First Offerings: Painter’s Pedestal Book One

The Painter’s Pedestal
First Offerings
As the title suggests, First Offerings is the first insight into the original excursion that operated out of the Feynesons’ tower deep in the endless forest. The novella adopts the viewpoint of the third set of ‘Pioneers of the New Age’ sent out to explore and map the green ocean from the base that took generations to build. And lost generations to the darkness.
Set several hundred years prior to most of the other novels and novellas, the times are different, the deities not so long forgotten, and the loss of life involved in these operations not so unthinkable as to happen. The book follows four narratives initially, with a fifth introduced in the epilogue. Each narrative has a countdown to separate their chapters, set at different numbers, sequencing down to their inevitable death... After all, Everclipse does not forgive, does not relent, and they are surrounded by it, encased in her walls with no escape from the denizens that call the woodland hell their home. Some begin closer to their demise than others, and one is determined to figure everything out...

The Painter’s Pedestal is a grimdark tale that will set relevance to much of the lore that backgrounds the other novels in Mother Vixen, with a much heavier focus on the dark. From the offset each character is waiting to die, whether they know it or not, indeed the prologue to the whole series begins with a small glance into Everclipse and what she does to the Vixen’s Offerings