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Helios on the Moon- 2014 Print Edition -Artwork by Ricardo Sandoval, 2014; back cover text is here; back cover characters, unobscured, are here; excerpts from the novel are here; additional lynx re 'Hel-Moon' are here; ordering lynx are here and here |
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What might have been, will be for sure in 2014Cover(s) by Verne Andru, 1980/2-2013; text by Jim McPherson, 2014 BTW, pHz-1 #12 only exists in script form; Kitty-Clysm is pH-Webworld shorthand for "Cataclysm Catalyst";Double-click to enlarge images in this panel here
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Cataclysm CatalystPhantacea Revisited 2Now available for ordering online, the third graphic novel from Phantacea Publications extracts the complete 'Soldier's Saga' from Phantacea 2-6 as well as the 'Hell's Horsmen' sequence as drawn for pH-7 and the 'Origin of the Devil' from the Phantacea Phase One project. Illustrators include Dave Sim, Ian Fry, Sean Newton, Verne Andrusiek (later Andru), and Ian Bateson; full colour cover by Verne Andru off his black and white Rhadamanthys Revealed proposal as reproduced here and here; dedicated webpage is here. - Double-click to enlarge in a separate window here and here - |
What was once, will be againThirty-six years after its original release, Jim McPherson completes his Launch 1980 project to novelize all the Phantacea comic books with the release of pH-3 artwork by Richard Sandoval, 1978; rollover adjustments made by Jim McPherson, 2013Double-click to enlarge images in this panel here |
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Phantacea Seven- The unpublished comic now novelized - At long last, the second entry in the Launch 1980 epic fantasy has arrived Check out the expanded Availability Listings for places you can order or buy Phantacea Publications in person Images in this row double-click to enlarge here |
Jim McPherson continues his ongoing project to novelize the entire Phantacea comic book seriesDouble-click on image to enlarge in a separate windowDedicated webpage can be found here; back cover text here; lynx to excerpts from the book start here and here; check out material that didn't make it here and related excerpts from its scheduled follow-up, 2014's |
Centauri Island- The web-serial enlarged radically - Ian Bateson's unpublished artwork from Phantacea Seven provides the basis for the first full-length phantacea Mythos Mosaic Novel since Ian Bateson's breathtaking wraparound cover for the novel utilizes his own dragons from pH-7. Those from the unfinished cover for the Phantacea Phase One project can be seen here and here. Images in this row double-click to enlarge here and here |
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Phantacea Revisited 1Check out the expanded Availability Listings for places you can order or buy Phantacea Publications in person NEW: Read most of the mini-novels making up "The Thousand Days of Disbelief" today on Google Books Hit here to see what else is currently available there |
Guess what isn't coming soon any more?"Phantacea Revisited 1: The Damnation Brigade"A Watermarked PDF of the graphic novel can be ordered from Drive Thru Comics here
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The Damnation Brigade Graphic NovelArtwork never seen before in print; almost all of pH-5 available for the first time since 1980 Images in this row double-click to enlarge here |
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No wonder they call themselves the Damnation BrigadeNow available from Phantacea Publications Images in this row are double-clickable from here, here, and, to a lesser degree, here. |
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The Phantacea Revisited ProjectCollecting the Phantacea comic books 1977-1980, 1987, Rv1:DB contains material from pH #s 1-5 + pHz1 #s 1 & 2. This will be the first time in the better part of 30 years that material from pH-5 has been available except from online traders. Watch for
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If they're not, kindly direct local librarians and neighbourhood booksellers to www.phantacea.com in order to start rectifying that sad situation. Either that or, if you're feeling even more proactive, click here, copy the link, paste it into an email and send it to them, along with everyone else you reckon could use a double dose of anheroic fantasy. It will certainly be appreciated. Help build the buzz. The more books sell, the faster the PHANTACEA Mythos spreads. |
