⸻ Archive of Rene Fay ⸻
Gothic dark fantasy · soulsborne literature · transformative fiction
I write at the edge of collapse—
where divinity is rotting,
the monsters are intimately familiar,
and the body is a vessel for transformation.
My work sits in the gothic dark-fantasy tradition, shaped by the cadence of Soulsborne games and the theology of decay. I write original fiction, transformative work that treats its sources as serious literary ground, and criticism that reads games as texts worth close attention. Eschaton is the current flagship—a literary Soulslike in development as a novel and (hopefully, one day) a game. To Fracture to Bloom, a fan-made labour of love and prequel to Bloodborne, has been at the centre of it all.
The Four Archives
Chronicles
Original fiction. A novel in progress, drawn from the bones of a game of my own making. Fragments, weapons, dialogue, worlds.
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Apocrypha
Transformative work. Written with the same care as anything else here. The source texts are named; the departures are deliberate.
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Readings
Essays on games as literature. Close attention to what the item descriptions say, what the architecture withholds, and what the player is asked to carry.
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The Author
Rene Fay. Fiction, criticism, narrative work, written from Melbourne. Seeking representation and open to collaboration with studios.
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