• • Last Line Tag • • The Liar Alliance

// Book Two of Rise of the Blood Dawn//

“... Let me corrupt you... My Lord.” I muttered, my gaze trailing over the back of Eckhart’s slender hand; fingers still pinching my sleeve, then up his black velvet-dressed arm, slithering over his shoulder, finally settling on his twitching mouth.

Whatever order would fall out once the cravas opened, once he pried his peach-colored lips apart, would determine if the weapon I’d brought to our negotiation table was a dagger, or a poison.

Slashing red or slowly rotting away the organs with a curse, like I had done before... and I would do again. For immortal power. For tainting touch.

I’ve been writing like a mad(wo)man today and I don’t want to stop? And while writing political intrigue I’ve unhatched two new characters that I’ve completely fallen in love with!!

It’s one of the ten Kings, King Eckhart of Kaisenhof, and his advisor/ambassador, Hinrik.

Oh ma gosh. These two.

Eckhart is the Boy-Wonder King, and he wants to steal the imperial throne without mercy. He’s almost as vicious and inhumane as Shiroin.

And who’s gonna help? His ‘not-lover-but-totally-sexual-tension-and-undyingly-devotion-childhood-pal’ necromantic dabbler, Hinrik.

These two guys are so slimy and so sneaky, they have a real shot at killing of our main character, and writing this scene between them was *hiss* soooo niiiccccce.

.

Okay

-ciao!

#writeblr #amwriting #writer #darkfantasy #theliaralliance #the ten kings #eckhart and hinrik #gay couple #necromancy #worldbuilding #political intrigue

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• • Last Line Tag • • The Liar Alliance

// Book Two of Rise of the Blood Dawn//

“... Let me corrupt you... My Lord.” I muttered, my gaze trailing over the back of Eckhart’s slender hand; fingers still pinching my sleeve, then up his black velvet-dressed arm, slithering over his shoulder, finally settling on his twitching mouth.

Whatever order would fall out once the cravas opened, once he pried his peach-colored lips apart, would determine if the weapon I’d brought to our negotiation table was a dagger, or a poison.

Slashing red or slowly rotting away the organs with a curse, like I had done before... and I would do again. For immortal power. For tainting touch.

I’ve been writing like a mad(wo)man today and I don’t want to stop? And while writing political intrigue I’ve unhatched two new characters that I’ve completely fallen in love with!!

It’s one of the ten Kings, King Eckhart of Kaisenhof, and his advisor/ambassador, Hinrik.

Oh ma gosh. These two.

Eckhart is the Boy-Wonder King, and he wants to steal the imperial throne without mercy. He’s almost as vicious and inhumane as Shiroin.

And who’s gonna help? His ‘not-lover-but-totally-sexual-tension-and-undyingly-devotion-childhood-pal’ necromantic dabbler, Hinrik.

These two guys are so slimy and so sneaky, they have a real shot at killing of our main character, and writing this scene between them was *hiss* soooo niiiccccce.

.

Okay

-ciao!

#writeblr #amwriting #writer #darkfantasy #theliaralliance #the ten kings #eckhart and hinrik #gay couple #necromancy #worldbuilding #political intrigue

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✹ The Decumbent Gods ✹

— a Worldbuilding post for ‘Rise of the Blood Dawn’!

Good day from the cold dark north!

Actually, we’re getting brighter days and it’s almost mild, but this post calls for stormy loud weather! We’re here to talk about Gods today.

When I started my NA fantasy project, I had no idea how much brain power it would take to make the world ‘logical’! I’m not a logical girl! I’m impulsive, irresponsible and sometimes entirely delusional!

Yes, I can make up complex lore and religion on the spot (read here), and yeees, I can tapdance my way through any worldbuilding conversation, but to actually sit down a make a reference bible (for this project at least) was never really something I wanted to do.

So I just didn’t.

That resulted in me having a whole lotta plot holes and unattached strings scattered mindlessly over 800 pages rn!