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Individual copies of Libraries, bookstores and bookseller collectives can place bulk orders through Ingram Books, Ingram International, Baker & Taylor, Coutts Information Services, and a large number of other distributors worldwide. E-books for Kindle, Kindle Fire, I-pad, I-phone and other applications can be ordered through amazon.com, amazon.co.uk and other amazon affiliates worldwide. An interactive e-book containing the entirety of BookFinder.com lists the latest releases from Phantacea Publications along with a goodly number of additional booksellers carrying them. Also listed therein are almost all of the PHANTACEA Mythos print and e-publications, including the graphic novel and some of the comic books. Another interesting option for the curious is Chegg, which has a rent-a-book program. Thus far its search engine shows no results for phantacea (any style or permutation thereof) but it does recognize Jim McPherson (a variety of them) and the titles of many releases from Phantacea Publications. As for the Whole Earth (other than the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head, at least as far as I can say and always assuming it's still around in what be its 61st century), well, this page contains a list of a few other websites where you can probably order the novels in a variety of currencies and with credit cards. Of course you can always email or send me your order(s) via surface mail. No matter where you live or what currency you prefer to use, I'll figure out a way to fill your order(s) myself. Just be aware that I can only accept certified cheques or money orders. Plus, I'll have to charge an additional 12% to cover Canadian and provincial goods and sales taxes as well as Canada Post rates for shipping. I do use bubble mailers, though. |
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The PHANTACEA Mythos Online: A Glossary of Characters| Illustrated Character Companions for mini-novels extracted from |
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PIVOTAL PLAYERS| Publicity Announcements | Medea Annulis | Mata Avar | Alpha Centauri | Cabalarkon, the Undying Utopian | Daemonicus | Mnemosyne D'Angelo Heliopolis | Romaine Kinesis | Jesus Mandam | Magister Joseph Mandam | Virginia Mannering | O.J. Maxwell | Eden Nightingale Ryne | Loxus Abraham Ryne | Etzel 'Count Molech' Sangati | Saladin Devason | Strife | Sedon St Synne | John Sundown | Phantacea Publications available in print and digitally | |
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ANNULIS, Medea- also known as Ophiomedea on Sedon's Head; maiden name: Tauri; father: Aeetes; presumed mother: Rhea Sangati; half-sisters via Rhea: Mata Avar & Olympias Sangati Kinesis; - believes herself to be the mother of Apsyrtus Annulis, a Summoning Child, by Taurus Ulysses Heliopolis of Apple/Apis Isle (her father Aeetes being one of his predecessors); has three other children, all girls traded to the feeorin of Twilight ( aka Crepuscule, Sedon's Outer Nose on a map of the Hidden Continent) for her lamia (Neath & Lathe) and supernatural abilities, such as they are; - one of her daughters is Praxitheia (Queen Bee) Faerieflight; Praxi's father was none other than that old satyr, Sedon St Synne, who also just happened to be Medea's half-sister Mata's father; - married to Dr Jason Annulis, though rarely lives with him; considers herself a Korant Sybil; with help of Hulga Volsung, Clymene Atreides, & sister Mata helped reestablish Korant Sisterhood on Outer Earth; has a Silver Chariot (a gift from her 'brother', Etzel Sangati) pulled by the two lamia, who are connected to her mother, which she uses to travel through between-space; - Medea was attempting to get her son to hook up with Valfreja Volsung on January 12, 1938; to do so she tried enticing Hulga always Volsung become Faust with her version of Aeson's Bath; ========
======== - a trained Hellion with an Athenan background thanks to Clymene Atreides, though both Sorciere & Granny Garuda refer to her as an Ophirant (Ophidian Snake Lover), which is an Inner Earth Sisterhood based in Ophir-Moorset, the India-like land, albeit not size-wise, just behind the Aural Sea (Sedon's Ear) on a map of the Hidden Headworld; as per the following, Sorciere came to thoroughly despise Medea of the Ararats:
Medea did come back, first to Aegean Trigon (where she was lucky to escape Sorciere) then, as per the following, to Castle Nightmare (from whence she managed to get away just before Sorciere showed up with Magister Mandam and crew):
======== see Witches, Gypsies & Etocretans, Cockatrice; some additional lynx re Medea are here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here; pHanta-pHlickr also holds images suggestive of PHANTACEA's Medea; one of ones that actually depicts the Classical Medea, of Jason/Argonauts fame, is here;Top of Page - Return to Page Contents - Bottom of Page Lynx |
