#firmamentum

[biosemiotica]

Firmamentum

[rosenfey]

Have you planned the ending of any of your stories? What kind of endings do you prefer?

Night Lands is a set of shorter stories and for the ones I have, I did come up with an ending, yes! I love happy endings (yes I am boring), though a usual dosage of hardship and angst is involved, it makes the ending much sweeter, but I don't like miserable stories where the heroes suffer all the way for the ending to suck for them as well so... Happy ending it is! Except for maybe Firmamentum, which is a very grim and dark story in general. The ending might not be as good as expected.

[rosenfey]

How many original stories do you? And which one is the most recent one, and what is it about?

Oh gosh, I... have a few.

My biggest, most fleshed out, however, are the Night Lands series, a slavic fantasy about a brotherhood of demon hunters. I've spent years on the world building and character development, though I have still very little of the plot written. Mostly because I scrapped all those 1k worth of pages through all those years before I finally decided on the plot. As I said, it's about a party of 5 unlikely friends who each have their own shares of troubles, and their interaction and friendship is a huge part of the plot. Their line of work sees them not only battling monsters (inspired by the slavic mythology because that's my cultural heritage and childhood and they are so cool tbh), but mostly trying to understand them, breaking curses and so on, without the need of bloodshed, if possible. It's my own take at the slavic myths with my own twist and story archs.

I also have other stories though, in different stages of development, but still fairly at the beginning; they mostly exist as concepts in my head rn:

Firmamentum, a story that takes place in a country where the sky is darkened by black clouds and people have to build a mechanical sun to sustain life. They worship eldritch-like entities like Gods, but some of their lesser spawn start to run loose around the world, devouring people. The main character is essentially portrayed as a villain - she's the high inquisitor of a religious order keeping peace and worshipping the Gods, yet thanks to her new ability to see the lesser gods, she finds herself entangled in a quest to reach a mountain range that reaches above the clouds, to look into the face of the Older Gods, however unkind that gaze might be.

I also have an urban fantasy called Devil's Play, that once again takes the newfound family trope, but this time with a demon, an angel, a Catholic priest, and the Devil himself. The demon, who is also a casino owner in Las Vegas, saves the life of the priest, which upsets the Ballance of the world, and all manner of monsters escape Hell to bring chaos to the Earth. It has a lot of snark, road trips through the desert, and very unusual exorcisms.

I've also had a story concept about a fantasy/cyberpunk narrative, with a huge corporate-run city being shielded from a wild world outside with high walls. The protagonists - a bankrupt flower shop owner and a terminally ill bartender who seeks a cure find themselves out in the Wild and encounter a lot of strange people and creatures.

[anywaythagod]

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