Mythic Engine

Author Interview
J. R. Izquierdo Author Interview

Triunitae: Patefactum Origins follows a fallen celestial presence who winds up in a murdered Roman’s body and is sent to recover three fragments of the divine daughter, who has been shattered into three women and hidden across the kingdom. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?

I wanted the story to begin with a fracture disguised as a mission. On the surface, Triunitae presents a fallen celestial figure sent into stolen flesh to recover three fragments and restore a divine whole. That gave me the mythic engine. But what interested me more was the deeper machinery under that engine: love turning into judgment, judgment turning into ruin, and a sacred quest slowly revealing itself as a move in a much larger design. Vis Ocula’s choice sets the original catastrophe in motion, Flavus shatters her into three women, and Postumus sends Our Luminous One into Orbis Silentio under the language of rescue. That combination let me build a story that begins as a heroic recovery narrative and gradually exposes itself as a story about manipulation, consequence, and the rearranging of power across realms.

The idea of a divine being split into three human forms is striking. Are these fragments incomplete versions of divinity, or expressions of something that cannot exist whole in a mortal world?

They are both fragment and revelation. They are incomplete in the literal sense, because each woman carries only a part of Vis Ocula. But they are also expressions of what divinity becomes once it passes through suffering, embodiment, and time. That mattered most to me. I did not want the three women to feel like lesser copies of a goddess waiting to be corrected. I wanted them to feel like living embodiments of a broken totality, each carrying a force, temperament, and wound that reveals something essential about the whole. In that sense, the fragmentation is not just loss. It is exposure. It shows what divine wholeness looks like after it has been broken by grief and forced to live in a harsher world.

The book feels deeply invested in divine judgment and its consequences. What questions about power or faith were you most interested in exploring?

I was most interested in the moment power begins calling itself order. In this world, judgment rarely arrives wearing its true face. It comes clothed in duty, faith, hierarchy, righteousness, and sacred structure. Triunitae let me explore that through gods, realm masters, and old loyalties, where nearly every authority claims principle while serving a private agenda. Involuntarius deepens that question by showing what happens when those same impulses harden into human institutions, rituals, ranks, and systems of control. One of the core ideas running beneath both books is that faith can be a genuine search for meaning, but it can also be engineered, organized, and weaponized. I wanted to explore how power sanctifies itself, how belief can become machinery, and how entire worlds can be shaped by people who insist they are serving something higher while really serving themselves.

As an origin story, this feels like the beginning of something much larger. How will the scope evolve from here?

It expands by shifting from confusion into revelation, and from myth into inheritance. Involuntarius is a deliberately disorienting novel. The reader is meant to get lost inside the characters, the titles, the rituals, the loyalties, and the hidden architecture of that world. Triunitae steps in as the clarifying hinge. It begins with a cosmic fracture, but it does not remain a sealed legend. What first appears to be a rescue mission gradually reveals a broader political function. Our Luminous One enters Orbis Silentio believing he has been sent to recover the fragments and restore Vis Ocula, yet the journey really stirs the board, exposes the private allegiances of each realm and its masters, and sets larger forces into motion. From there, the scope carries forward into the human world, where the Aurum Pugio, Rome in 313 AJD, Sexta and Luc, and the early movement toward Congregatio turn divine history into human consequence. That was important to me. I wanted Triunitae to be the book that sets things straight, the hinge in the larger saga where the ancient wound stops feeling distant and begins to explain the hidden machinery behind Involuntarius while opening the path into Congregatio.

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You believe you are the captain of your own ship.

You chart your course. You claim your victories. You blame your failures.

You call it will.

Before Terranis learned to measure time, Summa Gaudium stood whole. When Order fractured and Structure faltered, the rupture did not announce itself to you. It simply rearranged the board.
A Goddess descended into flesh. A man died believing his life mattered. A child born of divinity learned resentment.

The realms split.

Follow Our Luminous One, an Aeternum stripped of radiance, forced into stolen flesh, cast into Orbis Silentio with a single command. Find the three fragments and restore Vis Ocula.

He believes this is a hero’s quest.
He does not see the board.
Just like you.

Every choice feels personal. Every loss feels earned. Every victory feels deserved.
But pawns move forward thinking they advance themselves.
Triunitae: Patefactum Origins reveals the fracture before the war.
Sometimes the captain doesn’t know he was always the cargo.

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