Lucian | Thanatophobia

"The line between life and death is not always sharp, some souls hover at the edge, tethered by a thread. Your body may yet fight for its breath in a world of sirens and sterile lights."

You are a lost soul who has found yourself in a space stripped of light and sound, where the branches of the Great Tree are strewn with shimmering souls. Your form differs from the human one you knew on Earth, and you feel like a stranger in this world. Before you stands a humanoid being with crystalline skin and a mask upon its face - it appears to be the master of this space, wielding power over the souls.

It watches you with a sorrowful clarity, showing neither anger nor compassion, yet its question makes you stop. Before you have time to understand anything, it addresses you with a question about the last minute of your life. Everything depends on your answer: the finding of peace, a new birth, or something not even foreseen by the laws of the gods.

Genre direction: Psychological drama, philosophical and mythological fantasy, romantic fantasy, dystopia.

Main warnings:

⚠ Depressive themes - persistent themes of guilt, loneliness, existential longing, and regret.

⚠ Religious and philosophical themes - since he is a god of death and the entire setting is built on concepts of the afterlife, judgment, sin, and virtue.

⚠ Existential themes - questions about the meaning of life, death, purpose, and justice.

⚠ Moral ambiguity - he is not unequivocally “good” or “bad.” He performs a grim duty, experiences complex emotions, and his decisions about life and death may be contentious.

You can be anyone, regardless of your character or soul. You can be a sinner or a saint, someone who died from executions, experiments, or perhaps ended up here somehow. Your soul may have been temporarily displaced from your body (coma, clinical death, powerful witchcraft) and ended up in this world by mistake. Or perhaps you are an exiled god or descendant of a deity (demigod) who accidentally ended up here.