Forged Bonds

The strings of Fate have already been pulled to complete this tapestry, the story cannot be changed, no matter how much we wish it could.

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Forged Bonds is a proud member of the Faustian Nonsense Network and was written and edited by Pine Gonzalez. This episode featured Delaney Sutton as Hestia, Anusia Batersby as Zephyr, AJ Fidalgo as Aeolus, Kestrel Bell as Eros, Kit Paterson as Hyacinthus, Leon Egan as Apollo, and Bonnie Calderwood Aspinwall as Daphne. Our theme music was provided by AthansMusic. You can hear more from him on Spotify or by checking out his podcast The Grotto. If you would like to support the show you can follow us on social media @forgedbondspod, rate and review us on your podcatcher of choice, or join our patreon at patreon.com/pinetreepods where you can get early access to episodes and behind the scenes content. Thank you for listening!

Storm clouds are beginning to roll in across Olympus– both in the sky and in the eyes of our wind god.

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Forged Bonds is a proud member of the Faustian Nonsense Network and was written and edited by Pine Gonzalez. This episode featured Delaney Sutton as Hestia, AJ Fidalgo as Aeolus, Anusia Battersby as Zephyr, Leon Egan as Apollo, and Kit Paterson as Hyacinthus. Our theme music was provided by AthansMusic. You can hear more from him on Spotify or by checking out his podcast The Grotto. If you would like to support the show you can follow us on social media @forgedbondspod, rate and review us on your podcatcher of choice, or join our patreon at patreon.com/pinetreepods where you can get early access to episodes and behind the scenes content. Thank you for listening!

They’ve already fallen in love, Zephyr. What could possibly be funny about shooting Apollo with one of my arrows again?

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Content warnings:

• Fear
• Attempted coercion
• Mind control
• Loss of personhood

Forged Bonds is a proud member of the Faustian Nonsense Network and was written and edited by Pine Gonzalez. This episode featured Delaney Sutton as Hestia, Anusia Battersby as Zephyr, Kestrel Bell as Eros, Bonnie Calderwood Aspinwall as Daphne, Leon Egan as Apollo, and Kit Paterson as Hyacinthus. Our theme music was provided by AthansMusic. You can hear more from him on Spotify or by checking out his podcast The Grotto. If you would like to support the show you can follow us on social media @forgedbondspod, rate and review us on your podcatcher of choice, or join our patreon at patreon.com/pinetreepods where you can get early access to episodes and behind the scenes content. Thank you for listening!

Time moves so strangely when you live forever. It feels like yesterday and a lifetime ago all at once.

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Forged Bonds is a proud member of the Faustian Nonsense Network and was written and edited by Pine Gonzalez. This episode featured Delaney Sutton as Hestia, Leon Egan as Apollo, and Bonnie Calderwood Aspinwall as Daphne. Our theme music was provided by AthansMusic. You can hear more from him on Spotify or by checking out his podcast The Grotto. If you would like to support the show you can follow us on social media @forgedbondspod, rate and review us on your podcatcher of choice, or join our patreon at patreon.com/pinetreepods where you can get early access to episodes and behind the scenes content. Thank you for listening!

You asked me to be here, Zeph. Did you just want to float in front of me while my eyes are closed or did you have an actual reason to call me here?

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Forged Bonds is a proud member of the Faustian Nonsense Network and was written and edited by Pine Gonzalez. This episode featured Delaney Sutton as Hestia, AJ Fidalgo as Aeolus, Anusia Battersby as Zephyr, Kit Paterson as Hyacinthus, and Leon Egan as Apollo. Our theme music was provided by AthansMusic. You can hear more from him on Spotify or by checking out his podcast The Grotto. If you would like to support the show you can follow us on social media @forgedbondspod, rate and review us on your podcatcher of choice, or join our patreon at patreon.com/pinetreepods where you can get early access to episodes and behind the scenes content. Thank you for listening!

Somewhere between a Journey’s End and the start of Aphrodite and Hephaestus’s story, there was another love story unfolding. One just as beautiful and much more tragic than the stories you have heard before.

