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[B]Name/Titles:[/B] Sileon the Flame, the Dancer of Destruction, the Lord of Volcanos, the Herald.
[B]Sex/Gender[/B]: Almost always male.
[B]Pantheon/Affiliation:[/B] Deity.
[B]Patronage:[/B]
[indent]Fire, volcanos, destruction, prophecy, warfare, dancing. (All flame-themes.) Fire burns, but the ashes nourish, and it is all part of the plan and the cycle.[/indent]
[B]Appearance:[/B][indent][indent]Like the flame, Sileon takes many forms, but he is psychologically incapable of assuming a subtle form -- even if not wreathed in flame, he stands out in a crowd, even in a human shape. He favors the shape of a lithe young man and the shape of a bird, the former being dressed in loosely-cut crimson robes, easily discarded (or he just burns them up.) Another favorite form is that of a flaming bird. Beyond that, Sileon may combine aspects of the two in a variety of combinations, though his favorite of those tends to be a man with flaming wings, which he tends to default to in Krona, when there. It is how he is represented in statuary, as well -- with a flaming halo and wings.[/indent]
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[B]Parentage:[/B]
[indent]Ventu, a previous king of gods, sired Aroesus and Svanus. Sileon was the youngest of Ventu's get, sired upon the cosmos at the moment of a star's death.[/indent]
[B]Centres of Worship/Places of Power:[/B]
[indent]Kaeus, the Islands of Fire, a chain of volcanically active islands that is sparsely populated by fishermen and other small communities. The largest island houses the city of Cycander, in the shadow of Mount Nynos, whose flaming bowels are reputed to be the resting place of Sileon when he lays dormant.

Sileon has a strong worship base among soldiers as well, as he carries out a duty for Aroesus and is his trusted soldier in the pantheon, the dutiful brother. Heralds often wear orange in imitation of Sileon as the herald of Aroesus.[/indent] 
[B]Servants, Prominent Followers and Worship Base:[/B]
[indent]It is said the gasses from the Mount Nynos give visions to those who would inhale them, and the Arophion, a small temple devoted to Sileon, hosts oracles who are considered the most authoritative in known civilization. Cycander itself is a city that venerates flame and produces dancers of incredible grace and skill and has a reputation for hedonism, Sileon cares little for territoriality, so other deities are given their due here (up to you guys if you want to have truly powerful/influential groups here.) In the end however, Mnokaeus consider Sileon their patron god, though they fatalistically embrace a philosophy of rebirth and recycling in honor of him, fully expecting that some day he will wipe some of the islands clean of humanity. It is the way of life. It is strange, perhaps, that such a primal being, one that does not philosophize but rather tends to act according to impulse, would inspire such a following of philosophers, but stranger things have been known to happen.

Everywhere else? Sileon has pockets of worshipers -- he is favored by a sect called the Kifian, who are primarily males and are known for their whirling dances in praise and imitation of Sileon. They are also famed for taking hallucinogens to try and better understand the world. In a fight, however, the Kifian are noted for their unbridled ferocity in war if they, for some reason, elect to fight. Other dancers, and many other types of artist as well, acknowledge him as their patron and ideal. Sileon isn't necessarily a very responsive deity, he's no Aroesus. He does not play favorites among the mortals.[/indent]
[B]Psychology:[/B]
[indent]Sileon is a more primal force than his brothers in the sense that he is not a planner by nature or a deity inclined to, on his own, establish a power base. Others have a strong corps of worshipers and spread their influence, and yet Sileon just is. Perhaps it is the nature of fire as a fundamental force of nature, and Sileon mimicks it. He has always been, he will always be, and he is not able to steadily build something. But he is not a fool or a monster. In its season, he wages war and dances, though these are brief flares of activity; much of the time he lays dormant. He is a creature of violent, passionate works, strong urges and is guided by unfathomable instincts.

And yet, it's a mistake to write him off as stupid or easily led. Aroesus had influence over his brother, though Sileon, in a sudden fit of prophetic perception, felt that Aroesus' reign was coming to and end soon. As a deity intimately in touch with the cycle of destruction and renewal, did not consider this a terrible calamity as others might, loved as he did his brother -- and he did admire Aroesus, particularly in the early days when his vision was so clear. But Svanus died and Aroesus other siblings were thrown to Sharzunates or killed and Aroesus, as time wore on, drew within himself. 

