tw sacrifice, death, dark stuff basically // so the lore is that there are gods and the gods use mortal souls as a currency, and there's a black market of people who manage the soul trade. there are 3 kingdoms who each have patron gods who they sacrifice people to in order to gain power and favor. the (placeholder) names for their kingdoms and their respective gods are as follows: (note ... all domains and names are a massive wip) - Narynth, who's patron god is Nariel, god of time - Maritel, who's patron god is Mariner, god of power - Liminos, who's patron god is Linox, god of light the value of a soul is based on the purity of their heart, so a morally gray person will not have as much value, and someone evil will barely be valued at all. services done in the name of a god greatly increase a soul's value. at death, a person's soul goes directly to their patron god's afterlife, unless the god rejects them, in which they go into the hands of the black market where their souls are used as currency. one who sacrifices another gains a small fraction of the value of their soul and can use it to draw on magic from their patron. one can transfer kingdoms and therefore patrons, however they are required to have their prospective patron's favor in order to join the kingdom, and are often ostracized by their old community. - plot + symbolism the story's about the value of a life + how a life is valued. two people from Maritel meet and at first person A plans to use the kind, caring person B as a sacrifice so person A can join Liminos, where he feels he will be more able to learn his trade, which is unvalued in Maritel. however, while gaining person B's trust, person A falls in love and begins to question his actions. sadly, news of his plan is spreading, so he escapes with person B. as they journey between the kingdoms, person B begins to fall in love with person A. while they are heading to Liminos, they are attacked, and person B, in an attempt to defend person A, kills the group of guards chasing him. because of this crime, neither person A nor person B will be welcome in Maritel anymore, and so they head to Liminos, where they are told that only one of them may enter. in order to gain the favor of the patron god, a sacrifice is needed. so they run. neither is willing to let the other die. but person A knows that in Narynth they will receive the same treatment, so he turns back to Liminos and offers himself as a sacrifice so that person B can live. unbeknownst to person A, person B does the same in Narynth. person A has done evil for selfish reasons, but in the end chose good. person B was nothing but kind for all his life, but did something evil to protect someone he cared about. they both lay dead upon separate altars. they are to rise again in different afterlives, never able to see each other again, nor ever confess their love. tl;dr / ideas person A is probably going to be name Valiant (Vally lwk) and he's lwk training to be a royal guard BUT he HATE HATE HATES fighting like BAD. so he decides to kidnap this dude off the streets to sacrifice him. but the dude he kidnaps is kinda cute so Vally decides to lie to him! because he doesn't want him to feel bad. oh yeah and Vally might be a transman idk
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