Damsel Downe

Damsel Downe, also known as Damsel Downe and the Knights of the Night Sky, is a successful fantasy book and series in the starsailor subgenre, written by A.J. Yorgos.

The Damel Downe series has seen so much success that the term ‘Mind Flayer’ originates from it - it’s not something Mind Flayers call themselves, and scholars referred to them as with varying terms. But ‘Mind Flayer’ stuck.

(If you're a big fan of the series, though, you'd see what Damsel Downe does that its imitators fail to: it re-imagines the past of post-Cascade Cleocadia, examining the troubles of the Age of Piracy, the Glory Days, even delving into semi-Bloody Years content through what the Mind Flayers do to their victims. It's deep, it's fucked up, and it's kind of great. Read it.)