The Horned God, a stag-skulled figure seated in a mauve twilight forest

Graphic novel · Celtic mythology

Chronicles
of the Forgotten God

An ode to the wild.

He once had a thousand names. Today, hardly anyone remembers them. Follow the Horned God on a journey through his own many faces.

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The Story

Does a god need worship to exist?

The Horned God, an ancient Celtic deity bound to the cycles of nature, lives on in a modern world that forgot him long ago. The forests are shrinking, the rituals have vanished, and his name is now no more than a distant echo. Bitter, and longing for the greatness he once had, he looks out on a world he no longer feels part of.

Aria the sylph — a fairy of the air, quick and untameable — refuses to let him give up. She reveals that he has not simply faded away: he has broken apart. His divinity lives on still, under other faces and in other forms, some of them barely recognisable.

And so the Horned God sets out on a journey through his own transformations: Pan, the Green Man, the Spirit of the World — each one a reflection of himself that he struggles to accept.

The Horned God, a luminous stag-skulled figure alone in a blue starlit forest

“All that dies elsewhere arrives here, and all that leaves here is born elsewhere. So turns the wheel of the world.”
The Spirit of the World

The cover

Cover of Chronicles of the Forgotten God: the Horned God, a dark stag-skulled figure seen from behind, standing in a clearing of golden light at the heart of a violet forest — A journey of initiation and an ecological fable.

The Wheel turns

Eight chapters, one cycle

Following the Wheel of the Year and the turn of the seasons, the story unfolds across eight chapters and one hundred and sixty-two pages of digital painting. Guided by Aria the sylph, the Horned God goes in search of his scattered sacred selves and passes through his own transformations.

A refusal. A quest. Encounters. An ordeal. And, at the close of the cycle, a transformation.

The origins

Born of Wicca

Wicca is a neopagan movement that emerged in the 20^th century and holds nature as sacred. Its calendar follows the Wheel of the Year: eight festivals attuned to the rhythm of the seasons, from the fire of summer to the silence of winter. Two deities stand at its heart: the Goddess, in her three faces of maiden, mother and crone, and the Horned God, lord of forests, beasts and cycles.

The myth tells how this god is born, loves the Goddess, dies in autumn and is reborn in spring: endlessly, along the Wheel. The Chronicles give that cycle flesh and blood — it is this path of death and rebirth that the hero walks, through his own scattered selves and transformations.

For Wicca does not seek to master the living world, but to move in step with it: nothing is lost, everything is transformed. That is the lesson the Horned God must learn for himself: the sacred is never restored, it reinvents itself.

Roots: Neopaganism, Celtic mythology, Wicca
Tone: Poetic and philosophical, with a touch of humour
Themes: The sacred, ecology and the cycles of nature

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Reflections of one god

The characters

The hero

The Horned God

He is not, strictly speaking, a deity of Celtic mythology, but a figure pieced together from many: a descendant of Cernunnos and other pagan gods, born out of neopaganism and Wicca. The embodiment of the cycles of life and death and of the sacred masculine, he is old, very old, and weary of it all. Attached to the old traditions in a world that no longer worships him, he withers as the forests shrink — until the god himself no longer quite knows what he once was, and sets out to remake himself in the modern age.

The sylph

Aria

A sylph of the air, Aria belongs to the invisible folk, alongside nymphs, dryads and their kin. Eager, stubborn and irresistible, she is a genuine breath of fresh air, a whirlwind of love. She is the one who pushes the Horned God to keep going.

The mother goddess

Brigid

She draws on the Irish Triple Goddess of fire, the forge and poetry. She embodies the feminine principle of the world in all its fullness: a Mother Goddess, the earth made flesh, creator and protector. Both mother and wife to the Horned God, she waits patiently for his return.

Pan, a horned satyr holding his reed pipes against an ochre background

The sunlit side

Pan

The Greek god of pastures and wild places, half man, half goat, with his reed pipes. While the Horned God despairs, Pan plays his music and dances. Irrepressibly alive, he still finds ways to enjoy what life has to offer, even now that the world has changed.

The survivor

The Green Man

A Celtic and Anglo-Saxon figure of rebirth and living things, reshaped over the centuries and absorbed by Christianity, yet never truly erased. He adapted, and he survived. More at home in the modern world than the Horned God, he is proof that the sacred endures even as traditions change.

The wise woman of winter

The Crone

In Celtic tradition, the Crone is the face of the wise old woman within the Triple Goddess. She embodies winter, the dark moon, the end of cycles. She is the one who watches over transformation and rebirth, helping Brigid bring the new Horned God into the world at the winter solstice.

The primordial power

The Spirit of the World

He has no fixed shape, but wears a thousand faces across the world. He embodies primordial power, the original source of life on Earth. This eternal, inter-dimensional being came before all gods, and endures long after they are forgotten.

The world in images

The gallery

The Horned God seen from behind in a clearing of golden light, surrounded by fireflies, deep in a violet forest

The Horned God sitting atop a wooded hill at dawn, in luminous greens and blues

The same hill at dusk: the Horned God sitting among the trees, in pinks and violets

Lavender cover variant: the Horned God walking beneath a shaft of light in a mauve forest

A luminous white stag in a violet night forest

The Horned God, luminous stag skull, in a blue night forest

Nymphs in yellow dresses dancing in a golden forest

The Horned God and Aria hand in hand at the edge of a cliff

A fox runs beneath a crescent moon among luminous blue trees

Brigid, a luminous figure in a glowing red forest

Pan playing his pipes before the Greek sea

A ceremony around the fire in the winter forest

The Horned God in a frost-covered winter forest at sunset

Golden rebirth of the god and the goddess

Portrait of Sandra Paolino, author and illustrator

A word from the author

Why this project exists

I grew up on tales and stories about forest spirits, about the little folk who live in springs and stones, and who carry us away to distant lands.

My love of the wild led me to mythology, to legends and to Wicca, a way of thinking that celebrates the Wheel of the Year and reminds us that nature is magical, beautiful, resilient and terrible all at once. That it always dies, and is always reborn.

That admiration for living things, and for the raw force that drives and creates our world, keeps on inspiring my stories and my art. Passing on its beauty and its violence turned into a book project, one where I could tell the story of the world we live in now through the eyes of these supernatural beings.

Far from being an ecological sermon, this story is about feeling deeply, and about coming up short in the face of the absurd — told in a tone that is funny, poetic, and at times dramatic.

Sandra Paolino

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September 2026

From screen
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Eight chapters, 162 pages of digital painting. In September 2026, a Kickstarter campaign will fund the printing, the publishing and the backer rewards. Be the first to know the moment it opens.

Printing

Funding the print run of the graphic novel as a beautifully made book.

Distribution

Reaching independent bookshops, and then readers abroad.

Rewards

Art prints, bookplates and collector's editions for backers.