Name: Aela

Gender: Female

Appearance: One the shorter side for a deity, Aela stands at just above twelve feet tall.

Personality:

Major Domain: Life - When Aela stood before the king for the first time Ephra proclaimed "The font of creation has been given shape". Though she cannot claim dominion over any particular form of creation Aela radiates a potent life force of more raw power than any other deity. Where she walks the elderly strengthen in their stride and the colour returns to the faces of the sick, land rendered dead seems to quicken for a time and the pain of old wounds fades. Among mortals she is worshiped as the giver of life, good health, and a patron of healers.

Minor Domains: Rivers - Running through the land like veins. Points of fresh water became the birthplace of countless cities and settlements. When she was younger Aela would often stop by the small streams that ran across her given lands, enjoying their cool embrace and babbling music of the water.

Theatre - Stories are food for the soul. Aela lives a more relaxed life as far as deities go, avoiding violence and conflict if she can but she finds great enjoyment in stories of heroes and daring adventure. Her followers found a great way to win her patronage was to put on shows for the goddess in their midst. Aela has gone on to heap great rewards on the writers and players that can tell a story that might move her, be it a raucous comedy or tearful tragedy, she is a lover of story telling and its art.

Weaknesses:(No one is all powerful)

Your Avatar: Every God and Goddess has an Avatar, these usually take the form or a monster, or animal, and are usually enormous, these are not actually your god, simply a creature of your deities creation that represents them in their realms and can be used for combat. Avatars are capable of killing Gods.

Stance: This is your stance on what is currently taking place, who you support if anyone or yourself
etc...

Loyalty During the Rebellion: The Civil war has only recently ended, who’s side did you fight on?

Center of Power: A small object no larger than a softball, but no bigger than a grape. This object represents the power you god holds over their major domain. These are important as any who wish to become the King of Gods must have every center of power offered to them and fit into it's place on the throne so that they may sit upon it. Once they have sat upon the throne they will then return the Centers of Power to their prospective owners. (Or maybe they wont.)

Relations: If you want to collaborate pre-existing relationships with other places, please put them here. I highly encourage this.

Powers: Let’s get a semblance of an idea what your character is capable of doing in combat.

Godly Equipment: List what you have here, and what it does.

Demi Gods: These are children you have had with mortals. You cannot have more than 2. Please list their names, and what their supernatural properties are for being your child. They also typically stand around 8 to 10 feet tall

Name of your Land:

Lands: Flora, Fauna, Geography. Whats the land like where you live.

People: What species are they? What ethnicity are they? Describe them here.

Culture: What do your people do? How do they live? What do they enjoy? Architecture?

Technology: What level of Technology do they have? Nothing later than early medieval

Capital: What is the capital of your lands? Name it and describe it.

Beings: What other immortal creatures live in your lands? Nymphs? Ogres? Elementals? List them here if they are not a main population of your creations. Some creatures just happened without any god creating them.

Name: Legio

Gender: Typically male.

Appearance:

Legio is roughly thirteen feet tall, and aside from his primary appearance, it seems he can subtly alter his appearance to look just about however he likes to any given observer, so long as the form he takes remains within the limits of typically-accepted human biology.

Personality: With the race of humanity specifically as his domain, the Emperor of Man is naturally very inclined toward keeping his charges safe. He firmly believes that humanity is destined to become the dominant race over all others, mortals and immortals alike, and a lot of his morality is based around the notion of paving the way for humanity to achieve this fate: those who assist humanity's destiny are most welcome, those who hinder it are despised. That said, Legio has an honourable streak about him that he insists the humans who worship him emulate, being brave in the face of harsh odds, and honest in the face of lies and deception; though his own plans sometimes necessitate omitting information, he is for the most part not needlessly cruel in any sense, and to the right people can be very friendly, which at least endears him to certain other gods at times.

Major Domain: Mankind

Minor Domains: Truth and Bravery

Weaknesses: Ironically, the God-Emperor's biggest weaknesses lie in his very domains. Though plentiful, the vast majority of humans are not exceptionally strong by the standards of this world, and indeed are perceived as the weakest of mortal races by far too many groups; whilst they certainly have their epic heroes and everything in between, the average human soldier will not win a fight against a similarly-trained member of most races with a physical advantage... at least, not on their lonesome, and as always, many variables may lead to changes in the end result. Likewise, his subdomains of bravery and truth combine within his personality, leading him to give up a designated goal but rarely - a grand feat of morality, but not exactly pertinent when achieving his goal would be nigh-impossible, or even detrimental to his cause. Lastly, since his form is also based on that of humanity, he can technically die about as easily as a human if his foe bears a Godsbane weapon, but his own powers and equipment more than make up for this setback.

Your Avatar:


Stance: Legio is currently gunning for the throne, and whilst the Emperor of Mankind has no intent to be needlessly selfish about his leadership - after all, some insight from other perspectives could always be appreciated - he would be hard put-upon to accept a situation where he is not King of the Gods in some sense, as this would be what he feels is best for Mankind. If push came to shove, his most likely second choice would be Telios, as the eldest son of and most similar (even superior) option to Ephra, but he would need to consider himself all but entirely out of the running before acquiescing to this route.

Loyalty During the Rebellion: To put it lightly, Thatos was not an especially fun God of War to be around - whilst his gripes were considered legitimate by Legio, the manner he addressed them in certainly wasn't, and after all, Ephra was the Father of All Gods. Legio fought for Ephra throughout the war, in particular against those who targeted human settlements in a bid to weaken the King's power, and was as distraught when he heard of Ephra's passing as elated upon hearing of Thatos' destruction.

Center of Power:


Relations:
Allied - Koritomo, Goddess of War; Galvan, God of the Forge; Califer, God of the Hunt; Azah, Goddess of Justice
Friendly - Telios, God of the Sun; X, God of Knowledge; Aela, Goddess of Life; The Twins, Gods of Fertility; Typhonne, Goddess of Storms
Neutral - Asmoday, God of the Underworld; Necrarch, God of Undeath; Legorian, God of the Sea; Oao, God of Darkness; Sleeth Rethrah, God of Murder; Leoric, God of Lust; Tian, God of Dragons; Naqqash, God of Sorrows; Dream, God of Dreams; Zselyke, God of Ice
Unfriendly - Polaris, God of the Stars; Josarae, Goddess of Corruption
Hostile - Sylendre, Goddess of Nature; Artheron, God of Predation; Ren, God of Mischief

