Your memories only go five years back, to when you woke up in a subterranean tunnel system with nothing but a name. Now you reside in the Holy City, capital of a post-apocalyptic world ruled by a faction called the Religious.
After a near-death experience at the hands of a crazed angel, you're suddenly thrust into a building conspiracy surrounding a corpse-worshiping cult, divinely mad saints, and something buried far, far beneath the earth.
To top it all off, you're being plagued by nightmares you can't explain, as well as your rapidly returning memories.
Or… someone's memories, anyway.
Features
Choose your first name, gender, and appearance.
Customize your character's personality, including their opinions on magic and the Religious.
Make choices that affect the plot, other characters, and even your own sanity.
Unravel the history of the Religious and the apocalypse they claim to have brought the world back from
Characters (descriptions here)
The Mercenary: Val (nb/m/f)
A hired blade with a chaotic streak, as well as the closest thing you have to a friend. Easy-going and unpredictable, Val is usually the one to get you into trouble, but is always there to get you out of it.
The Handmaiden: Klaus Kirkhall (m)
A high-ranking member of the Religious. Klaus is pragmatic with a dry sense of humor, but takes his responsibilities deeply seriously. You get the intense feeling he know something - many things - that you don't.
The Priestess: Ira Auclair (nb)
A priestess working in the lower districts of the Holy City, extremely devout and deeply interested in the history and lore of the Religious. They spend their time searching archives to fuel their (slightly blasphemous) theories.
The Spy: Kat Saxon (f)
Claims to be a priestess, but is barely trying to hide the fact that she's clearly anything but. Her merciless stare and unshakeable confidence dare anyone to call out her suspect nature.
The Muscle: Dane/Dana Constantine (m/f)
An officer of the Blessed Guard, working directly under Klaus. Constantine is quick to anger, and is an absolute brick wall when challenged. While deeply loyal, Constantine isn't afraid to give their employer a piece of their mind.
The Saint: Guinefort (nb)
world's soggiest beyblade
Poly Options: Val/Klaus and Ira/Constantine
Content warnings: violence, blood, heavy religious themes
hi there! im new to sentience (and also IF in general?) (also absolutely obsessed with it, I am rotating the concept in my mind 24/7) and I have to ask - are you continuing the story elsewhere or will it continue to be on itch? I'm not sure of how the process works :)
hi hi welcome to the rat pack
it will continue to be on Itch! i fear I haven't made much progress lately but hopefully now that it's summer i'll be able to wrassle my brain into focus and get an update out
y'know I really think Kat is such a good romantic option for Io because she's odd herself and she likes odd. Like, I feel like she's compatible with a less human Io more than the rest of the cast. She's the least likely to try and squeeze them into a human shape? Idk kinda a weird thought, I just think the two have such a good dynamic.
it's a fine line- she loves inhuman Io, will actively celebrate and encourage that weirdness, but she'll also be annoyed by and mistrustful of a very religious/divine Io.
i desperately want to see IO's early flirting attempts. I see their social skills now, back then they must've been so bad my god. Imagining Val trying not to cringe.
Just curious does the Church have a plan on what it'll do if it runs out of members of the high priest/priestess families?
it's simply not an option. I think they'd invent gene editing before that ever happened.
And it's always possible the magic immunity gene is more common that currently thought- there's very few people who are ever put in the position of finding out.
Wait Val knows Io woke up in the tunnels right? When Io goes missing, would they check there? Could they check there?
forgive me if i'm contradicting my own canon here lmao but I'm pretty sure Val doesn't explicitly know that Io came out of the tunnels. But either way, the tunnels beneath the city are pretty much endless, and their entrances are numerous and very well hidden, if accessible at all.
needle in an infinite haunted haystack. not that that would necessarily stop a very desperate Val
I mean... if you gave Io the chance to bite (affectionately or full of spite)... yer i think most of us will choose to bite. Let's just hope they have rabies vaccines on stand by
honestly writing a 'no bite' route would simply be a waste of time lmfao
something i dislike about some religious horror fiction is how they ignore the human aspect of it in term of religious institution and religious figure head such as priests or leaders. i feel thats an integral part of it, even if the religious horror is rooted around some sort of hateful god or demon entity, or not really god but seen as one.
