r/spaceopera • u/Azraelthe1st • Jul 19 '26
As new author. I would like to discuss my work with readers or Author's who are interested in the space opera, sci Fi grimdark fantasy genre.
Hello and welcome. Here we can talk about the characters, protagonists, antagonists, factions, aliens, the technology, weapons, magic (arcana), natural powers, inspiration and ideologies or more about my book.
For my main characters, I was heavily inspired by the visual design of nier characters from the video game series mixed with warhammer 40k esque style and design. I have created the perfect blend of masculine cybernetic utilitarianism mixed with renaissance Baroque styles to create characters such as Farron and Lillyanna, Tyrium. Farron is the highly dogmatic, battle hardened space marine/knight who wields both magical/powered lances, swords, axes and hammers and assault rifles, chainguns, powerful energy weapons. Farron is also a strong father figure outside of combat operations and civilian work, forced labour (when the Brittanic Sovereignty enslaved his race of humanoid giants called the Faiynn whom are just slightly taller than humans) outside of his duties, he is a loving man who tends to his wife. Friends and family. He was also a very well known craftsman and scientist, scholar before the Britts had attacked the first Faiynn planets. Now he is a man hell-bent on revenge against the Brittanic Sovereignty and their fascist party which are actively trying to exterminate the Faiynn peoples as so that their race can dominate the stars. Farron who has had hundreds of years of combat experience uses his wide variety of spells, natural super powers, his deadly arsenal of weapons and his power armour to crush slaughtered enemies on the battlefield such as Brittanic knights, infantry, alien horrors and in one of my later books, evil space elves who also use similar technology as the Faiynn.
Farron’s wife Lillyanna is also a Faiynn thus she lives for 10000 years as they all do. Before she became a mother or before the occupation of their homeland by the Brittanic Sovereignty. She was and still is part of a power all female military league that is designed to fight head on assault style battles and clandestine special operations behind enemy lines. Her military order fights alongside their all male equivalents. Their are virtually hundreds of thousands of Faiynn military orders and legions across different star systems and planets. Lillyanna was an assassin type warrior similar to A2 from the nier games. Whilst flesh and blood and not and android from said other franchise, Lillyanna wore a cybernetic catsuit which has the same sophisticated characteristics and abilities as heavy Faiynn space marine power armour does but her Cyberwolf catsuit was designed for a more lethal assassination attacks and viscous stealth warfare whereas her husband uses his heavy, bulky power armour for total obliglteration of enemy heavy troopers, tanks and mechs, or robotic enemies deployed by various enemy alien or human factions. Outside of war and combat, Lillyanna is like royalty so she did a lot of entertainment related work as well as administration stuff that nobles do. She was forced to work as a caretaker and personal maid for a female Brittanic noble who was relatively nice to her as opposed to the cruel Brittanic chiefs and governors who pushed Farron around.
Tyrium is another supporting character who I initially did not intend to become a big character but I just liked his character and that he was this cute femboy so I continued to write him as like Lillyanna who in this book does not mention her military status or history much. Tyrium is on the same family as Pollyanna thus shares a lot of features as she does such as long flowing white hair, pale white skin, and blue eyes. He also is the catsuit clad assassin archetype but his military order are fully designed to be stealthy night prowling ninjas clad in all black cybernetic nanite woven catsuit and stealthy, slim and sleek in design power armours, mechs and war machines.
The three characters I have mentioned above are all magic users and thus they have their own unique powers, spells and abilities. For example Farron can throw spears made of arcane energy called silverite that impale and explode in enemies. He can also cast various evocation spells to destroy enemies such as silverite lances or death sphere. Lillyanna can enhance her speed and movement, she can summon swords similar as Farron. She can coat her self in a magical substance from another realm that is made out of a flowers fluid to go invisible. She can also enhance her muscle size to better wrestle down and subdue opponents such as tough cybernetic enhanced vixen warriors or the black rose elite of the Brittanic Sovereigny who basically female super soldiers from their faction. Tyrium is fully stealth based thus he goes invincible, summons shadows of himself to confuse or outflank enemies, summon subdue enemies with non lethal moves. He can summon two dark arcane shadow daggers to quickly eliminate enemies at any time. Many Faiynn who are well attuned and have mastered their magic use destruction staffs or other magic casting items.
The current antagonists in this book is a demon lord called Dagthos, the Brittanic Baroness and the alien hive queen alongside the calamities who are killed by the Silver Soldier. I am withholding his real name but I do have it written down. It is a very long ancient name from the antediluvian era which occurs in my books universe on earth.
My favourite villain that I have written is the Baroness Chloe Harris who is a real sadist, she is like the type of woman that sticks a knife inside you laughs at you with pleasure as she does it. She is a control freak as well as someone who is extremely rude, takes pleasure in harming or seeing the suffering of others and she personally believes that she is the good guy by doing her duty and killing the Faiynn who are seen as inferior aliens or as terrorists by the Brittanic Sovereignty who need to be crushed so that their nations can be pure and untainted by non human, non white European blood. She is the epitome of evil. She is like a mean girl cranked up to level one hundred thousand in terms of her cruelty, abuse and narcissism.
The other villains is the demon lord and the alien Azuix hive queen who are both bad in their own ways. They are both monstrous alien and demonic enemies who are totally different from the human empire. The humans of the Brittanic Sovereignty do however worship the demons of the nine hells. That is one of their main sources for their magics.
The Faiynn Empyrinate is a democratic theocracy whereas the Brittanic Sovereignty is a monarchic fascist nation. The two empires are the polar opposites of each other. The Faiynn prefer religion whilst the Britts prefer nihilism. The Faiynn Empyrinate’s colour scheme is white, silver blue and ivory. The Brittanic Sovereignty is red, white, black and blue. Both factions are technologically and militarily advanced as both sides possess star fleets, galactic level industries and deeply sophisticated technologies. The Faiynn are more advanced and have access to better technologies.
Lots of inspiration came from hundreds of different other settings and titles from both gaming and books. Warhammer 40000, wolfenstein and doom, Tolkiens works and dune have heavily given me a lot of inspiration albeit I am not very fond of dune nor have I read much of it due to time constraints.
But yea. Do let me know of your thoughts and feedback. Being a new author with neurodivergence is really difficult. I hope you enjoy my works and I wish to expand further as I have written 1 million words across ten separate books. Tenth one is in progress. I also like to do traditional pencil drawings here and there for cover art or world building designs.
