myth: how the Godde of water & the forest children saved the people from the Fear god & his priests

[belenen]

icon: "imperious (photo of me w imperious expression wearing "Red Queen" makeup: searingly red lips, darkened pointed eyebrows, black eyeliner, deep red & black eyeshadow accented with gold & silver, and black-outlined silver hearts & diamonds with red shadows on my cheeks)"In a time of ancient Goddes, Witches, and Quings, there was a people who

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[ragnarok_08]

This is....just amazing to read - it's so evocative and very well-written!

[saturnine23]

This is fantastic!

I love the themes of agency, responsibility, and resistance that are encoded in here. I especially appreciated that Upanasiel realized that a deus ex machina-type solution would only perpetuate the problem in the long run. I also liked that Upanasiel basically told them, "Your craving for revenge is a distraction from the fact that you need to work on being a bit wiser."

Have you written much else like this? Do you have, or have you considered, fleshing out this mythos into a larger world?