Prologue — The King of the Outer Gods Wants to Die
The blind idiot father.
The lord of all things.
The god of fools.
These are the titles given to '■■■■', the King of the Outer Gods — beings who dwell beyond the heavens.
A calamity of such exalted rank that even speaking its name is forbidden, one whose existence it is best simply to strive to forget.
The Earth Mother, who leads her black goats through the forest and must never be named; the schemer who slinks among humankind, humiliates them all, and laughs; even the regent who, in practice, stands at the very apex of the Outer Gods and rules from their throne —
Without a single exception, every one of them lives in fear of their father.
Born before the universe itself came into being, now sunk in a deep and endless sleep upon his throne, it is said that the moment he wakes, the world will end.
That being, upon whom the terror of all things in the cosmos converges — is right now,
"..I want to die."
drafting a suicide plan.