Cover art and book by me. The story behind the cover art (versus the actual story) calls for explanation since, in the book, Astrian's hair is gold but on the cover, blue. . . . Originally, many years ago when I started this book, his hair was blue. I'm not sure when I changed it but, obviously, it was after I'd already finished penciling the colors on the cover art. Eve, however, is accurate, and there should be no further aesthetic inconsistencies, I hope.
Origin: The trilogy began when I was 18 years old--I am now 34 but have not worked on it consistently since then. I write--this trilogy, especially--on whims, mostly: I'll write 50k in a month, more if I'm lucky, or I'll edit it, and then won't return to it for 4 months, 5, 6, maybe even a year. Book One is finished now and has been for 3 years. Strangely, I had it posted here last year but it magically disappeared. Reposting it now because I wanted it simply to be read. That is why I wrote it.
About the book: Naughty and virtuous gods, angels, devils, and saints. There is sex. There is violence. There is also redemption, philosophy, spirituality, cynicism, magic; Heaven and earth, homosexuality and heterosexuality; war and politics; lust, both requited and unrequited. There is biblical allegory, tidbits of Greek mythology, Egyptian, Norse, and many more. Every god I thought of makes an appearance; so, too, every angel. The names are thoroughly researched along with everything else (I hope), and what this tome desires to do is bring all such entities into one place, at one time--Vedic entities, Christian-Judeo entities, Pagan ones, and more--as though they were meant to exist in such a fashion and tell a story of a love triangle--quadrangle, perhaps--and the repercussions it imposes upon heaven and earth. The border between the two places becomes, perhaps, a metaphor for illegal immigration, and war stems between the Fallen and those on high, who would either keep said border in tact or abolish it completely.
Its been two thousand years since humanity lost their home planet and a thousand since they first made landfall on the world they now call home. The trip was long and fraught with danger but they managed to survive in no small part to the new gods they found along the way. The Celestial Court granted life to various forms of variant human species, sculpted to perfection as the next evolution for mankind.
After a thousand years however humanity finds itself on the edge of collapse, as technology from the old world breaks down more and more the people of the new world are regressing into a more feudal state of living. As technology declines and degrades, magic and the supernatural has become the norm. Conflicts are on the rise between the different factions of the Celestial Empire all while the gods themselves watch from above silently.
In one small corner of the Empire rests the Black Coast, home to the mysterious and ostracized race known as the Twins. It is in this quiet place that a set of triplets will determine the fate of not just the Empire, but the world as a whole for decades to come.
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This is a book I've been working on for a few years when I have the time. Due to my dyslexia there are grammar/editing errors from time to time. I am hard at work trying to polish the book as I do my big round of editing prior to publishing online.
My experience in posting online is not great, so please be mindful that there may be tweaks to format and the like.
WARNING, this story contains gore, violence, body horror, suicidal thoughts, swearing, and various other sensitive subjects.