[center][colour=fff79a][h3]Yuu[/h3][/colour]
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[h3]Regulus[/h3][/center]

Yuu was glad someone had invented straw, because having a rice-hat to keep off the sun made it ten times easier to work.

[colour=fff79a]"C'mon, girls,"[/colour] he said to the horses that had followed him along to the spot where he'd been digging. [colour=fff79a]"Off you get. Kck kck. Shoo."[/colour] Of flat ground on which to roam there was plenty, but of grassy field there was but little. The horses followed him around, and kept to the edge of the woods. Yuu hmphed, watching them trundle off a little ways, and met eyes with his hoe.

It was a demon hoe, a primitive one, all beak and head and mounted on a stick. With a little more time Yuu would have liked to fashion it so that no mass was wasted on a skull (a hoe didn't need one) and more could be used for some other tool, but for now it would do. Yuu shrugged at it and swung its makeshift handle, burying its head in the dirt.

With a few more strokes he lifted a wad of turf out of the grasses. It went into a woven cylinder along with a dozen others. With this makeshift backpack on his back, Yuu set off for the stream. Even with the grass he planted and the water fresh, the land still seemed barren. Hopefully not for much longer.

Regulus felt something occur in the nearby plains. He took a step forward, and immediately he disappeared and reappeared a few steps behind the curious androgyne. It seemed as though he was a mortal man, but he also seemed to not be native to his world. 

He watched the man work for a short period of time. There was something right about it. While he had interacted with other gods before, this was his first time interacting with a mortal, or at least someone who seemed to be a mortal. He spoke up, "What is your name?" he said, more of a demand than a question. 

[colour=fff79a]"Ah- o- Hello."[/colour] Yuu perked, looking up from his patch of turf with grass on his fingers. He recognised a god. Not this god, but a god. [colour=fff79a]"I am Yuu,"[/colour] he explained, bowing somewhat. The big basket was still on his back. [colour=fff79a]"Can I help you?"[/colour]

Regulus stood paused for a moment. "I am Regulus. I noticed you working the land, and I came to watch."

Yuu smiled, as if he had some doubt about that but didn't mind. [colour=fff79a]"Well, watch all you like, if that's what you're here to do,"[/colour] he said. Yuu looked at the mud stream and softly laughed. [colour=fff79a]"I'll be here for a while."[/colour]

The god looked at the horses with a strange glare. A foreign feeling came over him, jealousy. "Prehaps it would help if you had sturdier beasts to aid you." he said, taking his spear into the ground and displacing the earth. The hole that formed covered itself up, and the displaced earth took the form of an ox. As he did this, other oxen formed in the nearby region. 

Yuu took a good look at the rising cattle, resting on his hoe. He slapped the bullock on the flank. It gave a small low, but didn't budge. [colour=fff79a]"Well, thank you,"[/colour] he said, tilting his head. [colour=fff79a]"I guess that saves me time, once I have a plough. But what will these animals eat? I'm..."[/colour] he kicked a recently-planted patch of turf, already being chewed away by the cow. [colour=fff79a]"...Running out of grass."[/colour]

Regulus smirked. "That should be no problem." he said, dipping his spear into the river and then splashing the water symbolicly across the ground. Grass began to sprout out from where the water touched land, and it spread out from those points. Yuu took one long look at the green spilling across the earth, pulled the head off his hoe and threw the handle into the river. He wouldn't be needing it anymore. Truly, God helped those who helped themselves.

[colour=fff79a]"Well, that's a debt,"[/colour] he said. [colour=fff79a]"But who are you, Regulus? You've covered me in gifts, and I still can't tell why."[/colour]

Regulus paused. He was confused, had he done something wrong. "Is that not the way of things. Besides, I do believe you have much more in you than being a simple grass farmer. That hoe you created is strange. You are not of this world, tell me what it was like in your native realm."

There was a smile, but mostly a sigh. [colour=fff79a]"Oh. I see."[/colour] Yuu suddenly regretted not having a gardening implement to lean on. [colour=fff79a]"Well..."[/colour]

A long steppe extended in front of him, stalks swishing softly in the wind.

[colour=fff79a]"...It wasn't this quiet,"[/colour] he began. [colour=fff79a]"That's... All you need to know, really. I'm glad I made it here."[/colour] Yuu hadn't realised that before saying it, but it was true. [colour=fff79a]"I'm glad I made it [i]somewhere.[/i]"[/colour]

Regulus gave a solemn nod, his voice softened for just a moment, "I can understand not wishing to speak of places left behind. The realm I was... forged in was one that fell to dark entities. I have only glimpses of what it was like."

[colour=fff79a][i]...Yeah.[/i][/colour] Yuu tried not to show anything on his face. He was good at it. [colour=fff79a][i]Dark entities.[/i][/colour]

His voice returned to its normal cadence, "Though, surely you have grander aspirations than simply covering the land with grass. I thought you were creating a farm. Though, even then it seems like you are capable of much more." 

A nod to confirm. [colour=fff79a]"By trade I'm an armourer. A marksman. A demonicist. I... have had a lot of trades, come to think of it."[/colour]

Regulus shook his head, "That is what you have done, not what you wish to do." 

Yuu shrugged. [colour=fff79a]"When you find a cause that's noble, you do all kinds of things."[/colour]

He once again paused. He liked this mortal. "I am not one to know of demons or the ore of the earth, but I do have memories of markmanship. Perhaps I can leave you with one last gift. There may be a time in the future where you will have a noble cause to take up, you should have a weapon when that time comes." 

From his spear, a gnarled branch of wood grew into the shape of a bow that he snapped off. He took one of his own hairs to form the bowstring, and threw it at Yuu's feet, before turning around. Yuu picked it up immediately, wiping mud off the bow.

[colour=fff79a]"...Thank you,"[/colour] he said, trailing a finger along the stave of the bow.

Regulus took his spear, and threw it back towards the forest. "There may be a time where this world is threatened by the other gods who found their way to this world. I would suggest you prepare for that time." After a few more moments, he disappeared. 

Yuu stood alone. After a while he walked to where he'd left his quiver, and nocked an arrow. Even at half draw, the recurved shortbow pierced low clouds.

[colour=fff79a][i]...I'll accept that suggestion,[/i][/colour] thought the slayer.

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Yuu is busy getting his farm on, spreading out patches of grass to the north of the citadel so that eventually they'll produce enough grassland to support more horses. Regulus notices him at work, and is pleased by his efforts.

Regulus creates some oxen to help him out in his farmwork. Upon realising that there's now double the demand for an already small amount of pasture, he uses his power to spread the grasses around the land north of the citadel bay.

The two talk for a while. They briefly discuss their origins and goals. Regulus leaves Yuu with an enchanted bow and advises him to prepare to help him defend the world when things get dark again.

Used 1 miracle to create cattle
Used 1 miracle to spread grass across the steppe. 
Used 1 might to create an enchanted bow for Yuu

[b]Regulus - Level 2
4 Might - 2 Miracles
Acts of Creation 2.5/4

Yuu
? Prestige
Level 1
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