Powers:
The New Man - Legio was created to act not only as a leader of men, but as an example of how they ought to act, indeed how they ought to be. As the Master of Mankind, Legio's physical power and skill is second to none: whilst not the utmost peak of strength, speed, agility, stamina, or durability amongst the gods, he is great enough in all aspects that their combination renders him a dangerous foe in physical combat no matter his opponent, not to mention skilful with many forms of weaponry even beyond what he is normally equipped with.
Matter Over Mind - Legio is not especially possessed of specific control over certain elements like many of his fellow deities. Instead, his main power leans a lot more general - he can generate a telekinetic force akin to disembodied, incorporeal hands to shield himself and others or strike down opponents with barely a movement, and notably to manipulate matter and energy with greater strength and precision the closer to himself it is and a maximum range that can easily encompass an entire army. Through these means, he can quite handily perform many and varied spectacular feats with material substances, from solid matter through to gases, even encompassing events such as lightning strikes, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes... but, as these do not encompass true magical feats beyond the telekinesis involved in them, those gods who already bear magic to manipulate these elements will inevitably win out in a struggle to control such elements, especially within the other deity's domain.
Moreover, and as a logical extreme of this power's strength increasing within his proximity, the amount of control he has over his body proper is phenomenal. As a result, though his default appearance is as shown above, he is able to shift his appearance either subtly or not so subtly to adopt the form of just about any bipedal entity, albeit within reasonable human-like limits - whilst he could technically seem as many entities with human heritage, it would be a stretch to suggest he could adopt orcish form, and an insult to suggest he do so. This control also doubles as both sustained "flight", and a sort of rapid healing - not true automatic regeneration of wounds, but close enough that any attack which is not very rapidly lethal can be rendered moot in minutes, if not seconds.
Mind Over Matter - As his telekinetic strength offers him power over matter, so does his telepathy grant him access to the minds of others. Most commonly, he combines this and his body-moulding power to generate an image of himself in the eyes of those who behold him, one that best suits what they believe to be an awe-inspiring figure. Since this rarely works on other deities, he has honed the ability for other purposes too: most generally, he may use it to speak into or read the minds of humans all across the mortal realm, linked as they are to him by divine representation, as well as anybody else within a fairly large distance of him. Those within this range are also subject to mental assault, typically a sort of impossibly "loud" psychic scream intended to scramble sensory input and render unconscious those subjected to it, or a brief burst of their worst dredged-up nightmares as an alternative to killing them; should he want to avoid an interaction altogether, he can also trick their minds into simply not perceiving him, letting him pass by as though he were invisible. In a worst case scenario, he can make an effort to try and warp the target's very minds, either to change their memories or their loyalties, though enough telepathic power in kind or a strong enough willpower can ultimately dissuade any form of psychic attack or alteration made by Legio.
Truth of the Soul - The mind can lie; the soul does not. One of his more esoteric powers, Legio is capable of looking past the physical matter of a being to observe their very soul, and in doing so to observe the truth of their being more directly than can be hidden from anybody, not to mention whether or not they are lying about what they say, though in this case further interrogation to extricate the truth would be necessary, such as the use of Mind Over Matter to read their thoughts. Indeed, this power even allows him to manipulate the soul of another being, to enhance or diminish it as desired, even to snuff it out entirely, though any manipulation beyond truth-seeing is implausible to use against a fellow god without extreme effort.
No Courage, No Quarter - In a fight, it is rare that a foe will not at some point consider fleeing if they are on the back foot. This power is intended to dissuade that option, and to punish whoever takes it. Choosing a number of targets to enact this power upon, Legio generates a sort of semi-visible mobile boundary, encompassing whoever he has targeted (which can optionally include himself sans negative effects if he is to be involved in this battle, but must include both sides of a combat no matter what their alliance to Legio is), with the field growing larger the more individuals are encompassed within it, with the final size allowing for anything from one-on-one duels to entire epic-scale combats. So long as the majority of targets are not considering escape, the field moves roughly with all individuals within, Legio included, and those within are protected from external interference; yet the moment one side truly considers fleeing, routing, or otherwise exiting combat, the field's position locks, and any foes who pass from inside to outside in an attempt to escape (though not to pursue those who try to escape) are cursed.
The Coward's Curse can affect even gods, albeit to a somewhat lesser degree than it does mortal and immortal creatures, and runs as follows: until such time as the Coward returns to face whichever enemy they were previously fighting, all wounds they suffer (including from the battle) will fail to heal properly, staying open far longer than usual even if they would usually heal very rapidly, reopening with the slightest hint of exertion, and typically become badly infected even if it should not be plausible for infection to take hold. Similarly, the Coward is rendered unable to recover any magic or stamina they have used, either from the battle itself or their subsequent exertions, and will eventually collapse and die of enervation if they do not return to fight. They will also find themselves irrationally terrified of even the most mundane things, making it nigh-impossible for them to engage in activities and events they would usually be comfortable with combined with the constant, maddening knowledge of roughly where the foe they fled from is located, these latter two effects attempt to drive the Coward to face their enemy once more.
The Coward's Curse cannot be lifted save through the Coward coming back to finish their fight, making themselves visibly known to the foe beforehand to assure their courage is recovered, or else if Legio himself is persuaded to lift the Curse personally. Should they flee once again, the Curse will make its comeback as if it had never been lifted to begin with; should the Coward try to attack their enemy whilst they are unaware, or worse yet be hunted down by their foe instead of vice versa, the Curse will only strengthen further, beginning to actively inflict unhealing wounds and drain the Coward's magic and energy even when doing nothing, and so all but ensuring the Coward's eventual demise.

Godly Equipment:
The Golden Aegis - A suit of well-decorated golden armour, as seen above. The armour itself is unencumbering despite its bulk, and extraordinarily hard and tough, very difficult to penetrate or crush even with high-quality Godsbane weapons; what makes it truly powerful, however, is the fact that it shields its wearer from negative mental effects such as fear or mind control, as well as projecting an aura of bravery and stamina that imbues those fighting for Legio to keep up pressure against a foe no matter how much they would otherwise be flagging - very useful for avoiding a rout, but it could also work against them if a retreat would in fact be the most pertinent option.
The Blade Imperium - A weapon forged for Legio back in the time when he aspired for Boletia's ascendancy as the sole human empire, this is not only an incredibly well-crafted Godsbane sword in its own right, as seen above, but a strong focus for Legio's own magical abilities. By imbuing his power into it, he can generate a telekinetic effect far more extreme than usual that manifests as incorporeal flames around the sword, allowing it to cut through most substances like water, launch slashes of force as long-distance strikes, produce makeshift barriers to guard against enemy attacks, or even generate a sort of psychic whip to strike his enemies with.
The Claw of Man's Mastery - An immensely large Godsbane gauntlet with blades for fingers, as seen above. Much like the Blade Imperium, the Emperor can focus his power into the blades to let them safely hold or sharply cut through most materials, though with nothing like as much strength or control as the Blade Imperium. Instead, the Claw's effects are intended to enhance the best aspects of humanity, emitting an aura that substantially amplifies the capabilities of most humans in its range to better push them toward their perceived destiny - their strength and speed are boosted beyond normal human limits, they acquire a healing factor that can stitch together light to moderate wounds in relatively short order, and their minds enter a state of thought that is improved both quantatively and qualitively compared to usual, letting the average soldier fight with greater effectiveness, and allowing their leaders to develop complex and brilliant tactics and strategies on the fly.

Demi Gods: Typically, Legio does not fornicate frivolously. Very rarely is it a necessity for diplomatic purposes, but for the most part, he prefers to keep to long-term partners - so far, he has yet to experience such a relationship with a god, but has very long ago experienced love with a mortal, from which he has borne two children: Narrakk and Astaros Ophus.



The Land of Emanule

Lands: It is disingenuous to suggest that humans have a main country, widespread across the mortal realm as they are. However, being that Mankind is Legio's prime domain, his own physical realm is largely derived from where humans have most deeply settled at any given time. Consequently, Legio's primary country is a nation called "Emanule" by its people. The land bears a roughly-pentagonal border tilted slightly on to its South-East corner, wholly exposed to nearby ocean from North-North-East to South-East, with its borders tied to other lands beyond this. Closer to the sea, Emanule's land grows temperate, including grasslands and deciduous forests*, whilst the further West one travels, the cooler and hillier the land grows, with fewer forests and somewhat more evergreen flora. Across the land, naturally, are various human cities, towns, and villages, the country's capital of Ephrum sitting just below the country's centerpoint, connected by its largest road to the next two largest cities, Legornack to the farthest East and Thatanos in the Western hills, though some settlements of dwarves do exist in the West too.
*Short of oversights, all forests deciduous or not are thoroughly cleared of hostile flora and fauna by any humans living nearby, for fear of a certain duo of deities acting against them. That in mind, Emanule's flora and fauna are relatively mundane, similar to those of medieval countries such as England or France.