AVAR, Mata- maiden name: Sangati; father: unknown (presumed to be either Azrael Sangati or, more likely, Sedon St Synne); mother: Rhea nee Ararat Sangati; married to Count Zygion Avar; by him had one known living child, Ramona (b. 1927), & one known dead child, Melinda, an ever-sickly Summoning Child who died in late 1923 or early 1924; - half-sisters via Rhea: Olympias Kinesis & Medea Annulis; half-brother: Etzel Sangati; half-sisters via Sed-son: Crystal St. Synne, Krista Udaeus, Pandora Mannering, Sophia D'Angelo & Cybele St Synne; a trained Ophirant (Ophidian Snake Lover); considers herself a Korant Muse; with help of Hulga Volsung, Clymene Atreides, & sister Medea helped reestablish Korant Sisterhood on Outer Earth; in this respect she seems to have been working for and with Clymene nee Catreus Atreides, Magister Joseph Mandam and the Great Man, Loxus Abraham Ryne; - also associated with Stephen von Blut (killed by Raven Fetishim, January 13, 1938) & supportive of Alliance of Man's goal to provoke war between Nazi Germany & Soviet Union; lives on the Zerosses' Aegean Island of Trigon with daughter Ramona & various Etocretans, to whom she is related to via her long dead half-sister, Olympias; ========Mata was with the Hellions' Morrigan of the time, Norma the Deadly Druidess, when the latter killed Celestine D'Angelo at the Pompeii Shelter of the Anthean Shelter in late October 1923; she was still with them in Rome the next day when Norma was killed by Memory of the Angels, age 14; Norma (who was probably Mata's Mama Rhea aging again) was attempting to locate and/or turn a vampire in order to have him or her put the bite on Mata's deathly ill daughter Melinda; the surviving Hellions thereupon kidnapped Memory and Virginia 'Ginny' Mannering, whom only Memory could control, and took them eastwards, eventually to Aegean Trigon and ultimately to Mesopotamia and Persia (see below for more on fate of Memory and Ginny)
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CABALARKON (Cabby the Daddy, the Undying Utopian)- a biogeneticist when he lived and worked on, or travelled off of, the First Weirworld; During their conversation in the DDD near the end of the 'Launch 1980' story cycle, Freespirit Nihila and Quill Tethys refer to an incident recounted at the beginning of 1000-Daze:
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CENTAURI, Alpha- born Sentalli, Alfredo; which is stiil the name he's known as on the Outer Earth;
- longtime drinking bud of Jordan 'Q for Quill' Tethys, the Legendarian; rather embarrassingly for both of he even has a daughter by her, Kirin, born when Jordy was Sister Jordan (Ukemoshi Tethys) on the Summer Solstice of 5953; This note was made in Tenebrife, the capital of Twilight, seven years later, on the Summer Solstice of 5960; Fisherwoman is still striving to regain her position of marital queen of Godbad; Mel is Melina still Sarpedon (Illuminatus); Ukulele is Fish's joke name for Ukemoshi Tethys (Sister Jordan); Zenobia is Laodice Atreides now Hent's daughter whereas Estrella Dark is the offspring of Gloriella born D'Angelo and Dr Immanuel Dark:
======== Some twenty years after the events recounted in "Harry on the Head", which is to say in 5980, Centauri is still reknowned Headworld-wide.
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DAEMONICUS- the earthborn, primary male daemon (or demon) in the centuries prior to the Great Flood of Genesis (called the Genesea in the PHANTACEA Mythos); his mate was/is Primeval Lilith, the Demon Queen of the Night;
- there are images of 2-eyed Daemonicus-types here and here; there's more on Daemonicus pre-Smiler here, here and here; there's an entry on some of those who've occupied the Daemonicus shell over during the course of PHANTACEA on the Web thus far on the Additional Characters web page; Smiler, nominally much more so than Daemonicus, featured prominently throughout Feel Theo; as such there's plenty more re him over on www.phantacea.com; examples are here and here; Top of Page - Return to Page Contents - Bottom of Page Lynx |
D'Angelo, Gloriella (Gloriel, Glory of the Angels)- born on Good Friday, 1933, in the same hospital in Rome as Aranyani always Nightingale; |
D'ANGELO, Mnemosyne- also known as Memory of the Angels, the Grey & the Devils; b. 1909;
'birth' mother: Leonora D'Angelo; conceivably
one of the so-called Trigon
Triplets (other two
being Cybele St
Synne and Eden Nightingale);
initially an otherwise powerless, though sexually-adept Afrite
-- an avowed witch who worships the Great Mother of Love (Aphrodite, Aphropsyche
Morningstar, aka APM All-Eyes);
- on eve of seventh birthday was taken through Beehive
Tomb of Agamemnon (below left) to Sedon's Head
by eldest sister, Celestine (Celeste Mannering),
the Celestial Superior; already there are
Louise St Synne with
Cybele and, presumably,
Rhea always Ararat
with Eden; what happened then is included in one of
the stories recounted in "Blood
Beasts Prime", which is still online; as per here, it's also referred to in 'Wilderwitch's Babies' ========
