[b]Tower of Broken Dreams, Ceyr[/b]
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"Softer, you say?" Vaul said, dry amusement coloring his voice as he measured [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/76127-goodhood-a-tale-of-deities/char#post-2369832]Voana[/url]'s [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/76127-goodhood-a-tale-of-deities/char#post-2369832]wife[/url] with his piercing gaze. "You think me softer now?" His eyebrows quirked up mockingly; he found [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/76127-goodhood-a-tale-of-deities/char#post-2372554]Neveras[/url] non-threatening enough to be flippant, and he was about to grin, laugh even, before quelling its precursor of a ghostly smile. 

"Well, perhaps you are right. In these relatively peaceful times, those who can test my mettle are few and far between. I must confess my sword-arm not seeing much use since the conclusion of the war. Or rather, since Thirianna over here rendered me incapable. Good day to you, [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/76127-goodhood-a-tale-of-deities/char#post-2369832]Sohena[/url]," he abruptly ignored the warrior god, and gestured limply with his hand. "It is well that you are out of Hades; its grimness and fires do not suit one such as you. Could the small one be your sister's... [i]wife[/i]?"

Thirianna's relative solemness contrasted with the playful Vaul, and she greeted the newly-arrived trio with only a nod, with respect to the smith god's making conversation. She turned appropriately the moment her right cheek was bathed in red light, and beheld a tear in reality wherefrom swirling crimson and heat profusely bled. The angel could not help but frown as her direct opposite stepped out of the portal.

It was a large bipedal crow whose feathers shone in the colors of the rainbow. A clawed, feathered hand held at its right a long golden staff headed by the horned skull of a goat, whose empty eye sockets eerily glowed blue with eldritch power. Its belly had white down mottled with black, and was festooned by many golden chains and baubles like brooches whose arrangement was chaotic and devoid of symmetry. Two necks with wrinkled skin terminated in avian heads. As [b]Kyras, Arch-Demon and Guardian of Hades[/b], spoke, his twin beaks revealed their serrated teeth, and when one beak spoke half of a sentence, it would silence, and the other would finish it.

"Thirianna," Kyras put in, cutting her off before she could speak. "Firstly, know that I find little joy in being taken away from my projects, and that I am here only because of my position as Guardian. Second, know that the others do not believe, and think you are lying or deluded to the point of madness, which, if I were less clever, would believe; but at the moment, I only find it a probable thing. Thirdly, it is folly to wait for any more of our siblings at this gathering. Only Dorn, self-proclaimed God of Humanity, journeys toward this place; the others lack faith in you, and will not come."

He tapped his relic staff on the ground, partly to punctuate that last statement, partly to prevent rebuttal from the angel.

"You will tell me all that you know; I shall extract the truth from your hopeful conjectures," he said, his four beady eyes regarding Thirianna and her only, before apparently realizing that they were not alone, and took a look around with only one head, lowing the other a few inches so as to get a better view.

"This reunion is pathetic. Sohena, Vaul, [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/76127-goodhood-a-tale-of-deities/char#post-2369530]Hiraga[/url] -- you don't actually believe that the Creator stirs from death, do you? This is a waste of our time. Look," he gestured at [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/76127-goodhood-a-tale-of-deities/char#post-2371758]Varavana[/url] and [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/76127-goodhood-a-tale-of-deities/char#post-2369608]Gaon[/url], extending a claw towards them. "The infants are tired from traveling. They come here for nothing."