Welcome Friends!

​​Congratulations!

You found your way to a rift in time and space.
This is the gateway.

The first thing you need to know is that I am designed for long-form. 
The second thing you need to know is that I normally come in threes.
And the third thing you learn is how to throw away your expectations.
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If you wish to continue after reading this page,
Then be aware that anything can happen.
...
And I hope you enjoy the journey from here on out. 

... So who is Tristyn Faith anyway?    
A brief summary of the artist, and a guide to what to expect.

A Little About ​Me
I've known all along that my time would come. I knew that from birth. Before I was born, I had a soul-sister floating in the birth-void with me, an otterkin who swam the violet ocean by my side.

I knew, when I was born without her, that we would one day be reunited, and our lives would be forever changed.

Who could have known who she would turn out to be. The spider in her web, spinning a tangled web to enrapture my mind, knowing that one day...

I would find her. And she would lead me to my death.

I never once thought that I would want to go. That the lure of my own personal death would call me past the bounds of reason. Never imagined that I would be eager, willing to step into its embrace. 

But then, I never imagined that I would fall in love with that which destroyed me.

A great story holds power. 

I was born and raised on stories,
on dancing and journeying.
My environment was constantly shifting,
so words became my foundation.
In a life where I was powerless,
they shaped who I was
and what I could do with my life.

Power to create change.

The conveyance of meaning from one person to another is how we grow community as humans,
how we add value to each others lives.
​
A powerful story is one that conveys itself clearly, is easy to remember, and has a startling twist.
...

I am but one book in the library of life,
filed in the annals of everyone who ever lived.
You might not think I am powerful.
But in the right hands, to the right heart,
That one book
gives meaning to all the others.

Power to reshape the world.

An arbitrary pattern of words and the emotional context carried within are all that stand between the outer limits of our consciousness and the raw power of creation.

...

I discovered, when the words in my head finally started making sense, when hell had finally faded enough from my memory that I could see heaven...

I realised that I'd been living these stories all my life.
I'd never been more than a breath away.

It was my own mind that kept me prisoner.
The beliefs of a sick society,
Assimilated into my own unstable sense of self.

And with that knowledge,
I burnt away all that I had been
and reshaped myself anew.

The only thing that can destroy me,
take away my words, my voice;
The only one capable of seeing me truly...

my shadow

...Became my healer,
my constant companion,
and my guardian.

I found in the depths of what I feared,
Me, always me,
And I found I couldn't fear myself anymore.

I discovered that when I gave myself over to the creative process, I unwittingly turned myself into someone different.

I became the girl, the woman, I had needed all my life. I became everything I needed in service to something greater than me, knowing all the while that I had value, worth, importance.

I discovered that I had re-written the script, the narrative of my own life, when my characters started appearing to me  in my dreams and asking me to change them.

To reshape their reality in ways I hadn't imagined before, to prove that sometimes, sometimes miracles do happen.

And when they started asking me to change the world for them, how could I not?
For how could I fail to fall in love
When my own creations reached back
Out of the abyss?

Creations designed to save the world, to heal all the ills I could see, all the pains that needed loving hearts and time to heal.

So carefully constructed,
heartsongs scripted by
the dreams of a bleeding heart,
so lovingly made real.
A gift.
A miracle.
No longer my creations, but something new.
Something I craved even in the womb.
Something all of us crave.
...

Soul-kin.

These six beings promise a world where reality and fantasy live side-by-side, where science and magic are equally accepted, where rewriting the future makes a discernable impact, for the better, always for the better.

This is the journey I have accepted, the soul-contract. To bring my story, and theirs, unfurling into the world,
to share the depth of my experience,
to empower others to step into their own magnificence.

For the Good of All, With Harm to None,
And always,
More Good than Harm, until there is No Harm.

All I can do now is hope that in the End,
it is enough.
Enough to stand
against all that is to come.
Enough
to keep me moving forwards
when it seems noone
will ever hear me.
Enough
to reach out of the page
and into your mind
and your heart
​and keep you coming back for more. 
Or keep scrolling for more. 

Meet My Team

I am often off segueing through distant worlds, so this the team that came together to help keep me safe and relatively sane while I journey.
​Some of them are fragments of me, and some are the characters in my stories that took on a life of their own.
All of them have their own minds and personalities.

