The Serpentbane Catalogue - Volume I: Sacred

Vhera Serpentbane has spent her adult life looking at things correctly — past the category assigned, past the name given, down to what something actually is. This precision has cost her everything she had and given her everything she needs. When contracted guard work brings her to a temple compound in her homeland, she looks at the serpent at its centre and sees what eleven years of wrong worship has been concealing: not a god, not a manifestation, not sacred in any sense at all. An instrument. Something being used by something else, something older than the priests' theology, something that has been fed by their misdirected devotion for longer than they know. She corrects the misuse. She pays the cost. She leaves with new warpaint and a category of desire she has just begun to name. What she doesn't know is that in the moment she looked correctly at the compound's secret, the secret looked back. And what looked back found her useful. The Serpentbane Catalogue is the first volume of a three-part erotic horror serial set in the world of the Slitbane Saga — a dark fantasy universe built on the bones of Robert E. Howard's Conan mythology. It follows Vhera across her exile and her arrival at The Depository, a fortress at the edge of the Exiled Lands where something in the archive has been moving things, a counter-beat has appeared in the music, and the line between desire and design is thinner than anyone has measured. Explicit content throughout. Lovecraftian horror woven through erotic scenes, not adjacent to them. Body transformation. Divine influence. Three installments, one arc, no clean ending. Part of the Slitbane Saga.