The Craft of Blasphemy
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2018-06-14
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MFA in Creative Writing, The University of Tampa
Abstract
In the fantasy world of Meynas, Art is magic, and Art is power, and none are more
powerful than the five Sacred Artisans, the five gods that rule the Continent and walk amongst
the people. Meynas is a land choking on plenty, with the five gods preventing war and providing
for the basic needs of all inhabitants of the five Great Cities. War is a distant memory, and
starvation little more than myth. Even in this peaceful world, however, discontent brews as the
dispossessed, Artless masses chafe underneath the rule of the upper class, who have the ability to
Craft their realities, using art to perform magic that mimics the feats the gods perform.
Overpopulated cities bulge with restless limbs and angry mouths, and in the midst of the
bubbling unrest, Veinos, God of Secrets, stumbles upon the greatest secret of the world--that
gods can be killed.
Veinos reaches out into the mortal world to assemble a cadre of malcontents from
different cities and different specialties, including Isoba, a slave that is an illiterate Umbrascribe,
Mist, a Stormsculptor who balks at the excesses of her own noble family, and Ashe, a young
Flamechanter that watched a god be murdered before her very eyes. With these imperfect tools,
Veinos hopes to write the ultimate blasphemy--and end the rule of the gods.
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Novel, Fantasy, Speculative fiction