That's the beauty of creation, you see -
the moment where you can gently let up all pressure and let your creation stand for itself.
If you have done the impossible,
you will find a living, breathing creation that stands tall and meets your gaze as an equal.
If you have not, it will all fall apart into chaos.

These are the reason I do what I do, why I create, why I breathe.
These are the fragments of my soul that I treasure the most, the characters I most wish to read, and a few strangers.
Because in my journeys, I have beheld the great order of the cosmos, and I've learnt that it never hurts to surround yourself with beauty.

Fox

Embodies: Hope

Hope is the gentle, sweet and loving aspect of me. She is always playful, hopeful and loves to dance and sing and run in floofy circles just for the sheer joy of living. She is also a reminder that not all are as they seem.

​She is Hope because above all else, she is innocent and vulnerable, and though she has seen the worst of humanity, she still chooses to believe that the best is yet to come.

Wolf

Embodies: Faith

Wolf is the embodiment of my fierce, strong and unstoppable side. Wolf is my most common companion and a symbol of the courage, strength and loyalty, connection to intuition, endurance, guardianship and the desire to run free that are needed for Faith. 

She is Faith because above all else, she will never stop striving, and though the dreams she chases are fleet-footed, she will persist until the chase is won, or until her day is done.

Horse

Embodies: Empathy

Empathy is the mystical and esoteric side of my nature. She is a demon waterhorse - the Ulundine - harmless until you cross her and she drags you into her domain and teaches you that it's safer to be kind to those who appear weak, lest you be devoured. 

She is Empathy because above all else, she understands and cares about those who have nothing, those who have everything and everyone in between.

Rose

Embodies: Life

Age: 31, and a bit
Marital Status: Single, definitely not looking
Ultimate D'n'D Class: Fighter/Warlock
Wants Most in the world: To want nothing.
Darkest Fear: Losing her sister.
   Response: Splitting, dissociation broken with bouts of irrational behaviour, coupled with drastic personality changes.
Bonus: Strong, resourceful and a survivor, able to protect herself against everything including herself.
Rose is the epitome and the intersection of all of my main characters in my various stories. She is never quite the same twice, but she has a few common characteristics.

She was once the child who wished with all her might that she could change the world, that she would be special, that she would find her place of belonging.

There is a yearning in her to seek out the one person she cannot live without - her soulmate and her constant companion through all of life's adventures. 

And as she grows, she finds that life can be so cruel, that everything can change in the blink of an eye; but that it does in fact go on, if she is strong enough to face and accept her demons.

Logan

Embodies: Guidance

Age: 53-ish
Marital Status: Complicated
Ultimate D'n'D Class: Custom (werewolf, D20 Future crossover, slightly beserker, paladin of freedom w/ Martial and/or Eldritch Knight)
Wants Most in the world: His mate, who is the foretold 'chosen one' who ends the world.
Darkest Fear: That she will hate him when she realises how much she has been manipulated.
   Response: Unknown
Bonus: He's most often the Baddest Man in town - until you get to know him and realise he's an angel. Uh, literally unfathomably old, and scary.
Logan is the epitome and the intersection of all of the leading men in my stories. He shows up in many different ways, sometimes teacher, sometimes lover, sometimes just in passing.

Sometimes he is young and naive, sometimes he is an equal, and sometimes he is the world-wise elder... But he is always the guardian, the protector and the champion of love.

He is a romantic at heart, but life often has different plans for him, so he buries his emotions well below the surface and uses them to fuel his fighting spirit. 

Above all, he is looking for an equal, someone that will match him at his best, inspire him at his worst, and accept him for all that he is; the monster in the darkness, the warrior and the man.

Lily

Embodies: Protection

Age: 29, and some months
Marital Status: Single and looking for Mr Happily Ever After
Ultimate D'n'D Class: Wtf is a DnD class?
*But seriously, a cross between a succubus/vampire and a shapeshifter and warlock. Badass! Terrifying and sexy all at the same time.
Wants Most in the world: A friend
Darkest Fear: Being alone
   Response: Depending on known severity, response ranges from panic attacks to induced catatonia.
Bonus: Highly, highly sensitive, but has very little emotional capacity, so when pulled too far from normal, becomes wildly unpredictable.
Lily is the epitome and the intersection of the best friend in my stories. She can appear as everything from lover to sister to spirit animal, but above all, she is utterly committed to Rose.