People: Aside from a few dwarven settlements, the vast majority of Emanule's people are human, with a few Dwarven settlements in its Western parts. Typically, Emanule is not exceptionally warm or cool, and so its people are mostly light-skinned, with a reasonable variety of hair and eye colours across the board, though skin tones do shift toward a mild tan as one moves toward the warmer Eastern parts of the country.

Culture: Emanule's society is, for the most part, very meritocratic in nature: smaller villages demand it in order to sustain themselves, whilst towns and cities require it to ensure all are living to their fullest potential, be it in the arts, sciences, trade, leadership, or in simple hard labour as some are wont to aim for. Even for the breadline poor, life is somewhat lavicious - an Emanulian home considered ascetic often has a flowing style to it evocative of former Boletia, whilst the ultra-rich often manage to acquire artwork and sculptures from Boletia itself and other dead civilisations from around that time period through various means.
Evidently, it is a nation of significant wealth, and its architecture and common pastimes reflect this, yet oddly enough, it is surprisingly lacking in religious worship. The only major deity worshipped throughout the whole country is Legio himself, supposedly for blessing them with his presence and protection for so much time, and whilst other deities may be worshipped within individual households, only the God-Emperor of Man has his churches within this land, for good or ill.

Technology: Emanule's technology lies firmly within the early Renaissance era, with its human inhabitants having discovered the scientific method of research, the crank and connecting rod, and the printing press during the civil war proper; with the assistance of the country's dwarves, weapon technology has begun to adapt toward matchlock guns, and arquebuses and muskets alike are increasingly wide-spread weapons, though for their reliability medieval-era melee weapons, longbows, and crossbows all remain commonplace amongst many troops.

Capital: As stated above, the capital city of Emanule is called Ephrum, closely followed in size by Legornack and Thatanos. Evidently named after the former King of Gods, Ephrum is a city of around 150000 inhabitants and 38 kilometers in diameter, largely focused on trading between the next two largest cities and many other cities and towns in Emanule, rendering it an especially mercantile location with almost city-state-like power. This is only further supported by the fact that Emanule's monarchy has situated itself within Ephrum, granting the place a lot of social protection, not to mention substantial military strength.

Beings: Emanule is not home to any particular immortal races, and indeed not so few human nations are similar, since Legio has but rarely seen fit to create new entities himself (though plenty of human nations do integrate members of other races as well, comparatively tolerant as they are). The one exception to this lies in the form of those humans who Legio has seen fit to, in essence, uplift.

Name: Typhonne, Goddess of Storms

Gender: Female

Appearance: All Gods and Goddesses stand between 12 and 14 feet tall please try to give a bit of specification in that regard

Personality:

Major Domain: Storms

Minor Domains: Destruction and Fury

Weaknesses:

Your Avatar: Every God and Goddess has an Avatar, these usually take the form or a monster, or animal, and are usually enormous, these are not actually your god, simply a creature of your deities creation that represents them in their realms and can be used for combat. Avatars are capable of killing Gods.

Stance: Part of the Trio, a group of three Gods looking to gain power together instead of just one.

Loyalty During the Rebellion:

Center of Power: A small object no larger than a softball, but no bigger than a grape. This object represents the power you god holds over their major domain. These are important as any who wish to become the King of Gods must have every center of power offered to them and fit into it's place on the throne so that they may sit upon it. Once they have sat upon the throne they will then return the Centers of Power to their prospective owners. (Or maybe they wont.)

Relations:

Powers: Let’s get a semblance of an idea what your character is capable of doing in combat.

Godly Equipment: List what you have here, and what it does.

Demi Gods: These are children you have had with mortals. You cannot have more than 2. Please list their names, and what their supernatural properties are for being your child. They also typically stand around 8 to 10 feet tall

Name of your Land:

Lands: Flora, Fauna, Geography. Whats the land like where you live.

People: What species are they? What ethnicity are they? Describe them here.

Culture: What do your people do? How do they live? What do they enjoy? Architecture?

Technology: What level of Technology do they have? Nothing later than early medieval

Capital: What is the capital of your lands? Name it and describe it.

Beings: What other immortal creatures live in your lands? Nymphs? Ogres? Elementals? List them here if they are not a main population of your creations. Some creatures just happened without any god creating them.

Name: Vahnt

Gender: Male

Appearance:


Personality:

Major Domain: Fates

Minor Domains: Covenant, Desire

Weaknesses: Vahnt lacks power as a combatant, and is bound by the terms of his own contracts just as strictly as the signee.

Your Avatar: The Hydra. A great four legged beast of many devouring heads and a mighty tail. Destroying one of its heads will cause two more to grow in its place.

Stance: currently neutral and open for business as usual.

Loyalty During the Rebellion:

Center of Power: The Pen of What Is to Be.
A small object no larger than a softball, but no bigger than a grape. This object represents the power you god holds over their major domain. These are important as any who wish to become the King of Gods must have every center of power offered to them and fit into it's place on the throne so that they may sit upon it. Once they have sat upon the throne they will then return the Centers of Power to their prospective owners. (Or maybe they wont.)

Relations: Many gods have a stake in fate, and so Vahnt has had dealings with most, be it agreements over use of cosmic power or just helping give some favoured hero a nudge in the right direction. (if anyone wants to have had some interesting/important deals with Vahnt in the past let me know)

Powers: Although averse to combat, fighting Fate is not easy due to his extraordinary predictive abilities, foresight and unrelenting tenacity. He is somewhat lacking in offensive ability however. the phrase "the pen is mightier than the sword" might be put to the test somewhat literally here.

Godly Equipment:

Demi Gods: It is not uncommon for a barren woman to pray to Vahnt for a child in their despair. One such woman, the fair Iris, had nothing to offer the god in exchange, and so for her Vahnt set a special price: The child she would bear would be his, and as such be his instrument in the world. So it was that Varis was born. ordinarily 9ft tall, Varis can change his form and conceal his nature, and possesses some of his father's foresight. He acts out his fathers will across the lands, sometimes lending a helping hand, sometimes laying down obstacles in the way, guiding events to his father's designs.

Name of your Land:

Lands: Flora, Fauna, Geography. Whats the land like where you live.

People: What species are they? What ethnicity are they? Describe them here.

Culture: What do your people do? How do they live? What do they enjoy? Architecture?

Technology: What level of Technology do they have? Nothing later than early medieval

Capital: What is the capital of your lands? Name it and describe it.

Beings: What other immortal creatures live in your lands? Nymphs? Ogres? Elementals

Name: Koritomo

Gender: Prefers a Female Form

Appearance: About 13ft tall

Personality: An honorable woman, Koritomo

Major Domain: War

Minor Domains: Battle Tactics and Honor

Your Avatar:


Stance: Though furious about the death of her father War, Koritomo understood the need to put him down and stop him from taking over. She does not hold it against those who struck up against him, nor is she against those who worked with him, despite her thoughts on them being dishonorable. However, she is not exactly best friends with the one who killed her father.

Loyalty During the Rebellion: Koritomo took no side, instead she opted to remain neutral as she did not Agree with her father, but she had no desire to fight against him.

Center of Power:

Relations:

Allies:
Sleeth Rethrah: God of Murder
Legio: God of Mankind
Naqqash: God of Loss and Pain
Asmoday: God of the Underworld
God of the Hunt

Friends:
Akatun: Son of the Sea
Dream

Acquaintance:
God of the Forge
Nature
Oao: God of Darkness
Polaris: God of the Stars
Leoric: God of Lust
Aertheron: God of Predation

Situational ally:
X: God of Knowledge
The Twins: Gods of Fertility
Legoran: God of the Sea

Hostile:
Astru Noglaith: God of Undeath
Skaan: God of Monsters
God of Corruption

Powers: Let’s get a semblance of an idea what your character is capable of doing in combat.