======== - possible connections to Miracle Memory (the Mnemosyne 3-Thing, Machine Memory, Her Story, Cosmic Woman, Female Entity) & the incomparable Harmony (Datong Harmonia), the Unity of Balance as well as Pandemonium, has never been demonstrated undeniably; the Dual Entities, though, tend to refer to her as Human Memory, implying a very real, even fundamental, connection; - believes she was raped during the Simultaneous Summonings of 19/5920 by Sedon St Synne when she was not quite eleven; killed Norma the Deadly Druidess (conceivably Rhea Ararat), in 1923; helped bring up Virginia "Ginny" Mannering mostly in Sheikh Zechariah Markazi's harem until 1928; in '35/36 was with Joseph Mandam and Etocretans on journey to the Wishing Hell, the Tholos Tomb for Pygmies, in the Eastern Congo; has an amazing memory; - among her pre-1938 lovers were Sedon St. Synne, Sheikh Markazi, Agenor Heliopolis, Alexandros Kinesis, and Magister Mandam, to whom she's deeply devoted; initiated by Etzel Sangati; associate of Clymene Atreides (probable head honcho or Morrigan of the Hecate-Hellion Sisterhood since Memory killed Norma in 1923 and the custodian of Kore-Concord or Kore-Hel, one of Myrionymous Kore's aspects, until handing her over to Summoning daughter Laodice for Lao's protection in Rome); - in Rome, on night of January 12, 1938, Memory slept with Maxwell (Magus Maxius) Dre'Ath and gained her Circean abilities; like niece Claudia did in 1938, as a child once had a cat named Bast; ========
======== - reputedly married Agenor Heliopolis during WWII, mother by Agenor of Europa Heliopolis; see also Circean, Queen of Spades, Memory Entity; lynx to some of PHANTACEA's many Memories can be found here;Top of Page - Return to Page Contents - Bottom of Page Lynx |
KINESIS, Professor Romaine (Rom),also known as 'pro', 'doc' born in 1936; parents: Alexandros (Pluman) & Roxanne (Slipper) nee Heliopolis Kinesis; Romaine Kinesis was about five feet ten and weighed around a hundred and eighty pounds. His darkish skin and thick black beard bespoke his Mediterranean background but few people knew he was actually of gypsy descent. With his broad shoulders and fairly tight gut, he might have been mistaken for a forty-four year old athlete only slightly past his prime but hanging on gamely. In truth, he wasn't very fit at all. About his only exercise was riding his bike to the laboratory every day; a flat, hardly gruelling two mile distance between his surface bungalow and the hidden elevator that took him into the real heart of Centauri Island.
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MANDAM, Jesus- also
known as Jesse or Jess;
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MANDAM, Magister Joseph- Old Joe, Dragon Joe, Mithraic Magus or Persian; born 186?; original could be the twin brother of Rhea Ararat; - presumed father of Jesus Mandam (by Mary Magdalene nee Ryne) and Barsine Mandam (by either the Magdalene or an unknown mother, conceivably Olympias Kinesis born Sangati, who died giving her birth and thus became a lamia); may also have been the father by the Magdalene of Virginia Mannering, assuming she is Jesse's twin sister; - Magister Mandam appears throughout the 1938 Heliodyssey sequences; however, in those serials and others there is a strong suggestion that he is a faerie-type who, over the years, has taken on other identities after cocooning; - these identities may include, but are not limited to, Akbarartha (the rightful Kronokronos Supreme of Temporis by late 5980 YD), King Orfeo (who finished off what had become of the remnant of Strife's Attis circa 5850 YD), the eventually peace-loving berserker 'Killer' Kadesh (a companion of Jordan Tethys as well as Ubris and Kanin Nauroz after his Orfeo days), Michael D'Angelo, until the Simultaneous Summonings of 19/5920, and Obadiah Melvin Power (OMP - D-Brig's Old Man Power) as of 1945; ======== - there are scandalously scads of tell-tale lynx re Magister Mandam starting in the overview section to 'Coueranna's Curse' and continuing throughout its chapter-by-chapter synopses; there's even a suggestion that Dragon Joe isn't precisely his personal psychopomp; - the dragon in this panel was shot at Versailles, not far from Paris, France, possibly in 1997; the old Joe type next to this entry was definitely shot in Vienna, Austria in 1996; - John Barry's King Lear, in the Tate Gallery Britain, looks a lot like old Joe; there are a couple of shots of it on pHanta-phlickr here, taken in London, England, 2014; Top of Page - Return to Page Contents - Bottom of Page Lynx |
MANNERING, Virginia- one of the most long-lastingly important of the Summoning Children;
certainly one of the first of them ever to be born (just after midnight,
on Christmas Day 1920); raised until October 30, 1923, at the Anthean
Witch Shelter near Mt Vesuvius (in the vicinity of the ruins of Pompeii,
south of Naples) in Italy (where the Celestial
Superior acted as Mother Superior);
- Ginny was a toddler in the Pompeii Shelter when Norma
the Deadly
Druidess killed
Celestine in 1923; why the Hellions took Ginny from the Pompeii Shelter
is here;
Albeit neither as a witch or as a supranormal, if she ever was either, Ginny remained a reliable, even stabilizing presence through the mid-Twentieth Century phantacea Mythos. She didn't change a great deal, either. This snippet of dialogue between OJ 'Big Max' Maxwell, Alexandros 'Pluman' Kinesis and his Hot Rox of a wife, Roxanne 'Slipper' nee Heliopolis, takes place on Centauri Island in 1965. For her own safety, and those of Abe Ryne's Jade Tempest twins, Jane and Jade, Hush has already sent Ginny off-island. (BTW, if Ginny's mother was Celeste Mannering and Hush was Pandora Mannering then they might be half-sisters.) Big Max is the first quoted. The conversation is commented upon here.
