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Mahjuti

Veil of the Gods features a magical system based on the ideas of Austin Osman Spare- a well-known 20th century artist and all round weirdo. He played with ancient and medieval ideas of magic especially the Norse magical tradition of Galdr. At a young age he came up with his own system based on graphics to empower his spells. He called these graphics sigils. I’ve developed his ideas much further for the storyline of Veil of the Gods. I call the symbolic designs glyphs rather than sigils and I’ve named the system of magic in Veil of the Gods- Mahjuti. Here’s one of the Hyper-Glyphs that feature in the coming chapters.

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Kawase Hasui (1883 – 1957) Snow at Shiba Gate (1936)

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Kasamatsu Shiro’s print “Fujiyoshida”. A mother carrying a baby on her back urges a boy who has been playing in the freezing city until evening to go home. Text by 昔の風俗をつぶやくよ @LfXAMDg4PE50i9e

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Kasamatsu Shiro

"Night Rain at Shinobazu Pond", 1938.

Woodblock Print

It's been a challenging year on so many levels. I'm still putting my visual novel, Veil of the Gods, together and it's coming along very nicely.This piece is called "Morden Flin and the Glyph". Morden is a minor player in a renowned criminal gang, until he stumbles on a secret. It's a secret that someone with his limited understanding of consequences probably should have steered clear of.

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川瀬巴水　鎌倉八幡宮

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Tsuchiya Koitsu (Japanese, 1870 - 1949)

"Manazuru Harbor at Night", 1936.

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Jean Baptiste

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