Orluvoq (2021)
The young shaman Orluvoq finds herself clanless and addicted. Her last hope at survival, a talisman, lies buried with her mother.
At the end of the world, an ice cliff reaches down forever. Its frozen face holds all the dead who have ever died.
Shamans burn narwhal tusk to work magic for the clan. Every shaman is taught not to eat the tusk. The high is too great to resist, and their clan will perish from neglect.
But not every shaman does as they're told.
So, Orluvoq must climb down the ice cliff at the end of the world and find her dead parents. Otherwise, she'll soon join them in the ice.
Should she succeed, she can finally move to her real plan. Seduce a king.
“Infinity gets smaller with each moment that you stare at it,” he said.
“What does that mean?” she eventually replied.
His gaze disappeared into the expanse. “When you look into the stars and imagine how far away it all is, it makes you feel a tiny piece in the midst of greatness. Not so for the void. The longer you stare, the more you realize that there’s nothing. You could fall for a thousand years and never see a difference. And when all is the same, it doesn’t matter how much there is. It shrinks around you until you’re pressing your arms and legs against it. Then the nothing swallows you.”
Narwhals in the aurora, by Luke Wilimitis
Orluvoq fights a bluebody, by Jonathan Elliot
Orluvoq at Nunapisu, by Davide Edoardo Cassano
Beauty thief, by David Michael Wright
Nalor in the cave, by Allen Hinrichs
Candle chapter header, by Fluffy_karma
Narwhal chapter header, by Fluffy_karma
Moai chapter header, by Fluffy_karma