History Podcast / TheSiltVerses

* MadnessMantra: "There's those who lead and those who chase"

The show can be found on [=iTunes=], Spotify, Acast and Sticher. A second season is currently in the works, and the podcast is now hosted by the Creator/RustyQuill Network.

The show can be found on [=iTunes=], Spotify, Acast and Sticher. A second season is currently in the works, and the podcast is now hosted by the Rusty Quill Network.

** Worshippers of government-sanctioned gods see worshippers of "false-faiths" as uncivilized for their use of HumanSacrifices despite doing the same thing for their own gods, but with convicts and slackers.

* BodyHorror: Anyone sufficiently touched by the various gods of the setting. Highlights include a boat that's been covered in the stretched and twisted, a man turned into something not unlike a worm or maggot, and various crustacean saints of the Trawler-Man described with some unsettling vestiges of their humanity.

* DoubleStandard: Worshippers tend to see the revalations of other gods as grotesque despite theirs being no better. For example, Carpenter and Faulkner are disgusted by the gigantic worm-like appearance of Abel that was granted as blessing by the Scrivener despite being in awe of a BodyHorror flesh/boat fusion made by the Trawler-Man in the previous episode.

* AccidentalMurder: During his first experience with the Trawler-man, Faulkner accidentally drowns one of his brothers to death to fully experience the song.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Faulkner's brother Charlie asked him to keep him submerged enough to listen to the words of the Trawler-man music and only let him when he gave Faulkner a thumbs-up despite how much he trashed. Read AccidentalMurder above to see how it went down.

* BodyHorror: Anyone sufficiently touched by the various gods of the setting. Highlights include a boat that's been covered in the stretched and twisted, a man turned into something not unlike a worm or maggot, and various crustacean saints of the Trawlerman described with some unsettling vestiges of their humanity.
* BrokenPedestal: Carpenter gets this for the Trawler-Man the further up the river she gets.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Carpenter. As a kid, after her grandma was killed by the police due to her faith, Carpenter was sent to a reform house for "deprogramming" while her older brother Em was sent to prison and was drowned in a flood in a solitary confinent cell after summoning the Trawler-man.
* DoubleStandard: Worshippers tend to see the revalations of other gods as grotesque despite theirs being no better. For example, Carpenter and Faulkner are disgusted by the gigantic worm-like appearance of Abel that was granted as blessing by the Scrivener despite being in awe of a BodyHorror flesh/boat fusion made by the Trawler-man in the previous episode.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: The first season ends with Faulkner missing and presumed dead, the Trawlerman coming back due to Carpenter's SmiteMeOMightySmiter moment, Sid Wright getting gunned down during an act of rebellion (and the station putting his replacement under armed guard), Hayward promising to hunt Carpenter to the ends of the earth, Paige barely escaping the Trawlerman's wrath with the police, and Carpenter encountering...something and mutely accepting that she'll be EatenAlive as she dies from her wounds.]]

* HorrorHunger: The field god Hayward encounters

* KnightTemplar: Daigler is a devoted servant of The Cloak, willing to force a confession by any means up to and including his own personal God.

* SmiteMeOMightySmiter: [[spoiler: Carpenter to the Trawler-man. Unfortunately, he happened to be listening.]]

The show can be found on [=iTunes=], Spotify, Acast and Sticher.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Faukner's brother Charlie asked him to keep him submerged enough to listen to the words of the Trawler-man music and only let him when he gave Faulkner a thumbs-up despite how much he trashed. Read AccidentalMurder above to see how it went down.

* BrokenPedestal: Carpenter gets this for the Trawlerman the further up the river she gets.

* NaiveNewcomer: Faulkner is a recent convert, though what he lacks in experience he makes up for it in devotion.

* ApocalypseHow:[[Spoiler: Sid Wright attempts this when he turns against the Grindinglord and instead starts worshipping sleep live on-air.]]

** Worshippers of governement-sanctioned gods see worshippers of "false-faiths" as uncivilized for their use of HumanSacrifices despite doing the same thing for their own gods, but with convicts and slackers.

* AccidentalMurder: During his first experience with the Trawler-man Faulkner accidentally drowns one of his brothers to death to fully experience the song.

* DoubleStandard: Worshippers tend to see the revalations of other gods as grotesque despite their's been none better. For example, Carpenter and Faulkner are disgusted by the gigantic worm-like appearence of Abel that was granted as blessing by the Scrivener despite an episode before being in awe of a BodyHorror flesh/boat fusion that was made by the Trawler-man.

** Worshippers of governement-sanctioned gods see worshippers of "false-faith" as uncivilized for their use of HumanSacrifices despite doing the same thing for their own gods.

Carpenter and Faulkner, two worshippers of an outlawed god called the Trawler-Man, travel up the lenght of their deity's great black river in search of miracles and revelations. As their pilgrimage lengthens and the river’s mysteries deepen, the two acolytes find themselves under threat from a police manhunt, but also come into conflict with the weirder gods that have flourished in these forgotten rural territories.

* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Faulkner acts like one towards Carpenter, much to her exasperation. In Faulkner's narration we learn that he deliberate {{invokes}} it -first with his older brothers and now with Carpenter.

* AccidentalMurder: During his first experience with the Trawler-man Faulkner accidentally drowns one of his brothers to death as to not disobey his orders.

* DoubleStandard: Worshippers tend to see the revalations of other gods as grotesque despite their's been none better. For example, Carpenter and Faulkner are disgusted by the gigantic worm-like appearence of Abel that was granted as blessing by the Scrivener despite an episode before being in awe of a BodyHorror flesh/boat fusion that was made by the Trawler-man.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Faukner's brother Charlie asked him to keep him submerged enough to listen to the words of the Trawler-man music and only let him when he gave Faulkner a thumbs-up despite how much he trashed. Read ''AccidentalMurder'' above to see how it went down.

Carpenter and Faulkner, two worshippers of an outlawed god called the Trawler-Man, travel up the lenght of their deity's great black river in search of miracles and revelations. As their pilgrimage lengthens and the river’s mysteries deepen, the two acolytes find themselves under threat from a police manhunt, but also come into conflict with the weirder gods that have flourished in these forgotten rural territories.

And my fragments will swim in the currents of the abyss.Fill my eyes and mouth with thick and choking mud, Trawler-man;\\

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->''A god must feed.\\
A god must be fed.\\
This is a fact agreed upon across every territory of the Peninsula.And
so, really, the only point of difference between the people born to the
water and the people born to the land…\\
...is the precise nature of the sacrifice we need to make.''

''The Silt Verses'' is a {{Horror}}/NewWeird

''The Silt Verses'' is a {{horror}}/NewWeird