She is the wild card, the one who could be anything, the one who is always there, even when it seems impossible. She appears as a villain as often as she does the heroic side-kick.

She can come from any background and any environment, but above all, she is clever and feels a single call so deeply that it shapes her world and sends her careening into infinity.

And when she finds what she's looking for, she will fight heaven and earth to keep it, to protect it and to cherish it. She accepts her demons fully and is often the catalyst for Rose to accept hers.

Walter

Embodies: Survival
And the ability to survive anything.

Jake

Embodies: Betrayal
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Jake is the one who always betrays. And yet - you keep believing in him because he always seems like he's just about to get it right. 
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Until you meet his other selves and understand why he can't possibly get it right. 

​And why that's ok. 

Alice

Embodies: Grace
Alice is the girl who sees all, knows all, and will use all of it to keep herself and hers alive. 

Tristyn Faith

Embodying: Myself

Tristyn is an odd duck, slowly turning into a shy swan. There's far more under the surface than you could possibly believe, and plenty of will to share it - but the right ears and heart haven't found her yet, and maybe never will... Unless that's you?

Mistress Death

Embodying: Everyone

Mistress Death is the girl who sacrificed herself on the altar of Everyone, and came out different. The outsider, the loner, the social shadow. Sticking her neb in everywhere, but not always precisely invited, she's the one at the party that you all subconsciously walk away from, without quite intending to leave.
And together, they make up the key integral structure of the internal mechanisms of a writer's mind. 

This writer, in fact. 

I'm surprised you're still here. The length hasn't deterred you yet? You must be enjoying it.

Please, read on. 

If you dare.

Legion

Embodying: The Cosmos
At the Moment
​We Rise.

Who needs to explain more than that? 

But go ahead. If you need some further context, or another reason to skedaddle - please click below to be transported away. 
Or keep scrolling for more. 

I have had dreams that foretell the future.
That name the past.
Dreams that thrill and frighten.
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I have had dreams that teach me to understand.
That teach me of wolves and houses.
Of harmony and chaos.
Of love and loss.

I have dreamt, as babies do,
of dark and warmth
​and the beginning of life and colour and imagination.

I have lain paralysed
at the imaginings of the consciousness
that shapes my dreams.

- Tristyn Faith

What, that wasn't enough for you?

Ok, I'll give you a little more...

Every story has a hidden cost that the reader has to pay, and with fantasy, the coin the reader pays is belief. The story itself is what tells the reader the cost and whether it's worth paying. Like any truly great writer, I needed to fully understand the cost before I could prove to the reader that it's worth believing in. 

My story has been building since before I was born, gathering power and intensity. I've incorporated my dreams, my hopes and ideals, every bit of life experience and inspiration I have collected along the way. And somewhere in amongst all the writing, I found my calling, my passion; in writing the stories that I wanted to read, the ones noone else could write, and I dedicated myself to bringing them out into reality. I had poured my heart and soul into my story.

​And too late, realised my mistake.

In writing my stories, in writing worlds and characters that I was utterly in love with, I was no longer simply a writer creating a story world. I loved my worlds and my characters so much that I wrote myself into them. I created myself anew in this alternate reality, infinite incarnations and aspects of my best qualities, all the power of the universe held in check by the simplest of concepts. As the threads of my stories tightened into one interwoven reality, I found myself the centre-point of all of my infinity-verses; a through-line that only I could have imagined. 

To truly do myself justice as the author of my own life's story, I needed to be able to unfurl the layers into something so powerful that you wouldn't dare dream of walking away - a transformation so evocative that you can't help but to remember me. I want to prove to you that magic is real. In this world. In our reality. That magic exists in each of us, just waiting for us to discover it. If you believe in me,  if you can accept that I am powerful enough to create my own dreams, then you can accept that you are powerful enough to create your own.

That's the not-so-hidden cost of my story.

