The Gallery
One image per story
The best piece of art from each tale in the archive — the scene it captures, and the road into the story it belongs to.
The Last Star of the Pleroma
The youngest Aeon at the edge of the Fullness, the moment before the false light calls her down.
Read the storyThe Watchers
Azazel bound in darkness beneath the desert of Dudael, until the great day.
Read the storyThe Sleeper in Clay
The spark passed down the generations: a single human figure in the dark, an ember of gold in the chest.
Read the storyThe Descent of the Savior
The Savior dives from the threshold of the Pleroma into the stacked heavens of the enemy.
Read the storyThe Son Who Turned
One thread of light reaching down through the dim heavens — and one Archon, alone among the powers, looking up.
Read the storyThe Blind God
Yaldabaoth enthroned at the heart of his seven heavens, certain he is the first and only god.
Read the storyIn the studio
Art in production
These stories are fully written and readable now — their illustrations are being painted.
The Night Under the Tree
No flood, no fire, no army of light: one man, one night, one tree — and by morning, the claim that death itself had been seen through.
Read the storyGilgamesh, Who Saw the Deep
The oldest epic on earth: a king loses his friend to death, walks off the map to un-learn it, and comes home with the only immortality there is.
Read the storyPersephone, the Stolen Spring
A flower grown as a trap, a mother who stops the world, and one pomegranate seed that writes the terms of the seasons.
Read the storyThe Churning of the Ocean
Gods and demons take opposite ends of the same serpent and churn the cosmic ocean for the nectar of immortality — and the first thing that surfaces is poison.
Read the storyRagnarök, the Twilight of the Gods
The gods know exactly how they will die. They arm for it anyway. The Norse end of the world, and the green morning after it.
Read the storyThe Death of Osiris
A god murdered by his brother, sealed in a chest, scattered in fourteen pieces — and reassembled by the two women who refused to stop looking.
Read the storyThe Descent of Inanna
The oldest descent story ever written: the Queen of Heaven walks into the land of the dead, and the dead do not give her back for free.
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