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The Sanguine Passages is an dark fantasy comic project following the inhabitants of an earth altered by Faery magic and haunted by beasts born in bloodshed. 

When the Fair Folk came five hundred years ago, they brought Diapheros with them; they called it a gift. Its sweet shimmer blinded the humans who stared a moment too long, but opened the eyes of those who couldn’t see. In trace amounts, it healed dire wounds. Only a hair too much warped and twisted flesh. It opened a Passage to the place the Fae came from, and they poured out to live among us. 
There’s a way to corrupt any gift. 
In 1915, Diapheros was used to level cities; to rain fire. To animate dead men, and disfigure enemy soldiers. It got in the water. Great hidden beasts went belly up. 
Now the spilled blood of Men and Fae tears open another kind of Passage. 
It waxes and wanes with the moon, releasing slavering beasts who crawl out to feed their insatiable thirst. It tempts like a bottomless wishing well, and begs lost souls to plunge in. It swallows whole the traitor and the betrayed. The precious few who escape its maw are changed... 

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