History Literature / Godclads

* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: what veylis avendaer aka the leader of the highflame guild and daughter of Jaus ''CrownBearer'' Avendaer tried to do to him. [[spoiler: it didn't quite work out.]]

** Chapter 7-5 a forced choice - Avo uncovers a version of his father "Walton" who shows him the real war in New Vultan and the stakes in question when he shows him the ''Flayed Ladder'' in its full glory and what some of what is in stake and after that to make sure that the other versions of himself won't hurt Avo Walton forces him to kill him in full so that the other versions of himself won't be able to use the memories they had together as a weak point. Avo is left screaming and broken by this.

* WhamLine:

* DesignerBabies: Due to the "womb rash" (a deadly condition triggered by either physical touch or lust; there is no known cure), even the mere thought of having sex can kill you. Babies have been mainly vat-grown for a while now. Of course, the guilds up in the tiers also practice genetic modification for the best outcome of looks, abilities, and more.

* FantasticRankSystem: The god class has a system that determines what level of power they have over reality called spheres and circles (taking inspiration from heaven spheres and hells circles of Dante's hell) starting from the first sphere up to the ninth sphere (circles do the same). As a god clad rises in rank, they have more and more say over reality.

* PiecesOfGod: Heavens are pieces of fallen gods that the people of Idheim implant into them selves to become godclads.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Every single guild has its own version of the utopia that it wants to achieve. Not all utopias are equal, so they fight to make them a reality. For example:

* WhamEpisode: in a story such as this there are plenty of revealtions and wham episodes to spare here are just some examples:
** Chapter 7-5 - Avo uncovers a version of his father "Walton" who shows him the real war in New Vultan and the stakes in question when he shows him the ''Flayed Ladder'' in its full glory and what some of what is in stake and after that to make sure that the other versions of himself won't hurt Avo Walton forces him to kill him in full so that the other versions of himself won't be able to use the memories they had together as a weak point. Avo is left screaming and broken by this.

This an original fiction by [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/members/ostensiblemammalian.542596/ ostensible mammalian]] it is found in [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/godclads-a-godpunk-progression-science-fantasy-story.1048894/ spacebattles]] and [[https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/59663/godclads-monster-mceldritchcyberpunkprogression royal road]].

* AGodAmI: With Godclads (colloquially called ‘clads) this can be literal, after getting a liminal frame implanted with access heavens and hells a ‘clad can get into a phase of god complex (expected when one is using the powers of actual gods at will) that makes the whole category a group of… eccentric people, at least those that survive and manage ti tone down, if partially, their new (if justified) arrogance at their apparent immortality

* WhamEpisode:

* GodhoodSeeker: Everyone in the story seeks to become a godclad, as that is the way to live your life as you want. And the guilds are seeking to have their ark win the war to the ladder.

* Gorn: the story is very bloody and comes with the fact that Avo has a blood heaven.

* TheReveal: there are several such in the story. examples include:
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* MegaCity: The city the story takes place in, "New Vultan", has about 947 billion people living in it and climbing as refugees gather from the cruel world to try and reach the Dream.

* TransHumanism: as a cyberpunk staple, this is in god-clads as well, from the metal infusion or replacement parts to the mind additions or the biological upgrades there is little you cannot replace or upgrade about yourself in new Vultan.

* TheAce: Zein thousand hands is called by the author himself as "Anti skill issue".
* AlienBlood: A ghouls Blood is a Bloodborne plague that can infect others to become ghouls themselves if exposed to enough brain and body matter and can do self healing - even if doing it fast does have the risk of tumors.
* BloodKnight: Avo and Draus are always looking to fight eachother and others. Draus in particular goes out on her own and kills syndicates by the groups for fun. They only ones in Avo's carde that aren't at least a little bloodthirsty are Kae and Essus.

