[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/0EjtAmP.png[/img] [img]https://txt-dynamic.static.1001fonts.net/txt/dHRmLjcyLmJhYmFiYS5TWFpoSjB0eWFHOW8uMAAAAAAA/lovecrafts-diary.regular.png[/img] [color=silver]~~The Illuminator~~[/color][/center] [i]Location: White Dawn[/i] [hr] La-Zha stared The only grey colored eye visible from her disheveled, messy hair stared at him with malign curiosity. The human knew what he had done, but he could not accept it. "Egru! Hunters!" The Kadisht shouted. A plea for help. A cry for assistance. To save him from the fate he has reaped. Some leaped, others who had more sense decided they better not get involved. They grabbed their spears, quickly converging on her position. "You're sweating, aren't you? Curious." The flesh under La-Zha's left arm began to writhe and shift. The bandages on her arm doing little to conceal the moving flesh. "Nervous. Increased heart rate. Fear. Ah, how we hate that. Why are you afraid, Kadisht?" She completely ignore the hunters. They were of little consequence to her now. They posed no threat, but that didn't mean they couldn't be annoying. "...Ah." A small prick of pain, like something pressing into her back with a sharp point. The unpleasant feeling ran through her body, sinking into the flesh of her back until it reached her chest. The stone tip broke the flesh, and her robe, silvery blood oozing from the wound around the spear. It ran black as it left her body, thick and slow, congealing into a mass of black ooze. "I've been stabbed." La-Zha's head turned to face her assailant, unnaturally twisting 180 degrees. Egru's eyes were wide with obvious bewilderment as she didn't seem injured in the slightest. "You know Egru, you always had such a nice spear." Her left hand grabbed the other end of it, the side that had impaled her. The skin on her left arm cracked, splitting apart. The wet sound of flesh splitting filled the area, as grotesque tentacles made of countless dark spheres covered in a slimy black film pierced her skin. "I think I'll keep it." The tentacles grabbed the side of the spear, pulling it completely through her, and yanking it out of Egru's hands with inhuman strength. "Demon! Monster!" The Kadisht shouted, the rest of those present overcome with bewilderment and shock. "My my, Kadisht. Demon? How cruel. To some I might be...but to you? I'm an angel." Egru had stumbled backwards, his grip on his spear lost as La-Zha's body turned to correctly orient itself with her head. "You don't recognize it, but that's okay. The Library forgives...but first," La-Zha turned once more, the mass of writhing appendages that made up her left arm slamming into Egru, knocking him completely off his feet as she turned to the Kadisht. "Lets invite the other guests." Raising her open right palm to the sky, La-Zha began. "Vulgtlagln syha'h kadishtuagl!" An otherworldly, guttural voice, eerily echoing from nothingness. "Ymg'ahe nyth'drnn uln!" The air crackled with divine energy, splitting the air as voids began tearing open, gates drawing the beings of the Library to the mortal plane. A scream. The mortals didn't understand but that was fine. Those who were afraid, were not the ones the Library desired. From the gates poured the Aho'Nohg, dozens of faceless black creatures, oily black wings beating, bringing the sound of silence with them as their curious visage suggested inhuman thoughts and utterances. Curiously, an oily black blob with dozens of eyes fell from the gate. The B'thkor known as Zhavitri. Had it answered the call itself? It plopped onto the ground next to La-Zha before scurrying off to find a meal of its own. "Ch'nglui'ahog n'ghft'drn, ymg' mgah'n'ghft mgn'ghftog!" A final prayer, a final show of dedication as the Aho'Nohg went to their duties. The Lloi's would not escape. Hunted down, one by one. The red snow glistened in the crackling light of the bonfire. Egru, made an attempt to tackle La-Zha to stop her, but not even he, was a match for the Aho'Nohg protecting their master. His name would not be remembered in history. The ground began to tremble. "He comes!" La-Zha laughed, spinning in place. "He comes! He comes! Enlightenment! Open your mind! Accept the light!" But people were fickle creatures, easily swayed by emotions. Unneeded. Useless. The lesser minds