Name: X (pronounced “ecks”) Titles: The Voice of the Silent, The Lord of Whispers, Veiled One. True name: Truly a secret worthy of the God of Secrets: [hider=It's a Secret!] Apocrypha [/hider] Inspiration: Appearance: [hider=To Mortals and Gods:] [img]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/036/a/9/wizard_by_van_der_dot-d4osajb.jpg[/img] [/hider] Appearing to both Mortals and Gods in the same form, X does not differ his appearance to either party. A flowing robe conceals his physical manifestation, dissolving the God to little more than a pair of long slender hands emerging from the sleeves and a partial face beyond the veil of eternal mystery. There is no face beyond the lower half of his visage, and in truth nothing beneath the robes. Symbols: A circle with an X, representing something not only disallowed once, but twice over as something truly forbidden. It is also a reference to his namesake. [hider= Symbol of Secrets] [img]http://www.decodeunicode.org/en/data/glyph/196x196/29BB.gif[/img] [/hider] Portfolio: Secrets Domain; Subdomains of Arcana, Mystery, and Truth. X governs information and the flow of information. That which is known can be struck from memory, that which is not known can be revealed. Even Omniscience of the gods cannot undo what X has done once a secret is made. X harbors these secrets in his forbidden books and controls the darkest secrets of the world. He was once a god of knowledge, specifically dangerous knowledge and his domain entices others who seek it. For there is power in secrets, and what secrets does the God of Secrets harbor from the Gods themselves? Alignment: Lawful Neutral Servitors: [hider=Bookkeepers.] [img]http://th07.deviantart.net/fs40/PRE/i/2009/038/0/7/Review9_by_redpeggy.jpg[/img] Inherently Blind, Deaf and Mute, these phantasmal creatures are chained to their respective lecterns. They merely keep the structure afloat and mobile as they record in their book that which was seen, heard or spoken by stealing the sensation of others which can see, hear or speak for their own. Their books are often treasured as analects of secrets or volumes of recorded history, some may even transcend the ordinary and become a Forbidden Book. [/hider] Weapon: The Forbidden Books of Knowledge: Secrets are power. Scattered throughout the world in the aftermath of the God Wars, these artifacts of X may fall into the hands of mortals often not by chance alone. The mystical books harbor many topics from the hidden arts of summoning creatures which should not be, to the method of attaining godhood. Nevertheless, all secrets come at a price, and to glean information from one of the sealed books one must break the seal placed upon it by X. To do so would be to offer a great revelation, an important secret that no one else knows, and with this exchange of information does book unlock itself and reveal a sliver of knowledge before sealing itself once more to hear another secret. In such a way, one secret is revealed and traded for another. While the books themselves have secret names, mortals who know of their existence give them common names. The Compendium Explanaris for example is a traveller’s guide to the far realms at the edge of known creation. The Diabolic Folio lists out methods to conjure terrible evil avatars from the underworld, while The Volume of Exalted Paragons is summons forth avatars of good from the Heavens. The Blackest Grimoire is filled with the practice of necromancy and beyond with the secret to create new life. The Fata Matera is a book of fate, detailing methods of how to change fate and defy the gods. Lesser books are unnamed and contain secrets of sorcery, magic and arcana, while others are caches of secrets kept throughout history which can be brought to light to change it. Finally the greatest of all: The Ledger of Apotheosis where all secrets are kept, and the true names and whispered banes of the immortals themselves are rumored to be. The Ledger of Apotheosis is said to be the Book which appears with X as he manifests in physical form. Familiar: White and Black Pepper Moths. The White Moths reveal secrets, while the Black Moths create secrets. Followers: [hider=Seers and Oracles.] [img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/025/f/f/ffc4da893398be3e423730b6e6994f1f-d73ij5z.jpg[/img] [/hider] They who seek to learn the secret fates of others. [hider=Mages, Scholars and Researchers] [img]http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2014/286/9/c/majorarcana_ix_by_artofty-d82nyqx.jpg[/img] [/hider] They who seek to learn the secrets of the arcane arts, esoteric and more. [hider=Order of the White Moth] [img]http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2014/155/6/b/robes_by_apostolon_iam-d7l09ll.jpg[/img] [/hider] The Order of the White Moth seeks to collect and protect secrets. [hider=Order of the Black Moth] [img]http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/114/9/7/Chaos_Librarian_by_daarken.jpg[/img] [/hider] The Order of the Black Moth seeks to collect and use secrets. Bio: Long ago, before the great schism of the gods, X was a God of Knowledge, benevolent and kind. There was no need for secrecy, silence was never needed for an answer. X knew all, well beyond the stretch of the other gods, X saw deep into the world and of its inner workings. For a time, the mortals knew X for the gifts he brought alongside his brethren. The knowledge of how to tame fire, magic and medicine to name a few things X had deemed appropriate for the Mortals and approved by the other gods as he argued reasons why they should have such knowledge. Fire to provide them warmth and allow them to send burnt offerings to their gods, Magic to shape their world without the need of divine intervention, and Medicine such that they may extend their lives to worship their gods. All these things X believed were well and good, and for centuries it was. Then was made the first secret of existence. That which X did not know came into the minds and thoughts of the Evil gods. This was the first fall of power he had experienced, and from it, they had used his lack of knowledge against him. They had planned this for decades beyond time, with humans they rebelled against the Creator using the very knowledge X had so innocently given away years before. And so it began, a war known now as the Clash of Gods. When it was over, X was no longer the God of Knowledge, but rather now corrupted by the birth of Secrets. The Creator had asked of X one task for his failings. Though he was found innocent of conspiring with the Evil Gods, he was sentenced to dwell in the heavens, never again to intercede and bring the gift of Knowledge to the world. But not before striking out the name of Fallen one from all of history, time and memory. This was his first act, as the God of Secrets. Now in the ethereal realms of his hidden sanctum does he listens to the world. Recording that which is unseen by the public eye. Lovers moonlight trysts, assassination plots and more. Watching vigilant against those who would abuse knowledge as the evil ones did.