Nexus Cycle

this is a personal project I'm just writing when I can. it is in essence for my son to read one day I just don't mind people reading it. this story is inspired by Dante's Inferno, modern system fantasy, and Greek epics but in modern Appalachia

Elmore is a family man at heart just living his life in the mountains of WV. Raised a hillbilly who had aspirations but chose a happy slow life over childhood dreams. He has a son with his wife. They are as happy as the American dream can offer. He is smart and resourceful, a jack of all trades formed from a life of struggle. He has built a life that is anything but struggle.

Eventually the world comes to a crisis. Things happening that make no sense and people freaking out left and right. As a hillbilly he survives and his son is none the wiser. Even with his isolation and survival skills he is faced with a desperate world and an act of heroism brings those survivors that haven't left for the cities under his care.

When a hillbilly is given power all he can do is his best. But the world refuses to let him rest and after being the one to be attacked too many times he finally makes a change to help the world in the best way he can.

But a man's life is not forever and the modern world is not the only place or time he will defend. You must ask yourself the meaning of life when death is common and birth is just as ubiquitous. If memories fade and pain dulls, what comes of you if those memories never leave you, no matter how much atrocious events you witness. This is his destiny.

-Violent fights

-Light rpg elements thinly spread out

-Expect a lot of time jumps

-Family focus

-moral ambiguity and moral absolute’s

- Appalachian apocalypse with rural ingenuity meeting cosmic horror

- Body horror and transformation as humans and animals mutate beyond recognition

- Community building through blood where leadership means sitting on a throne of your enemy's bones

- Multi-generational storytelling that treats immortality as both blessing and curse