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Welcome to Divine Tyranny! In a world where all-powerful gods live among mortals and play with their life for their own entertainment, Archivist Cécile is doing her best to go unnoticed. Unfortunately, the warring water and forging gods are now interested in the archives... Come read about Cécile and the world in which she lives!
Introduction to the story | Cécile | The Archivists | Novel upcoming

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Appeasing the gods

  Articles presenting how to properly worship the gods and why it is in everyone's interests to do so.  
How to appease gods through prayers and sacrifices
Tradition / Ritual | Jan 21, 2024

Gods are incredibly powerful entities that roam in our realm in search of entertainment—which they often find in causing destruction and misery. To ensure our survival, we appease them through the regular gift of a small amount of magic via worship.

The director instruments channelling prayer magic
Technology / Science | Jan 21, 2024

Come to Temple of the Forging God to get one of the best director instruments of the country! Guaranteed to send the magic of your prayers directly to where you want it to go! Never again run the risk of offending your patron God with diminished offerings

    Articles presenting the consequences of attracting a god's attention, whether good or bad.  
The Brand
Tradition / Ritual | Jan 21, 2024

A divine glowing mark left on the skin of any mortal a god has deigned to touch with their power. The ultimate proof of favour, desired by everyone—or at least, all those without common sense.

Mortal Possession
Vehicle | Jan 21, 2024

When gods have a task that needs delicate handling, they take care of it themselves by resorting to the use of mortal vessels. More often than not, this does not end up well for the mortals in question...

Mark of A God's Disfavour or the Divine Curse
Condition | Jan 21, 2024

Occasionally, someone annoys a god sufficiently for them to not smite them outright but make the punishment drags on. Or the mortal is protected and out of reach from simple execution. In such cases, the mortal is considered to be "cursed".

    Articles presenting the Eldritch Horrors threatening the country and how they are kept under control, with both an adult and a child version of the explanations.  
Eldritch Horror Feeding Ritual
Tradition / Ritual | Jan 21, 2024

Eldritch beings live underground and get agitated every few months at the least provocations. They immediately need to be appeased and put back to sleep, and what better way to do that than with a tasty human meal?

Picture Book: The Tale of the Eldritch Horrors
Myth | Jan 21, 2024

A picture book illustrating the Tale of the Eldritch Horrors. It explains how very nice people are saving the country by volunteering to become snack for the Horrors. Listen children, and take example on them!

 

Cult culture

    The two main gods of the country are well known for their inventions.  
The Water God's Gifts
Item | Jan 21, 2024

Our Lord the water god Lydien, ruler over all waters, likes to be seen as a benevolent and generous god. As such he gifts his most loyal followers with magical artefact He creates Himself.

The forging god's alchemy
Technology / Science | Jan 21, 2024

The forging god is one of the main initiators of the industrial revolution. He has taught us the secrets of alchemy and how to use it to create many wonderful metal alloys, themselves essential to the making of incredible instruments.

    Examples of how mortals have to cater to the gods' delicate sensibilities.  
Divine portraits
Generic article | Jan 21, 2024

Divine portraits are essential to advertise our faith and show off how amazing the gods are. Unfortunately, they are extremely peculiar in how they demand to be represented, and woe be the one who offend them...

The godly calendar
Physical / Metaphysical Law | Jan 21, 2024

You'd think making a calendar isn't too complicated, especially when the month is just up there every night to help us. But of course, the gods have to complicate everything by fighting over each single month to have it named after themselves...

    A locket that all high priests of a divine cult have to wear and why.  
High Priests' Lockets
Item | Jan 21, 2024

High priests have to wear a locket imbued with the power of their god. Those lockets serve as a sign that the priest deserves respect, as way to access and use their god's power, and as a beckon allowing for easy possession by their god.

    A story illustrating the rivalry between the water and forging gods.  
The Story of the Trees of the Water Temples
Myth | Jan 21, 2024

A legend explaining the strange trees that are found in the gardens of all water temples, as well as why it is a very bad idea to disrespect the gods and get in between their rivalries.

 

Mortals' lives

  The results of the last attempt to elect a royal Heir. This is the background to the novel's plot.  
The Pollution War
Military Conflict | Jan 21, 2024

When the gods' council was unable to resolve an industrialisation vs environment conflict, our Lord the water god Lydien and the forging god led the country in a short but bloody civil war... while pretending to have nothing to do with it, of course.

  Examples of how the gods are influencing daily life in the country for mortals.  
Gods' influence on language
Language | Jan 21, 2024

Beyond a few differences of accents, everyone in the world speaks the same language and write it in the same way. What not many realise, is that this is the result of a lot of efforts from the gods.

Dry Season Retreat in the Temple Complexes
Tradition / Ritual | Jan 21, 2024

With how unbearably hot the end of the dry season gets, everyone who can goes to the temple complexes at the foot of the mountains to relax and enjoy life, though without ever forgetting the gods and what devotion and magic we owe them.

  A game played in the country.  
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