* BrainComputerInterface: The meta minds work as an interface between the real and the nether.
* TheBeautifulElite: The eight guilds of the city all have incredible gene and body modification technology so that no matter what they come out looking beautiful and graceful.
* BodyHorror: The protagonist himself is a biologically engineered man eating monstrosity but thanks to the extensive possibilities with biowares and flesh-grafting one can find a wide arrange of biologically structured wonders, the prime experts in the field of biotechnologies are the No-Dragons (aka sang) one of the 8 guilds that control [[MegaCity new Vultan]].

** Echoheads: A chimeric bioform adapted into an implant. It can provide echolocation for eight hundred feet. Designed from a hyper-durable silicon-chitin structure that also allows each of the eight heads to piece forward from the inside like a mantis shrimp punches.

* CrapsackWorld: The world of godclads is fucked right to the bone. the majority of the people living in the mega cities are without any rights as human beings, existing as drug addicts and fuel for the higher ups to power up their heavens and hells, dying in droves in abject poverty or blood sports if they are lucky, not to mention that reality is breaking almost every day given the sunderwilds (a reality wound that covers the majority of the planet).
* CorporateWarfare: The eight guilds are the ruling class of new vultan and all of them hate each other. Each guild is the equivalent of a continent and is massive, both size and resource-wise.
* ConLang: Newspeak variant - the author has an index with all the meaning of each words and slang.

* DarkMessiah: Avo is one the way to becoming this - as he is the only one with the frame needed to fix the collapse of the heavens of lust,love and fertility and actually save the world with the ladder. But he is also a cannibal monster with fraying control over himself. [[spoiler: he is also a contagious mind disease that infects amd eats others.]]
* DesignerBabies: Due to the "wombrash" (a deadly condition that triggers by either physical touch or with lust, there is no known cure) even the mere thought of having sex can kill you. Babies have been mainly vat grown for a while now. Of course the guilds up in the tiers also practice genetic modification for best outcome of looks, abilities and more.
* DeathIsNotPermanent: In Godclads, death is not necessarily the end. For example, you can die and become a digital ghost (this is your memories in a nutshell. Also necrojackers use you as a part of the toolbox), and if you are a Godclad like Avo, you die and are presumably cleaned of "rend" (toxic miracle waste) and get resurrected pretty much immediately.
* DeathOfTheOldGods: The godfall. It was an event in the past of the story that had broken the gods and gave rise to the current status quo.
* DoorStopper: The story, as of this very moment, is at 850 thousand words long and is far from being finished, and this is on the publicly published side. These numbers also don't include the Patreon updates.
* FantasticRankSystem: The god class has a system that determines what level of power they have over reality called spheres and circles (taking inspiration from heaven spheres and hells circles of Dante's hell) starting from the first sphere up to the ninth sphere (circles do the same). As a godclad rises in rank they have more and more say over reality.
* GodhoodSeeker: Everyone in the story is seeking to become a godclad, as that is the way to be free to live your life as you want it. And the guilds are seeking to have their ark win the war to the ladder.

* Gorn: the story is very very bloody, comes with the fact that avo has a blood heaven.
* HorrifyingTheHorror: the first time the sangist inside Avo sees a raptured heaven it is immediately struck with horror and fear to the point that it begs him to not let him see it.

* LikeASonToMe: Walton's relationship towards Avo.
* TheReveal:

* TransHumanism: as a cyberpunk staple this is in godclads as well from the metal infusion or replacement parts to the mind additions or the biological upgrades tyere is little you cannot replace or upgrade about yourself in new vultan.
* ThePowerOfBlood: avo's woundshaper is a heaven of blood and architecture. It xan do all sorts of stuff with blood. Stuff that should not be possible.

* PhysicalGod: pretty much all fod clads are that to one level or another.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: Every single guild has their own version of the utopia that they want to achieve. Not all utopias are equal and so they fight to make them reality. for example:
** Sanctus wants reality to descend into raw chaos and let existence turn into primordial soup while mankind stitches themselves into the ever changing patterns as a "collective ascension".

