David Flyte



David Flyte is an author corrupted to madness by the Elder Qliphothic God N'zrathol, working to find a way to breach his dimensional prison and bring about the end of this universe. His writings have the power to warp the minds of fans. For the truly devoted, it has the power to warp their bodies as well.

Description
His hair is wild, thinning and wispy. A pale blonde with strands of gray. He's about in his late 50's.

Once imbued with N'zrathol's powers, his body is stretched thin and tall, limbs and digits longer than they should be.

History
David Flyte is an up and coming author. He wrote "The Casablanca Effect", a post-apocalyptic nuclear wasteland story with radiation zombies and the pulsing heart of a runaway nuclear reactor. The gradual erosion of flesh and health synchronous with the erosion of the survivors' sanity, written down diary style for the edification of dedicated readers. It flagged in sales compared to previous works, and so he switched to the more popular occult genre.

The past three books are a switch from his other novels, and he's grown a cult following. In some ways literally. Some people are obsessed with his new genre shift. A few have gone crazy or become violent, obsessed over his occult trilogy: A River Runs Through Thebes, Beyond the Far Realms, and Darkness Between the Stars. There's fan works and even concept albums in tribute of his work.

A River Runs Through Thebes feels like a classically Lovecraftian piece. Very much about an unassuming author who chances upon an occult manual in the personal effects of his recently deceased uncle. The manual leads the protagonist into conflict with a secret society that seeks the manual's power to exploit humanity and the protagonist's new eldritch patron in equal measure. It largely concludes with a cliff-hanger as the protagonist falls off of a dock and into dark waters, the secret society collecting a book of the same approximate size and shape as the manual, but the protagonist is described as clutching a book of the same approximate size and shape as the manual to his chest as he sinks below the surface of the liquid shadow that is the city's reservoir. All suspense and creepy, flowery descriptions.

Beyond the Far Realms is about a sequel to the previous book, but skips ahead in time. It covers the author's trials in unlocking the manual's power, learning about unknowable evil beyond the realms of reality. A new secret society is introduced, trying to prevent the manual from being understood and making attempts on the protagonist's life. The book leaves one questioning at the end if the author, forever changed by having their eyes opened, is still the protagonist of the series.

Darkness Between the Stars feels like it could be a dramatic re-telling of Grimm's life, death, and re-birth as a conduit to the Qliphothic realms. The main character's name is Denebrielle Deepshadow. It goes over a normal life until the secret society from the first book brings about her death, only to have her reborn in shadow. It inexplicably skips from Denebrielle's re-birth to her sacrifice to open a passage for The Eternal Shadow Within Every Flame into the mortal world by a high priest of The Eternal Shadow within A Place of Words. In the book, the passage opens and The Eternal Shadow Within Every Flame unleashes its bottomless appetite for corruption upon reality, turning humanity against itself. It is the first of a strange pantheon of Elder Gods to be released.

Quote
"This wasn't how the story was supposed to go. This will require...rewrites."