Immortalis plunges readers into a realm where the boundaries of consent, power, and survival blur into a relentless tapestry of torment and desire. Those who shy from controversial themes would do well to turn away now, for this is no gentle fable of redemption or romance. It is a chronicle of unyielding domination, where the immortal feasts upon the mortal not merely for sustenance, but for the exquisite thrill of breaking what resists.
The world of Morrigan Deep, shrouded in eternal dusk since Primus lowered the suns to the horizon, operates under systems designed for imbalance. Vampires hunt thesapiens with impunity, and thesapiens retaliate in futile mobs until Irkalla, the hellish governance beneath the surface, imposes its ledger of contracts and punishments. At the apex stand the Immortalis, neither vampire nor mortal, but entities of voracious appetite for blood, flesh, and subjugation. Theaten and Nicolas, sons of Primus, embody this horror: Theaten with his refined cruelty in Castle D’Aten, Nicolas with his grotesque asylum of Corax, where the line between patient and prey dissolves.
Consider Nicolas DeSilva, proprietor of Corax, who styles himself doctor yet trades souls with Irkalla for a licence to declare sanity insanity at whim. His domain is a labyrinth of filth and ingenuity, cells where beds bear straps for nocturnal pursuits, corridors lined with mirrors and clanging clocks to erode the mind before the body yields. Inmates, thesapiens and vampires alike, endure not for cure but for Nicolas’s amusement: the nerve harp plucking agony from exposed sinews, the void capacitor chair convulsing flesh in electrical rapture, the gurney that crushes breath from lungs. Red-haired tributes receive his particular favour, kept for easy access, their lives prolonged only to heighten the savouring of their end.
Such horrors are not isolated; they permeate the Deep. Theatens castle hosts banquets where living tributes lie basted upon silver platters, carved with ritual precision by nobility like Ducissa Anne and Count Tepes. The Electi, thesapiens priests breeding Immolesses every century to challenge Immortalis power, send forth priestesses like Lucia and Stacia, only for them to meet fates of ripping asunder or slow consumption. Allyra, the third and anomalous Immoless, boils vampires for secrets, her shipwreck Sombre a chamber of extraction where pain loosens tongues before death claims them.
Controversy thrives in the erotic undercurrents, inseparable from brutality. Immortalis urges demand flesh not only for feeding but for primal release, sadism woven into every coupling. Nicolas unlocks cells for amorous pursuits, his Evro Webster restraining victims for convenience. Theatens concubine Calista endures whips and chains as prelude to consummation, her wedding vows sealing eternal torment. Even Allyra, born of demonic lineage, yields to the triad of Nicolas, Chester, and herself in Orochi form, pleasure and pain indistinguishable in their merged ecstasy.
The Ledger, inscribed authority of Irkalla, binds these excesses in contracts that permit the monstrous. Immortalis split into Vero and Evro, true self and primal beast, merge only by will, their dual forms a fracture reflecting the Deep’s chaos. Primus’s sons, Theaten and Nicolas, perpetuate this: one through noble ritual, the other through grotesque farce. Djinns like Ibliss grant wishes with treacherous literalism, necromancers like Elyas hoard souls in Sihr’s icy palaces, and ghouls like Chives decay eternally in servitude.
Immortalis confronts the unpalatable: dominance as love, violation as intimacy, creation as abomination. Vampiric locusts strip flesh from fields, triffids devour from below, and Arachron, Webster’s spider-chitin horror, awaits deployment. Theaters stage mutual devouring, circuses unleash flea plagues, and hunts pit thesapiens against boars and bears in Varjoleto’s gloom. To read Immortalis is to immerse in this unrelenting vision, where controversy is not theme but essence. Those who avoid such shadows will find no safe harbour here.
Immortalis Book One August 2026