Celestials

Updates

Before we jump into today's post, I wanted to give another quick update. Tired of hearing thank you? Well to bad! I want to thank everyone once again for the support and the time you took to read the prologue. It was great to hear from people I have not talked to in awhile and, of course, always amazing to hear from those who I am in regular contact with in my day-to-day. Also appreciate those who shared. 

Keep the comments going and tell me honest thoughts! That is how I will improve!

On to business. As you may have all seen I am sticking to a posting schedule for Tuesdays. This will continue. My plan is to alternate weeks. One week will be showcasing art, teasers, and/or works in progress, where as the following alternating week will be the next chapter in the story. In my last 100 day challenge I found this is a mostly comfortable pace. It takes me about a week to write a chapter and another week to edit it to some from of English. This also gives me the time to draw at least one picture for the story. Maybe in the future I can go at a quick pace, but I do not want to sacrifice quality. I still want to post at least once a week, but do not want to post useless filler. 

So with that line of thinking, I give you a brief description of...

Celestials

If you have not had a chance to read the Prologue, head here first. Some of what I am about to say will make more sense after reading the Prologue and there will be slight spoilers. 

Nessia (pictured above) is a celestial. Obviously, inspired by Catholic/Christian angels. They are old testament however and always have Norse mythology elements incorporated into their attitude and design (ei Valkyries). Celestials are not only the gods messengers and servants, they are warriors - with extreme powers. Nessia for example, as alluded to in the prologue, has the ability to see throughout all the time's strands. 

During the times were the Gods are awake, the Celestials are far more active (as I mentioned above, warriors). Without going to much deeper into spoilers (as I have said previously, I don't want to give everything away and want you all to be able to explore on your own) the Celestials play key rolls behind the scenes but when they do take on form, they are far from subtle. With where Plague Wars takes place in time, they won't be readily apparent in their actions. However they enact fate and are architects of the Gods designs. 

Teaser for next week 

Chapter One - Demon

Days passed into weeks. The Demon walked without rest or substance to sustain it. Hunger was a mortal frailty it did not suffer. However, it did thirst. But it was able to ignore the sensation. Thirst was a weakness that it refused to succumb too. It knew the God’s were merely testing it with the craving. In order to conduct their will, it resisted.  

Others had not remained faithful to the Gods. They failed the test, and the Demon could smell that failure on the wind. They succumbed to their thirst and punishment would be the reward for their weakness. The Demon would see to that, personally. They would suffer a fate worse than the corpse for their lack of faith.  

As always thank you for reading. We will see you next week with the full chapter!

Brett