were terrified, running to their huts or out of the village altogether. They shall be rectified soon. The ground heaved once more, knocking some pathetic humans to their knees. In the distance, the wall began to crack and split. A pillar of white light forcefully shot into the air, illuminating the night sky brightly with a pale, pure light. The light permeated everything, the walls, the air, the sea, their minds. Scratching, clawing, at the edges of their consciousness. Those still alive could only fall to their knees. A massive, white hand grabbed the edges of the wall from the inside of it, causing the wall to crack and splinter as shards of ice and rock fell to the ground. Slowly, the light began to shift as Iva's crown crest the top of the wall, an orb of bright light, pure and knowing was floated between his horns. They could not look away. The earth shook once more as Iva stood, the pale light enveloping the entirety of White Dawn and its residence. La-Zha simply laughed, bathing herself in it as the others could only look in awe as the towering God seemed to rise from the earth itself. A long, sinuous white arm reached down, bracing itself on the beach right next to the Kadisht. Iva seemed to laugh, a loud and eerie thing as another arm reached beneath the waves of the sea. The earth trembled once more as the God pulled stone from the sea. A massive, old stone covered in sea life and plant, easily dwarfing any human. The stone fell from his grasp, slamming into the ground and crushing a human beneath it, sinking firmly into the shoreline. Light began engraving runes and words upon the stone. Rules. Laws, that the humans were soon to follow. 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Simple enough even the humans would not mess it up. With the task done, the sphere of light upon the gods crown flashed, blinding all, and knocking the weaker over as their minds were assaulted. When it receded, the god was standing among them in his natural form. "L-Lord!" The Kadisht was the first to speak, but it would be the last words he ever uttered. [color=silver]"Ah, Kadisht."[/color] La-Zha let the god pass, his calm demeanor a facade to hide the boiling, seething rage. [color=silver]"How quaint. I was hoping your head would explode, but perhaps you do have some value."[/color] The god ignored whatever reply he attempted to make. A single, swift, wave of the hand and he lost all feeling in his body, sending him crumpling to the floor. [color=silver]"Ah, my poor little Kadisht. So bright, yet so putrid. Selfish. Vain. What does the rock say, hmm? Did you forget what I told your father's father?"[/color] La-Zha handed him Egru's spear. [color=silver]"What was the basic thing I told you all to do?"[/color] Iva raised the haft of the spear, slamming the end of it down upon the Kadisht's body. [color=silver]"Of course you didn't."[/color] Each sentence that followed was punctuated by another painful beating. [color=silver]"You just didn't care. Or perhaps you thought this was the correct way? Humorous! See? I'm laughing!"[/color] Indeed, the god was laughing. [color=silver]"Oh you humans are just so funny! So funny! it INFURIATES ME. I give you knowledge, and you squander it! SQUANDER."[/color] Suddenly, the beating stopped. Iva pulled the spear just before it reached the humans head. [color=silver]"...it matters not."[/color] Seemingly calming down, Iva knelt down next to the human, grabbing him by the back of the head. [color=silver]"You want the Library to yourself? Its secrets, its knowledge?"[/color] He placed his faceless visage next to the humans ear, a low, amused otherworldly giggle followed. [color=silver]"You can have it."[/color] The Kadisht screamed, but he could do nothing. His body was enveloped in a bright, white light before he disappeared entirely. [color=silver]"You can have this back."[/color] He handed the spear back to La-Zha, spinning around. The Aho'Nohg had already rounded up everyone who had tried to leave. The Kadisht got his wish, and the Lloi's were all dead. As it should be. He no longer had use for them. No, it was time for a change. A different experiment, as one might say. Walking away from the dwindling bonfire, Iva began. [color=silver]"Well now that was a party, hee!"