King Of The Dead - Blog Posts

And what of the fate of Icarus's mother?

For her son as flown too close to the heavens,

Lost about at sea.

Been going crazy with getting things put together recently and I've finally made a map of the world :] there's a ton of lore surrounding it so feel free to ask any questions about a specific nation or just the world in general

I'll list each nation+their capital one just in case stuff is too hard to read:

-Kyronil, Fotial

-The Harrowinds, Yorzin

-Helgesh, Rotsine

-Denekun, Mondurgol(not technically a nation and not technically a capital but. You know)

-Etharail

-Ke'toreth, Torinth

-Kestoril, I'beys

-Morthil, Orgira, The Eye Of Qeth

-Zowlind, O'elin

-Pagonris, Glys Haven

-Hasahvnah, Mogron

-Rinhalt, I'lgoss

I love showering everything I create in inspiration from Greek mythology. Especially with symbolic names. Khalios' mother's name was Penelope. His best friend was named Ithaca. Ithaca and Arcadia are siblings(both names are places in ancient Greek). Psyche is named after the goddess of Psyche and the wife of Eros. I can go deeper into everything if wanted but god I love Greek mythology and tangling it into everything I make.

Oh, fly, Sweet Icarus.

For they come to take your wings away.

Fly, for the sea, Sweet Icarus.

For they come to strip you of your freedom.

Just some general info about Khalios, Psyche, Arcadia, and general world things

Cw for cults and animal death.

-Khalios was raised by a cult, as a god, and therefore can be...more than a bit of an asshole all of the time.

- The cult was consisted primarily of Ai'valii which are an elf like race, adjacent to humans but with increased innate magic, cat-like pupils and, of course, pointed ears.

- Arcadia is an Ai'valii

-Arcadia, Psyche, and Khalios all have excess amounts of magic within them, moreso than what is the norm for this world but each centered around a specific element. Arcadia is life. Psyche is love. Khalios is death.

-To go along with each element, their is a god personifying it. Both the death and love gods are deer-like.

- The mortal name of the love goddess is I'ona, but she is also referred to as: the stag Queen and the matron of the heart. He personifes all love, not just romantic.

-Gods are made of pure magic and often, in cases when they are wounded, those remnants of them will form into "God Beasts". God Beasts can also be formed purely accidentally, like in cases when a gods presence lingers too long in one place.

- Another similar situation is The God Children, where a divine being will willingly remove a piece of their magic from themselves and form it into a sentient being, often sharing traits with both them and their divine animals.

- the act of killing a god beast, regardless of which god it belongs to, is seen as one of the most damning acts possible.

- That being said, Khalios has killed a god beast before. An emperor's Hound, the beast of death. The act was one commanded to him by the people who raised him, a sorts of ritual sacrifice to the true death god at the hands of his soon to be vessel.

And we all still die

Yeah we all still die

What will you leave behind?

Oh we all still die

I haven't figured out what Psyche's magic looks like yet, but Arcadia and Khalios both have such pretty magic.

Despite having such strong death magic, Khalios's looks like space. And Arcadia is so very clearly life. Khalios, who strives to be literally anything else but what he is with magic masquerading as something that it's not. And Arcadia, who's always so solidly known who he is. Love them for that :)

Something from a bit ago of the king himself

Btw Arcadia did the embroidery on Psyche's skirt :] she's such a good partner and is really good with things like that

God. I really need to post more about my guys here. Anyways. Meet Psyche :]