Historias de Theocracy

Who decides where a person's identity belongs? Firelight is a political romantasy about autonomy and control and a woman who chooses her destiny in a world determined to decide for her. ** This is a work in progress; names and details are subject to change. **

Author's Note - "Sacred Arrow" (English Translation) Sacred Arrow is the third novel in my anthro cycle, written in Russian 2021-2025. If you enjoy anthro lions, lionesses, or felines generally, this may be for you. The setting blends the late Roman Empire with the Middle Ages and faint touches of the Enlightenment. The cycle centers on the Ashai-Keetrah, a mystical priestess order in the Suung Empire. Sacred Arrow follows the Messengers - rare lionesses within the Ashai-Keetrah who practice the Craft: sending Messages through dreams across any distance. The footnotes, absent from the Russian original and added here for context (mostly established in the cycle's first novel), feature two voices - S. and Z. - who argue with each other and occasionally with the text itself. Treat them as interpretive companions, not reference material. The translation is my own and attempts to preserve the syntactic and semantic structures of the Russian original; the prose is dense by design. I'd recommend reading it as a PDF - link on my personal website in my profile (it's free). Plot synopsis (opening): Mauna, a young patrician lioness and Messenger acolyte, has trained for years in the sacred Craft but struggles with its core skill: Messaging. Despite her noble lineage and dedication, she can't master the dreamwalking techniques required for full Messenger status. Her mentors are losing patience, and whispers suggest she's destined to become a Pre-Messenger - a support role marking her as a failure. As a last resort (or perhaps abandonment), Mauna is sent for "praxis" with Vaalu-Amaya, an eccentric Messenger living in the Empire's remote northwestern corner. Amaya is everything Mauna didn't expect: crude, unorthodox, dismissive of tradition, and still reeling from the recent massacre of her entire household. Yet Amaya possesses something extraordinary - and that's where things begin.

Devon Masters, AKA Checkmate, is a member of the Global Security Agency, United States Division. His nemesis is John Pyra, leader of the cult/criminal organization, the Pyramid. When Pyra finally wins, Devon is brought into a world where his greatest enemy's twisted dreams have all come true. And he is none the wiser to any of it until his old colleagues come knocking.

After a holy war that revealed angels and demons to humanity, the world was rebuilt under a single, merciless rule: purity. Those deemed pure at birth live in the cities of God, protected and revered. Those marked as impure are cast into Baraonda - an overcrowded, lawless city at the edge of the kingdom, where survival is the only faith left. Nox was born impure. Dangerously so. His soul weighs ninety - a percentage feared even by the authorities - yet nothing about him seems monstrous. He is gentle. Devout. Almost angelic. Too kind for a world that despises him. Everything changes when a brutal, inexplicable death shatters his fragile routine. And a mysterious psychiatrist, tasked with weighing souls, arrives unannounced, vanishes without explanation, and seems to know far too much about Nox. Raven watches him closely. Possessively. As if Nox were something precious... or something dangerous. As faith, purity, and divine order begin to crack, it becomes clear that the world is not what it claims to be. Behind the saints move ancient, corrupted forces. Behind salvation hides something deeply wrong. This is a dark fantasy BL about forbidden bonds and unholy devotion. A slow burn love born from fear, obsession, and longing. A story of cruelty and tenderness, jealousy and sacrifice, gods that lie and monsters that remember. Expect: - Dark, religious fantasy & heavy worldbuilding - Slow burn BL with intense emotional tension - Angst, trauma, jealousy, obsession - A long story divided into narrative arcs If you love tormented characters, danmei-like dynamics, and stories that hurt before they heal - this is for you. - Cover designed for TOSAR by @mattfzo

Poet describes men that are favored and empowered in the Mormon church due to the patriarchy and sexism

A Short Story set in a Dystopian Theocracy ruled by the Temple of Sol Invictus. A low level Clerk is taken from his reasonably comfortable life working in the Tribunals and taken within the system that he administered. This story is set in the same world as the Novel "Phoenix: Rising" which has received 2 4* ratings on Amazon.com and a 5 start rating on Amazon.co.uk

Ed Krasnyj is a complete psychopath, who made billions from a lucky gamble and other, more illegal methods. After this, he decides to run a country in the South Pacific, known as The Crimson Islands. It becomes one of the most secretive states in the world, run as a pure theocracy, letting no information or citizens get out of the country. Meanwhile, the scientific community is investigating a large terrestrial object which passed by Earth in only a couple of days, taking an incredibly strange path. The scientific community speculates normal meteor activity, but one group thinks differently. A group simply known as The Team is a group of scientists who work out mysteries about science. Their newest recruit, Jim Mac, opens the group's eyes to the large object and they begin to work on the mystery at once. What they find is that the object is constantly flying over The Crimson Islands. The Team also finds many other things about the islands, including the ruthless dictator, the inhuman national language, the class system and an incredible amount of pollution. The Team must solve the mystery of The Crimson Islands before the Crimson Flag is the only flag that is flown. Cover by the great @thedoctorscat

GOD IS REAL Apocalypse cleansed the world, leaving the remaining humanity reborn in ashes. A theocracy rose from the ruins, its iron fist wielded by the Church. Under the Pope's dominion, faith became law, enforced by the Templars and Acolytes. But beneath the pious façade, humanity's darkest sins festered. Doubt, a venomous seed, took root, and from it grew a rebellion. A war for the soul of humanity looms, a clash between blind obedience and the unyielding free will.