How will he react to the death? No one is sure yet.[/indent] 
[B]History:[/B] 
[indent]Ventu was a primal deity of fire, creation and destruction, but also the absolute ruler of the world. He was content to rule the cosmic forces without doing too much with them, being a simple being of simple tastes. He sired, upon the stars, other beings, including Aroesus. Upon Lymaeus, he sired Svanus, who was of a more creative, cultivating bent and felt connection to the world he inhabited. Aroesus and Svanus grew close and became collaborators as they worked with the materials at hand and then built some more. They created and Ventu destroyed before the creations could get out of hand and his children become empowered. His final child was Sileon, who was like Ventu in so many respects that Ventu favored this youngest over all. And yet, unlike his father, Sileon stood in awe of the things he didn't entirely understand, and learned from watching his elder siblings as they moved through the world and created things, including fickle humanity, and spawned their own progeny.

The time came again when Ventu was inclined to destroy the works of his children and the other things that came to being in the world, and that was when Aroesus and Svanus (and others) rebelled against them. And it was Sileon, left free, trusted, who Ventu thought understood the best, who freed them from their imprisonment in Sharzunates, who decided that he could not bear to see the works of his siblings, whom he loved, destroyed.

Aroesus and his host organized, a thing unknown to Ventu, who ruled in singular absolutism, and revolted against the king of the gods. After the death of Ventu, there were other mighty beings that tried to take Ventu's place in turn and Aroesus' Pantheon fought them under his leadership. The other siblings found roles in the court of Krona that befit their talents; but Sileon inherited the raw strength of his sire, and became the primal force of destruction akin to his father, though he voluntarily put himself into slumber in a mountain so that the creation might thrive, electing to hold himself aloof until needed. From time to time, Aroesus would call upon Sileon to assist in maintaining the order of Krona, to bring other deities and beings into the order, and for this, he would be awakened and unleashed upon enemies. Even if they were powerful, they were brought low by the combined cooperative might of the sons of Ventu.

And yet, the rule began to wear upon Aroesus, as it had worn upon Ventu, and the fears that came with the mantle of power seemed to eat away at sanity itself. Svanus, who rebelled to protect his creations from his father, Ventu, became tired and sick with grief for the way Aroesus similarly culled some things in preference of others and created humanity as a dominant force on Lymaeus in preference over other creations equally worthy in the eyes of Svanus. The brothers disagreed, though Sileon was not called upon to fight his other brother, Svanus, as Aroesus, upon considering sending Sileon against Svanus, wondered if perhaps Sileon might not turn against him as the youngest had turned on their father. The eldest brother, unsure, left the youngest in slumber and struck down his own brother in a fit of rage.

Aroesus, after the death of Svanus, did not feel he could even trust his siblings, and Aroesus devoted himself to devising new mechanisms to enforce his will, countermeasures against even his siblings and children.

When Sileon finally woke up, Svanus was gone, and Sileon accepted the explanations, though he harbored questions that haunted his dreams. Even though Aroesus still worried about the ultimate loyalties of his youngest sibling, Sileon was called upon more often to visit more destruction, and when called to deliver a message, the message was increasingly petty, and yet he remained silent and took his doubts with him into sleep. 

Lyrikes happened when Sileon slept. Aroesus died while Sileon slept. But now, Sileon stirs, the prophets cry that the flame is rising once again, and Krona knows that Sileon will arise. He is too mercurial to rule, too disinterested and too primal to make sense of Krona and its politics, its factions by itself. He had always been intentionally held away from them, used as a hammer by his brother against all who would rise up. But now, the question is, what will Sileon do? What's more, all this time, he's served as the fist of Aroesus, doing the dirty work, confronting upstart deities, delivering the threats and then, if unheeded, bringing the rebellious to heel. What, then, will become of Sileon, the simplest and most elemental of the brothers?[/indent]
[B]Relationships:[/B] 
[indent]Yeah, Sileon has a -lot- of bad blood going on, that is to say, a lot of people probably figure they need to finish the job with him. On the other hand, Sileon is a useful tool. Dangerous, but useful.[/indent]
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