The personal website of Liah K.
1997 | She/Her | UK
Penned and released by Liah K.
Liah's Diary
6th of February, 2026
While I was praying today, my spirit guide, Khina, impressed on me that disconnecting emotionally from a lot of people around me has been good for me. I know this sounds obvious, but I've realized that giving your emotional resources to everyone who demands it sucks all of the life out of you.I think I struggled with this because people make out that it's your moral imperative to make your entire life about them. I'd say probably most of my recent friendships died because I didn't surrender every single little grain of fucking sand from my heart to them, and people on the internet really do expect that, in a general sense.I think just, over time, I've developed a really keen hatred for internet people. The internet makes people spoiled, and it makes them act like children. If you're reading this, you know who you are.Anyway, Khina told me to keep doing what I'm doing now, and to enjoy pushing back and telling people to fuck off once in a while.So, internet people: Fuck off.
Library
A timeline of Kyst's major historical events, interspersed with links to short stories from this world.
—Legend—
BSA — Before Secular Advent
PSA — Post Secular Advent
—Glossary—
Kyst — The name of the world; A flat plane with no celestial bodies, surrounded by endless oceans.Bikali Tree — A colossal oak tree, with roots that extend across all of Kyst. Legend suggests that it was once the progenitor god of the world.Hysterian — A Human who has been mutated by nature in response to extreme suffering.Pheremyte — A race of near-extinct beings who bear a closer genetic resemblance to the progenitors of Kyst.Secular Advent — A mostly undocumented period of history in which the vast population of Kyst rejected the worship of Pheremytes, leading to the death of unified religion.Pherem — The old language of the Pheremyte people. Some words, phrases, and idioms are still used in the modern day.Eiglis — An equivalent of the English language which replaced Pherem during the Secular Advent.Argo — A colossal, semi-spherical body of burning minerals which sits within Kyst's atmosphere, also known as the Sun. It does not influence the cycle of day and night in Kyst.Balarck — A species of featherless bird with a life expectancy of several hundred years. They can grow to a gigantic size on rare occasions.
72 PSA
The first significant plague of Hysterians spreads from the western region of Flauresyn
—Short Story—
A young woman becomes a fugitive for an act of infidelity, and faces judgement at the edge of her fate.
78 PSA
The Voralyt Society is founded by a guild of Hysterian hunters, vowing to curb further Hysterian outbreaks.
90 PSA
The Bikali conflict begins, initiating in a declaration of war between the Arol Church and the Lerarolin Conquest Front, both vying for religious rights to the Bikali Tree.
92 PSA
The Hysterian race is separated from their divine root.
—Short Story—
Two grieving farmers volunteer to make preparations for an annual festival, under the shadow of their lost love.
93 PSA
The Blacktree Coterie is founded by Pheremyte pariahs Ayba Emero and Khina Vylero — It is a secret society of outcasts and undesirables with designs to intercept Kyst’s cultural development.
95 PSA
The Bikali conflict ends with the mutual destruction of both opposing forces. The Bikali Tree is declared neutral territory.
98 PSA
The hill town of Aiuiin is destroyed by an intervention between The Blacktree Coterie and a nest of Hysterians.
—Interactive Game—
Ayba Emero enacts her crusade on the Hysterians of Aiuiin, leaving a deep hollowness in her wake.
—Short Story—
An orphan girl and two waning gods converge in the husk of a dying town.
—Short Story—
A disabled war veteran is adopted into the care of a mad architect, and the shame of their secret yearning threatens to destroy them.
99 PSA
Tensions build between the Pygmies and the Hysterians in the wake of Aiuiin's destruction.
—Short Story—
The disparate inhabitants of the Belot Almhouse butt heads over the development of an arboretum on Hysterian soil.
—Interactive Game—
Ayba Emero intrudes upon the Belot Almhouse, a failed attempt to cohabit atheist exiles and Pel-worshipping Hysterians.
—Short Story—
Aiuiin survivor Sada Litsz finds employment at the Argo Monastery, tasked with caring for the disabled saint Rellenok.
110 PSA
Cultural boundaries shift as attitudes toward Hysterians begin to change.
—Short Story—
Argo Knight Kein Rel is tasked with the induction of a mysterious young woman into their company's ranks.
—Short Story—
A pair of misbegotten scholars escort an unusual girl to her appraisal, and find frustrated passion in their mutual shame.
—Short Story—
An artifical person awakens in a bizarre dream, taking her first steps in a mummery of living.