Godly Equipment: List what you have here, and what it does.

Demi Gods: None

Name of your Land: Hindogan

Lands: Flora, Fauna, Geography. Whats the land like where you live.

People: Similar to the people of Feudal Japan, those of Hindogen believe heavily in Honor and tenants of Bushido.

Culture:
Cast system is in place:

• Koritomo (Avatar as well)
• Emperor/Empress
• Samurai
• Farmers
• Artisan
• Merchants
• Eta

Tenants of Bushido:

• Honor
• Duty
• Compassion
• Courage
• Sincerity
• Honesty
• Courtesy

The samurai, members of a powerful military caste in feudal Hinodegan, began as provincial warriors before rising to power in the 12th century with the beginning of the country’s first military dictatorship, known as the shogunate. As servants of the daimyos, or great lords, the samurai backed up the authority of the shogun and gave him power over the mikado (emperor). The samurai would dominate Hinodegani government and society until the Meiji Restoration of 1868 led to the abolition of the feudal system. Despite being deprived of their traditional privileges, many of the samurai would enter the elite ranks of politics and industry in modern Hinodegan. More importantly, the traditional samurai code of honor, discipline and morality known as bushido–or “the way of the warrior”–was revived and made the basic code of conduct for much of Hinodegani society. Within the Samurai Cast there are three types, the Bushi, the Shugenja and the Courtier.

Bushi are the Warriors that focus on physical combat, they are the armed warrior cast that wear armor and train with a variety of weapons. They focus heavily on martial arts as well as Tactics of Battle depending on their Dojos. Some focus on personal combat and others focus more on the battle tactics that assist with Armies and mass combat. What holds them together is Bushido.

Shugenja are the Priests, those that call upon the elemental Kami with prayers asking to borrow their power to fight. They do not usually wear armor and are not known for carrying weapons, though some learn to use their bodies as weapons should it be needed, as well as a War Fan for defense. Their ‘spells’ rely heavily on the Kami agreeing to their requests and even if it is agreed, the power is only allowed for a certain amount of time dependent on the spell used. While they too follow the way of Bushido, they are far more intune with the minor gods within their lands.

Courtiers are the final group within the Samurai cast, though they do not fight and when challenged to a duel they select a champion. These individuals deal with the politics of court, arguing on behalf of their lord or the betterment of the country as a whole. Despite them not being fighters, they are just as important as the rest, as Court is a battle all its own.

Technology: The Samurai of Handogen utilize a variety of weapons favoring the Bow, Spear, Matchlock and the sword. Their armor is typically made of bands of steel plates that are bounded and shaped to the individual and then attached via rawhide or silk cord to a silk or rawhide backplate and worn over tough, usually, cotton or wool clothing. The entire armor is intentionally rigged with quick release strings in order to remove certain parts quickly to make drawing a bow easily or incase they need to swim.

Capital:


Toshi no Hi (City of Fire) earned its name thanks to the vibrant red color of the buildings within the city.

Beings:

• Kami: Elemental Spirits called upon by the Shugenja through prayer for their spells. They are Benevolent and help those who call upon them as long as their reasons are just.
• Spirits: These vary between Malevolent and Benevolent, some try to harm people while others try to help. These creatures are not prayed to, but often can bring good fortune to homes/families or bad fortune.
• Eastern Dragons:
• Fortunes: The Demi-Gods of the realm, these ‘gods’ are not Koritomo’s children, but ‘Gods’ allowed to reside in Hindogen with her blessings as long as they do not cause problems. The Two Fortunes are:
  
  • Fortune of Honor Meiyo
  • Fortune of Battle Tactics Tatakai
• Oni/Yokai: Yōkai are a class of supernatural monsters, spirits and demons. They roam around Hindogen causing issues, but are held at bay and taken care of by the Samurai. Some are grotesque while others are dangerously beautiful. The Oni variants known to be demons, devils, ogres, or trolls.

Name: Sleeth Rethrah (SLEETH reehth-RAH)
Other Names/Titles: The Old Man, Death's Darling, The Eyeless Watcher, The Great Slayer, The Grinning Headsman

Gender: Male, however, is known to change his form frequently when interacting with mortals

Appearance:


Height: 13'

Personality:

Passionate and Mercurial: All the Sleeth Rethrah feels, he feels strongly. His manifestation as the God of Murder links him intimately with the passion of thinking creatures. Men kill primarily because they feel and those emotions become uncontrolled. This drives Sleeth to be both the most jubilant and first to laugh when he is happy, and also, the first to resort to bloodshed when he is offended. Sleeth Rethrah has very little gray area when it comes to his state of mind seeming to bounce suddenly from one exreeme to the other, often with odd mixtures of the two. This mixed emotional state has led to his title as The Grinning Headsman as he can often be ecstatically happy about something while feeling murderous rage or frustration, the emotion manifesting as an eerie hybrid.

Ambitious: Many kill for power, and, Death's Darling is no different. He looks at all around him and tries to find ways to make that power work for him. Sleeth does not desire to rule all the Heavens and cosmos if he doesn't have to, but, he's not willing to let it fall to someone who might use it poorly. He seeks to elevate himself and his supporters while tearing down all those who oppose him.

Cunning: The greatest killers are those that kill without anyone knowing who it was, or, turing their blame to another. This aspect of Sleeth Rethrah is easy to ignore, most writing him off as a raving maniac. Of course, this is by design. Sleeth is often disregarded because of his passionate nature as just a silly lunatic, a reputation long cultivated by The Eyeless Watcher. In truth, The God of Murder is sly and cunning, playing to the fears and preconceptions of those around him in order to make them look and do what he wants through subtle or overt manipulation. A careful look at the favorites of Sleeth Rethrah and who most often gets his blessings tells the keen observer exactly what kind of mind the Great Slayer has.

Major Domain: Murder

Minor Domains: Vengeance, Schemes/Plots/Conspiracies

Weakness:
While Sleeth Rethrah is a being of deception and betrayal any actual oaths sworn by the God are utterly binding to him and he can not personally break them. This does not stop him from trying to undermine such things through cleverness and technicality, but, he can not break his oaths once given.

Your Avatar:
Rhahkoreth, The Dark Mind of Man

The Dark Mind of Man stands at thirty feet tall and has a minor version of all of Sleeth Rethrah's powers aside from his weapons and can not detach his hands. He also has incredibly sharp claws. Rhankoreth can not speak but he can push his mind into any less powerful sapient creature he can see and make them speak for him. He also has an aura that works similarly to that of the wraith, pushing men to give in to their darker and ambitious urges. The Dark Mind of Man is not as overtly powerful as many other avatars but its ability to move undetected compared to most avatar.



Stance: Sleeth Rethrah is an anti-monarch. He does not support anyone trying to get the throne under their total control, instead, seeking to plant the seeds of a united council of Gods who rule through vote as opposed to the supreme word of one. However, he makes none of that known, instead, putting forth a mercenary attitude of support and playing the part of the despot.

Loyalty During the Rebellion: Neutral, secretly opposed both sides.

Center of Power:
The Slayer's Eye: A solid red eye that swirls with ribbons of black deep within it.

Relations:
Mortals: Sleeth Rethrah is the patron deity of spies, assassins, conspirators, executioners, and, bloodthirsty maniacs.

Gods:
Allies:
Koritomo, Goddess of War
Naqqash, God of Pain and Loss
Legio, God of Mankind
Asmoday, God the Underworld

Friendly:
Tothoth, God of Knowledge
The Twins, Gods of Fertility
Leoric, God of Lust
Astru Nogliath, God of Undead
Typhonne, Goddess of Storms

Unfriendly:
Artheon, God of Predators
Skaahn, God of Monsters

Hostile:
Hurrian, God of Justice
Aela, Goddess of Life
Goddess of Nature

All not listed are neutral.

