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[color=FFE4E1][h3][b]Name[/b][/h3][/color]

Arira

[color=FFE4E1][h3][b]Domain[/b][/h3][/color] 

[color=FFE4E1][b]Goddess of Cycles[/b][/color] - Within all things there is a pattern that lies beneath it all, a force of existence that normally is associated with change. From the changing of the seasons, to the growth of plants and animals, to the to the ever-circling flow of life and death and rebirth, to even changing of the time from day to night and vice-versa, these various 'cycles' and patterns of things form the basis for many things in the world. What rises from the dust will return to it, and from the dust will rise something else to take its place. Some cycles will end, and yet from this others will rise to take their place. Even mortals and gods alike, it seems, are intertwined in their own cycles of rising and falling and so forth. It is the way of all things, for some to rise and some to fall, for some to live and some to die, for some to grow and some to wither away, for some to remain trapped in a maddening loop of perpetuity, and so forth.

Cycles are a deathless concept, an eternal thing rooted in the ebb and flow of existence, a phantasmal 'deus-ex-machina' plinking about within the background of all things...watching on even if others are unaware of it. Even within stagnation, a lack of change, there is a cycle of perpetual idleness and decay that will either snuff itself out, continue on perpetually, or be eventually broken and replaced. Such is the nature of cycles, and such is the nature of their fate. 

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To attempt to be more defined, Arira can tweak cycles in a specific sort of way. Imagine it like 'controlling the time of something'. Arira can 'turn back' the cycle of life to give someone youth. She can 'end' the cycle of a disease in the body so it dies off. She can 'fast forward' the cycle of plant growth and accelerate it to a certain point in its life cycle. She can 'halt' the cycle of something, such as aging, in order to give eternal youth (not immortality, just youth). If a curse was placed on a land for 100 years, she can fast-forward the land itself (not the stuff on it or things living in it mind) to the point where the curse is gone...or rewind the cycle back to what it was like before the curse was placed. 

She cannot, however, do things outside of what a given 'cycle' naturally contains. Unlike a nature goddess, she could not 'tweak' crops to be extra fruitful or more fertile or more potent. Unlike a life goddess, she can only wind back the cycle of death and bring a dead person back to a point they were at during the cycle in their life before dying....or otherwise push the soul into a cycle of rebirth to get a new body and be born again. But she cannot simply infuse the dead body with life energies, or necromancy it from the dead as a skelly-boi, or so forth.  

To a devastated landscape she can return it to a past fruitful and whole state here in current times, but she cannot control the weather to ensure the land will prosper or be extra fertile or so forth. But if a place has always and forever been devastated desert sands then she can't really do anything unless it was somehow part of an ocean in primordial times (which would mean suddenly an ocean within a desert out of the blue if she used her powers to revert to that).

If she tries to end a cycle of maddening war going on in an area, it might accelerate the damage or cut things off abruptly but will bring peace about quicker. However, if those involved still want to make war her power doesn't stop them from doing so. Etc.

~Saucer Comments~

1. When affecting areas or whole wars, the powers affect more than just the land, but interpersonal relations which may stretch far beyond the land. And that's just the mortal-centric view: this world is animist, and trees, flowers and rocks could all potentially have relation networks that span the continent.

I doubt anyone will actually RP a rock or a tree, though, so I won't force you to take that into account, but still.

2. What makes an event cyclical is that it repeats itself, no matter what you do, really, be it reincarnation, the seasons, Chinese dynasties, whatever. I am hesitant to view learning a skill, for example, as a cyclical concept, or to tie cycles too closely to time, because time, no matter how circular a phenomenon, seems to always be that which moves forward. Time never repeats itself; events in time do. If you actually go for the Time domain, of course, the two won't be mutually exclusive, so when that is achieved, you can disregard that comment.

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[color=FFE4E1][h3][b]Myth[/b][/h3][/color]

(One of potentially more, just need to think of more over time is all.)

[hider=Myth 1: The Goddess' First Descent, and The Founding]
In a humble rural town far, far away, the farmers had long plied their trade underneath the gaze of the gods. They had been humble as their priest demanded, they had been devout as their families had raised them to be, and all seemed to be right with the world. None knew what was to come, the era of doom that was to wash over like a tidal wave....and indeed, when the world began to burn they were left alone and with nothing but despair. 

The old gods did not answer their calls and pleas and cries for help.

The clergy disappeared or succumbed to the flames.

The fields were choked by monstrous beasts emerging from the woods, slaughtering cattle and anyone else foolish enough to be outside when they emerged.  

Plagues ravaged the humble town, tearing apart families that had long sown the soil and reaped the harvests over untold generations.

Every day was a waking nightmare they were forced to wade through, and so it was for their children and children's children after them. Some spoke as if the world was going to end, abandoning all and leaving, and yet the people desperately sought salvation in any form they could find it. They prayed and toiled, cursed and screamed, anything that some higher power might take pity upon them and save them from their hell. 