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MAXWELL, O'Ryan James (O. J.)- born Victor Richter at Castle Nightmare, the von Alptraums' Baltic Sea estate in what was then Prussia, at an unspecified date; he thinks he might be a Summoning Child, a son of one of their retainers or underlings, but the truth is much stranger than that;
Sometime before leaving Centauri Island in very early December 1980, a perhaps not-so-unlikely partnership forms between the two late-in-life become-supras: Doc Defiance, the Gypsium Man, and the Indescribable Mr No Name. This is hardly surprising given the friendship their non-supra-selves had for decades prior to the launching of the Cosmic Express on the last day of November 1980:
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Nauroz, Saladin called Devason, the Master of Weir since 5950 YD- born in 5919 YD;
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NIGHTINGALE, Eden- born 1909; conceivably one of the so-called
Trigon Triplets
(other two being Cybele
St Synne
and Memory of the Angels);
- first wife of Loxus Abraham Ryne; mother by him of twins, Saul & David Ryne, who were born in 1929, and Aranyani Nightingale (b: 1933);
since Aran is the only Ryne born who isn't a twin, many believe Abe Ryne wasn't her father;
By the time of 'Harry on the Head', an unpublished web-serial set in 1960, Cybele St Synne has become quite stout, as befits the Korant Earth Mother known as Miracle Maenad. She's also well into the strange cycle that is still ongoing in 5980. Her Meroudys grew up to give birth to a Meroudys of her own, who in turn had a Meroudys of her own. It may be these girls are all incarnations of Meroudys Artha, which suggests the adult Meroudys Artha in the 19/5960 web-serials is indeed the original Eden Nightingale. The Illuminatus who opens this dialogue is Melina born Sarpedon whereas the Harry is Aristotle Zeross. They would marry four years later in Antheal (April) 5960:
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RYNE, Loxus Abraham- born
just after midnight on January 1, 1900;
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According to the Legendarian in the apocryphal opening to
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ST SYNNE, Sedon- also known as Sed-son; during the Second World War called himself Satan
St Synne; Sedon St. Synne was a peculiar mixture of widely separated races. His father, Kabul, was a world-travelling French missionary-cum-diplomat who was born in Indochina and had an abiding interest in anthropology. His mother, whose name was Takeda, was an Ainu woman. The Ainu were an aboriginal race related to the Japanese as well as a number of neighbouring peoples on the Siberian mainland. St. Synne himself was born on Sakhalin Island in 1875 but was actually raised in Plainsland America, first by the Sioux then by the Metis and their Cheyenne benefactors.
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SANGATI, Etzel- also known as Count Molech, the Melanchlaeni Magician; ... as hairy as a wolf but burly as a five and a half foot tall midget-bear of a man ...
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Faceless Strife (Fitna Marutia, Marut Kanin, Kore-Eris, Kore-Discord)pH-Webworld (formerly PHANTACEA on the Web), like every other incarnation of PHANTACEA, advertises itself as Anheroic Fantasy. Even so, it does have more than its share of top notch slime-buckets, recurring villains of the vilest variety, ones who truly rate more than just a hoot on the hiss-meter. As preserved elsewhere, one of those is definitely Faceless Strife. Of course she's more of a virus, of the venomous variety, than anything else. Once a Master Deva, one of Thrygragos Mithras's Apple Goddesses, she's been adhering to daughters of Outer Earth Sed-sons, such as Sedon St Synne, since circa 4000 YD (Year Zero of the Common Era). From the aftermath of the Simultaneous Summonings of 19/5920 until January 13, 1938 (Yamana 12, 5937 on most of the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head) she was held neutralized on Apple Isle by Miracle Maenad and her protege, Cybele St Synne. From that day forth she bears a great deal of the responsibility for everything that went wrong on either side of the Dome. Indeed, she's so bad about the only way to get rid of her is to become pregnant!
The 'she' Strife (aka Fitna Marutia or Marut Kanin, Kore-Eris and/or Discord) is referring to in this conversation is Aranyani Nightingale; the Ramona is Ramona Avar, Lady Guillotine (Boo! Hiss!). Villains don't get the respect they would probably think they deserve in PHANTACEA, though. Back in early '38, one of Strife's first shells after escaping Cybele St Synne (later Miracle Maenad) was this self-same Ramona, then age 9.
