/lit/ - Literature

What does /lit/ think of my fantasy novel idea

The story begins when a malady known as the Moth Plague descends upon the Sighing City of Celocombo (one of its many appellations), a tropical city-state known for the production of moonsilk, for the duration of exactly one year.

The reader, nor any character within the narrative, ever determines the plague's origins (though clues are left behind), nor is a cure ever found. The novel examines the lives of 4 (or 5) POV characters, each of who are trapped in the doomed city following the quarantine, and each of whom will have their own arcs which interlock at various junctions. So far the POVs are: a temple prostitute, a merchant impressed (legally) into slavery, a mercenary with the Iguana Corps (the city's hired army which eventually endeavors a coup d'etat), and an acoylte of the Ritualists (an order of ancestor-mages).

I'm trying to deliver the worldbuilding in an entirely "show, don't tell" manner, and to focus on the plot and characters above all. I deliberately want the world to seem exotic and alien, and the reader's only anchors to be the characters, though they very well might not understand them (like the temple prostitute).

I want to examine themes such as life and death, man vs. an indifferent nature, the nature of "the city", free will vs. determinism, and etc. I know that that's probably an overambitious desire but those are my intentions.

Atmosphere: humid, bright abundance contrasted with psychological darkness, heavy, dense.

It's proving quite challenging to write.

Would /sffg/ be interested?