R. T. Jenkins

I couldn't make a decision so a d8 decided and through hoop jumps we're talking about PLYR instead.

The Good Hunter. The Goodest Boy. The main patron of Fannarey.

I feel like he'd have a mix of 1920s gangster accent + talking like Urianger nonsense while being down for a good story.
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List of prompts for #AugustWorldbuilders, created by @Kiraofthewind. Day 8: Physical/spiritual nature of the divine.

#AugustWorldbuilders 8. In The Störðnur Saga, gods embody aspects of nature: Såkvarta is the sun, Sivæföl the moon, Vörunnar the thunder and storms, Mynyll the mountains, etc. In true Norse poetry fashion, it's very common for them to say things like "Sivæföl wrapped the realm in his shawl" (1/2)

#MythAugust 8. I'll cheat a bit and choose three Archdevils for this week, but feel free to read about just one of them. I'll go with Ashk'ril, Azamul, and Babumma, the most popular of the nine from the past week!

Ashk'ril is the infamous Prince of Deception who has (1/4)

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I will yap about the Gray Lady, the goddess of death, because my MMC is one of her priests and she heavily influences the plot. I am a sucker for a kind and benevolent death god. I also wanted to show a male character as subservient to a woman without it being a weakness.

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Ohhh I have been waiting for this prompt.

The Black Fawn. The Deer of Death. The life harvester, Ennai.
The deity of death, the most reclusive and mercurial of the Named Gods.
Ennai will be central to the story of Speak Its Name.

...(according to Vizrani belief) is continuously reincarnated as the current Emperor of the Vizrani Empire. This is just a brief introduction to avoid being redundant for the rest of the week, and I'll have a lot to say about this particular god over the next couple of days.

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8: I think for the Vizrani Empire in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) it makes the most sense to begin with Vizra, God of Social Order, who founded the Vizrani Empire as Viz'Rah roughly two and a half millennia before most Karnassia stories are set and who...

#MythAugust 8. His Holiness, the Infinite Wisdom, the Conqueror God, who watches over us with His Twenty Thousand Eyes, Lucognidus Pavo

Who I call Lulu for short

He's the Mind God, the one who saved the Pentagonal Dominion from rule by demonkind. Maybe a tyrant, maybe a savior

(art made by Yoru)

...POVs who hold varied beliefs, and so the series as a whole remains rather agnostic on which (if any) religious belief system is true.

...of the Cyrans which have more in common with the Atmorals and Valestrals than with their fellow humans [though there are further distinctions there]). And so, the answer is not so much that "it doesn't apply," so much as it is far more convoluted and all Karnassia stories are told from various...

...in just how they understand "It"). The Valestrals, Hrothians, and Vizrani each have their own pantheons with 6, 9, and "lots of" deities respectively, each with their own metaphysical/spiritual properties (and that is not even to account for the animism/spiritism of the Beadaoga or the beliefs...

#AugustWorldbuilders Prompts Day 8: Physical/spiritual nature of the divine

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8: So one issue with god/deity questions in Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social) is that each nation has its own deities (the exception being the both Atmorals and Avendrals revere "It" less as a deity and more as a universal force, though they diverge...

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Good luck!

It depends. Several of them have a main home and "vacation" home. Some only have their main homes, which is their elemental plane.

Two I've named so far are Erra's and Dau's respectively: the Darkveil and the Vermillion Roost.

The latter also is also a "vacay" home in Reinaya.

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#MythAugust 7. As I previously warned, I'm afraid this will be another long one. For yes, every Archdevil lives in the Netherrealm, but they each rule their own layers (and sometimes more through vassals, but we won't go there). Here's a glimpse into the home of each: (1/11)

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The Spheres: bro, you live on us
The Seasons: a ring of longboi dragons encircling Ao
The Forces: inside Ao? Invisible? Who can say?
The Zodiac, Aspects, Host: literally are the stars
Any dragons lower than this: on Ao
The Saints: ?? I mean they're dead so like... some kind of afterlife?

#MythAugust 7

The Na'aqals believe the cosmos was split into 11 Worlds: 10 element-based worlds + the Deep World, which is central to all the others. 99% of the gods live in the Deep World, which is also where human souls go when they die.

The one major exception is Mu'u the Sea Mother, who is 1/2

...given demons act directly upon and within Karnassia while the gods (outside of Vizra) are mostly assumed to act indirectly, hearing the prayers of the followers on the winds carried across the sea and returning any boons by the same manner (at least within this belief system).

...nations which frequently struggle and war with the Vizrani Empire. An exception to this is obviously Vizra, who is believed to reincarnate into whoever the current Emperor is. This distance from the gods and proximity with the devils is also the religious explanation for the flaws in the world...

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In the Vizrani Empire, the general belief is that the gods live across the sea from Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), on a continent far to the east on Andos, while the demons are assumed to live and inhabit Karnassia itself, both in the Empire and in the other..

...technically has freedom from government management for the most part, the constitution for the Third Republic of Freeport does state that the University has an obligation to ensure the basic literacy of its citizens and ability to communicate in at least the Common Tongue of Karnassia.

#AugustWorldbuilders Prompts Day 7: Public or private? Run by the government, church, etc.?

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7: In Karnassia (co-created with @jmaxwell-author.bsky.social), the University of Atmoriel is run by the Empire of Atmoriel and does represent a key arm of the state. The University of Freeport is a public institution with relatively close ties to the government, and while it...

Them: "Don't get political. Hurts your sales."

Me: "Okay."

Them: "Don't use too much Spanglish. Readers don't like that."

Me: "Got it."

Them: "Keep violence and horror under control so it appeals to everyone."

Me: "Yeah."

Then I did what I wanted.

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I don’t think this will be my most violent novel, but it’ll definitely be my saddest and most what the fuck novel. Commercial success, here I come!

A promotional image for The Chosen One Con book by Trudie Skies. It shows a background of chimneys with smog and The Chosen One Con book cover along with the text: gaslamp fantasy of bad manners and magical tech. A televised contest of mages to find the "chosen one" in a world of designer enchantments and celebrity-branded potions. Part of The Book Bazaar.

Official post time! Introducing The Chosen One Con, the first in a duology of gaslamp fantasy!.

I'm still writing this book, but the reason I'm announcing it now is because it's part of the @the-book-bazaar.com crowdfunding taking place this November!

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The Na'aqal gods in my #Atlantis trilogy are a mix of nurturing, malicious & chaotic. Some are more involved with humans, some don't even know they exist.

Mu'u & Raa are the most involved, since they actually live as humans & serve as guardians/guides. 1/2
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#MythAugust 6. Archdevils have a tense relationship with mortals, to say the least. Stories are passed down generations about how Ulorzz reduced entire kingdoms to ashes, how Malekhall slew entire armies with her dual swords, how the bloodiest, most terrible massacres (1/4)

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Aaaaand I typed the tag of #MythAugust (this is what I get for trying to do this on my phone lol)