There's an entry on Faceless Strife in the exposition section of the Overview web page created for the 2002 revised version of 'The Moloch Manoeuvres'; among many other places there are entries on 1938's Strife here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and, finally, at least in terms of the first three books making up the 'Heliodyssey' Quintet, here; Faceless Strife is not only one of the most persistent villains ever to appear in PHANTACEA on the Web, she's one of the few characters who might be warrant a Boo! Hiss! whenever and wherever she appears. Indeed, she's so persistent there's even a suggestion there's more than one of her. Truth told there is and there isn't. There are multiple Strifes only in the sense that, as per the synopsis to Kore-2, she was once part of the conglomerate devil known as Myrionymous Kore. Myrionymous just means 'many names'. But because Kore was originally composed of many devils, she had as many personalities as she had names. Evidently Strife is just all that's left of one of her/their most dominant, not to mention dangerously demented, personalities. As such, there remains an open question, never fully answered during the course of 'Aspects of an Amoebaman', which was set in 1960, as to who Strife (and/or which aspect of her, if any) had hold of when she killed Belificent D'Angelo. That she apparently had again got hold of the Miracle Key, which Wilderwitch supposedly destroyed over fifteen year earlier, was one reason there were those who doubted Strife was involved in Bel's death.
The prevailing wisdom of the time was that, once again, she had hold of Ramona Avar by then Ryne (though not yet Lady Guillotine). However, it's far more likely she (if Strife was even involved) had hold of Crystal St Synne, Sed-Son's daughter by OMP's by then long cancerous, supposedly terminally ill, but never quite dying, ex-wife, Corona Power. Also during the course of 1980's 'Centauri Island' Strife had hold of Lady Guillotine's daughter, Balkis Mandam, for awhile; at the same time Balkis's twin brother, Solomon, had hold of Daemonicus; there's some material on some of of the various Strifes, as of 1980, in the synopsis to 'The Strife Sorority'; Doc Dark (Immanuel Dark, Gloriel's thought-widowed husband who was once the supra Saint code-named Mr Brilliant) has always maintained that Strife was Wilderwitch; Strife wasn't always faceless; during the
Male Entity's 7th Lifetime, circa 2000 YD, she had a very familiar face;
as detailed in From the start of the modern era beyond the Dome until January 1938, she was only a possessive spirit; prior to that, though, she was one of Thrygragos Varuna Mithras's second born Apple Goddesses, the pupil of her third eye (when she had one) looked like a golden apple, which was her power focus; She lost it, the consequential Golden Apple of Discord (which I incorporated into above image), along with her body, hence her facelessness, when she tried to swim the Brainrock lava lake on Sedon's Peak while attempting to escape to the Outer Earth after the abysmal failure of the so-called Crimson Conspiracy circa 4030 YD; Her two fellow Apple
Goddesses are Divine Coueranna, Kore-Concord,
whose power focus is the little Green Apple of Rejuvenescence (because,
being a seasonal goddess, she rejuvenates every Spring), and Sinistral
Belialma, Lady Lust
of Satanwyck, whose power focus is the Ruby Red Apple of Concupiscence
(because it means 'sexual desire'); both Concord
and Bouncing Belle feature prominently in Another of the traditional symbols of Strife is the flower of the sloe or blackthorn tree; an unnatural black one of which, as per here, Pelops Atreides found on Aegean Trigon the day (January 13, 1938) that Strife returned to the Outer Earth in possession of Cybele St Synne; some of Big Max Maxwell's thoughts re Strife in November 1980 are preserved here; The notion that all of Sedon St Synne's daughters were born with a face-covering caul (a fragment of amniotic membrane) over their heads has never been confirmed; it is nevertheless true that Strife often attaches herself to daughters of Sed-sons like St Synne; however, cauls are supposedly symbols of good luck so it's highly unlikely; anyone possessed of the Strife Virus is decidedly unlucky; For someone so seemingly ubiquitous in the web-serials, Strife manages to avoid appearing in any of the Phantacea Mythos novels or mini-novels that were released between 2008 & 2012. All that changed in 2013 with the release of
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SUNDOWN, John- like a perhaps surprisingly large number of non-devic characters in the
PHANTACEA Mythos, notably Strife
(who's a virus more so than a devil), Daemonicus
(who began existence as, yes, a daemon), Abe
Ryne, Headmistress Mannering
and, indeed, most of those featured on this page,
John Sundown has appeared in most of the novels thus far serialized during
the course of pH-Webworld (to the best of my
recollection the only exceptions were 'Aspects
of an Amoebaman' and 'Centauri
Island');
- at some unspecified point in time, Shamanitoulin gifted him with a Raven Fetishim; presumably a daemon variant of some sort, it looked after him throughout his post-1933 wanderings in search of Solace, who vanished on the day they wed themselves (their 13th birthdays);
As first depicted in pH-5,