Facepalm..

So let’s get to work!

.

Firstly, there’s only one origin of the religion in my world, but it has three interpretations and therefore three names:

Sonzai — Official Imperial teachings is called New Sonzai, and the older school is called the Past Sonzai. Nobody, but the Gentle Brethren monks, practice Past Zonsai as it’s seen as naive and simple.

Ellivium — Comes from Gailia, and this school is forbidden to practice, except for very controlled rituals and traditions.

Cživota — Comes from The Endlands, entirely forbidden to practice and punishable by death.

The basic concept of the religion is believing in the currents of life, and that everything has a current of life, which makes sense because that’s is how the magic works, only, the humans doesn’t know that.

However, the focus shifts a bit between the schools.

(New) Sonzai is about locating, harvesting and trapping life/spirits/power. There’s many temples, alters and shrines, and meditation, together with self-purification, is a very big part of the practice.
(Past) Sozai focuses more on harvesting inner peace, but is still of the same understanding that the spirits are most at home in shrines.
Ellivium is about knowledge, knowing the elements, understanding the weather, and worship the world as a plane of shifting forces.
Cživota has different pulls in both light and dark magic, but this school is initially where necromancy is taught and worshipped. There’s death in everyone and everything, and a hardcore Cživotanic will see it as their right, and how the gods intended it, to manipulate it.

Aha, now, who are the Gods?

Well, there are five Ancient Guys! They are all androgynous and their faces and sexes are ever changing, but they’re real enough —they just haven’t walked the world for a few thousand years.

And because of the different pulls in culture, the Five Gods each have three names (a Kyohon, Galian and Elsalvian name) and three essential meanings.

✹ The God of: life/time/fate

Also named Inbitsu/Diaum/Rhaûde

Often depicted as a grinning and uncontrollable spirit holding an hourglass.
It’s mischievous and all-knowing, and you should never stand still while talking to this God, or it will snatch your ‘time’ and stuff it into its hourglass.

✹ The God of: Purity/happiness/daylight

Also named Naisei/Felicitas/Zhemný

Often depicted as a female lying on a bed of flowers, either laughing in her sleep, or playing with the petals.
It’s a gentle God that strives to brighten you and protect you from sadness. You will cry when you look at her, but it will be tears of overwhelming joy.
Her status and shrines, in Galia and in the ancient Cživotaian temples, are the only ones not destroyed by the Empire. Some say it’s because they could never bring themselves to kill kindness itself.

✹ The God of: force/strength/revenge

Also named Sei-yoku/Viribus/Chrztít

Often depicted as a masked and armoured person with a sword in each hand.
This God has little to no mercy and it’s a very typical token for soldiers to carry, either in the shape of a miniature statue or a symbolic coin with two blades crossing.
In Past Sozai the illustration of the God is a tree strangling two men with its twisted branches, this statue was however made illegal as it was created by a female Elsalvian back before the first race war with the Elsalvian.

✹ The God of: wisdom/knowledge/truth

Also named Eichi/Peritia/Věrnuzt

Often depicted as a swirl of fire and water together, hiding the face and the body except for a gaping mouth and folded hands.
This one is a detached entity, it will never try to judge you, or say which teachings are good vs. bad. All knowledge is neutral. This God only seeks to enlighten you, and make you see within your ocean of knowledge to let you find the answers yourself.

✹ The God of: dreams/mortality/death

Also named Yume/Motalim/Zánik

This God is depicted as a meditating monk in the Imperial City and all through Kyoh, but because Sozai sees everything related to death as impure, all other illustrations/interpretations/depictions are censored.
However, the much more popular depiction of the God is the one with its two faces painted. One face is white and the other black, and the God holds a hand on each cheek. In its lap lies both a skull and a sleeping baby.
Everyone who has tried to tap into the power of this god had been cursed, and it is said that if you call upon it in the night, it will crawl out of your chest.

And that is all for now!

