The Fallen Cycle Mythos fiction podcast

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Season 1, Episode 8: The City of Stars In the final episode of the Summer Tree (Season 1), Ayta and her companions arrive in Ashenti, a city of serene lakes and grand architecture, offering a stark contrast to their perilous journey. Beneath its tranquil surface lies a web of politics and power plays, hinting at the portentous events that await them. Encounters with Samah and his “abdal” Wallaj re...

Season 1, Episode 7: Of Prophecy and Desert Sand The penultimate episode of the Summer Tree (Season 1) propels Ayta and her companions across a vast desert aboard a windship, floating towards an uncertain destiny. As they traverse the sun-scorched wilderness, the whisper of prophecies and the weight of destiny loom large, setting a tone of both anticipation and dread. Eluane, ever the enigmatic gu...

Season 1, Episode 6: The Prince Gran recounts how Ayta, Elena, and Nyssa navigate New Babylon’s marketplace under Eluane's watchful eye. Worried about attracting attention after Elena’s recent misadventures, he leads them to an ornate tent where Prince Samah awaits, a figure of both youthful poise and heavy responsibility. This encounter has the potential to alter their destinies profoundly. Withi...

Season 1, Episode 5: The Raven Wanderer Returns Gran’s story continues. Ayta, Elena, and Nyssa navigate the complexities of the outer city of New Babylon under the guidance of Eluane, the Raven-Wanderer. His mysterious past and true intentions gradually become more clear as he leads them through a chaotic urban landscape to a hidden safehouse. At the Sendiirian safehouse, Eluane’s revelations hint...

Season 1, Episode 4: The Temple of the Sun In a harrowing turn of events, Ayta, Elena, and Nyssa are led to the summit of the Temple of the Sun, where they face a trial that will test their resilience and bind them in unexpected ways. They are swept into a ritual that marks them in flesh and spirit, intended to bind them as possessions of the city’s enigmatic deity. Amidst their ordeal, a mysterio...

Season 1, Episode 3: Nefalibita In the third episode of the Summer Tree, young Ayta becomes further enthralled by her grandmother’s tales from the Second World, now focusing on Lilith, one of the twelve Fallen. Gran reveals that Lilith’s destiny instigates profound changes across both Alterran and our world, with the threat of future apocalypse ever on the horizon. Hints emerge of how Lilith, rebo...

Season 1, Episode 2: Journey To The Heart Of The Sun We Are All Just Costumes Death Wears For A Season. The Summer Tree begins in earnest with Gran's fantastic story of escaping the terror of Siberia in the early 1900s and passing through a gate to another world. The focus of her tale to come will be on her journey through this realm, the characters she meets, and the trials they face as they are...

Season 1: The Summer Tree Episode 1: Prologue, “The Two Aytas” On Ayta’s seventh birthday, there came a knock on the door, and her namesake stood before her. Gran Ayta. Once a thing of myth, descended from legends. Now she seemed just a stooped old woman, but appearances can be deceiving. Ayta’s lonely childhood was soon transformed by Gran’s fantastic stories of flight from one world to the next....