Part 3: The Rot

Velna flees the village after a single act of defiance brings the soldiers down on them, but what is waiting in the forest is worse... Stick around to the end as Worldbuilding Part 3 is at the end of this chapter, and I talk about how I went about constructing my fantasy religions for this novel.

CWs: eviction, animal death (an owl), mycelial body horror, fear of drowning/freezing to death.

Music Credits:

Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Intro/Outro: Quinn's Song: The Dance Begins

Soundtrack: SCP-x6x, Giant Wyrm

Yelen and Yelena head down to the dungeons and the underground spring to do some blood letting, and Yelen begins to accept personal responsibility for his past. Stick around to the end of this shorter chapter for some behind-the-scenes worldbuilding chat, where I discuss my influences and how I used folklore and Beauty and the Beast adaptations to help shape the world and the characters.

CWs: Depression, and suicide ideation more pronounced here. Blood-letting with antique medical equipment.

Needle/injection description begins at 08:29 - jump to 09:00 to avoid the description of the injection itself.

There is conversation and some character notes from 09:00 while the blood-letting takes place (it's painful).

This whole sequence from needle in to taken out runs from 08:29-10:00. After 10:00 there is mention of wound cleaning.

Music Credits:

Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Quinn's Song: The Dance Begins

Bittersweet

Quinn's Song: A New Man

Yelena succumbs to the rot, but is Yelen's blood really a cure?

CWs: emesis, fever nightmares involving a lot of mycelial body horror, and grim flashbacks of the time of the dead gods.

Music Credits:

Kevin McLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Intro/Outro : Quinn's Song: The Dance Begins

Soundtrack: SCP-x4x, Redletter, Morgana Rides, The Stages of Grief, Midnight Tale