Self review as I'm a shameless author who wants to kick-start people reviewing.
Embrace the Ether started as more of a fever dream than anything. My desire to create an enormous universe where the very laws that bound it together were different from our own. A universe with different, unique worlds. A story that starts out like something out of a nightmare, instead of the A-typical fantasy world tropes.
I start the story off within the world called Midnight, and almost immediately the reader is led to believe that something happened in the past that was a major event, and that there is heavy suppression going forward. Enshil's fall is my first major foreshadowing for this, and is a piece of the puzzle that I'm extremely eager to get further into later on down the line.
No one within Midnight is as they appear. Everyone is plotting for their own gains, and everyone desires something different.
I despise cookie-cutter villains, so I won't write them. All of my villains have story, background, thoughts, trump cards, and the list goes on. No one is as fragile as they appear, and those who are truly fragile most likely hide it behind a layer of fake masculinity and strength. The illusion of power, now that is something that's always interested me in stories.
A Deus Ex Machina, as well, is only a plot-device an author uses when they didn't provide efficient enough foreshadowing. I want to avoid using one myself, to the best of my ability. That's why you'll find plenty of foreshadowing and "Chekhov's Guns" throughout this story. Some are simply fake, others are real.
Again, I'm only making this self-review because my audience has been surprisingly quiet in regards to this. Thankfully I have some amazing readers who comment every chapter, and really get into things, like Eee_Sss.
Every chapter I post is what is considered "rough", meaning it's been through only one or two quick revisions and is prone to have one or two errors, but I do my best to clean everything as best I can before posting them.
Don't expect published quality, but please, hold me to a standard. I appreciate everyone's support and readership.
Again, sorry for the self-review, but I really wanted to post this and get the ball rolling.