Powers:

Invisibility: Perhaps the most treasured and useful ability to Death's Darling is his ability to vanish from sight. The worst killer is the one never seen or found Sleeth Rethrah is the greatest killer of them all.

Preternatural Physicality: Sleeth Rethrah is not the strongest, fastest, or toughest of all the Gods, however, he is above average for the Gods in all of those aspects. Man's constant need to slay each other in cold blood makes him capable of standing against any God, at least for a time, in a contest of arms.

Mercurial Form: Sleeth Rethrah does not like the mortals who might meet him to know who he is, he would rather live as a legend in whispered tones. He can take the form of any mortal who he has seen before with perfect accuracy. Any mortal, or God, that Sleeth has killed himself he can take the form of, as well as, mimic their mannerisms and personality perfectly.

Assassin's Eye: When The Old Man looks on something that can be destroyed, he sees how it can be done. When he looks on an ancient dragon he sees its weakest scales. When he sees an alien beast he knows where the organs it needs to live are. There is nothing that can be killed that Sleeth does not know how to kill just by looking at it.

Hands of the First Murder: Sleeth Rethrah's hands are actually the hands of the first sapient to ever commit a murder, the symbol of Sleeth's first spark of concept. The hands are bound to his wrists tightly with enchanted cloth wrappings stained with blood. The hands themselves can be removed, moving around with the will of their master. The Hands can see, hear, and feel as though they had all the organs needed to do exactly that. If the Hands, either attached or not, grab the throat of something, and, can fit around it properly, they are impossible to remove and squeeze like vices until the creature is dead or the master wills them to release.

Godly Equipment:
Treleshkrah: A two handed ax that stands tall enough to reach just under Sleeth Rethrah's chin. The handle of the long ax is old deep brown wood with no adornment at all. The head of the weapon is a thin, unnaturally sharp, single bit broad ax head, the kind used by executioners and some bodyguards. The head itself bears no fanfare or distinguishing marks either, the whole weapon seeming to be rather mundane in appearance aside from its prodigious size. This weapon is far from ordinary though. The ax itself pulses with unsettling power each time someone in the world is killed by execution or murdered. Looking directly at the weapon causes whispers in the mind of the viewer that prey on the darkest and most violent impulses, urging them to action and conspiracy. The other terrible power of this weapon is in its use. Treleshkrah, is the bane of life and any can be slain with it, man or God. While a blow from the weapon will not guarantee death, any wound given by the ax seems to cut through armor like it was not there and a mortal wound to a mere man will be just as mortal to the divine beings who made them. The wounds caused by this ax seem not to heal properly, they bleed much more than they should, and woe to the healer who sees to one of these injuries as they will find that the flesh will not knit well and medicines seem to lack potency.

The Eye of Conspiracy: While The Slayer's Eye rests in one of the God's empty sockets, The Eye of Conspiracy sits in the other. This eyes is a dark yellow in color, glowing weakly like topaz lit by a dying candle. The pupil of the eye is vertical like that of a snakes and stands ever vigilant. The Eye of Conspiracy allows Sleeth Rethrah to see through the bandages he has over his eyes as if they were not there, however, it also allows him to see through anything that might otherwise impede his vision such as additional blindfolds, mist, fog, darkness, and, illusions. Beyond allowing the God to see when he should not the Eye grants him insight into the relationships of others. He sees thin strands connecting those around him giving him insight into how others interact and how strongly they are connected.

Sloret: The thick great coat that The Old Man wears is more than just something to keep the cold and rain away. It was once not a coat at all but instead a cloak made of human skin. Now, in keep with the fashion of the day, Sleeth has turned the skin of the dead inward as the lining of his coat but the effect remains the same. Anything placed in the coat vanishes. The items are undetectable and seem to exist somewhere outside of space until the master calls the item back by reaching into the coat and thinking of what they need. The item then appears again either from a pocket, sleeve, or the inside of the coat as though it had been stored there all along even if the stowed place seems as though it would be impossible to store such a thing there.

Demi Gods:

Julera Perfori: Aspect of Political power or tyranny.

Background: Julera is the daughter of Sleeth Rethrah and a powerful Matriarch and Republican of the Perfori family. A family that has had a long standing and strong tie to Sleeth Rethrah. The family itself is one of the patrons to the great Temple of Sleeth Rethrah in the Capital of Braceleth. Julera was born with from her mother when she supplicated before Sleeth Rethrah and offered her body as sacrifice to the God. He did not kill her, as he was struck with her beauty and passion for him. Instead, he blessed her with a child of his blood who would grow to be powerful and champion her family as well as his will in Braceleth. Julera is now an adult and her House's scion. She has not married as many fear her and her power, her height does not do her any favors either in the quest for a human mate.

Appearance:



Height: 6'10" (Very short for a demi-god but very tall for a human)
Julera is a lithe and somewhat uncharacteristically straight figured woman given her mother, but, instead, taking heavily after her father and his features. She has stunning green eyes like her mother but the unsettling grin of her father, made all the stranger due to her full lips. She has shorter than the style would dictate brown hair that frames her sharp and imperious features.

Julera tends to clothe herself in the male fashions of the day. She wears tight shirts and pants under a gray coat, her lack of color paying homage to her gray scale father's clothing. She does often wear a hat, but, with the brim tilted to the side in a more feminine fashion. Julera loves the art of cane fighting and carries her fighting cane everywhere with her, a stylish walking stick for her to sway with as she moves about with practiced noble swagger. She also wears a slim rapier on a thick sword belt at her hips in a style that openly balks at her countries prohibition against wearing swords. A fan of dueling, she needs to have a blade at all times.

Skills:
Oratory: Julera is a practiced and talented orator. She is capable of bringing logic, emotion, volume, and silence to her words in just the right measure for nearly every situation.

Cunning: Julera has inherited her father's and her mother's quickness of mind and thought. She has a superhuman understanding of motivations and can easily place someone's loyalties after interacting with them for only a short time, as well as the clairity of thought to put that information to use. She is a quick study in nearly anything she undertakes and has a lust for learning rivaled perhaps only by being who devoted themselves to The God of Knowledge.

Killer Heritage: Julera's mind and body take quickly to the art of slaying. She is blessed with blood and the art of fighting as well as cold blooded murder come naturally to her through her ichor infused blood. Her super human physicality is much like her father's, not the strongest, faster, or toughest of the demi-gods, but, she does not have any obvious physical gaps to exploit.

Heroic Flaw:
Great Pride: Julera expects to be heeded and sees all those as potential tools for her political games. Everyone is there for her to play with and all must submit, in time.

Name of your Land: Braceleth (BRAH-seh-lehth)

Lands: Flora, Fauna, Geography. Whats the land like where you live.

People:
The people of Braceleth most humans but have had some migrants come to the large island looking for their fortune. The people native to Braceleth are typically average in height with a broad frame, wide shoulders, hips, and arms. They have olive and slightly lighter skin tones with earth tone eyes being common as well as darker hair colors. The Bracelian nose is a recognizable feature the world over, coming from the strait and hawkish nose common to many of the people born to the island. Hard and sharp facial features are very common to the people of Braceleth often giving them a reputation for both intimidating glares and alluring gazes. The natives of Braceleth are often considered attractive by many in the world because of their curvy women and hard featured men, as well as many of them being quite wealthy.

While humans make up the primary denomination of the Bracelians they do have a sizable amount of immigrants from other lands and some of the Bracelians have a hybrid or mixed look that might seem strange to other but in the metropolitan Braceleth is generally accepted.

