Wrath Goddess Sing by Maya Deane

Achilles has fled her home and her vicious Myrmidon clan to live as a woman with the kallai, the transgender priestesses of Great Mother Aphrodite. When Odysseus comes to recruit the “prince” Achilles for a war against the Hittites, she prepares to die rather than fight as a man. However, her divine mother, Athena, intervenes, transforming her body into the woman’s body she always longed for, and promises her everything: glory, power, fame, victory in war, and, most importantly, a child born of her own body. Reunited with her beloved cousin, Patroklos, and his brilliant wife, the sorceress Meryapi, Achilles sets out to war with a… Read more.

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Trigger and Content Warnings

  • Slavery
  • Homophobia
  • Transphobia, deadnaming & misgendering
  • Rape mentioned
  • Infidelity
  • Self-sacrifice
  • Pregnancy & childbirth
  • Blood depiction & blood-drinking
  • Ritualistic cannibalism
  • Murder
  • Immolation
  • Drowning
  • Physical assault
  • Animal sacrifice