hingsajagra masterpost
an esoteric cultivation dark fantasy world.
imagine for a moment.
a world steeped in struggle. it has ended, now. but it struggles nevertheless.
what is this world called? in the tongue of the ancients: pakgara.
in the tongue of the elders and of the far sages: hingsajagra.
in the tongue of our brothers and sisters: wandering.
this is the realm of the prince of attachment.
welcome to wandering.
combine—1900s warlord era asia. ivalice. revachol. the lands between. esoteric buddhist, gnostic, and other mystical metaphysics. communist philippines and indonesia. throne. new crobuzon. morrowind. bulikov. camor.
A strangreal esoteric dark fantasy setting. Second world but not by much. Struggles of 11,000 years of human progress and evolution creating a world of mystic materialism, psychomagickal infranuclear esotericism. Quantum physics bleeding into magick. Spirits as hyperobject, eidoloweaves, arising of memories and entropies of objects together. Reincarnation as atoms dispersing into other atoms that turn into new sentient beings. Gods as hyperstrong entities with longer lives, stronger physical capabilities, and with sharper mental acuities. A world with the material conditions for revolution and post-revolution, in the face of burgeoning colonialism and hypercapitalism.
hingsajagra is a world project built upon revolutionary ideals. An antirealist fantasy. Literary Fabula. New Weird. Magickal Antirealism. darkweird Fantasy. What if the world never developed automatic guns and mobiles? What if the world’s colonial superpower was Indochina-Suvarnabhumi? What if the Buddha met Marx? What if the Virgin Mary was the Flower of Heaven Bodhisattva? What if the world ended because of the failed proletariat revolution? What if the breathtaking invention that kickstarted the Industrial Revolution was not the steam engine but the Karma Engine, where sentient-beings’ karma is used for electricity and mechanic energy?
A world that has moved past the phantasmic fog of the Heroic Age and the God Age. A world that challenges ours in terms of integrity and movement. A world built upon the mystic esoteric tenets of sunyata set down by Vajrayana Buddhism. The synthesis of Nagarjuna’s Emptiness with Camus’ Absurd. The handshake of the Buddha’s Bodhicitta with Marx’s Communism.
A world not too interested in mytho-national reproduction, a world interested in being a place for us to express emotion and not just evoke it. Instead of epic odysseys, letters-never-delivered from a failed philosopher to his knight husband who died in war. The eternal grief arising from outliving your son and daughter. Hopeless love poems from a fisherman to the Company Heir of Ressen-Nalenji. Scribblings of a genocide victim. Suicide note of a failed actor. Drawings of a child in a war zone.
From it springs forth novels, serials, poems, paintings, RPGs and more. It is materialistic in its historical dialectic, built upon transcultural ideas and the overcoming of idealism-materialism as well as individualism-collectivism. It’s a love letter to revolutionary movements in Southeast Asia, Africa, and South Asia.
Go. A world to win. Do it for the ocean. Set your heart ablaze. Emancipate humanity. Until all the hells are empty. Until all beings are free.
Directory
Creations
Lore
- Infraperegrination of the Utter Islands
- Human Migration Patterns as of the Year 11664
- Karma Engines
- Sundang Langit: World Characters
- Ultima Beam
- Song Zalan Paragita
- Akris Culture in the Utter Islands
- What Do You Mean When You Say God?
- Bidaran Culture
- Alignment: Demonism
- Alignment: Corporatism
- Cultivation: Masangwan Blade Dialectic
- Excerpt from Kafeng Masangwa’s “THE COMMUNIST SUTRA”
- The Heaven-Earth Megadeath
Research and Grounds
- Violence, Work, and Butuanon Buddhism