The young men exited the eastern gate of the nome at dawn, the luminescence of Yaesu casting its ailing purple light across the plain. Six of the men hauled the crucifix on their shoulders, laughing and kicking dust at each other as they went…
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Category: Other Writings
Hello there,
In this section, you can find other assorted writings I post.
These are most frequently world-building exercises for upcoming
novels, or miscellaneous poems and fragments.
If these bits and pieces interest you, please check back often!
Letter from Broken Knife:
Impressed on the 19th day, in this 4th Dark Month
Attuned for Dasam Desca, houseman of Menceta
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School of Rest:
[The School rejects the belief that, after death, one’s consciousness is preserved in mana; they dismiss evidence as merely echoes. Disowned by the Averers.]
Cruelty, we commend you and concede the territory
Knowing its true name: Existence
We have no taste for appetites
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Pilots:
[Apocryphal poem, supposedly written by one of the three Pilots after their ascension to the Firmament. Disowned by the Averers. Unrecognized in the Polycanon.]
No prophecy. No destiny.
What to be? Dare we succeed?
Outside of nature. Our surgery.
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Netherworld:
[As above, so below—Etatetic orthodoxy maintains the planet’s underground is not a native resting place, but an inhospitable wilderness to be avoided, mirroring the magical potency and indefinite depth of cosmos. Anonymous poem. Unrecognized in the Polycanon.]
Soil mirror. A history of myths, a mythic history.
Suns to my candles; I bring a breath, it brings a winter.
A trek to god and back, where I have walked a mile.
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Faith Template (Etatetics I):
[Transcription of Averer hymn. Written in hieratic, performed in New Etateti during corvée labor. Sanctioned in the Polycanon, Etatetic usage encouraged.]
3. All. 3.
Ee. Td. Ya. [optional repetitions]
Dust; mesa; light
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Fire Words:
[Sample text of rogue parish, archived during Averer purge. Written in demotic. Unrecognized in the Polycanon. All Etatetic usage prohibited.]
Be bold, new epoch; incurious and straight. No memory.
Build me with what you bring; like a weapon, or a judgement.
Don’t build me with what you see; not a cloud, or any more dust.
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Denjetics I:
[Transcription of house canto, archived during the reconstruction of Mence. Translated from the original High Denjetic. Recognized in the Polycanon. Usage permitted by sanctioned precommunicants, Etatetic derivations reported.]
You, dweller in the palanquin
Your following is devout
We study the enemy: impatient extraction
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Vensketics I:
[Inscription on stone tablet, recovered from the pyramids of Welnsk. Translated from the original sarcoglyphics. Recognized in the Polycanon. All Etatetic usage prohibited.]
ACID DAUBS THE BROW
FAITH’S TESTAMENT FOUND
BATHING IN CAUSTICITY
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Hythetics I:
[Not a historical work. GPK apprentice project, Hythetic precommunicant practice. Written in demotic, performed in New Etatetic. Approved by Provost Ka, Dogim-Vos, et al. Averer review pending.]
Our candles are no longer needed
All our emptiness and uncertainty
Our buildings shelter mediocrity
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