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

Yelena is chased into the Chained Library, but the fun and games get darker, and they make a disturbing discovery relating to the Mortress and her realm.

CWs: monster smut with primal play elements, reference to ritual self-sacrifice.

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

Achaidh Cheide

Morgana Rides

Chapter 10 is here! In which Yelen & Yelena perform some experiments in Yelen's alchemy tower, and Yelen makes some grisly confessions about his tyrannical past.

Music Credits:

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

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

Soundtrack: Morgana Rides, Redletter

Chapters 08 and 09 are here! This episode contains monster spice.

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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 Dream: The Dance Begins

Soundtrack: SCP-x4x, SCP-x6x, Folk Round, Morgana Rides.

Chapter 07: Yelen's Stories.

Yelena gets to know Yelen, who struggles with reality and sudden socialisation, and they play guessing games together... with a few forfeits...

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CWs: mental health issues, depressive mindsets, derealisation, detachment/dissociative disorder symptoms.

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 Dream: The Dance Begins

Kevin MacLeod pieces used in Ch 07:

Midnight Tale

Bittersweet

Our Story Begins

Leaving Home

Quinn's Song - First Night

PART 2: THE CASTLE

Chapter 05: The Wanderer - Yelena narrowly evades the rot in the forest and finds the castle.

Chapter 06: Yelen - Yelena meets Yelen, who doesn't realise he's been alone for ~90 years.

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CWs: rot-related peril, non-graphic rabbit hunting and butchery, suicide ideation

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

Intro/Outro: Quinns Dream: The Dance Begins

Music: Quinn's Song: First Night; Moonlight Hall; Magic Forest; Giant Wyrm; Midnight Tale; Bittersweet

Sound Effects: BBC Sound Effects Library & Floraphonic - Pixabay (monster roar)