T H E ✴ W R A T H ✴ K I N G
(a wip reintroduction)
1,000 years ago a legendary swordfighter cut off Death’s head. Now, he wants it back.
genre 🟆 dark fantasy
market 🟆 adult
status 🟆 draft four revisions complete // getting ready to line edit
pov 🟆 3rd person / past -- three pov characters
themes 🟆 revenge, body autonomy, toxic love, forbidden magic
content warnings 🟆 body horror, self-harm, murder, torture, possession, graphic depictions of violence
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LUCIEN DARKNIGHT - - How many times had he imagined spearing [REDACTED] through the throat and killing him, but when he’d pulled the cutlass out, it had been mercy, not vengeance that had forced his hand.
The consequences of disrupting the balance of magic are destruction. In the heart of the capital, a massacre reveals the stirrings of an ancient myth and chaotic goddess. Lucien Darknight, a blood magician of one of the four Houses of magic, is tasked with unraveling the mystery surrounding the brutal butchering. Having spent the last decade learning to wield his blood as a weapon and walking in the memories of others, he allies himself with the only survivor to discover the culprits. Soon, his investigation leads him into the claws of a mythic figure hellbent on revenge.
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NOLA SWANN -- Her hand found her dagger on the mantle and curled around it. Her chest heaved, every inch of her flushed and hot. She burned with a fever that would only be quenched by the King’s blood.
Lady Nola Swann arrives at the palace in Izaro with a sword on her back and an unbreakable vow to her dead father. As the sister of the future Queen, she must protect the secrets that threaten to end both their lives. All she has to do is keep her sister safe until she is wed to the Wrath King. But is Nola keeping her sister safe from the King, or is she protecting her monstrous sister from the staunchly religious court that would burn her if they knew their secret? Politics, poison, and heresy shadow Nola as she carefully toes the line between respectful Lady and deadly fighter.
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WESLEY NERINE -- "I don’t owe anyone else my grief. It’s mine and I’ll hold onto it as long as I need."
Veteran and war hero, Wesley Nerine, longs for nothing more than a normal life with his lover. Unfortunately, his lover is now Izaro’s monarch and about to be wed to a northern lady. On a hunting trip, Wesley, the Wrath King, and their inner circle are attacked by an undead creature bound together with corrupted blood magic. With his King injured and dying, Wesley must travel to the Silver Wastes to find a cure.
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As the magician, the lady, and the soldier struggle to find their footing in the spiral of bloody chaos, the god of Death rises again. Angry, vengeful, and determined to ruin the balance of life and magic.