Culture:
Clothing:
The modern style of The Bracelians is to wear tight fitting pants, shirts, and dresses that have many buttons varying from simple wooden to ivory and golden buttons. These tight clothes are often paired with a long coat for both men and women. The colors of the clothing range heavily from poorer people wearing simple blues, reds, and greens with the more wealthy using colors like purple, indigo, and scarlet. Most in Braceleth like hats, particularly those with broad brims and wide bands that can have feathers, flowers, and other ornaments slipped into depending on occasion and mood. Boots with heels are common among men and the tops of the boots tend to be folded over and sometimes rise as high as the knee. Boots for women are similar only not inclusing the heel and often rise higher on the leg compared to men with some wealthy women having boots that rise up all the way to mid thigh. Jewelry is common even among the poor Bracelli. While necklaces, bracelets, earrings, rings, and bangles made of polished brass are quite cheap and plentiful the rich citizens often have jewel studded variants made of pure gold or silver.

Wearing swords in the cities is highly frowned on and so most people carry knives for both protection as well fashion. Poor Bracelli often carry long bladed knives that resemble a slim spear point while rich citizens carry knives that are more short swords than knives at all. These swords, or psudo-knives, carried by the aristocracy have a wide base that tapers strongly to the point and often has multiple fullers in the blade alongside varying levels of decoration. Another common item carried for both self defense and fashion is the walking cane. Many of these canes actually have a rod of steel, brass, or lead driven into the top of the cane turning the walking stick into an effective bludgeon in a pinch. There actually is a popular and interesting sport engaged in by the nobles of Braceleth that amounts to cane fighting.

Recreation:
Bracelians are very fond of competition and if they can find a way to compete at something, they will. The most common sports that people engage in lend to both the marine traditions of the people as well as their long standing love of martial arts. Rataretti, the gentlemanly art of cane fencing is one of the most common forms of martial arts as well as sports practiced by the gentleman of Braceleth. The art combines the use of the point of the cane in targeted thrusts like that of a sword as well as swining the head of the cane as a cudgel. Perhaps the second most common form of recreation is the racing of boats and ships. There are entire groups that get together train, design, and race their specialized ships for glory and often money. Also in the aristocracy there is what one might expect there to be, pursuits in painting, poetry, and essay writing.

The poorer people of Braceleth have what is often thought of as less civilized by the nobles of Braceleth at least. The common folk love gambling and are often found betting on noble sports or coming up with any other way they can test their luck. Dice, cards, and sleight of hand games are common. For the people who find more bloodthirsty activities more to their taste there are registered and unregistered fighting pits all over the island. The registered pits are overseen by the government and often have some regulation in when the fight is to end and who may fight. Of course, there are plenty of people who have no taste for such rules and instead just want to get people together and make them fight. These unregistered pits are illegal and often result in wildly unfair fights designed for spectacle rather than fair contest. Many of these fights end in death or permanent injury.

Government:
The ruling class of Braceleth are the Republicans. These are aristocrats that have had power on the island for many generations before the Rebulpic was established and have the money to continue to get elected. The elections are rather complicated and have people divided into voting groups based on region, wealth, parentage, and previous service to the Republic. In general, the wealthier people in Braceleth get to decide the elections with the poor only being needed to vote when there is not a majority already established. Once one is elected to the Senate, they are part of the Senate for life. While they only hold office for two years, they are allowed to enter the Senate when they wish and can even speak once all the elected people have spoken. The Senate is made up entirely of the aristocracy class and can not be entered by the common people. However, the common people elect their own lower house of the Senate known as the Tribunes. These tribunes are allowed to hear the debates of the Senate and they bring them to the public for a yes or no vote. No common folk, aside from the Tribunes, are allowed to speak on the legislation, they only get to vote. However, a Tribune can veto a piece of legislation from the Senate. This means the legislation will have to return to the Senate and be voted on, debated on, and then passed again. Once a piece of legislation has had that done, it must be voted on.

Politics in Braceleth is a game of gathering support and speaking well. This does not mean that money, plots, and violence don't rule though. Often bribes are given rather openly in the city and it is generally expected to grease the wheels of the Senate one must use money. For those more cunning, the right money in the right hands might make a political opponent disappear or suddenly become much more amenable due to well placed assassinations of their enemies. While murder and assassination are obviously against the law they are also accepted as a political strategy and it can be highly effective. Many Tribunes are associated with members of the Senate and often employ gangs of supporters who are little more than thugs who protect the Tribune as well as try to suppress enemy supporters with intimidation and violence.

Religion:
The Bracelians are not a monotheistic people, honoring all of the Gods in one way or another. Often the names of many Gods and Goddesses are invoked when a Bracelian wants something. A lawyer might pray for Justice, a sailor to the Seas, a hunter to Nature, or, a spy to Sleeth Rethrah. The God of Murder has subtly guided his people for milenia, watching them from the shadows and working both for and against them. He does not walk the streets in his godly form but instead hides himself among them to hear what things they whisper about. He does nothing to suppress the worship of other Gods in Braceleth and this has led to the islands attraction to immigrants. Anyone may come to Braceleth and worship how they see fit, as long as they still follow all of the other laws. There are many shrines to different gods and goddesses all over the island and that is exactly how the people like it.

-- The Cult of Sleeth Rethrah:
+Official Religious Orders and Worship:
One could assume, and assume correctly, that a cult dedicated to murder would be frowned on heavily if
not stamped out in practically any society. Thus, the official worship of Sleeth Rethrah is one that
often serves an interesting function for society as a whole. The primary group of worshipers of Sleeth
Rethrah are a group of normally reformed("reformed") murderers that have been set to a specific task.
That task is execution. The acolytes of Sleeth Rethrah stay in the temple or monetary dedicated to The
Old Man and train in both anatomy of all creatures as well as the use of the two-handed ax that is the
symbol of Sleeth Rethrah along side the Slayer's Eye pendant. These "monks" often serve as the official
executioners of the area where they operate, dedicating the act of state sanctioned murder to their God.
They also often form a ravenous warrior monk corp when called to battle, unleashing their repressed
murderous urges on the enemies of the state. In places where assassination is considered an acceptable
profession, or, if one needs covert agents, a generous offering to the temple often results in one of
the monks being sent to take care of whatever problem the patron prayed about.

+Unofficial Worship:
For every monetary or temple that follows the laws and rules of the world there are ten or more small
groups that have a closer relationship to the God of Murder. These groups often organize themselves into
small cults that perform long lost and elaborate ritual requiring human sacrifice as well as other
unsavory activities to get the God's attention. Many of these groups are professional spies and
assassins, working in the underworld of whatever city or domain they happen to be in. They supplicate
themselves before the visage of Sleeth Rethrah and ask for guidance and protection in their plots and
schemes. Of course, not all are those engaged in some kind of conspiracy or task. Some are mad men who
have an unquenchable thirst for blood and see Sleeth Rethrah as their champion in the heavens. These
groups tend to be short lived, engaging in a single or perhaps a few massacres before they are destroyed
by whatever force of law and order exists around them. While Sleeth Admires these maniacs' devotion he
rarely blesses them with much more than just a feeling of will to undertake these suicidal missions.
They are useful, but, misguided.

Military:
Most of the military of Braceleth is made up of mercenary companies with alignment to either a region, noble house, or faction. However, those loyalties can be swayed through payments of course and often are. In this manner the forces of Braceleth are a professional force that fights in small engagements between noble houses and other nations on a frequent basis, as well as guarding the shipping lanes of their charges. Each city can levy a force of the common folk, but, this is only done when danger is particularly close and generally disliked by the people, obviously.

Technology:
The Republic enjoys a great deal of technology openly trading with anyone willing and integrating what new things they find there. They have well made full plate armor, weapons, and matchlock and wheellock firearms. They have caravel sea faring ships armed with cannon for their formidable navy and merchant fleets.