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Forged Bonds is a proud member of the Faustian Nonsense Network and was written and edited by Pine Gonzalez. This episode featured Delaney Sutton as Hestia, Leon Egan as Apollo, Kit Paterson as Hyacinthus, and Anusia Battersby as Zephyr. Our theme music was provided by AthansMusic. You can hear more from him on Spotify or by checking out his podcast The Grotto. If you would like to support the show you can follow us on social media @forgedbondspod, rate and review us on your podcatcher of choice, or join our patreon at patreon.com/pinetreepods where you can get early access to episodes and behind the scenes content. Thank you for listening!

Hello again, dear listeners! I’m jumping into the feed again to let you all know that our post-series q+a form is now open! You have until April 30th at 11:59PM CDT (UTC-5) to ask any questions that you might have about the show and anything else in the Pine Tree Pods world– I’ll be answering those questions and uploading that q+a a few weeks after the form closes! The link to the form will be in the description of this episode and also on our tumblr and bluesky for easy access. I also have a very special announcement for you all: One week from today on April 15th we will be launching our second mini series! This mini series follows Hyacinthus and Apollo in their tale of love and tragedy. Our cast for this show is absolutley astounding and I can’t wait for y’all to hear all of their incredible work. You can find a link to our cast announcements for the mini series in the description as well as a link to our official artwork that was done by Kit Paterson, our very own Hyacinthus! Thank you so much for all of your support over the course of the main series of the show– I can’t wait to see your questions and to share our final mini series with you!

Q+A form

Mini series cast announcement

Official artwork

Welcome, for the last time, to Forged Bonds.

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Forged Bonds is a proud member of the Faustian Nonsense Network and was written and edited by Pine Gonzalez. This episode featured Pine Gonzalez as Calliope, Tatiana Gefter as Aphrodite, Skylar Johnson as Hephaestus, Mike LeBeau as Dionysus, Nichole Goodnight as Hera, Khai Truong as Hades, Lyssa Jay as Persephone, Athan as Poseidon, Marguerite Kenner as Artemis, Leon Egan as Apollo, Taylor Michaels as Ares, and Cody Heath as Hermes. Our reception music was Haydn’s Piano Sonata in G major, Menuet, performed by Luis Sarro and found on Musopen. Our theme music was provided by AthansMusic. You can hear more from him on Spotify or by checking out his podcast The Grotto. If you would like to support the show you can follow us on social media @forgedbondspod, rate and review us on your podcatcher of choice, or join our patreon at patreon.com/pinetreepods where you can get early access to episodes and behind the scenes content. Thank you for listening!

At long last, the day has arrived for the wedding that was promised at the start of our story.

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Forged Bonds is a proud member of the Faustian Nonsense Network and was written and edited by Pine Gonzalez. This episode featured Pine Gonzalez as Calliope, Nichole Goodnight as Hera, Mike LeBeau as Dionysus, Skylar Johnson as Hephaestus, Athan as Poseidon, Taylor Michaels as Ares, and Tatiana Gefter as Aphrodite. Our theme music was provided by AthansMusic. You can hear more from him on Spotify or by checking out his podcast The Grotto. If you would like to support the show you can follow us on social media @forgedbondspod, rate and review us on your podcatcher of choice, or join our patreon at patreon.com/pinetreepods where you can get early access to episodes and behind the scenes content. Thank you for listening!

Ah, the metaphorical here, not the literal.

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Forged Bonds is a proud member of the Faustian Nonsense Network and was written and edited by Pine Gonzalez. This episode featured Landon 'Lemon' Whisnant as Homer, Just J as Arachne, and Louis Wolf as Athena. Our theme music was provided by AthansMusic. You can hear more from him on Spotify or by checking out his podcast The Grotto. If you would like to support the show you can follow us on social media @forgedbondspod, rate and review us on your podcatcher of choice, or join our patreon at patreon.com/pinetreepods where you can get early access to episodes and behind the scenes content. Thank you for listening!