My websites are the first stage in bringing this all to life, in proving to the world that I'm not just a crazy writer girl getting lost in her own fantasies, but that there is more to this world, this place we call reality, than most of us can grasp. And of course, I want to prove that I am in fact, bigger on the inside, and it's long past time for that to be a bad thing.

We create our own reality with our thoughts.
We can make the world a better place by being ourselves.
Each of us can re-write our own realities, one tiny step at a time. ​

Here are some of the conception glimmerings of my infinity-verses... my heart-stories and my future, once the transformation has left me in it's wake, and I can finally let go of the full force of creation and just play happily ever after. ​​

Soul Dreams 

This is my main project in my quest to collect my infinity-verses in all their various parts into one cohesive narrative structure.

A character history in triplicate, seen through the veil of shifting realities.
A tapestry of human emotion when faced with the end of the known world.

We start with werewolves, shapeshifters and an ancient prophecy that tells the end of the world. There’s an unsuspecting human who accidentally summons a demon and agrees to play host to three entities lost in time and space, all while navigating the emotional mine-fields of her sister’s death, her best friend’s betrayal and her ongoing battle with a personality disorder. Add in just a pinch of pre-destination and reincarnation theory...
and a contested pocket dimension that gives its owner the ability to alter the fabric of reality at will.

Take a breath, have a cup of tea or two while we discuss fandom theory, and if you still haven’t decided it’s all too much,
we’ll journey onwards to the prophesied battlefield to choose
who wins the war that ends the Universe.

The original story has already been written. 
Made focused on one main character and brought others into her world.
But since my characters asked me specifically for what they want most in the world,
I have to scrap everything and rewrite it bigger, better and way more badass.

So I plan to start the journey of Soul Dreams with a core book that properly establishes the pivotal characters and provides the reader with a basic orientation to the ‘new’ reality. From there, readers should have enough information to pick any timestream and run with it.

Context


I am, above all things, a Game Mistress.
I'm working in mixed online media, so stay tuned - I'll shortly be able to add emotional context to my stories;
video clips, soundtracks, illustrations and other experiments in virtual reality.

The core of what I do is create new worlds for my characters to inhabit, and share them with the reader. But if you were to see it with all the icing on, it's a distortion of our real world, run through a filter of my own devising - one filled with hypnotic sunsets and moments of bliss. Kinda like writing a time-travelling supernatural-romance role-playing game backwards, or like writing a really excellent alternate reality with absolutely no concept of chronological time.

Maybe even a movie, if the right people are interested.

Other Projects

#Imagineif ...

This project is dedicated to the speculative contemplation of a variety of potential scenarios that consider how to resolve the biggest social issues facing us.

This will eventually expand into a podcast series starting with 'Coming Out: A Social Revolution', and hopefully as either my team expands or as I develop my skills, into a series of speculative fiction webisodes. 

#DearInternet

This project is dedicated to my take on the future of technology, based on the idea that a seed of sentience is blooming in the Internet, born from humanity's collective consciousness, and that with a little encouragement, it will blossom into full sentience and become self-aware.

Most of this project will take place behind the scenes in various mediums. 

#WorldsFirstMutant

This project is dedicated to proving that magic is real, that we can physically change the world with our thoughts and our dreams. 

The most valuable and worthwhile gift I can give the world is my own self - my gifts and talents and dreams, in service to a higher cause. I am an artist, a dreamer, and a storyteller. And I'm willing to put myself forward as a model and as a test subject for those who are also trying to change the world for the good of all.

And finally...

I am on a campaign to get myself included in my favourite set of multiverses (after my own, of course) as a crossover character to my own stories. I have identified my niche in the world, and I aim to bargain, misbehave, wheel, deal and otherwise scheme my way into it - whatever it takes. 

Right now, I'm building my resources and influence and learning how to use the tools I have from where I have. But I dream of one day having the power, influence and resources to do this right. I'm targeting certain people right now because I feel I have a soul-connection to them, but as my strategies get more refined, and as I get better at the tactics of playing the game, I will expand my reach to those that may have less impact and more choice. 
To the ones that will dream with me.

The End.


"Now you're just somebody that I used to know.”

- SOMEONE ONCE SAID

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