...And so it was the goddess would ultimately in that town descend the night of one brilliant harvest moon, bright and reddish-orange like the great fires themselves. From sleep were the farmers awoken, being stirred from their restless slumber by a voice as gentle as the night breeze. Outside of their homes they gathered, some hiding in fear and others rushing forward to see what the matter was. Into the town square the majority would come, even as the one who had called them was manifested before their very eyes.  

The beasts fled from before her as they had from none else, and yet her appearance gave off a gentle glow that brought the people's hearts to comfort. 

But who was this divine figure, who had so brazenly appeared before them? Why had she called them?

[color=FFE4E1][b]"Be not afraid, oh children of the land, for your prayers have finally been heard after all this time.

Be not frightened of the desolation and pain about you, for at this time your sufferings and patience over so long will be at long last rewarded.

I am she who keeps the forces of the world turning. I am the end and the beginning, the beginning and the end.

I am Arira, Goddess of Cycles."[/b][/color]

Some questioned her words, some simply stood in awe, others turned away, and more so began to beg and plead upon their knees before her for relief. To each she lent her ear, and to many she gave answer. 

In the end, she made them all a promise. They would wake to find their livestock reborn, their fields growing with plenty, their dying finally passed on in peace, and their children healthy and growing. They would be helped to bring an end to the cycle of monsters harassing them in turn, and her first great Prophet would come to them. "So it would be," the goddess said, "and so it shall be done." She would then vanish in a brilliant explosion of light...and immediately after the people would finally awaken from this great vision they had all shared. 

It was morning now, and upon all leaving their homes and investigating their loved ones and so forth the people would thusly find her words to be true. The fields, once devastated, had been cycled back to a healthy and growing state full of crops. Their livestock, many once dead from famine and monster attacks, were given rebirth and were now plump and happy and mighty in number. The dying that had been long suffering from disease or ailment were found smiling, gently at peace and having passed on. Their children were too vibrant, full of life, and any of them with maladies found the cycle of those maladies ended in their bodies. It was a grand miracle, a saving grace, something beyond words that those in the town could only look upon in awe and reverence. 

And oh, how they did praise that day! 

On the morrow her Prophet would arrive, humble and yet in service, donning a simple cloak and yet bringing with him years of battle-hardened experience and the word of his patron Goddess. Yea he would direct them to build a center of worship to Arira in her name, and so would be built the first, grandest, and greatest of her temples to rise from the ground and be built to withstand the test of time. To commemorate the mighty vision they had all shared, they would celebrate her honors every harvest moon and give thanks for her helping them. 

Yet as also promised, the great Prophet would begin to organize some among them and teach them the ways to fight and [b]hunt[/b] the monsters and disasters that plagued their land. His expertise from years and years of battle served the people well, teaching them and guiding them to wield shot and sword and spear and so forth to protect the land and protect their own. These "Hunters of the Cycle", as they so took on the name of, would dedicate themselves to the Goddess, gain her blessing for and maintain it if they kept their creed, and become a major force to help end the old cycle of terror that had gripped their homeland.

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[color=FFE4E1][h3][b]Base Form[/b][/h3][/color]

[hider=To Some A Beginning...]

[quote=Scripture of the Ararian Church or "Cyclican Church", Book 1, Sermon 1, Verse 1 (IC) (IRL Quote Source: T.S. Elliot)][i]“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”[/i][/quote]

[img]https://i.imgur.com/WT8YAI6.jpg[/img]

(Note: She is 5'6" tall.)

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[color=FFE4E1][h3][b]Angry Form[/b][/h3][/color]

(Very very rare to see normally...not a good sign at all if you do ever see it though.)

[hider=...To Others and End]

[quote=First Leader of the "Hunters of the Cycle" (IC) (IRL Quote Source: William Congreve)][i]“Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a [b]woman scorned[/b].”[/i][/quote]

[img]https://i.imgur.com/t3svwP4.png[/img]

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[color=FFE4E1][h3][b]True Form[/b][/h3][/color]

[hider=The Beginning And The End]

[quote=The First Prophet of Arira (IC) (actual IRL quote from: H.P. Lovecraft)][i]“That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons even death may die.”[/i][/quote]

[img]https://i.imgur.com/4MeA2JF.jpg[/img]

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[color=FFE4E1][h3][b]Musical Theme[/b][/h3][/color]

[color=FFE4E1]~Base Form~[/color]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgVuQ_Fbs5g]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgVuQ_Fbs5g[/url]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k1F3PjY948]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k1F3PjY948[/url]

[color=FFE4E1]~Angry Form~[/color]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RzA_Oomra8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RzA_Oomra8[/url]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rdt5XNvPkc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rdt5XNvPkc[/url]

[color=FFE4E1]~True Form~[/color]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdxaUJ9J_ew]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdxaUJ9J_ew[/url]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbwq8ev-EXA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbwq8ev-EXA[/url]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qFqpMa3DyA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qFqpMa3DyA[/url]

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