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content NOTES

Below is the full list of content notes & trigger warnings:

MENTAL ILLNESS (depression, psychosis, extreme paranoia, hallucinations, self-harm, suicidal ideation. Main character shows elements of Stockholm Syndrome in second half of the novel. Also includes fear of stigma regarding mental health and major discrimination towards the main character for his mental health)

PHYSICAL & PSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE (intense interrogation scenes, torture scenes involving graphic mutilation. Psychological manipulation and degradation. Violence against friends. Graphic fight scenes)

SEXUAL CONTENT (captor & captive power dynamic, but all sex scenes are consensual between the characters)

BODY HORROR (extreme physical torture, self-harm, terrifying & mutilated angelic and human bodies, mutilated corpses, graphic depictions of violence towards prisoners, graphic fight scenes)

DEATH (of demons & prisoners in Dudael)

PHYSICAL ASSAULT (resulting in multiple injuries) (NO sexual abuse or sexual assault)

HERETICAL AND BLASPHEMOUS IDEOLOGIES (discussion of theodicy and the view of God as not being omnibenevolent, characters have doubts towards God and their faith, main character despises Jesus—does not reflect the view of the author)

DISCRIMINATION (mental health/illness discrimination, class discrimination between choirs of angels, and discrimination between fallen angels and demons)