Gresel
The Forgotten God lost to time, but His Cathedral still breathes, twelve condemned souls will learn what remains when faith outlives its god.
A gothic dark-fantasy serial about devotion, decay, and the machinery of faith and corruption.
Each year, twelve condemned souls are delivered into its green-lit depths - men whose sins will fuel the divine machine that keeps creation turning. Vedistos, last priest of a nameless divinity, obeys the ritual without question. To him, it is faith. To the condemned, it is execution.
Among this year's offering is Roy, a handless heretic and inventor whose curiosity defies both faith and fear. As the prisoners descend into the humming darkness, he begins to see patterns in the Cathedral's living walls-patterns that whisper of a god that was never truly silenced.
But the machine remembers every soul it has consumed, and the line between prayer and punishment grows thinner with each beat of its mechanical heart. Beneath the fractured glass and the scent of oil and incense, mercy turns to function, faith to obedience, and humanity to fuel.
Even a dead god still hungers.
This story portrays violence, suffering, and moral corruption in a world where faith survives its god. Scenes are written with restraint and purpose, reflecting the themes of devotion and decay.
This work will also be posted to Royal Road