I hope you liked it, I know it was a bit long and perhaps a tad complex, but I really worked on making this post both interesting and understandable.

If you have any questions, PLEASE send me an ask because every time someone asks me, I’m forced to think about the answer and that makes me worldbuild! Heh

See ya!

.

-ciao-

#self reblog ♥️#writeblr #worldbuilding #mythology #amwriting #cawolters #writer #riseoftheblooddawn #theserpentkiss #religion #god #gods #fantasy #darkfantasy

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PITCH

Oi hey hi, I’m doing a flash pitch for The Serpent Kiss today and guys, does this sound cool and on point??!!

I’m all ears for critique!!

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‪THE HANDMAIDEN x WITCHER:‬

‪The Cruel Empress and the Banished sellsword.‬

‪Two beings, both powerless, both trapped by their dark magical blood, and both truly horrible people. ‬

‪Who would ever think that they could fall in love.

With each other.‬

— The Serpent Kiss

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RBD WIP taglist:

#pitch #dvpit #writeblr #cawolters #writing #writer #author #riseoftheblooddawn #theserpentkiss #darkfantasy #cheesy???#better refrence books/movies/games?#maybe some Asian fantasy!?? Priory of the orange tree!!?#and maybe King of Scars!!?

cawolters

✹ The Decumbent Gods ✹

— a Worldbuilding post for ‘Rise of the Blood Dawn’!

Good day from the cold dark north!

Actually, we’re getting brighter days and it’s almost mild, but this post calls for stormy loud weather! We’re here to talk about Gods today.

When I started my NA fantasy project, I had no idea how much brain power it would take to make the world ‘logical’! I’m not a logical girl! I’m impulsive, irresponsible and sometimes entirely delusional!

Yes, I can make up complex lore and religion on the spot (read here), and yeees, I can tapdance my way through any worldbuilding conversation, but to actually sit down a make a reference bible (for this project at least) was never really something I wanted to do.

So I just didn’t.

That resulted in me having a whole lotta plot holes and unattached strings scattered mindlessly over 800 pages rn!

Facepalm..

So let’s get to work!

.

Firstly, there’s only one origin of the religion in my world, but it has three interpretations and therefore three names:

Sonzai — Official Imperial teachings is called New Sonzai, and the older school is called the Past Sonzai. Nobody, but the Gentle Brethren monks, practice Past Zonsai as it’s seen as naive and simple.

Ellivium — Comes from Gailia, and this school is forbidden to practice, except for very controlled rituals and traditions.

Cživota — Comes from The Endlands, entirely forbidden to practice and punishable by death.

The basic concept of the religion is believing in the currents of life, and that everything has a current of life, which makes sense because that’s is how the magic works, only, the humans doesn’t know that.

However, the focus shifts a bit between the schools.

(New) Sonzai is about locating, harvesting and trapping life/spirits/power. There’s many temples, alters and shrines, and meditation, together with self-purification, is a very big part of the practice.
(Past) Sozai focuses more on harvesting inner peace, but is still of the same understanding that the spirits are most at home in shrines.
Ellivium is about knowledge, knowing the elements, understanding the weather, and worship the world as a plane of shifting forces.
Cživota has different pulls in both light and dark magic, but this school is initially where necromancy is taught and worshipped. There’s death in everyone and everything, and a hardcore Cživotanic will see it as their right, and how the gods intended it, to manipulate it.

Aha, now, who are the Gods?

Well, there are five Ancient Guys! They are all androgynous and their faces and sexes are ever changing, but they’re real enough —they just haven’t walked the world for a few thousand years.

And because of the different pulls in culture, the Five Gods each have three names (a Kyohon, Galian and Elsalvian name) and three essential meanings.

✹ The God of: life/time/fate

Also named Inbitsu/Diaum/Rhaûde

Often depicted as a grinning and uncontrollable spirit holding an hourglass.
It’s mischievous and all-knowing, and you should never stand still while talking to this God, or it will snatch your ‘time’ and stuff it into its hourglass.

