Eschaton Cycle

Created by

Matt Larkin

It starts with a whisper, a haunting intimation of a World askew. That we are, in the end, caught in a death spiral, time nearly played out, whilst entropy tugs ever harder upon the Wheel of Fate.

Looking now into the dying embers, we at last apprehend Truth, and in it the revelation that the vaunted tales of old were not what we thought … And neither, in fact, were we.

For if we have lived before, might not all we’ve dreamt be but our souls’ memories of Worlds become dust …

The Eschaton Cycle is a dark fantasy adventure series inspired by numerous myths and legends. Each sub-cycle within the series represents an Era of time, bookended by cyclical apocalypses. Every cycle has its own flavour, but intermeshes with the others in a tapestry.
The World of the Eschaton Cycle is a prior iteration of our world, and the source of our folklore, preserved in the collective unconscious. Historical and mythological figures and traditions play out and may repeat in self-similar patterns, but not necessarily exactly as we have preserved them.

What is the Gnosis, you dare ask, grasping neither the extent nor weight of the question.

Ask not such perilous queries, unless you, consumed by that desperate gnawing, can no longer bear the blissful lie. For the Ontos is the crushing weight, the Truth of cosmos, and the Gnosis, the apprehension thereof.
— The Secrets of Gnosis