Alembic Grimoire is an online graphic novel steeped in dark lore and mythos from ’round the globe, all with a nice dollop humor along with Lovecraftian horror.

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The world is not a world as we know it. Here Science, Symbology (a method of spanning dimensional gaps between spaces less than a planck length by using non-eulicidian geometrical curves, as mathematics, being universal, can breach the borders of dimensional space if someone’s on the other side looking for it), Bioengineering and the abberations they form run free. Two-thirds of humanity
has been wiped from the globe in a brutal civil war. Mankind, in it’s arrogance, had created it’s own slave caste through bio engineering by
combining human DNA with the DNA from various other creatures in bids to create something more powerful, swifter or simply more aesthetically
pleasing than the standard person, and for a long time recreating mythical creatures from folklore was all the rage. Eventually, these creations
were treated with contempt and at times violence, being regarded as third-class citizinry or a virulent plague, never as people. After rallies for
species equality began being met with military force, the genegineered crowd brought the fight to
the military and the common people as well. Key points of infrastructure were destroyed, causing people to die starving and freezing in the streets,
with no food or power. Millions died merely because man had become so reliant on his machines and slaves to do all the work for him, that when
it came time to survive on his own, many lacked the necessary skills. As time passed, the vicious rampages of horrific beings straight out of a fantasy novel written by the mad slowed,
and small communities of humanity began to knit together and rebuild what they could. Before the fall, mankind had advanced scientifically to an
astonishing degree.
After the onslaught, only pockets remain which have retained a portion of the advances which had been made. The rest of the world, in response to
the loss of so much technology and knowledge, as well as the advent of Symbology, resorted to a simpler life, learning the principles of
this discipline.
However, not all adapted readily. As is wont for people following a cataclysmic or highly stressful period of history, dangerous cults were formed,
worshipping the new disciplines of Symbology, the old technology, the Occult, even the creatures which had massacred so many. Some of these
“distasteful” behaviors actually paid off, as some of the new creatures abounding the earth were actually able to live symbiotically and
integrate into normal human culture. As time moved on, more and more became less leery of mankind, and at present large cities throng with
thousands of faces and forms both human and something not quite so.
Of course, where there is one belief system, there is always a counter, always an “us against them.” Secretive groups obsessed on keeping
cities and the human bloodline pure sprung up, using advanced technology and guerrilla tactics in order to further their agenda.

A brash young girl battles for her life, freedom and sanity, striving against her superiors and peers in a small but highly trained militia. The goals and aspirations of the group, unbeknownst to her, hide a dark secret that will drive her to the brink of madness, and very possibly release a threat of eschatonic proportions from beyond space and time.

Alembic Grimoire is written and drawn by a short, angry little man with a penchant for slamming his face on a piano and calling it “music.”