[/color] The god laughed. La-Zha had taken to sitting cross-legged on the Kadisht's former rug again, blackened tentacles idly reaching for the remaining food. [color=silver]"Now, I'm sure you funny little humans have many questions...but the only thing you need to know is thus. I am Iva'Krorh. The White Star. The Illuminator. They who bring knowledge and enlightenment."[/color] With a whimsical bow, Iva continued. [color=silver]"But you should know this, do you not?"[/color] There was silence over the gathered humans. Those who were recovering from Iva's earlier mental assault were slowly regaining their senses and sight, but they would never be quite right again. [color=silver]"Ah, saying nothing? Hee, that is fine. I'm not in the mood for conversation anyways. The only thing that matters to you humans...is that I have returned."[/color] He made a swift motion towards the massive boulder he had dug up from the sea. [color=silver]"And I now rule all of you...and we're going to have such a lovely, wonderful party together."[/color] [hr] "Well that went well." La-Zha giggled, sitting on a table next to Iva, having finally managed to get her inhuman appendages back under control once more so she could reasonably pass as human. [color=silver]"Heee, certainly! Even little Zhavitri found itself a nice little meal, heh! It grew quite nicely!"[/color] Iva comically splayed himself out on the throne the residents had provided him with. Honestly, he was in a good mood. A far better mood than he had been in nearly a hundred years! Yes, he should have done this earlier, shouldn't he? Humans were clever, but they needed to be herded at times, as much as he really didn't want to do such a thing. [color=silver]"Oh I can barely contain my excitement!"[/color] He held the sides of his face as he giggled. [color=silver]"Oh this is wonderful! It shall take some time, but I will turn this place into my new library."[/color] Hopping up from his throne, he exited the hut that was now going to be his residence for some time. [color=silver]"You,"[/color] Turning to one of the Aho'Nohg as he left, he handed them a scroll. [color=silver]"Deliver this to Ferron. I desire a meeting."[/color] With a screech, it flapped its wings and left as La-Zha followed her master out. [color=silver]"You. Take some others and dismantle all but one of the portals for now. I shall...make another when I am more rested."[/color] "Cutting off the library?" La-Zha questioned. [color=silver]"For now. I shall focus my efforts into this project until it can run by itself. Little Gammy gave me quite the help, hee!"[/color] "Lord Illuminate!" A human interrupted them, kneeling before the both of them. "Lady La-Zha." [color=silver]"Oh, how quaint. Have they finished already?"[/color] "Yes, the...Aho'Nohg were able to handle most of the construction work." The human messenger replied. "...is it really...able to cross the sea? To the Mainland?" [color=silver]"You doubt me?"[/color] A twist of Iva's head. "O-Of course not, Lord!" [color=silver]"Ah, no need to be afraid of me just yet, hee! Doubt is good! Makes one curious of their world! La-Zha!"[/color] Swiftly turning to the former human, Iva gave what was to be her mission. [color=silver]"Travel to the mainland. Find the other gods, other settlements...and enlighten them. For a price, of course. Knowledge is not free. It must be acquired."[/color] "I wonder if I can find the place that has those sweets..." She mused idly. [color=silver]"A word of caution though...only use the Libraries gifts if you must. Be clever. Resourceful. Use what you have, and only the Library should you be in immediate danger of harm."[/color] He chuckled. [color=silver]"But I gave you a good body. You should be fine, unless against other divine creatures, but try to avoid fighting."[/color] "On it." La-Zha grinned. "Uh...how do I...control the uh, 'boat' was it?" [color=silver]"Who knows, figure it out yourself!"[/color] Another Aho'Nohg landed next to him, and before La-Zha could get another word out of the Lord of Knowledge, he quickly climbed on its back. [color=silver]"Toodles darling! I have a date with Anu!"[/color] Narrowing her eyes in thought as he left, La-Zha rubbed her chin. Well, controlling something that has never existed in the history of humanity before couldn't be [i]too[/i] hard, now could it?