Mode Récit

La bibliothèque des récits

Lisez le lore comme des romans illustrés. Chaque récit est un parcours choisi à travers le graphe : touchez n’importe quelle figure pour quitter la page et l’explorer.

✦ FeaturedGnostic

The Last Star of the Pleroma

The Gnostic drama of fallen Wisdom, from the Fullness of light to the prison of matter, and the long road home.

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Gnostic

Eden: The Kingdom of the Blind God

A god wakes alone in the dark, mistakes the silence for proof that he is the only one, and builds a counterfeit heaven, a mechanical cosmos and a beautiful walled prison to keep that one mistake true.

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BientôtGnostic

The Apocalypse

The end told from the Gnostic side, where the world does not burn, it is disclosed: the light counted back, the counterfeit heaven rolled up, and nothing missing from the Fullness at last.

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BientôtGnostic

The Prophets

Divided into nations and deafened by empire, the seed should have gone quiet. Instead, Wisdom learns to speak in the one voice the Archons cannot confiscate: one human being at a time.

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BientôtGnostic

Babel

The water failed, so the blind god stops trying to drown the light and starts trying to divide it. Seventy tongues, and not one of them can say the word whole.

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BientôtGnostic

The Flood

The blind god sees a light in his clay that he did not put there, and reaches for the water. The Genesis story, running backward.

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BientôtGnostic

The Pleroma

The Fullness before anything was missing from it: the Invisible Spirit, the first thought that looked back, and the thirty Aeons of a world with no word for lack.

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Biblical

The Adversary

The most famous villain in the world was not born a villain, and was not born once. A biography of the Devil, assembled across a thousand years from a prosecutor, a taunt, a snake, a fire-angel and a dragon.

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Taoist

The Old Master and the Gate

Every other story here is a war of light against dark. This is the tradition that refused the war, and read the dark and the light as one turning circle.

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Arthurian

The Matter of Britain

A boy pulls a sword from a stone and builds an order of justice out of an age of blood, undone by the flaw set at its own beginning. The rise and fall of Camelot, and the king who is not dead but waiting.

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Zoroastrian

The War of Light and Dark

Two spirits, one who chose truth and one who chose the Lie, and a universe built as the trap that ends the war. The root of every light-against-dark story that came after.

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Buddhist

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.

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Mesopotamian

Gilgamesh, 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.

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Greek

Persephone, 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.

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Hindu

The 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.

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Norse

Ragnarök, 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.

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Egyptian

The 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.

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Mesopotamian

The 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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Biblical

The Watchers

Two hundred angels swear an oath on Mount Hermon, take wives, teach the forbidden arts, and father the giants. The oldest fall-of-angels story ever written.

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Gnostic

The Descent of the Savior

Sent by the Ineffable Light, the Savior descends through every heaven unrecognized, breaks the lion, strips the Archons, and leaves the road home open.

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Gnostic

The Son Who Turned

One Archon heard the voice of Wisdom and believed it. The story of the only defection in the history of the seven heavens.

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Gnostic

The Blind God

The fall of Sophia, told from inside the dark: the birth, boast and long humiliation of Yaldabaoth, the god who cannot see.

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