[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/qI0IA2q.png[/img] & [img]https://i.imgur.com/9ry9Z7H.png[/img][/center] [hr] [color=Fuchsia]“Be calm, you are safe now,”[/color] In a thousand voices Thaa cooed the words to the newly arrived souls of the dead. Now that they were in his realm he brought them to restful peace, contained into bliss as he spoke individually to them to start working through the trauma that was life. In truth, Thaa had been ruminating greatly on the matter of souls. True he was the supreme deity of Death, as was his moral obligation, but he worried that his focus purely on his realm of Death might allow others to inflict suffering upon the souls to which he claimed to guard. For truly he did not have much influence on them in the mortal realm of Galbar, he knew that the evil deities of life truly would like nothing more than inflict suffering, for what other reason would they be deities of life? Thaa could of course extend his control over souls in their entirety, both as a measure of acquiring greater ability to defend souls from the terrible grip of life and its evil-hearted guardians, and to strike out against life itself through the core measure of souls. Yes that could work. If he could work to separate souls from the mortal coils that so entrapped them on Galbar, it was possible he might start making good progress to bringing moral order to evil that was enveloped Galbar. [hr] [color=Teal]“First he wants us to go to the Vescii Temple and set things up, well that's just fine. Then he was us go down to this stinking cesspit of life he calls a planet, fine! But making a Sword for the damn mortal things? Do you even realize how many souls could be saved from all this mess with the effort that’ll go into this overcomplicated gilded shit-storm?! It's a terrible plan!”[/color] Without a moment's pause, [color=YellowGreen]“As I was saying this is core to developing trust and connections with the mortals and without drawing the extended ire of any of their immoral guardians! Simply killing a load of the mortals is not only certain to draw out the ire and response from other deities- something I might remind you despite your lack of interest in Thaa’s perfect plans that we are likely to be on the receiving end of their ill intentions- but also utterly inefficient given the rates of reproduction that these mortals so enjoy!”[/color] Guul supposed she should not be surprised that the two heads that she shared her body with hadn’t developed a new favorite pastime with what they had been doing. Which was to say they hadn’t been doing much of anything at all, keeping an eye on this or exploring that, mostly all from the safety of the relatively small golden craft they were on now. Kiim complained a lot if they even had to touch most living creatures, which of course meant Jaav took great pleasure in eating the occasional thing he could reach. And again Guul was left to do the work of Thaa as Kiim and Jaav bickered about it, not that they got in the way of course. The current bout of ‘discussion’ had been set off by Thaa informing them of the plan they needed to enact, that he had claimed domain over souls and such, and an update on numerous newly acquired souls he had taken an interest to, followed by the occasional rant on the evils of life and its guardian deities. Guul sometimes wondered how often Thaa actually got out anywhere, or even talked to anyone else really. [color=Teal]“Perhaps we attack their rates of reproduction then!”[/color] [color=YellowGreen]“...that is not a bad idea actually. Sterility would be quite the effective measure and in appropriate usage could help limit the evils of life. Good job Jaav, you have quite the ideas sometimes I must say!”[/color] [color=Teal]“Why thank you! You are not so bad a thinker yourself you know.”[/color] Even as she worked Guul took a moment to scratch a third mark into a relatively flat rock she had picked up, she had started keeping track of when Kiim and Jaav actually agreed on something or had a positive and pleasant interaction. [color=Teal]“Why don’t we celebrate some for coming up with such an idea? We could fly back south of those mountains a while back and pick up a few of those Rainbow birds huh?”[/color] [color=YellowGreen]“Absolutely not! I won’t debase myself by such a thing as eating one of these mismade caricatures of good creation! What are you trying to pull?”[/color] [color=Teal]“I was just trying to be friendly you misbegotten lackey of Thaa! You haven’t even thought to try it and you wouldn’t unless Thaa suggested it anyhow!”