Wattpad Open Novella Contest participant Prompts: 95 & 52 The Goddess has always spoken through The Scribe, their flesh bears her blood. The Goddess has not been seen for many generations, yet still her blood writes in the skin of the chosen Scribe. Messages of what's to come and what is to be done. It has been long since The Great Transference, and the last remaining Scribe has grown weak and elderly as she awaits the selection of the next to take on her holy duty. Maybe the young Scribe will be the one to learn the meaning of the strange writing that surrounds the pictures they've used to guide them all these years.

(VIOLET SHROUD #1) TWO ASSASSINATIONS, a world apart, set the stage for events that will change the world of Ondel forever. Maeve Whelan, an innocent girl with a gift, is training to become a priestess. When her world turns upside down on the night of a holy festival, she must master the darkness within to survive what happens next. Theoris Al'Oren, a world away, is second in line to the throne of Orwyn and covets the one thing he cannot have-the one thing that would bring Orwyn to its knees. When tragedy strikes in the royal Alcazar, it's up to Theoris to pick up the pieces and put them together before it's too late. What happens to each in this tale will affect the course of the other's life. A world apart, Maeve and Theoris are more intertwined than they know... READ THE FIRST FIVE CHAPTERS FOR FREE! Then go take a look at my profile!

Life of being trapped in her Father's manor is all Kiara Emerson has ever known. Other than what she has read in books and seen in art, she knows very little of the goings on in the city of Lyrithorian, especially in the years since the war between the Shadow Walkers and the Church of the Light ended. The most she has seen of it is the billowing smoke from the newly established factories rising over the cityscape and the dregs of information she has collected from evesdropping her Father, the head of law enforcement within the Church's meetings. As she learns more information, she realises something big is happeing within the High Priestesses and her father, and in the centre of the plot, is her. These are the first few chapters I have written (ever) so please be gentle. It is also a draft and absolutely not honed in or polished at all, I just want to get a view on what people think so far and whether from the events so far if it is something they would want to read more of...

- Completed - For Mikel Ark, being offered a job by the world's biggest gaming company is a dream come true, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that will launch his career as a hotshot programmer. But what Mikel hasn't been told is that his employer's upcoming project is a sentient world of its own, one that is growing bigger everyday with the potential to release its monsters into the real world and what they need is not a programmer, but a scapegoat to shut it down. What do you do when your dream becomes a nightmare? Run, and pray No Blessed does not swallow you whole. ×××××××× 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒅𝒐𝒆𝒔 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒎𝒚 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆. 𝑻𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒅 𝒈𝒐𝒓𝒆. **Banner by Avadel Ink **Current cover by Eunkyung_art **Previous cover by korralistic

Le' Freya , six kingdoms where magic is banned by the church and mages are unwelcome. High Priest Reganus XIII and the Chancellors of Le' Freya wont admit it, but Le' Freya is slowing sinking into darkness. When a mysterious seventh kingdom appears, and an ancient evil returns. They are finally forced to take action. "I was an ordinary kid once, a mere acolyte of the church at least until the Seer saw my fate in the crystal. That day my world was torn apart and my future was hanging in the balance. Magic is forbidden by the Sanctorum and I was branded a mage, a traitor of Le' Freya. I am to pay for my sin by death. My name is Creo Naviae, and this is my story. The tale of how the second Magus War began."

Three views, one tale. Voon-Sae was a desert city built by a theocracy, ruled over by the five Priests of the Sand. To some, they were benevolent and loving rulers. To others, they were liars and murderers, only seeking personal power. Those who saw them as such rose up, and brought them down, following the Martyr Merlo and his wife. But was he a hero, or a barbarian? Depends on who you ask. Follow along in this three-part tale, told by three heroes of each side of the conflict, and chose your side.

There he stood, this goat, wearing a modified vest adorned in jewelry. Only a pet, toward the stone-face man sitting next to them. He sat upon a golden throne covered in jewels with engravings symbolizing love and compassion. A touch ironic, considering who owned it, who created, and who sat in it.

The clerical cloak given to him to confine him to the ways of The Moon God instead let Festor stay invisible as he quietly grew his rebellion. Festor's hidden alliance - called L'Sunder - seeks to mix both the cultures and divine magics of the world's major cosmic deities. The time has come for him to start pushing his initiative publicly, an effort for unity he hopes will change the world for the better. Or, in the eyes of the current head of a priestly bloodline deemed near-royalty, Half-Moon Davodson Lunik the Fifth, shatter the universe's stability entirely. Influential, wealthy, and relentlessly devout, Lunik is Festor's biggest threat. Conference after conference seems to bring the two rivals much too close for comfort, threatening to expose L'Sunder out from under the radar. Much as they want to believe it, neither party is wholly virtuous nor villainous, each finding the game - and their adversary - growing more complicated the more cards they play. Festor just hopes he'll make it out with the upper hand. I'm writing this story as a teaser for my visual novel Project Grandfather Clock - demo coming this winter. You can find some previews here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATlLy2fDxzU&list=PLNY3E9jNcgIf6DDVp9bHA6gK_go6xoDmk&index=3 And follow updates on my community Discord (codeword: asunder): https://discord.com/invite/u9w2JG99Da

One roams to uncover souls and the other to preserve that of who he loves most. Ideal fire, immortal light And her flame, burning bright The stars above, wait and see For all this was (never) meant to be As so the moon may never rise- For we will never learn the truth (of lies).

Escaping the institutions that have abused them all their life, Louise and Eliza find themselves alone in a city where strange, semi-human beings roam the streets after dark.