✹ The God of: Purity/happiness/daylight

Also named Naisei/Felicitas/Zhemný

Often depicted as a female lying on a bed of flowers, either laughing in her sleep, or playing with the petals.
It’s a gentle God that strives to brighten you and protect you from sadness. You will cry when you look at her, but it will be tears of overwhelming joy.
Her status and shrines, in Galia and in the ancient Cživotaian temples, are the only ones not destroyed by the Empire. Some say it’s because they could never bring themselves to kill kindness itself.

✹ The God of: force/strength/revenge

Also named Sei-yoku/Viribus/Chrztít

Often depicted as a masked and armoured person with a sword in each hand.
This God has little to no mercy and it’s a very typical token for soldiers to carry, either in the shape of a miniature statue or a symbolic coin with two blades crossing.
In Past Sozai the illustration of the God is a tree strangling two men with its twisted branches, this statue was however made illegal as it was created by a female Elsalvian back before the first race war with the Elsalvian.

✹ The God of: wisdom/knowledge/truth

Also named Eichi/Peritia/Věrnuzt

Often depicted as a swirl of fire and water together, hiding the face and the body except for a gaping mouth and folded hands.
This one is a detached entity, it will never try to judge you, or say which teachings are good vs. bad. All knowledge is neutral. This God only seeks to enlighten you, and make you see within your ocean of knowledge to let you find the answers yourself.

✹ The God of: dreams/mortality/death

Also named Yume/Motalim/Zánik

This God is depicted as a meditating monk in the Imperial City and all through Kyoh, but because Sozai sees everything related to death as impure, all other illustrations/interpretations/depictions are censored.
However, the much more popular depiction of the God is the one with its two faces painted. One face is white and the other black, and the God holds a hand on each cheek. In its lap lies both a skull and a sleeping baby.
Everyone who has tried to tap into the power of this god had been cursed, and it is said that if you call upon it in the night, it will crawl out of your chest.

And that is all for now!

I hope you liked it, I know it was a bit long and perhaps a tad complex, but I really worked on making this post both interesting and understandable.

If you have any questions, PLEASE send me an ask because every time someone asks me, I’m forced to think about the answer and that makes me worldbuild! Heh

See ya!

.

-ciao-

#cawolters #writeblr #writer #wip #riseoftheblooddawn #theserpentkiss #worldbuilding #religion #god #gods #mythology #fantasy #darkfantasy #amwriting #MyNovel

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Rise of the Blood Dawn (Masterpost)

The Rise of the Blood Dawn Trilogy is a dark adult adventure-romance fantasy.

Think swords, ghosts, forbidden love and death magic!

Oh, and blood. Lots of it.

.

The Books:

Book I of III

Status: Finished and beta read (READY)

Summery: Shiroin is our main character who we follow for better or for worse (usually worse), while the ghosts of her past gather around to shape her future.

She is the nineteen-year old Heiress to the Empire of The Three Worlds: Kyoh, Gailia and the Endlands. Seemingly a quiet fragile-looking girl, but looks can be deceiving, and Shiroins is the master of deception. She is born with a curse. A black snake of magic resides deep within her bones, and it keeps whispering nasty and naughty things in her ear. Egging her on to assassinate the Emperor, and steal the throne before her time, for instance.

One day, the Emperor has called the Ten Kings to his hall, gathering them all for the first time in a thousand years. The long awaited war with the demonic Blood Kin is breaking, and actions must be taken to either keep the Elsalvians behind the mountain wall, or, find a way to exterminate them for good.

The otherwise careful and cunning Shiroin is caught eavesdropping, and as fate would have it, she is bestowed an Elsalvian sell-sword to watch her every step; the cool and mysterious, Kiel. The two of them quickly find out that they have more in common than their masks.

Just as the Empress and the hired Blade decides to make an alliance to kill off the Emperor, something goes dreadfully wrong.