John Sundown became Blind Sundown around the same time he officially married Solace and they started having family; his eyes and the sight that went with them ("So that I may greet Death with the utmost clarity") were the price Shaman Manitoulin demanded before he'd turn over the Solar Spear and the reins to Raven's Head; same sequence, albeit from NOTE 1: There's an entry in the Summer 2002 installment of Serendipity that uses these same images. It might be considered something of spoilsport entry for those of you who haven't read 'The Moloch Manoeuvres' yet, so be warned;NOTE 2: A long-serving graphic re 1938's Raven Fetishim can be found here. A 2007 collage re ditto (made up mostly of pictures I took during various trips to Mexico over the decades) can be found here; while you can google up 'transformer masks' and see plenty of the inspirations behind Sundown and the Raven Fetishim, there's one at YVR, the Vancouver International Airport; I incorporated it into the aforementioned collage but here's a stand-alone shot of it;NOTE 3: In addition to the comic books and graphic novel ("Forever & 40 Days -- The Genesis of PHANTACEA"), which can still be ordered, there are a number of graphics intended to represent Raven's Head sprinkled throughout pH-Webworld; one's here, another's here, a third's here and here's a fourth; perhaps the best one, of a raven's head if not necessarily of Raven's Head, can be found here;NOTE 4: With the 2009 release of "The War of the Apocalyptics", the opening entry in the Launch 1980 story cycle and the second phantacea Mythos mosaic novel, much more on Blind Sundown and Raven's Head can be found over on www.phantacea. com; the main lynx are here and here;
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Doc Defiance, The Gypsium Man- featured primarily in -debuted in pH-2, 1978, artwork by Dave Sim
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The Indescribable Mr. No Name- in - debuted in pH-2, 1978, artwork by Dave Sim; - featured primarily in
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Phantacea Publications in Print- 'Phantacea Phase Two' 2016-2018 - The 'Launch 1980' story cycle - 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Fantasy Trilogy - The '1000 Days' Mini-Novels - The phantacea Graphic Novels - |
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Decimation DamnationMini-novel published in 2016; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
Hidden HeadgamesCollection of three intertwined novellas published in 2017; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
Daemonic DesperationTentative cover for Dem-Des; will probably be changed before it's published; scheduled to be released in 2018; |
The Phantacea Phase Two revival physically began with 2016's "Decimation Damnation", the first mini-novel extracted from the as yet open-ended saga of 'Wilderwitch's Babies'. It was set between the 9th of Tantalar and the 1st of Yamana, 5980 Year of the Dome. However, its follow-up, "Hidden Headgames" was set between the 30th of Maruta and the 14th of Tantalar in that same year. "Daemonic Desperation" picks up Babes near the end of the second week of Yamana and continues through the Summer Solstice of 5981. As the last known member of the Damnation Brigade, if the Witch was fortunate to survive Dec-Dam, alive and pregnant, she may not be so lucky come the end of Dem-Des. Oddly enough, her unborn babies may yet still be both viable and unborn by then. | ||
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The War of the ApocalypticsPublished in 2009; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
Nuclear DragonsPublished in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
Helios on the MoonPublished in 2014; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here; |
The 'Launch 1980' story cycle comprises three complete, multi-character mosaic novels, |
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'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Epic Fantasy |
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Feeling TheocidalPublished in 2008; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
The 1000 Days of DisbeliefPublished as three mini-novels, 2010/11; main webpage is here; ordering lynx for individual mini-novels are here |
Goddess GambitPublished in 2012; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
Circa the Year of Dome 2000, Anvil the Artificer, a then otherwise unnamed, highborn Lazaremist later called Tvasitar Smithmonger, dedicated the first three devic talismans, or power foci, that he forged out of molten Brainrock to the Trigregos Sisters. The long lost, possibly even dead, simultaneous mothers of devakind hated their offspring for abandoning them on the far-off planetary Utopia of New Weir. Not surprisingly, their fearsome talismans could be used to kill Master Devas (devils). For most of twenty-five hundred years, they belonged to the recurring deviant, Chrysaor Attis, time after time proven a devaslayer. On Thrygragon, Mithramas Day 4376 YD, he turned them over to his Great God of a half-father, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, to use against his two brothers, Unmoving Byron and Little Star Lazareme, in hopes of usurping their adherents and claiming them as his own. Hundreds of years later, these selfsame thrice-cursed Godly Glories helped turn the devil-worshippers of Sedon's Head against their seemingly immortal, if not necessarily undying gods. Now, five hundred years after the 1000 Days of Disbelief, they've been relocated. The highest born, surviving devic goddesses want them for themselves; want to thereby become incarnations of the Trigregos Sisters on the Hidden Continent. An Outer Earthling, one who has literally fallen out of the sky after the launching of the Cosmic Express, gets to them first ... |