Capital: Sleethrettia
The great city of Sleethrettia. The buildings are tall and strech upward from the coastal bluffs to the heavens with sharp points. The streets of the city are narrow and clogged with people, merchant stalls, and refuse where it is not as affluent. People live in wall to wall town houses packed in next to shops and shrines to all gods. The bluffs abutting the sea are carved with switchbacks that lead up to the city from the massive docks. The docks are a city all their own. The dock districts of the city are suspended above the waves on strong wooden planks and smells of sea water and fish. The wealthy districts have wider streets and walled mansions inside the walls of the massive metropolitan sprawl. In the center of the city stands the great Senate Hall. The ancient building was once a temple to a forgotten god and now the column line walls of the Senate hold the Republic's leaders. Not far from the Hall of the Senate stands the great Temple of Sleeth Rethrah, the largest of the world. There have been times when the Senate has wanted to remove it from the city, yet, there always seems to be something that stops them or changes their mind.

Beings:
Wraiths: The dark passions of man slowly accumulate into the form of a swirling mass of dark ambition and violence. These energies eventually find the attention of Sleeth Rethrah and he twists them into a dark spirit that serves his will. These dark spirits move through the land and whisper in the minds of men, urging them to do harm to others and take revenge on those who have wronged them. All in service of The Eyeless Watcher.


Grenaleth: The odd frog like creatures of the island have sprung up seemingly from where at all. Their nature is unknown but they are an ever present force on the island of Braceleth. These sapients serve well in the navy and as canny merchants as they have a long sea faring tradition and can even breathe under water.


The Beastmen of Braceleth: The strange power of Murder on the land has turned some of the people away from the path of sapience and toward the primal desire to destroy. These come about mostly from those closely associated from the most fevent followers of Sleeth Rethrah. These beasts are hunted each night by the monks of the temple, yet, they are still loving creation of The Grinning Headsman and he revels in their destruction just as he revels in their own deaths at the hands of his more mortal followers. These creatures also fall under the domain of The God Predators and Monsters, but, Sleeth hodes them for himself. The more devoted and frenzied the follower, the larger and more deviating the beasts are.

Name: Oao (Pronounced "Oh-Ow").

Gender: None.

Appearance:

Oao has many forms for it wears the darkness around it, shaping it as both an extension of it's body and a cover to conceal itself within. It's most familiar darkness shape is that of a tall willowy humanoid, lithe with a faintly hourglass shape to it. It's arms are almost as long as it's body is and possesses a pair of exceedingly long yet thin hands. It's face is a completely blank slate sitting underneath a mass of long wispy tendrils of darkness serving as what could be assumed to be hair. It's legs end in a single trunk that sprawls out at the ankle level with several dark roots that pull it forward as a means of locomotion.

It's true form is that of an emaciated genderless little humanoid, a rather pathetic creature. It's skin is whiter than snow and it's no larger than a human child though it may appear smaller as it tends to remain hunched forward. It's got bony arms with two twig-like fingers and an only slightly thicker thumb. Despite being narrow little bones called finger they are long enough to reach around the entirety of an adult human's head. It's feet are normal sized for a human though they only possess two little claw like toes.

It's face is gaunt and narrow with thin lips and a mouth full of needle fine teeth. Shorter sets of these teeth run all the way down into it's throat, allowing it to chew what it swallows all the way down. It's got shallow cheeks with eyes twice the size of a human's. It's eyes are completely black save two small points of light that seem to serve as it's pupils. Oao has long straight silky jet black hair that appears very well groomed, something to be envied by many with long dark hair were they to discover it.

It speaks with an often trembling voice. It's sound is a soft, light pitch which sounds closer to a feminine sound than a masculine sound.

Personality:

Many are frightened of the dark. What many do not realize is that the dark is probably more afraid of them.

Chiefest of Oao's feelings is the sense of dread that hangs over it every second of every hour of every night and day. It hides in the darkness that it is to conceal itself, hiding away it's true form so that none may look upon it. The very idea of eyes scanning it's nude body gives it veritable panic attacks. Were anyone to see it's true form that would send it into the throes of truest terror.

It enjoys peace, silence and solitude most. It detests the presence of others, especially the company of those with eyes but it dislikes none more than those who would bring light with them. Not only does light cut away at the extensions of it's very being but it also presents a risk of piercing it's disguise and revealing it for who it really is. As such Oao tries to act menacing to scare people off but it is simply a facade.

It holds little love for most. The last person it cared for was murdered by the god of war during the civil war. It does hold some sympathy for the meek and the scared however. The darkness can serve as a sanctuary to those who do not want to be seen, who want to be hidden as Oao is. It can be quite nice when it's paranoia isn't acting up but those are rare instances.

Where once it lived in relative calm while the King of the Gods was still alive now that he's dead it is dreading the possibilities of what may come.

Major Domain: Darkness.

Minor Domains: Fear & The Hidden.

Weaknesses:

- It's crippling fear of being seen.
- Light.
- Daytime.
- It's solitude.
- A low self-esteem.
- No subjects in it's direct service.

Your Avatar: Mallogh (Pronounced Mal-Low).

This creature is a mass of ink black slime which assumes a vaguely humanoid shape. This beast fills an entire cavern with it's sheer amount of volume, a cavern large enough to house half an entire human city. It's fluid mass is saturated with the power of darkness, the very power that gives it it's color or perhaps lack of color.

The slime of this creature eats away at all organic matter, reducing it to nothing in a matter of minutes. Due to the dark power within it not only does it eat away at all organic matter trapped inside but in the case of animate beings it also eats away at their minds and souls, consuming all until nothing of the creature remains. Even creatures made of rock are vulnerable to Mallogh if they possess a mind or a soul.

To top it all off Mallogh can split off smaller slimes from it's form to act independently from it.

Stance: Oao wants to avoid conflict but has much reservation in regards to surrendering it's Center of Power.

Loyalty During the Rebellion: Oao sided with the king though ultimately it refrained from fighting and simply hid.

Center of Power:

The Void Pearl - This item is a perfectly spherical gem no larger than a ping-pong ball. It is a color of black so deep it is like staring into the infinite abyss of space itself. Within the pearl true darkness exists.

Relations: (Under Construction)

Powers:

Oao has the ability to shape darkness into matter in all forms and physical states.

It can freely choose both the shape and the material properties of it's dark creations with the only limits being a max cap on volume and available darkness. Oao can only use as much darkness as is available within a five kilometer radius of itself. Even if Oao is in an open space completely void of light it's maximum volume is that of a sphere that is ten kilometers in diameter.

When Oao extracts mass from darkness it's not removing the darkness itself, something that would result in illuminating the space absent of darkness, but rather it extracts it's essence. Extracting the essence of darkness does not change it physically but it removes all other aspects of the darkness. Those who would look upon empty darkness would feel no emotional response that normally come with staring into the darkness. Magically empty darkness is inert and serves no purpose to those who would wish to draw upon it's power. Darkness does not remain empty however. It takes roughly a week for darkness to return to normal.

Despite the physical properties of the darkness it can effect all beings regardless of their state of tangibility. In addition while Oao can submerge in darkness to instantly travel it can only travel to sections of darkness that are connected to the darkness it goes inside. Another feature is that Oao can extend it's senses and voice into the dark masses it creates.

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Regardless of whatever properties Oao grants to the darkness it shapes it all shares the same weakness: Light. The first effect light has on dark mass is that it reduces it's density in proportion to the intensity of the light. A weak light would only subtly weaken a dark object however things like the sun and other powerful sources of light would practically reduce the darkness into a gaseous state. This effect only applies to all darkness in the path of the light so a beam of light might weaken the portion of darkness it is trying to travel through however the rest will remain unaltered. The effect of the change in density is immediate upon recieving light. The results of this effect end just as immediately when the light no longer touches the darkness.

