 

featuring ; disillusioned alchemists, devouring devotion, vampiric swords, a hunter’s love, animal brides, undersea gods, the price of immortality & all manner of monsters in the mist 

wordcount ; 40-45k 

An alchemist and a creature the last of his kind. A vanished, golden-mouthed prince. A failed hunt. A collection of six short fiction pieces set within the same universes as my other works, such as Starborne and Mordlust. 

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M O R D L U S T ; a camp nano reintroduction by @serpentarii 

❝If she told someone what she was looking for in the catacombs, she could be tried for heresy. There were no bodies within the city walls—none that were buried or with the necessary rites at least. But gods and saviors didn’t have graves, they had monuments in place of tombs. They could not be gone in the eyes of their followers.❞ 

featuring ; a germanic swan maiden meets sleeping beauty retelling, magical black markets, false chosen ones, missing royalty, & rival assassins 

wordcount ; 15k 

The Crown Prince of Cendrier has vanished without a trace. The Dornenheit ravages the countryside while the king idles in his castle. Something lies dormant beneath the Grand Brinnaal Cathedral. The Kingdom of Falkenreik rots from core to flesh, Vératre is certain it has to do with the anonymous letter she received calling her to slay the head of the Helemere Church. But when she receives the key to a greater mystery unraveling around her and a ghost from her past reemerges, she’s forced to confront a life she’d thought escaped. 

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S T A R B O R N E ; a reintroduction by @serpentarii 

hi, i’m currently suffering through finals and too tired to make a proper reintro for this wip, but it’s been over a year already, so here’s a quick rundown with some worldbuilding that i never talk about on here. ft. unus annus quotes 

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A   H Y M N   F O R   S E R P E N T S ; an introduction by @serpentarii

❝A dark awakening. A burning wish. A lethal ambition. Wake the Sleepers, Ravja’s chosen.❞ 

D E T A I L S 

genres ; adult, heroic high fantasy, adventure, romance, three snake leaves meets seventh son retelling 

themes & tropes ; burning as passion & punishment, kyffhäuser, spiritual awakenings, green-eyed monster, dark shepherds, broken pedestal, draconian measures, seventh son of a seventh son 

pov ; third person, multiple povs 

status ; outlining 

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Accused of using witchcraft to awaken the Serpent Prince from his eternal rest, the young lector Maude Weise is set to be executed. Her life is vouched for and spared under the promise that she is the only one able to restore him to slumber. 

She is kept under watch as the newly exalted head of the once-fallen Seventh Great Order of Healers. Having escaped the an early grave once more, Maude must now work to discover not only the true nature of the Serpent Prince’s return but of her own birth. 

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maude weise ; an adept at fleeing death residing in a small priory on the outskirts of the kingdom where she was educated as a lector. 

anja seligkint ; a witch under the sixth great order of conjurers, long believed dead after she was taken to the capital.

siegmar voget ; maude’s retainer under the fifth great order of watchers and a skilled warrior raised in the capital’s unhanded faith. 

heiko eistier ; a wildgrave under the fifth great order of watchers with megalomaniac plans to displace a general. 

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M O R D L U S T ; a reintroduction by @serpentarii 

❝The black swan flew down gracefully, shedding its cloak and slowly rising into the shape of a man. A young cigne, the youngest among them, handsome and lightly muscled, with arms to carry the sky and a gathering of dark feathered hair crowning his head. His whole body glistened with caught moonlight. 

The attending cigne gazed upon him with reverent, flooding glee. A few averted their eyes in respect and others nuzzled against him, heedless of their bare skin, void of any sensuality. Adoration, Aleksander realized. He was adored.❞ 

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genres ; upper young adult, prussian inspired gaslamp fantasy, swan maiden meets sleeping beauty retelling 

themes & tropes ; magical black markets, false chosen ones, the old gods are dead, rival assassins to platonic soulmates, fake dating, missing royalty, & twisted fairy tales 

pov ; third-person, past-tense, dual pov

status ; drafting  

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Aleksander Fox has long since learned to warp the unyielding stone streets of the Kingdom of Falkenreik to his advantage. Settling comfortably in the capital Niederbrinn, the chance at unending fortune appears when he steals and sells the feathered cloak of a cigne—a legendary race able to transfigure themselves into swans. Unbeknownst to him, the cloak was that of their Crown Prince.

It falls into the possession of Vératre, an assassin with hands rusted bloody, after having been hired to claim the life of the Helemar, head of the Church and object of their worship. Upon arrival to the capital, she encounters her old acquaintance, Salicaire, whose mission acts the antithesis to her own. Converging paths force them under the iron of the Helemere Church and the bellicose cigne queen, all as a mysterious infection known as the Dornenheit rots their lands from core to flesh. 

D R A M A T I S   P E R S O N A E 

aleksander fox as the piper ; ensnared and silent in his screams. forever doomed to gnaw at the mine of cruel fate for a drop of fool's gold. he takes and he takes until there is nothing left of him.

isme de lède as the swan prince ; he who speaks with the clawed and fanged beasts of thorned lands. wingless. flightless. songless. soft-hearted despite himself. 

vératre as the changeling ; her skin is never her own, always shedding, shaping itself to the world around her. sleek and shining. drink of her sugar-glass venom from between tannin-stained lips. 

salicaire as the huntsman ; at the end of the world. his final strike will be one to his own rending heart. he longs for gentler times when words were everything they meant. this mission will be his last. 

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