Hey all. So excited to share with you some updates on what I've been working on recently. Alongside this, some updates for 10k Swords over at the end! The last few weeks were also pretty tight for me at work but I'm in a looser part of the year for a bit so I should be able to get some more work in on this one.
Ultraviolent Cultivation
The Revolution comes from nothing. It does not wait.
Wanjo Mekar Magala wanted nothing, and so he lived for nothing. He only lived just enough to keep his grandmother alive and his dog fed. Then, the faceless Debt Reapers came.
Wanjo died for nothing too.
Then a woman wreathed in scarlet flame with a giant sword killed them all. Brought him back from the brink.
Zaji Gozon didn’t save him out of kindness. The Red Gleaming Saints needed Cultivators. People who can train to wield the Sidhi—the life-electricity of the Trichiliocosm—and use it to shatter a world that has made Cultivation possible only for a few.
With nothing to lose and everything to gain, Wanjo must commit the holy violences and finally learn to Want to become a subject of Revolution.
What To Expect
Violent Materialist Marxist Leninist Southeast Asian Esoteric Tropical Gothic Battle Novel.
Gritty, kinetic, tactical pugilism and visceral brawls. The Raid: Redemption meets Jujutsu Kaisen and Naruto meets Shin Megami Tensei, Resident Evil, and Bloodborne.
A unique Southeast Asian Horror spin on Battle Manga style stories
Action Horror, Occult Horror, Dark Fantasy, Gothic Horror, Cosmic Horror
Fucked up relationships, toxic romance, slow-burn between the main leads
Cultivation Systems, Martial Arts, and Magick Arts that draw from Southeast Asian and Tantric traditions
The Five Demiurge Array sealed the Cultivation Wombs of all those born after the Second World Revolution. Heaven and the State and the New God of Capital keeps power for a few. The dead are turned into eternal soldiers, the living are crushed and juiced for Sidhi. The only way to fight back is to become a monster.
Wanjo, a wantless ghost, must learn to become an Inner Devil Sword Dialectician. He’s thrust into a cadre of broken revolutionaries: a spymaster who lives with eternal guilt, a prodigious exorcist who grapples with an Greater Evil, an urban shrine maiden who hides turbulent contradiction, and the greatsword wielding demoness who cleaves through all regret.
To fight for a better world, Wanjo must realize that he must first Want.
Ultraviolent Cultivation is the new action horror occult fantasy battle serial set in Hingsajagra and set a year or so after the events of God Obliterating Vajra (Yes, GOV is done right as they hit Selorong, working as a prologue similar to Jujutsu Kaisen 0). It follows not just Wanjo, but a whole slew of four main characters, each from a different background, but all Cultivating to try and dismantle the Five-Armed Demiurge Array.
It's got all our favorite meathead shonen tropes in there, with a bit of some other genres (mainly toxic relationship dramas from K-Dramas and horror) set in the commie world of Hingsajagra.
Attached is the first 10 chapters!
Some Updates
The Fallen Ogre-Machine: This one has taken a bit longer because of the playtests I've run with fellow friends have caused me to essentially hit the drawing board a bit more with the actual Core game. It's been a very fun experience but it has taken some to get things back together again.
1.7 Playtests. The new version of 10,000 Swords Against Heaven will be going through playtesting and a bit of stresstesting over the week over on the Patreon Discord! Hop on over to find early games! I'll be sharing an early PDF of it as well over there.
God Obliterating Vajra is finished—for now. Its story continues on to the larger and wider scope of Ultraviolent Cultivation. You guys will be getting early chapters for UVC in the meantime while I haven't uploaded it on Royal Road!
That's it for now, please do keep in touch. May your days be endlessly beautiful, everyone, and please stay safe!