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The Death's Head Hellion- Sedonplay - Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here; |
Contagion Collectors- Sedon Plague - Published in 2010; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here; |
Janna Fangfingers- Sedon Purge - Published in 2011; two storylines recounted side-by-side, the titular one narrated by the Legendarian in 5980, the other indirectly leading into the 'Launch 1980' story cycle; main web presence is here; Character Companion starts here; ordering lynx are here; |
In the Year of the Dome 4825, Morgan Abyss, the Melusine Master of the Utopian Weirdom of Cabalarkon, seizes control of Primeval Lilith, the ageless, seemingly unkillable Demon Queen of the Night. The eldritch earthborn is the real half-mother of the invariably mortal Sed-sons but, once she has hold of her, aka Lethal Lily, Master Morgan proceeds to trap the Moloch Sedon Himself. In the midst of the bitter, century-long expansion of the Lathakran Empire, the Hidden Headworld's three tribes of devil-gods are forced to unite in an effort to release their All-Father. Unfortunately for them, they're initially unaware Master Morg, the Death's Head Hellion herself, has also got hold of the Trigregos Talismans, devic power foci that can actually kill devils, and Sedon's thought-father Cabalarkon, the Undying Utopian she'll happily slay if they dare attack her Weirdom. Utopians from Weir have never given up seeking to wipe devils off not just the face of the Inner Earth, but off the planet itself. Their techno and biomages, under the direction of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon's extremely long-lived High Illuminary, Quoits Tethys, have determined there is only one sure way to do that -- namely, to infect the devils' Inner Earth worshippers with fatal plagues brought in from the Outer Earth. Come All-Death Day there are more Dead Things Walking than Living Beings Talking. Believe it or not, that's the good news. |
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Forever and Forty Days- The Genesis of Phantacea - Published in 1990; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
The Damnation Brigade- Phantacea Revisited 1 - Published in 2013; main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
Cataclysm Catalyst- Phantacea Revisited 2 - Published in 2014, main webpage is here; ordering lynx are here |
Kadmon Heliopolis had one life. It ended in October 1968. The Male Entity has had many lives. In his fifth, he and his female counterpart, often known as Miracle Memory, engendered more so than created the Moloch Sedon. They believe him to be the Devil Incarnate. They've been attempting to kill him ever since. Too bad it's invariably he, Heliosophos (Helios called Sophos the Wise), who gets killed instead. On the then still Whole Earth circa the Year 4000 BCE, one of their descendants, Xuthros Hor, the tenth patriarch of Golden Age Humanity, puts into action a thought-foolproof, albeit mass murderous, plan to succeed where the Dual Entities have always failed. He unleashes the Genesea. The Devil takes a bath. Fifty-nine hundred and eighty years later, New Century Enterprises launches the Cosmic Express from Centauri Island. It never reaches Outer Space; not all of it anyhow. As a stunning consequence of its apparent destruction, ten extraordinary supranormals are reunited, bodies, souls and minds, after a quarter century in what they've come to consider Limbo. They name themselves the Damnation Brigade. And so it appears they are -- if perhaps not so much damned as doomed. At least one person survives the launching of the Cosmic Express. He literally falls out of the sky -- on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head. An old lady saves him. Except this old lady lives in a golden pagoda, rides vultures and has a third eye. She also doesn't stay old long. He becomes her willing soldier, acquires the three Sacred Objects and goes on a rampage, against his own people, those that live. Meanwhile, Centauri Island, the launch site of the Cosmic Express, comes under attack from Hell's Horsemen. Only it's not horses they ride. It's Atomic Firedrakes! |
Webpage Last Updated: Summer 2014There may be no cure for aphantasia (defined as 'having a blind or absent mind's eye') but there certainly is for aphantacea ('a'='without', like the 'an' in 'anheroic') Ordering Information for PHANTACEA Mythos comic books, graphic novels, standalone novels, mini-novels and e-booksDownloadable order form for additional PHANTACEA Mythos Print PublicationsCurrent Web-Publisher's CommentaryJim McPherson's Worldwide Email Address -- jmcp@phantacea.comPHANTACEA: The Web SerialspHantaJim's WeblogWebsite last updated: Autumn 2015 Written by: Jim McPherson -- jmcp@phantacea.com© copyright Jim McPherson (www.phantacea.com) Websites featuring, at least in part, Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos
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