The Bell That Buried GodsFantasy fairytale
The Bell That Buried Gods
A stonewing deserter hears his dead daughter inside a bell forged from the armor of fallen gods. To free her, he must cross a battlefield where the earth remembers every killing—and face the saint who made his grief into a weapon. An adult dark fantasy of terrible mercy, sacred horror and love that survives its own mistakes.
Ending promise · contains a broad spoiler
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A male stonewing veteran discovers his daughter's soul among the dead imprisoned in a war bell. A female human saint intends to ring it to entomb a waking god, while a male beetlefolk battlefield archivist learns that freeing the dead may wake what killed them. Their choices turn a rescue into a reckoning with the uses of grief.
Cast
Saint Ilyra Vale
antagonist · wants Keep the sleeping god imprisoned through one final winter
Veyr Rook
protagonist · wants Release his daughter's soul from the war bell
Ossin Reed
witness · wants Return every stolen name to a surviving family
The Bell That Buried Gods
3,696 published words · 80,000 planned