The curse, which has always stayed behind the bars of Shiroin’s ribcage, springs to life when her father and his dead-eyed sentinel tries to gut her for the dark magic.

In a sudden bite, the serpent launches out of her mouth, whispers turning to shouts, and royal murder.

Stunned, and somewhat ecstatic, Shiroin must travel across the Empire to convince The Ten Kings that she should have the throne despite the slightly unfortunate circumstance. Luckily, Kiel knows the woods and mountains, and together they embark on a blood soaked journey.

Through nightmares, ghouls, ghosts, witches and a bandit or two, Kiel and Shiroin hack, slash and stab their way to both power and freedom.

Book II of III

Status: outlined, 60k sketch text/20k ‘clean text’ - yet to be beta read

Summery:

Shiroin and Kiel has said their sweet goodbyes and are both entering a brief time apart. In that time things begin to heat under Shiroin’s feet. The council is against her, the Kings are against her the White order is against her! She’s planning something big to turn them all over, but Farrah is messing with her head, making her nights filled with dread, and Shiroin’s curse is making thinking straight, tougher still. Enemies and enemies and assassins! Can you take it S?

Kiel is on a rampage. He is tracking down witches, interrogating and torturing them about how to free Shiroin from Farrah’s mind tricks, but he ends up killing someone he shouldn’t have! Wupsies.

Besides our main characters, Kiel and Shiroin, we are introduced to the smiling but cunning King Deria, the ever-tortured Captain Elan of the northern guard, the love his life and baby witch, Katla and some of the nasty two faced Kings. Who’s who, and what are they whispering about in the catacombs of the Imperial Palace?

On that note! We also get to peek behind the political porcelain masks of the White Order, and we discover yet more grim things about the the ancient death magic and the Elsalvians! Necromancy and prophecy goes hand in hand.

The dead are rising from their graves to greet their master!!

~~Can’t say no more! Sorry! The spoilers are real! And also, it might ALL change before it’s edged in stone!~~

Book III of III

Status: outlined and a has a few scenes, including an ending. Dam dam daaaah!

Summery: Shiroin gets to see the Gray City from the inside, Kiel is faced with his past, Deria is played like the pawn he is and Elan is plotting. The war is here.

How will it end?

Who will die when the earth drowns in blood?

.

Stay tuned for updates 🔥 if you want to be added to the tag list just say! Or if you want off of course: @blindandpassionate @sundaynightnovels @kainablue @girlnovels @oceanwriter @bexminx @whymanwrites @writingwordsanddrawingpictures @fukusigma @i-rove-rock-n-roll @corishadowfang @adie-dee @vhum @lilithderayne @machimaquiaveli @keiwriter @thesleevia @vxkassiopeiaxv @marewriteblr @goodvibesalltheway @james-stark-the-writer @strawberryspaceship @somethingwriterly @stardustandnightsky @zburatorii @wingedcatwblr

#MASTERPOST #riseoftheblooddawn #theserpentkiss #theliaralliance #themarkinironandbone #fantasy #darkfantasy #romance #writeblr

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Rise of the Blood Dawn (Masterpost)

MAP | MCs | Other OCs (coming) | Magic (coming) | Religion (coming)

Rise of the Blood Dawn is a dark adult romantic/paranormal fantasy planned in three books.

Think swords, forbidden love and black magic!

Oh, and blood. Lots of it.

The Books:

Book I of III

Status: Finished and beta read (READY)

Summery: Shiroin is our main character who we follow for better or for worse (usually worse), while the ghosts of her past gather around to shape her future.

She is the nineteen-year old Heiress to the Empire of The Three Worlds: Kyoh, Gailia and the Endlands. Seemingly a quiet fragile-looking girl, but looks can be deceiving, and Shiroins is the master of deception. She is born with a curse. A black snake of magic resides deep within her bones, and it keeps whispering nasty and naughty things in her ear. Egging her on to assassinate the Emperor, and steal the throne before her time, for instance.

