Detente for the Ravenous

COMING SEPTEMBER 24TH, 2024

“So Hungry was humanity that eventually, they began to eat one another. And their Hunger became Ravenous.” Holy Scripture of the Flesh and Faith, Chapter 1, Verse 6

Too long has the Khajen Empire choked the life from sovereign nations, spreading the ideology of their vicious faith with pike and shot. Too long have they unleashed their god-given beasts upon our soil, breaking governments and slaughtering thousands, all to bring their Garden to fruit. 

Touchstones include:

• Elden Ring
  
• Final Fantasy X
• Blowback, by Noah Kulwin & Brendan James
• The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government by David Talbot
• American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America by Chris Hedges
• aesthetics and technology of the Thirty Years' War...

Julia Arbit is radicalized from priest to assassin after the head of her church deploys a Ravenous, a monster of sin incarnate, to desolate her island home. When her ex-girlfriend recruits her to take revenge, they uncover a horrible escalation in the church’s war against the faithless. While she struggles to reconcile differences with her old flame, Julia must decide whether the faith she holds so dear can be redeemed, or if her Gods only ever demanded blood. Ravenous seeks to parallel cruelties facilitated by the United States’ coups during the Cold War, while exaggerating the ways in which religion can turn people into monsters. 

This is the novel that inspired the Detente for the Ravenous RPG, which can be found at aaronsxl.itch.io/dftrrpg.