Reveries In The Warren
poetry and prose; tales of folklore, and the gothic. Analysis of books, video games and media, and gentle thoughts.
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A Pestilential Compendium (opens the original)
my cold, silent friend (opens the original)
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From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free,We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever gods may beThat no life lives for ever;That dead men rise up never;That even the weariest riverWinds somewhere safe to sea.There is a statue whose resplendence dominates the southernmost nook in our garden. Nestled snugly between the fieldstone wall laden in moss and tendrils of ivy, her hollow gaze betrays nothing. She is the sentinel of my favourite haunt. Her figure like a headwater snaking hom
church mouse . (opens the original)
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Miserere Hardwyck is a member of The Prenderghast Exorcist Company, a prodigious group tasked with the eradication, arrest, and execution of those infected with the mysterious Pestis. The Pestial are identified by their beastliness, madness, and notably fear of the Exorcists' blades specifically; made with Blightstone as harvested from calcified Pestial corpses. Scouring the elusive city of Shaw, the Company acts more like a military police and have full governmental control over the region. Eve
infernal rapture . (opens the original)
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