[hider=The Great Serpent]

[b]Name:[/b]
Asvarad

[b]Form:[/b]
At a hundred and fifty feet long and twenty around the great serpent Asvarad is among the most physically imposing of the new pantheon.  Deep violent scales as large as dinner plates and as strong as shields protect the god’s muscular flanks and contrast with pale, elongated underbelly scales.  Some see this and label him a mere snake, but quite unlike his lesser animal cousins Asvarad has a maw lined with spade-like cutting teeth rather than fangs.  The differences don’t end there either.  The serpent god has no less than three pairs of eyes looking ahead, to the side, and behind him.  Moreover, long fleshy whiskers line the gods lower lip such that he might find his way in the darkest tunnels and oldest places where there exists no light for even the keenest eyes.

It is an ability that comes in handy more often than not.  For while Asvarad is vast and powerful, he is not nimble or stealthy.  Indeed, the great serpent spends more time away from the light than bathing underneath it for to leave a hiding place is to lose it, and so once he has found one Asvarad is only roused from his places of safety at great need.

[b]Personality:[/b]
Bitter, sarcastic, and altogether unpleasant are fitting terms to describe Asvarad’s company.  For all the things Asvarad may be, friendly is not one.  The serpent god is never in a good mood, but it would be a fool who sees this and presumes it evidence of an impulsive and crass being.  Asvarad makes no niceties, but neither does he seek out conflict pointlessly.  In truth, the serpent god is above all else patient and deliberate.  If ever asked, Asvarad would pin his attitude on the fact that he is being forced away from what matters and made to engage in something so plodding and frustrating as conversation.

Even if he prefers not to share, Asvarad is always thinking.  He is, when not actively being bothered by his kin or their mortal pets, patiently laying plans or considering the consequences of doing so.  When Asvarad does act on his schemes he always endeavors to accomplish his goal without anyone noticing he was ever involved.  As such, the serpent god is truly contemptuous of those of his peers whose solutions tend to involve smashing things or making loud declarations.  Such contempt often leads to animosity, and often a greater animosity than Asvarad would hold against those actively trying to subvert him. 

As for what the serpent is planning and what others might act against?  Of all things, it is this which Asvarad guards most closely.  If another god sets out to determine what Asvarad wants they can divine it from the great serpents actions, if at all.  He will not be telling them.

[b]Will:[/b]
Asvarad’s will is that of the mind.  He prizes, above all, the freest and purest thought.  It is this conviction which biases the serpent god against the material.  The basic, disgusting, and chemical demands of the flesh degrade the purity of the mind, and so it would be better if they did not exist at all.  Were Asvarad to claim all the nodes and usher in a new age at the end of days, he would create a world without form.  Shape and time would be abandoned, and all that would remain would be thought.  Every mind emancipated and free to explore its own depths forever.  In such a world, perhaps, interaction wouldn’t be strangled in its crib by the weakness of speech.  In such a world, perhaps, Asvarad would be happy to talk of anything and everything.

[b]Favorite Color:[/b]
Violet.

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So, this is a WIP, but only in the sense it's a first draft and will be full of spelling errors.  If you want to judge off this, that's fine :)