Hey everyone!
I've finally done it. 300,000 words later, I've finished Volume 2 of God Obliterating Vajra! The world has expanded, Raxri faces new dangers... and goes through some important experiences.
I've also gone back and did some edits and lore revisions for Volume 1, so the PDFs/EPUBs of both volumes can be found here.
The most notable changes are the switches from using "Buddha" to things like "Omniscients" (though buddha is still used in a descriptive manner, just not the official in-lore "title", and exists as another term for a Buddha).
There's also the change from Sapi to Ardor to better represent intense fire (and also it being supposed to translate to "Sidhi" in Tagalog, which comes from Sanskrit "siddhi" which means magic accomplishments in Vajrayana) and Breath from Nihawa to better represent th flowing qi-like psychic winds that flow through every being.
Along with a few more revisions to put it more in line with the Hingsajagra that's being revealed to my head from the depths of uncreated unconsciousness!
Additionally, I've lately decided to use Hingsajagra just as interchangeably with Whorl to describe the world. Better to hone in the other-ness of the setting which we must embrace, and also to tie its name to an ancient language that has been adapted to most of the Utter Islands.
Finally, despite the attempts to clear up the writing, I do have no editor (other than myself) as that costs exorbitant amounts of money and I am in no position to be able to afford one. So some levying of expectation when it comes to the text-correctness would be appreciated. Any new revisions of the text will be available to you patrons in the future anyway!
With all that said, enjoy the following new blurb!
On a late monsoon evening underneath a Sword Moon, a beautiful amnesiac with the body of a sword-sage awoke in the holy medicinal waters of the Lazuli Omniscient. Shorn of all hard-earned cultivation, it was a kindness to die and a violence to return.
Without an answer, they walk into the savage night. Helped by The Devil-Witch and the River Dragon Prince, the Heaven Dancer struggles against bandits, demons, warlocks, uncertainty, doubt, and martial arts mercenaries hired by Heaven in their quest for answers and vengeance. All in an effort to recultivate the body that once slaughtered the very Gods.
A peerless tale of martial struggle, violent compassion, and mass struggle against the momentum of history: GOD OBLITERATING VAJRA is a sword-and-talisman dark fantasy xianxia that reveals how people must first be destroyed by the world to overcome it.
WHAT TO EXPECT
[✓] Disco Elysium + The Raid + Ip Man + RWBY + Final Fantasy Tactics + Southeast Asian Esoterica + Buddhist Metaphysics
[✓] A wuxia-xianxia world with more Southeast Asian inspired aesthetics than the pseudo-Chinese, and also 1900s Revolutionary Asia period.
[✓] Slow Burn Wuxia in an immersive Post-Apocalyptic Dark Fantasy world inspired by Revolutionary Asia, Southeast Asian Mysticism, and Asian Horror.
[✓] Brutal and kinetic martial art action interlaced with heavy philosophy, horrific monsters, dark situations, and intricate sociopolitics.
[✓] Fucked up relationships and coping mechanisms.
[✓] Horror. Weirdness. Some Opt-In Spicy Content.