
God's End, Part I: The God Who Asked to Die
by The Secret Level
A god walks into a remote village and asks you, a nobody, to kill it. Serath has carried the world's unmourned grief for thousands of years, and he is tired. A cult wants him kept alive, a rival goddess wants him dead, and the village is split. Choose whom Orrin trusts, whom he protects, and what he does with a god's last wish across 30 branching episodes and six endings.
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The birds went quiet three days before the stranger came.
Orrin noticed it first on the high pasture, where he had spent the week driving the village's sheep up toward the last of the autumn grass. There was always birdsong up there. Larks rose from the heather like thrown sparks, and the rock-pipits chattered along the drystone walls, and somewhere above the ridge a buzzard was always turning a slow wet circle against the clouds. On the first morning the larks did not rise. On the second the pipits sat on the walls with their feathers puffed out, silent, watching the road. On the third day the buzzard was gone altogether, and the sky over Tarn's Rest hung empty and grey as the inside of a pot lid.
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Chapter 1: The Stranger at the Well
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Chapter 2: The Boy Who Does Not Bleed
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Chapter 3: Terms
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Chapter 4: The Night Before
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Chapter 4: The Night Before — Tell Them Everything
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Chapter 4: The Night Before — Keep It Between the Few
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Chapter 5: Night of Knives
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Chapter 5: Night of Knives
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Chapter 6: The Road Out
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Chapter 7: Three Roads
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Chapter 7: The Road of Ash
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Chapter 7: The Road of Chains
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Chapter 7: The Road of Crowns
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Chapter 8: The Whitewood
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Chapter 9: The Names
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Chapter 10: The Heart of the Wood
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Chapter 11: The Cordhold
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Chapter 12: The Sharing
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Chapter 13: The Spent
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Chapter 14: The Breaking of the Cord
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Chapter 15: The Dry River
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Chapter 16: The Queen of the Red Hours
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Chapter 17: The Red Hour
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Chapter 18: The Black Glass
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Chapter 19: The Fallen City
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Chapter 20: What the Weight Is
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Chapter 21: The Three Armies
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Chapter 22: When Armies Meet
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Chapter 22: When Armies Meet — The Keepers' followers
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Chapter 22: When Armies Meet — The Red Host's conscripts
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Chapter 22: When Armies Meet — The Unmourned
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Chapter 23: The Hollow Altar
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Chapter 23: The Hollow Altar
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Chapter 23: The Hollow Altar
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Chapter 24: The Last Decision
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Chapter 24: The Last Decision
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Chapter 24: The Last Decision
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Chapter 25: The Inheritance
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Chapter 26: The Refusal
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Chapter 27: The Third Way
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Chapter 28: The Keeper's Crown
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Chapter 29: The Rival's Hand
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Chapter 30: The Unburied
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