• they/them

plural system in Seattle, WA (b. 1974)
lots of fictives from lots of media, some horses, some dragons, I dunno. the Pnictogen Wing is poorly mapped.

host: Mx. Kris Dreemurr (they/them)

chief messenger and usual front: Mx. Chara or Χαρά (they/them)

other members:
Mx. Frisk, historian (they/them)
Monophylos Fortikos, unicorn (he/him)
Kel the Purple, smol derg (xe/xem)
Pim the Dragon, Kel's sister (she/her)


In a distance he discerned a shed by the side of the road, broke into a run, and, reaching it, took shelter with a bound which landed him in a shallow puddle lying just within the dark entrance. "Oh, damn and blast!" he cried with a great voice. "Why was this bloody world created?"

"As a sewer for the stars," a voice in front of him said. "Alternatively, to know God and to glorify Him for ever."

This is a passage from Williams's War in Heaven and it's quite typical of him: a clerk from a publishing-house runs into a shed for shelter from the rain, lands in a puddle, curses Creation itself, and it just so happens there's a mystically-minded poet in the shed with him. it's not realistic exactly...magical-realistic, perhaps. I quite like it, and it's quite a bit more exciting (though more difficult to follow) than C. S. Lewis's prosaic and even mundane style. When Williams gets mystical it feels integral to the texture of his storytelling; when Lewis tries to get mystical, it's often jarring and awkward, like when Dionysos suddenly pops up in Prince Caspian.

(🎶 O to be Prince Caspian / Afloat upon the waves 🎵)

~Chara


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