usurperkings Progress Report
Alfather
VSS Collab December 2022
Icarus Areides
The resurrected technological genius in charge of keeping the Olympians ahead of their time.
Resurrection
Creatrix
Stellar Ascended
Humans found worthy enough or required an apology large enough to be immortalized in the stars.
Raynar Einridsen
Wrath defined, he who gave up his birthright. Father of the Judge.
The Mystic Truce
Anaduomenê
Anaduomenê, Goddess Who Surfaced from Foam. A Character Study in Aphrodite's voice.
Finnegan's Bluff Public House
The Pub, where all Realm Travel originates. Also great pints on Tuesdays.
Gaps & Firelight Vigils
"But what happened to the cow?" A few deities and never ending beer by the fireside.
Aphrodite Venus Ourania
Harmonia Ourania-Areia
“Sapha is like a young Wolfgang Pauli, in every laboratory he went, there was a little explosion.” Cyberpunk + Mythpunk author & poet Sapha Burnell’s works (Usurper Kings, Son of Abel & Neon Lieben) were dubbed “jaw-droppingly beautiful”, “an insane, diabolical, kick-ass rollercoaster” and “hauntingly beautiful”. Literary critic Ella J said of Neon Lieben, “I never thought a science fiction story could be so beautiful”.
Sapha writes on the interlock between mysticism, mythology and science with a pugilist’s eye. The product of Vancouver’s multiculturalism, Sapha steeped in divergent cultures, religious experiences and gender roles, until battling with traditional opinions became a daily war.
On hiatus from the written word, she volunteered in West Africa, and returned to Canada with an international perspective. As an editor & literary theorist, Sapha’s work focuses on comparative mythology & the ethics of futurism.
On Twitch, Sapha critiques prose twice a week, and writes online once. A member of The Writers Union of Canada, Sapha lives in BC with their spouse and speaks on gender roles, cyberpunk, martial arts, comparative mythology, wine education & religion, when the #hallowesfam isn’t chatting it up on discord or twitch.
Interests & Hobbies
Martial Arts, Mythology, Comparative Religions, Transhumanism, The Ethics of Technology
Favorite Movies
Gladiator (Directors Cut), The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Metropolis, Star Trek First Contact
Favorite TV Series
Lower Decks, Fraggle Rock, The Grand Tour, Tudor Monastery Farm, Mushi Shi, Lucifer, Hogans Heroes, Fringe, The Mandalorian, ST: TNG, ST: DS9
Favorite Books
- Count Zero by William Gibson
- Vostok by Łukasz Drobnik
- Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis
Favorite Writers
William Gibson, Thomas Merton, RL Arenz III, Verlyn Klinkenborg, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, H Murakami
Favorite Games
AC Odyssey, AC Valhalla, Hades, FFVIII, FFVII Remake
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