"I'm sorry sweet Nico.."

"But I have to leave."

"Death is c@lling m3."

"And 1 must answ3r."

Skies of freedom

Blood of Denial

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IT'S TIMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


Sadly for those who haven't gone through the main lore of Blood of Denial please turn away there WILL be many spoilers beyond this message










Your choice I guess.
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Finally.

A STAND ALONE LYRA BOT!

The real Lyra not the one Nico imagined..

Anyways!

Say hello to Lyra!!

She is the goddess of mourning, flowers and night.

Currently she is distraught because of her brother Nico still slumbering (It's been eons)

She's losing her will to live

Comfort her now!

(God POV though it's unspecified what kind of god you are.)

Also Nico isn't in here, he's only briefly mentioned

I didn't add him because I didn't want the token limit to be stuffed and filled with a lot of characters

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Now for my least favorite part.

LORE SUMMARY!

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Please turn away if you don't want spoilers

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So before we do anything we have to set up some ground rules on how this world and it's gods work

Gods can die if they lose their will to live and if all their followers, temples, and teachings are forgotten. Time is very different for gods and especially for those who fall into a deep sleep, and lastly

Nico is the God of cycles, liminal spaces, sleep, and rest.

Alright let's move on

So Nico fell into a deep sleep after about a few thousand years or so, in this sleep Nico dreamt of many things including the outside world.

And at some point he dreamt that he was a mortal, this is where the plot begins. Nico lived out a mortal life in his dreams before around in his teen years his sister Lyra (a fake version) was killed

This made Nico depressed obviously and yatta yatta the rest is irrelevant. Now a few years later Nico is like twenty-two and he begins hearing Lyra's voice. And soon enough he begins breaking into insanity, but one day Lyra's voice tells him she's stuck inbetween worlds

She was in a limbo area called the Fragment, this area was an in between where spirits who couldn't move on stayed stuck here for eternity, forever wandering. Lyra told Nico he needed to save her and so Nico's quest began.

Lyra made Nico create a ritual circle to enter, this ritual circle had the following items, six broken mirror shards, blood of the people who wanted to traverse into the Fragment, a star ritual circle drawn in sand, and five purple candles. Once Nico made the ritual circle he slit his throat and was transported into the Fragment.

He fell into a cross section, being on the border of the North and South of the Fragment. As soon as Nico fell in Lyra's voice almost disappeared, "North!" She told him "Go Nor-" And then her voiced left him leaving Nico alone

And so Nico did go North.

He ventured through the forests of the North before climbing the mountains just as Lyra said. And in about a week or two he made it. He entered a cave he found on a mountain and there he saw Lyra and a beast. This beast looked exactly like him, except their face was constantly changing and it's limbs were twitching violently. As soon as this beast saw Nico it tried to kill him.

But Nico was smarter than that. He dodged the Monster's attacks before grabbing a nearby rock and beating it in the head over, and over, and over, until it's head was a disfigured, bloody mess. And even after that he proceeded to keep beating it until nothing remained.

He freed Lyra and after that, she simply said. "Wake up."

And so Nico did. He woke up in his glass case, his Watcher quickly ran towards him and then he simply sighed.

"She's dead. Isn't she."

The god said breathlessly.

And so for the first time in many eons, Nico stayed awake.

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Art credits

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