Icarus's blog: "Somantics"

K I'm kinda working out some background story or at least some plotlines for
"the bad guy"
in that novel I've started and stopped 20 times.

Fun factoids:

In the present form of the book there's several forces.

Humans (no surprises there)
Gods (not that surprising)
Devils (again, with Enkechel... not that surprising)
And titans (Whoa!? ... I dunno, that's the best word for it proto-gods)

...

Actually you can think of "Gods" more as a anamoly unique to this setting. They're neither good nor bad (much like the devils/demons) but unlike the demons they were willed into being by man.

A desperate, powerful, or deranged enough human wills these gods into being, and consequently, reality gets torn a new one. Every time.

I think that MIGHT be the reason that there's an absence of arcana in this story, in favor of heroism demonology and deific powers and mundane anti-heroes.

That being said there's this guy I've had as a concept for a while
this kinda... lordly type menace. All seeing type, prideful, powerful.
His symbol is a six sided prismatic lens

And there's some debate as to whether he himself is a god, or if his power as a human is greater than gods
hence his position in society.

The titans are at war, fearing that the new gods and the emergent powers of man will some day devour them

some are for this saying: Hey, that's life, we've outlived our usefulness, lets go with the flow of evolution/progress
others say: that's bollocks lets wipe out man before its too late
some say: let man prove their worth and lets fling challenges their way.
some say: lets align ourselves with the most powerful and pray favor
and a handful say: I'm going to kill everything, who cares what you idiots think

We haven't met -THE- Hero yet.
I know that he's John Q. Hell, I haven't decided if he's even literate at the start of the book.
And he's completely unremarkable in every way.

This guy
this Prince of light is based a bit on the king priest of ishtar (dragonlance) the morning star (lucifer) and ... every vaguely terrifying iron fisted Godking-tyrant you're ever going to encounter

But I haven't decided on his style, methods, personality or even appearance.

So...
wanna jump right into it then?

Part 1:
Bringing the light.

Part 2:
Holding the light.

Part 3:
Extinguishing the light.

I reserve the right to burn this in favor of another interpretation.