AS IRON SHARPENS IRON — An adult, Berserk-inspired dark fantasy manga set in a post-femocalypse world of decadent feudal courts, imperial social engineering, secretive scholars, and fiercely contradictory ideals of masculinity.
An unlikely champion rises through a world seemingly designed to subordinate him, accumulating titles, rivals, admirers, and increasingly troublesome intimacies as his virtues collide with everyone else’s expectations.
Seeking creatives, curious readers, and adult roleplayers to explore the setting, develop characters, debate its provocations, or jump into collaborative storytelling.
Setting & Themes:
Centuries after civilization’s transformation, the world is divided among eccentric petty tyrants, the sophisticated imperial Dominus, a scholarly Remnant devoted to restoring masculine excellence, and mysterious monastic Custodians who administer an apparatus few understand.
Our protagonist, Alpha, possesses an almost offensively straightforward commitment to masculine virtue. Unfortunately, the world is anything but straightforward about masculinity—or virtue.
The story explores power as a parody of sex, society, and the self through political satire, erotic tension, philosophical conflict, absurd social conventions, rivalries, unlikely affections, and ambiguous victories.
Its guiding proposition: As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
Characters and competing interpretations welcome. The contradictions are part of the fun.
An unlikely champion rises through a world seemingly designed to subordinate him, accumulating titles, rivals, admirers, and increasingly troublesome intimacies as his virtues collide with everyone else’s expectations.
Seeking creatives, curious readers, and adult roleplayers to explore the setting, develop characters, debate its provocations, or jump into collaborative storytelling.
Setting & Themes:
Centuries after civilization’s transformation, the world is divided among eccentric petty tyrants, the sophisticated imperial Dominus, a scholarly Remnant devoted to restoring masculine excellence, and mysterious monastic Custodians who administer an apparatus few understand.
Our protagonist, Alpha, possesses an almost offensively straightforward commitment to masculine virtue. Unfortunately, the world is anything but straightforward about masculinity—or virtue.
The story explores power as a parody of sex, society, and the self through political satire, erotic tension, philosophical conflict, absurd social conventions, rivalries, unlikely affections, and ambiguous victories.
Its guiding proposition: As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.
Characters and competing interpretations welcome. The contradictions are part of the fun.
