Given my predilection for mythology and cultural anthropology in general, I do a LOT with religion. In fact, the only secondary world I've ever created from scratch--Esmeihiri--began with the religion and I'm expanding it from there. The world's creator is a chaos goddess by the notions of the universe because her creation involved putting into one entity what should be balanced in two different entities, so her creations reflect that. In this case, the world is unstable and would have torn itself apart with natural disaster had the goddess' brothers not stepped in. As such, the world's creator is regarded with a lot of fear and even hatred by her own creations. That shapes A LOT of how societies on this planet developed. So, like, it all comes down to religion.

And mythology is in basically all my work. Even the stuff where gods don't show up (like my retelling of Romeo and Juliet and the sci-fi rebellion story) references myth and has structures built around it. Like, in the sci-fi, the poison that the government uses to execute people and plays a big part in the first novel is called the Medusa because it turns people to stone. And the structure of the rebel school is based on the rivers of Hades, with Charon as the leader. I never don't have some sort of religion and/or mythology in my stories. It's just not going to happen.

This year's story focuses on witches, based on my own Paganism and relationship with witchcraft, and the antagonist is Dionysus in his Orphic form. The whole form of the plot is based around the Orphic myth of Zagreus/Dionysus, so anyone who's aware of the myth will have an idea of what's going to happen as soon as they pick up on the little details of how the story is developing. I genuinely don't know if I can write an entire novel without some form of mythology and religion involved. It'd be extremely difficult for me not to go down that path.
-Quaddy

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