[/color] As usual they were back at it soon enough anyhow. Guul set down her rock and continued to work. Now, she had already gotten the sharpness and durability down, and made it golden in color as Thaa had specified in any case. The extra abilities while a bit more complicated at least were not so incessantly physical, that was always a trouble trying to work with her claws, hard to be delicate in construction sometimes. And of course there was the specifics of soul management that had come with the Sword in the final case. Bit of channeling the specific interests and specificities Thaa had uncovered after putting the effort in to be master of Souls more than just his Afterlife. A Golden Sword that would not be broken, could cut most things as swords did without losing its edge, allowed its users to speak to the dead, and keep their soul in the Sword, as well as be resistant to death energies, and finally the ability to rip souls from the mortal coil and set them free to go onto the Afterlife. Great, mission accomplished, one Aquibeophatian Sword done. Now she just needed to send them the right way to drop it off where Thaa wanted it and she could get back the blissful activity of doing nothing. Guul looked up at the rising sun and thought? Did it rise in the east or west? Well Galbar was a sphere so could just start heading that way and figure out later. Figuring things out later did sound appetizing, Guul turned the craft to the rising sun and set it out flying above the waters away from Toraan, hopefully they would get to Mydia before Thaa changed his mind on where the Sword should go. [hider=Summary]We open on Thaa welcoming some souls to Aquibeophates as he ruminates on souls and in general about fighting against that oh so evil creation of life. He goes into the Soul Portfolio and we switch over to Kiim’Jaav’Guul where Kiim and Jaav are at their usual activities briefly interrupted by a most egregious agreement between the two, Guul goes on to do the actual work Thaa has for them making a cool sword. Guul then sets off the craft on their route to Mydia, although perhaps a bit too confident that Galbar is a sphere and thusly they’ll get there eventually anyway.[/hider] [hider=Might Summary] Start: 5 MP 5 DP ~3 MP Claim Soul Portfolio ~2 MP, 5 DP Create the Aquibeophatian Sword End 0 MP 0 DP[/hider] [hider=Notes] [hider=Soul Portfolio]A soul is the remainder of life, and something beyond it. Souls are what remains when life dies. It surely contains the memories and experience of the life that came before, but it is also not dependent on life, it exists onto itself. It surely is a real extant thing like all that may be found in the physical world in carbon, hydrogen or a myriad of others. However a soul does not interact in the same way, it is bound to something, whether a body, or a song, or another such thing. Thaa as God of Souls has the ability to work with these bindings, and on the nature of a soul itself. [/hider] [hider=Aquibeophatian Sword] [b]Durability I:[/b] The Sword is supernaturally durable and can survive environments and impacts that would destroy mortal blades. [b]Sharpness I:[/b] The Sword is supernaturally sharp and keeps its edge despite how much it is used. It is not much more effective that a high quality blade made of mortal means, but it does not loose its efficiency. DP [b]Call to Aquibeophates II:[/b] The Owner and User of the Sword can speak to the souls of the dead in Aquibeophates every time the Gibbonite Moon is New in Phase and thusly not visible to the unaided eyes of mortals on Galbar. [b]Soul Keeper I:[/b] The Owner and User of the Sword can decide to trap their soul in the Sword upon their death, should it still be in their possession, thusly allowing themselves to speak to the next Owner and User of the Sword. Should a Owner and User of the Sword decide to trap their soul while there is another soul in the Sword, the trapped soul will be released and the current Owner and User will succeed in trapping their soul. [b]Attunement with Death I:[/b] The Owner and User of the Sword has greater resistance to death energies than most mortals, making survival with minimal lingering issues in places bound heavily with them possible should exposure be not to great. Free Titles [b]Soul Ripper II:[/b] The Owner and User of the Sword can choose to attempt to rip the soul of the target of the Sword's cutting from their body. Ordinary mortals are almost sure to be unable to fully resist the effects of the Sword, however divinely influenced beings have much greater resistance while being which are in essence themselves Divine are practically immune.[/hider] [/hider]