The second effect light has on dark mass is that it will slowly burn away the darkness, causing small slivers of it to flake away into nothingness. It would take approximately a full day to completely disintegrate Oao's dark mass at full volume. Like the first effect this effect only applies to portions of darkness caught in the path of light.

Godly Equipment: None. Oao both is and wears darkness from which it shapes everything it owns.

Demi Gods: None.

Name of your Land: The underground.

Lands: Oao's land is deep beneath the earth. It is a series of massive interconnecting caverns in the midst of a network of tunnels. In these caverns for flora there exist forests of bioluminescent mushrooms and varieties of cave moss. The local fauna mostly consist of bats, worms and other critters that call the depths of the earth home.

People:

Down in the underground amidst the mushroom forests there live the race of humanoid beings which call themselves "Od". They are about three quarters the height of humans and are uniformly skinny due to their limited diet. Their skin lacks any pigmentation since they have never seen the light of day, leaving them as pale as snow. Their hair is as black as jet and they tend to have no facial hair to speak of. They have no noses and their eyes are four times larger than a humans. They have got big round irides which allow them to take in even the smallest amount of light available. They communicate largely through high pitched squeaks. Despite their thin frames they are decently strong and can climb with fair ease, possessing small claws at the ends of their fingers which allow them to grip onto stone better.

Culture:

They definitely know that their people live on a razor's edge. With a mind to mysticism they conduct their lives always with a mind to the knowledge that the caverns are a very unforgiving place. Despite that knowledge they live life as they must, meekly gathering what they need to survive. They live in the glowing mushroom forests in shanties cobbled together from faintly glowing cobalt blue stones. The lights tend to keep most predators which is why they tend to stay in the forests when they can. They mostly eat moss though they do sometimes feast upon the occasional bat.

A large part of their life revolves around the use of pigments and magical salves to conduct their shamanistic rituals. Their most important ritual occurs annually, a major event where their head alchemist will set out and ritualistically repaint the yellow wards which turn the largest predators of the underground away.

Technology:

The Od are rather primitive in most forms of tech but are very knowledgeable in alchemy and minerals. In addition they also have access to some of the rarest stones in the world as they live deep where even scarce veins can be found. Theirs is a tribal hunter/gatherer society.

Capital:

The main capital of the Ods is a vast mushroom forest called "It". This is their word for home, the other settlements of theirs having names that derive from that one name. It is a helter-skelter shanty build from sheets of metal forged using rock-boring worm saliva to melt and shape the ores. Most of their homes range from basic huts to alchemy labs.

Beings:

Aside from the wildlife the most numerous species to occupy the underground is a race of vaguely intelligent slime beings. These slimes are the byproducts of Oao's use of dark mass, the essence leaking and forming ink black blobs. As these continue to grow and multiply however they begin to exhibit qualities of their deity. The greatest of these slimes is Oao's own avatar, Mallogh.

Name: Leoric

Gender: Male

Appearance:

Personality: Leoric is a man who thrives on deceit and the base instincts of all of creation. Man, beast, even god. He is kind to your face and quite agreeable, exuding the air of a nobleman, but strip away that guise and he is a monster drawing out all of your lustful desires, plotting to turn you against your friends and allies to further his conquest towards the top of the food chain, to become king of the gods without spilling blood himself.

Major Domain: Lust

Minor Domains: Lies and Greed

Weaknesses: The pure and innocent, specifically children without a shred of understanding of him and thus he has no power over them. The innocence of a child’s heart makes him powerless to corrupt them and make them submit to their base desires because those thoughts and feelings had never cultivated.

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Stance: He is of the opinion that the current state of things is perfect for him to lay the groundwork for a major takeover to sit on the throne. He sees opportunity to turn allies against each other and forge new alliances to benefit him, in his rise to power. Betrayal is almost his trademark, often backstabbing many of his former allies to climb higher and higher.

Loyalty During the Rebellion: He didn’t necessarily fight on any one side in particular, but instead fought on whichever side would further his own machinations. He switched sides often and made sure to keep his movements hidden. He’s only in it for himself, for his own ambition.

Center of Power: The center of Leoric’s power is actually contained within a pendant that he wears on his person. It is a reddish crystal that pulses with power and contains a roiling sea of energy within. It produces a sound that can only be heard if you’re listening very closely, a constant moaning, the sounds of ecstasy. This pendant acts as a conduit for his power, allowing him to channel the energy that he feeds on from the natural, lustful behaviors of the world as a whole, and also acts as a siphon when he is near said acts of lust, absorbing the raw energy of the emotions and .

Relations: Allies- Legio, God of Mankind
Typhonne, Goddess of Storms
Asmoday, God of the Underworld
X, God of Knowledge
Necrarch, God of Undeath
Meztliyaotl, Goddess of the Moon
Acquaintances- Koritomo, Goddess of War
Oao, God of Darkness
Sleeth, God of Murder
Legorian, God of the Sea
Tian, God of Dragons
Naqqash, God of Sorrows

Neutral- Azah, God of Justice
Alea, Goddess of Life
Artherion, God of Predators
Callifer, God of the Hunt
Telios, God of the Sun
Sylendre, Goddess of Nature
Polaris, God of the Stars
Galvan, God of the Forge
God of Dreams
Alinius, God of Creation

Enemies- No current enemies that he is open about

Powers: While not classically a combatant, Leoric does employ illusory magics and poisons to subdue and defeat opponents. Leoric is able to create illusions that almost perfectly mimic and mock life. He is able to “clone” himself to evade and misdirect opponents into losing track of the real form. He is sneaky and deceptive. Once he is content with ending the little game of hide and seek, he tends to end it with a slow and agonizingly painful death by poisoned dagger to the gut or any other soft and squishy vulnerability that he can find.

Godly Equipment:

The Gods Bane: This is a poison that was designed and concocted by Sleeth and Leoric, a toxin that could be applied to a blade, mixed in with food and drink or any other manner of delivery. This evil and cruel tool does not kill instantly, but rather paralyzes and leaves the victims incapable of retaliation until the poison ultimately shuts the god down permanently, leaving them catatonic and vulnerable to a coup de gras. Leoric has only used this twice before but has recently seen need to prepare to use it again.

Demi Gods:


Name of your Land: Vestria

Lands: Much of the plant-life within Vestria is poisonous or spreads poisonous spores, though this poison is not as much deadly as it does tamper with your emotional state, putting you into a lust filled state of mind and driving you to join in one of the thousands of piles of writhing bodies that cover the landscape. There are not many animals that dwell within Vestria, a few different breeds of birds, including

People: What species are they? What ethnicity are they? Describe them here.

Culture: Much like the people, the culture here is varied and largely stolen from other lands, though not much culture can breed within the orgy piles that dot the landscape. Where there is not a hill of people in ecstasy, there dwells a bastion of...some sort of ancient civilization, now covered in piles of gold and jewels. Much of the law system in Vestria is chaotic, with the only real ruler being Leoric. Law is largely ignored for the sake of the pursuit of power, ecstasy and wealth, anything goes.

Technology: Early Medieval technology, less militaristic and more on the economic developments.

Capital: There aren’t really cities per say and the land itself is not especially large, but the lands do roll off to the northern coast where the temple of the God of Lust resides. This temple is a large structure that houses both the Succubus and the Mistress, as well as the God himself, Leoric.

Beings: Imps and other demons that are susceptible to the draws of lust. The Siren is a frequent visitor to Leoric’s private sanctuary by the seas that border his lands.