One day, the Emperor has called the Ten Kings to his hall, gathering them all for the first time in a thousand years. The long awaited war with the demonic Blood Kin is breaking, and actions must be taken to either keep the Elsalvians behind the mountain wall, or, find a way to exterminate them for good.

The otherwise careful and cunning Shiroin is caught eavesdropping, and as fate would have it, she is bestowed an Elsalvian sell-sword to watch her every step; the cool and mysterious, Kiel. The two of them quickly find out that they have more in common than their masks.

Just as the Empress and the hired Blade decides to make an alliance to kill off the Emperor, something goes dreadfully wrong.

The curse, which has always stayed behind the bars of Shiroin’s ribcage, springs to life when her father and his dead-eyed sentinel tries to gut her for the dark magic.

In a sudden bite, the serpent launches out of her mouth, whispers suddenly turning into shouts, and royal murder.

Stunned, and somewhat ecstatic, Shiroin must travel across the Empire to convince The Ten Kings that she should have the throne despite the slightly unfortunate circumstance. Luckily, Kiel knows the woods and mountains, and together they embark on a blood soaked journey.

Through nightmares, ghouls, ghosts, witches and a bandit or two, Kiel and Shiroin hack, slash and stab their way to both power and freedom.

Book II of III

Status: outlined, 60k sketch text/20k ‘clean text’ - yet to be beta read

Summery:

Shiroin and Kiel has said their sweet goodbyes and are both entering a brief time apart. In that time things begin to heat under Shiroin’s feet. The council is against her, the Kings are against her the White order is against her! She’s planning something big to turn them all over, but Farrah is messing with her head, making her nights filled with dread, and Shiroin’s curse is making thinking straight, tougher still. Enemies and enemies and assassins! Can you take it S?

Kiel is on a rampage. He is tracking down witches, interrogating and torturing them about how to free Shiroin from Farrah’s mind tricks, but he ends up killing someone he shouldn’t have!

Besides our main characters, Kiel and Shiroin, we are introduced to the smiling but cunning King Deria, the ever-tortured Captain Elan of the northern guard and the love his life, Katla.

We also get to peek behind the porcelain masks of the White Order, and we discover yet more grim things about the the ancient death magic and the Elsalvians! Necromancy and prophecy goes hand in hand.

The dead are rising from their graves to greet their master!!

~~Can’t say no more! Sorry! The spoilers are real! And also, it might ALL change before it’s edged in stone!~~

Book III of III

Status: outlined and a has a few scenes, including an ending. Dam dam daaaah!

Summery: Shiroin gets to see the Gray City from the inside, Kiel is faced with his past, Deria is played like the pawn he is and Elan is plotting. The war is here.

How will it end?

Who will die when the earth drowns in blood?

.

Stay tuned for updates 🔥 if you want to be added to the tag list just say! Or if you want off of course

@vhum @lilithderayne @fukusigma @keiwriter @machimaquiaveli @thesleevia @kukyreadscookie @vxkassiopeiaxv @behrtimestories @marewriteblr @whymanwrites @adie-dee @goodvibesalltheway

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Fresh from update-oven, and new links added!

#riseoftheblooddawn #theserpentkiss #theliaralliance #themarkinironandbone #cawolters #masterpost #my wips #wip #writeblr #writer #Author #caw #shiroin #kiel #darkfantasy #writing fantasy #fantasy #writing romance

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viiciieuse

Catacombe dei Cappuccini. Palermo, Sicily, Southern Italy.

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Ey oh! I stopped reblogging for som’ reason! Gonna start again ! Creating my own lil inspiration feed for my NOVEL WIP book II of ‘Rise Of The Blood Dawn’ 💀⚔️💕🐍

First book is The Serpent Kiss !! Go to my wordpress to read about the project !!

Also, happy hallows man!

#horror cw #death cw #novel #inspiration #write a book bro!#writingcommunity #i wrote a book #theserpentkiss #riseoftheblooddawn #mynovel #author #darkfantasy #fantasy