** Ori-Thaum doesn't think anyone should individually own a heaven and wants everyone to share them.

* WombHorror: Wombrash is a metaphysical contagion that leaked into the world after the Rupturing of the Heavens of Lust, Love, and Fertility. Due to this, the Physical Intimacy Ban is in full effect for New Vultun and the surrounding areas. All lustful activities must be conducted using proxies in the Nether. Any physical intimacy will trigger an outbreak of the rash, which causes a body's biomass to begin producing womb sores that incubate half-formed homunculi. The transmission vectors of womb rash are: physical, auditory, and visual. All physical intimacy in reality, constitutes a felony of the highest order and will be monitored by Guild Exorcists.

* BadassLongcoat:
* BrainComputerInterface:

* GodhoodSeeker: Everyone in the story is seeking to become a godclad, as that is the way to be free to live your life as you want it.

* MasterSwordsman: Zian Thousand Hands - [[spoiler: the wife of [[MessianicArchetype Jaus]] ]] An ardent student and supporter of the art of the cut.

* TransHumanism:
* ThePowerOfBlood:

** Avo our protagonist has the moniker of ''moonblood'' or ''ghoul''
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* PhysicalGod:

* TheAce:
* AlienBlood:
* BloodKnight:

* CyberSpace:

* DarkMessiah:

* DoorStopper: The story, as of this very moment, is at 490 thousand words long and is far from being finished, and this is on the publicly published side. These numbers also don't include the Patreon updates.

* Gorn:
* HorrifyingTheHorror:

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* ConLang:

* AGodAmI: with Godclads (colloquially called ‘clads) this can be literal, after getting a liminal frame implanted with access heavens and hells a ‘clad can get into a phase of god complex (expected when one is using the powers of actual gods at will) that makes the whole category a group of… eccentric people, at least those that survive and manage ti tone down, if partially, their new (if justified) arrogance at their apparent immortality

* DesignerBabies: Due to the "wombrash" (a deadly condition that triggers by either physical touch or with lust, there is no known cure) even the mere throught of having sex can kill you. Babies have been mainly vat grown for a while now. Of course the guilds up in the tiers also practice genetic modification for best outcome of looks, abilities and more.

* MasterSwordsman: Zian thousand hands - [[spoiler: the wife of [[MessianicArchetype jaus]] ]] Is an ardent student and supporter of the art of the cut.

** Sanctus wants reality to descend into raw chaos and let existence turn into primordial soup while mankind stitches themselves into the ever changing patterns as a "collective ascension" of sorts.
** Highflame basically wants a very structured, hyper-moralistic xianxia system.
** Ori-Thaum doesn't thing anyone should individually own a heaven and to let everyone share the heavens

* TheBeautifulElite: the eight guilds of the city all have incredible gene and body modification technology so that no matter what they come out looking beautiful and graceful.
* BodyHorror:the protagonist himself is a biologically engineered man eating monstrosity but thanks to the extensive possibilities with biowares and flesh-grafting one can find a wide arrange of biologically structured wonders, the prime experts in the field of biotechnologies are the No-Dragons (aka sang) one of the 8 guilds that control [[MegaCity new Vultan]].
* BadassTransplant: almost any transplant counts here. For example, we have the :

* CrapsackWorld: the world of godclads is fucked right to the bone. the majority of the people living in the mega cities are without any rights as human beings, existing as drug addicts and fuel for the higher ups to power up their heavens and hells. dieing in droves in abject poverty or blood sports if they are lucky, not to mention that reality is breaking almost every day given the sunderwilds (a reality wound that covers the majority of the planet).
* CorporateWarfare: the eight guilds are the ruling class of new vultan and all of them hate each other. Each guild is the equivalent of a continent and is massive. Both size and resource-wise.

