Genres: Fantasy, Adventure, Mystery
In the world of Litheliun, deities walk amongst mortals. The Divine of this world are just as human as everyone else, just far longer lived with the threads of eternity at their finger tips. They weave the tapestry of fate upon the fabric of the universe, a future of inevitability.
Records of a Forgetful Deity follows an entire timeline of events spanning approximately ten thousand years throughout multiple generations of deities and the multitude of people involved in the grand scheme of life.
The primary plots can be separated into three different eras: The Millennium War, The Lost Legends, and Eternal Life.
The connecting, overarching story is the Lost Legends era as it digs into the history of the Millennium War and preludes the Eternal Life era. The story primarily follows Ziren Starliez, one of the many immortals that wander the world. There’s a lot more to him than just that, but he’s spent the past five hundred years avoiding it.
Ziren’s personal story revolves around his status as an immortal through the mistakes he’s made throughout the centuries, the consequences of his actions, and the relationships he’s made and lost. His perspective is the result of dozens of butterfly effects, whether he realizes it or not.
For the most part, his perspective is heavily influenced by the other characters. His own personal goal is to simply follow a pre-planned routine, but other characters pull him in different directions with varying degrees of benevolent to malicious intent. Whether he is dragged into his estranged family’s research or given a child or two or seven or stuck to a prophecy, Ziren’s life is constantly spiraling out of his control, and he just goes along with it.
The Millennium War takes place in the divine dynasty preceding the current deities. By the present day of Lost Legends, the people of the Millennium War have all passed through the veil and reincarnated into the present characters.
The Millennium War itself is viewed through the lens of history, recorded solely through journals and letters and word of mouth. It is a story being uncovered within another story because rediscovering the real events and finding lost artifacts and knowledge from the Millennium War is the main goal of many of the present day characters.
The story of the Millennium War follows the life of Reidoux Youthly, better known as the War Goddess or Evil God. Her story follows her from childhood and through the events that led to her becoming the rogue War Goddess, all the way to her death by execution. Her story is a tragedy as recounted by the people closest to her.
Eternal Life’s driving plot begins a couple centuries after Ziren’s arc ends and the children divine have grown up. It’s technically later within the same era as Lost Legends.
The leading character of Eternal Life is Phiran Nascal, a young divine who just appeared out of nowhere and seems to embody the unnatural and taboo. He seems to be the only one who can properly function in the face of the Cult of Leia whereas all the other deities seem to vaporize.
Eternal Life is less character driven than the previous eras. It’s the natural disaster following the flap of a butterfly’s wings thousands of years after, so it’s very scenario driven. It also further explores the magic system of the world than the previous two eras have as the driving force of the plot is to rebalance the divine and natural cycles after they had been thrown off balance by the actions of the previous deities.
