The world in which our stories take place was born after Earth was torn to pieces by its inhabitants. Mortals survived, but it was a bare existence before the new Gods claimed it for themselves. Theia, Aether, Manāt, and 'Amm created new realms and stood them onto different energetic planes across Lyria, which was what they called the remnants of the mortal realm. Then, they filled them with their offspring, abandoning the new creatures to their own devices after the fact.

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The Gods left their younglings with little knowledge, delighting in watching them stumble through the realms that were forced upon them. Both the Nephilim and the Mithra were speechless before they met the mortals, each race breaching their border walls to find answers within the world that had existed before them. The Gods had always spoken Calmani, a language never before heard on this planet, but one that echoed across the different existences they'd held in the past. They did not share their tongue with their offspring. So, the Nephilim and the Mithra learned from the mortals in broken fragments. Lujha, the Nephilim's tongue, was born of the surviving mortal language Arabic, the spoken word that populated small towns near the Aljira border. The Mithra spoke Gjóssa, which was born of the surviving mortal language Greek that populated towns in the north, near Keloseros. In both instances, the language started as almost perfect translations. But through the years, when the immortals took to their realms exclusively, it became more of a derivative. Some phrasing remains nearly similar to the language of origin, while other words and structures have been lost in translation and dialect, re-melded by the Nephilim and Mithra.

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The bridge language was one of a myriad of others that survived Earth's apocalypse and carried through the realms by necessity— a way for the Nephilim and Mithra to communicate. 

The naming and the lore that inspired the creatures in each realm spanned across a broad influence of Slavic, Celtic, Greek, Arabic, and Latin as well as some German.

The story itself is reminiscent of Hades and Persephone, where the initial soul bargain is concerned; however, it is not a retelling. The rest of the series is shouldered by a unique storyline that is very much character-driven with a plot that serves as an undercurrent. 

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Some of the above information is getting added into the front end of 'Honey'. For a long time, it was an important plot point to figure out that Lyria used to be Earth but as I was starting to plot the third book, I realized that the story had changed and that revelation ceased to be of importance. So, I wanted to make sure to state it inside the book!

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Thank you for taking a chance on my work,
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