Josephclive99
"Gods are immortal. This is a fact. So when the seventh god, Hul, did in fact die, killing himself in an act of confused desperation, his spirit of deity had to go somewhere to wait, ready to become divine once more. The waiting was supposed to be a simple exploration of what it meant to be mortal, what it meant to grow up in a loving family and live a joyous life, but unfortunately Hul's evil brother, the architect of his confusion and ultimate cause of his death, had other ideas."
This story begins a decade or so before readers may first have encountered Enthel in my previous story, Hilrean Rite, and is set in the same world. It is not necessary to have read Hilrean Rite in order to enjoy this tale. It explains some world history, and introduces some characters met by Enk's daughters in the later story, Descendants, which is a direct sequel to Hilrean Rite and which I intend to publish after this one.
This story contains references to: memories of domestic abuse, necromancy (the desecration of graves and raising of the dead to become slaves by the use of magic), slavery, misogyny, cannibalism, death and injury. There is no overt or gratuitous horror and the only violence described is minimal. The tale uses the words, mad, and madness, as setting-appropriate references to mental ill-health.
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