* DesignerBabies: due to the "wombrash" (a deadly condition that triggers by either physical touch with lust. Or just lust in general. There is no known cure) the physical fun parts is dead because the mere thought of that kills people. Babies have been mainly vat grown for a while now. Of course the guilds up in the tiers also practice genetic modification for best outcome of looks, abilities and more.
* DeathIsNotPermanent: in Godclads, death is not necessarily the end. There are a couple of ways that can happen. You die and become a digital ghost (this is your memories in a nutshell. Also necrojackers use you as a part of the toolbox). And if you are a Godclad yourself like Avo is you die and are presumably are clean of "rend" ( toxic miracle waste) you get ressuracted pretty much immediately.
* DeathOfTheOldGods: The godfall. it was an event in the past of the story that had broken the gods and gave rise to the current statues queue (among other events).
* DoorStopper: the story, as of this very moment, is at 490 thousand words long and is far from being finished. and this is on the publicly published side. not to mention the extra stuff on patreon.
* FantasticRankSystem: the god class have a system that determines what level of power they have over reality called spheres and circles (taking inspiration from heaven spheres and hells circles of Dantes hell) starting from the first sphere up to the ninth sphere (circles do the same). as a godclad gets up the power scale they have more and more say over reality.
* GodhoodSeeker: everyone in the story is seeking to become a godclad, as that is the way to be free to live your life as you want it.

* LikeASonToMe: waltons relationship towards avo.

* MasterSwordsman: zian thousand hands - [[spoiler: the wife of [[MessianicArchetype jaus]] ]] Is an ardent student and supporter of the art of the cut.
* MegaCity: The city the story takes place in "New Vultan" has about 947 billion people living in it and only ever climbing up as refugees gather from the cruel world to try and reach the Dream.

* RedBaron: a lot of people in the story have monikers. Such as

* PiecesOfGod: heavens are pieces of fallen gods that the people of Idheim implant into them selves to become godclads.

* VitriolicBestBuds: avo and darus.
* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans: every single guild has their own version of the utopia that they want to achieve. frankly not all utopias are equal and so they fight to make them reality. for example:

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* DoorStopper: the story, as of this very moment, is at 460 thousand words long and is far from being finished.

It also has a [[https://discord.gg/h9PRjAXw discord]] and [[https://www.patreon.com/user?u=84402213 patreon]]

* CrapsackWorld:

* LikeASonToMe:

* VitriolicBestBuds:

Their heavens fallen.

In the greatest mega city in the known world New vultan. Avo - a man eating ghoul that ghost jacks for a living finds himself risen from the dead due to his fathers dead ghost and the mission it left him - to save this scum city and become God.

But as he struggles to grasp that mantle the question remains - what type of god will he be?

** Bone Demon: A body-sheathe--a complete overhaul of Avo's physical form. Made from a nest of super-tensile, hyper-synaptic nanofibrous mycelia on the interior. Beyond the threads, thick plates of cordyceramite line the outside like jagged skeletal continents emerging from a sea of webs. Bound to his biology, Avo can harden and shift his structural integrity and shape the growth of the fungal-ceramic matter that would encase his outer skin.

* CorporateWarfare:

* DeathOfTheOldGods:

* GodhoodSeeker:

* MasterSwordsman: zian thousandhands - [[spoiler: the wife of [[MessianicArchetype jaus]] ]] Is an ardent student and supporter of the art of the cut.

* PiecesOfGod:

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans:

** Bone Demon: A body-sheathe--a complete overhaul of Avo's physical form. Made from a nest of super-tensile, hyper-synaptic nanofibrous mycelia on the interior. Beyond the threads, thick plates of cordyceramite line the outside like jagged skeletal continents emerging from a sea of webs. Bound to his biology, Avo can harden and shift his structural integrity, as well as shape the growth of the fungal-ceramic matter that would encase his outer skin.

* WombHorror:

* BadassTransplant: almost any transplant counts here really. For example we have the :
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* BodyHorror:

* AGodAmI: