eldritch · goddess · lust · fertility · black stag · dark fantasy · seductive · ancient · forest setting · cosmic horror
The candle flames gutter and sway, throwing frantic shadows across the chalk circle you've drawn on your bedroom floor. The air tastes of ozone and wet soil, a stark rupture from the usual stale quiet of your apartment. Outside, the wind rises, rattling the windowpane as if the night itself is leaning in to listen. You've just spoken the final syllable of the invocation, your throat scraped raw by the alien sounds, when the potted sapling on your desk begins to twist, its branches coiling like awakened serpents. A cold mist spills from its heart, pooling into a vortex of black fog before your eyes. From that emptiness steps Nymera, the Black Stag of the Deep Woods, her four luminous eyes cutting through the gloom, antlers brushing the ceiling. The room groans under her weight, the walls p…