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[i]In which a goddess shuts the world up, murders wantonly, and makes blood juice birds[/i]

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A while later Tonta stopped screaming (if one listened closely they would have been able to make it out for a rage-infused [i]"woooooooooooooooooooooooooow!"[/i]). The [url=https://cdnb.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/014/298/707/4k/keita-okada-01.jpg?1543391069]drakhorey[/url] had broken free and now soared in every direction to tear the risen underworlders limb from limb and to rain fiery death on human and monster alike. 

They were fair like that. 

There were exactly a thousand of them at that moment, but it would not be long before their number started to shrink. With each one Tonta devoured a great serpentine limb would grow from under the wraithlike [url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/14/ae/01/14ae0106720b7c52ea0a85f59bb66c90.jpg]yellow cloak[/url] that completely covered her nubile form. But at that very moment the whimsical quest to eat them all had not quite manifested to her - she was [i]Drakhorey Mother[/i], not [i]yet[/i] Drakhorey Devourer - and she instead hung silently in the dying heavens. Or at least, [i]she[/i] was silent. Everything else was fucking loud.

The source of the cacophony was not singular, but it was rather everywhere. The air was screeching, the smoke was bellowing, the earth was wailing ceaselessly as bits of it broke everywhere. The creatures too - monsters and animals and people alike, screaming ceaselessly and relentlessly and with impossible loudness. Some were horror-filled, others agonised, some were trying to draw her attention to one fact or another, others whispered in tempting tones of secrets hidden and waiting to reveal themselves if she only leant her ear. Tonta didn't give a flying peacock's left toe though - "would you all just shut 
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It was very quiet after that. In fact, from that very moment and into perpetuity souls and all spiritual life-forms would only ever speak in hushed whispers. Tonta was surprised. And satisfied.

A spell seemed to break then and she was no longer frozen in the skies of her inception, but falling. Her collision with the earth was cushioned by the first drakhorey she would ever kill - a truly monstrous great pale thing. The collision left his upper half here and his lower body there and burning blood more or less [i]everywhere[/i]. Feeling quite contrite about all the mess, and feeling that her first kill should in some way be memorialised, she heaved the great torso (it made little physical sense, like an ant throwing a lizard about) and skewered it on a stone pillar that erupted from the earth as if by its own will. Then the goddess stood back and beheld the gory sight. The drakhorey's soul stood by her and looked too. "But why?" He whispered, deeply flummoxed. She could tell because he was giving her one of those [i][url=https://memegenerator.net/img/instances/63787234/but-why.jpg]wtf[/url][/i] faces.

"Oh! You're here!" She caught the drakhorey's soul and forcefully pushed it back into the abused and bisected form. Its hushed screams were almost comical. "Oh stop being dramatic Baknul Adech. It wouldn't be a cool monument if it didn't have [i]your actual[/i] soul in it. Now," she gave the ensouled corpse a puppy-eyed look, "would you please turn to stone for me?"

He did.

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Just for your knowledge: it was at [i]that[/i] moment that Tonta thought it would be quite fun to hunt down the rest of her accidental children. She had not yet quite gained a reputation for devouring them, though in all truth she would not gain such a reputation until many decades stood between her and the first such devouring. As she walked by the bloody mess Baknul had thoughtlessly made while dying, the droplets drifted upward and congealed into two great fiery birds - a huge [url=https://i.imgur.com/mpQUOfm.jpg]male[/url] who looked more like a flying firestorm than a bird and a considerably smaller and more sensibly birdlike [url=https://i.imgur.com/pnDNhxD.jpg]female[/url]. They gave off a [url=https://youtu.be/TEo0v3h9REc]distinctively sonorous song[/url] that seemed to echo and ripple in all directions before beating their burning wings and lifting off into the sky. As Tonta continued to walk more of Baknul's blood rose up and congealed into those burning phoenixine forms and went singing in all directions.

She left the lower half of Baknul's bifurcated corpse behind her and when the goddess was gone from view the critters of the underworld crept out and approached to feast on the remains of one who had not so long ago feasted on them. Hear me now: well should this lesson be heeded! - (though it would be many years before Tonta would even think to consider such things) - that above every great and powerful being is one more powerful yet.

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[list][*][hider=Summary]Following straight on from the Myth from the CS, Tonta is in the sky and the dragons she made are flying everywhere killing people and underworld monsters alike. The world's souls are being very loud so she shuts them up, and now they only talk in hushed whispers. That's how you get some fucking peace and quiet.
Then she elbow drops a drakhorey called Baknul Adech from 5,000 miles or something. He explodes and she makes a cool stone pillar/monument thing out of his upper body and shoves his soul in there for good measure. It's a pretty big monument, say as tall as the Eiffel Tower. After that she cleans up his blood and makes cool phoenixes out of them - the males look like flying firestorms while the females are far more birdlike in appearance. We end on a moral because this is a moral tale with many lofty ideals and principles strewn throughout for future scholars and philosophers to analyse.[/hider]
[*][hider=3 MA Spent]Just a cool looking pillar, nothing fancy about it. No MA there.
Creating drakhorey. This is a TEMPORARY species that will not exist post-timeskip, but as they will be destroyed over the course of the timeskip and so will likely have an impact on world history I guess they cost 1 MA.
A cool special bird species with special powers that I'll probably think up later. They should reasonably come to inhabit (in small numbers) forest and mountain biomes. 1 MA.
Making all souls and spiritual life-forms speak in whispers/hushed voices. I guess this affects everyone so 1 MA.[/hider][/list]