Project Pentagram

My newest large obsession

Summary

technically the symbol i use for this (the one that is deeply integral to the story, magic system and climax of the book) is a pentaCLE not a pentaGRAM but ive been calling it that for moths and im too far deep into this shit to change the whole project name now. so lets pretend theres some witty, canon dialogue about how the academy (me) is so old and stuck in its ways it wont admit its wrong about the name of something and just denies denies denies.



MY BRAIN BABY!!!! the only good thing maths class has ever produced. i was in maths, not paying attention when i saw one of the paths or whatever we were supposed to be graphing was in the shape of a five pointed star. my little pagan breain went ding and i decided i would make a pentagram/pentacle and then number the points and directions and see if it spit out a number with a good patern. it did, but it wasnt complicated enough so i jazzed it up a bit, added more pents into the circle, went clockwise & anticlockwise, numbered them in the order i dream them in, then the order i went around the circle, made different combinations of numbers around differnt parts of the circle mean differnt equations. then i made a pinterest board. and it was lal over from there.

i had a video diary i made for the first few days. ill hunt them down in a moment and decide how brave i am. whether or not ill put them here or just write down the transcripts. wait one moment.

just watched through the first few minutes and realised it was a whole lotta nothing. just me talking to myself.

id upload the audio but im talking rlly softly so... yeah no.



okay, so now to tell you about the actual plot. its a dark academia horror story with lots of demon summoning, and all types of other magics.

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characters

Go find them first! It's an easter egg hunt. There are six meetable characters and then the charcter you are playing as, Agnus. You must have met at least one of them if you're here. Probably Farley. Or you cheated???? Idk how this is gonna work yet. (If you really cant find someone then use the sight map on the right.)

OH YAY I GET TO TALK ABT MY BABIES NOW!!!!

Agnus Day

"agnus dei" is latin for 'lamb of god' which i just realisd may be about jesus and not sacrifical lambs. damnit. fuck. anyways, its too late to change it now >:(.
i inteded her to be a little like richard from the secret history by donna tartt, or like bella from twilight lol. a blank slate of a character. one that still has personality and makes decisions and stuff but is a... idk, an outsider to the events of the story. like richard, who is a middle class kid from out of state observing how mad high academia can be, i want agnus to do the same, observe their madness, as she comes into her own.

Claret Clyde

claret is as close to my favourite as you can get. shes my most developed character in project pent. shes my second favourite to draw and i can pretty much draw her from memory. i love her features (something to know about me is that i fucking LOVE drawing big hooked noses, almost every character has one and i have to force myself to use other nose types)(the faceclaim above doesnt have her nose but my drawings do :/, check the art room), i love how moody and angsty and poetic she is, i love her magic system, her aesthetic and her backstory. she is one of my favourite creations ever.

claret is a type of wine??? red wine from france from what i can gather. i chose it because it has ties to the colour red and also grapes are a recurring theme in project pent(as well as other things with symbolism of rebirth and time) so i kept it. i say it weirdly so you will to. i belive you are supposed to say claret, like the wine, with an empasis on the A. i say it with an emphasis on the E. ClarEt not ClAret. it also reminds me ofg the claninet. which i like the sound of.

you ready for backstory??? well you'd better be. Claret was born to a lower middle class family in Buhan (boo-un silent H, emphasis on the U), a north-western country witha similar climate and therefore phenotype to the (slightly more south-eastern) middle east here on earth. magic (of most kinds) in not common among people who have no ancestors who had it, and children with esoteric abilities are... encouraged by the Guild of Esoterica to be passed to a family who is more likely to know how to "provide them with a more fitting education" and the families are compensated for their loss. in other words, kids with esoteric abiliesnborn into poor families are usually sold to the rich so that the poor familes can survive and the academies can have a new student in a couple years. claret was brn with linguistic abilites, that means something i havent quite figured out yet, she has a natural inclanation towards languages and... may know a special language inherently, idk, i havent decided yet. no idea how they first figured out she was magic. maybe its was how her mouth smokes.

claret has language/translation magin, its main biggest sign is that when the person speaks for extended periods of time or uses their magic their mouth grows hot and smoke trickles out. this means a few things, my favourite is that she has to eat her food slightly uncooked/frozen so it doesnt burn whn it hits her throat, also that her lips and neck are the only warm parts of her body.

there ya go, theres something her parents could notice. smoke!

favourite lines

ART!?!

not here unfortunately, you'll have to go find the art room.