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HUM, Handler of Souls, God of Life and Death

Father of Shadows

HUM finally emerged from Sanctuary once he felt his power had grown substantially, leading him to the first Gnome to reach the end of its life upon the Natural World. A small, unusual creature it was, very similar to Humans. Boringly similar. HUM embraced its distraught soul in his shadowy arms and sent it off to Sanctuary, before soaring above the grasslands of the Gnomes. To the east, HUM's attention was drawn to a heavy pine forest, and into it he set off.

Flying between the trees, and at times through them, HUM casually meandered about until he came to rest on a branch. The embodied shadow looked around before its eyes settled upon a spectacularly beautiful work of nature, a spiderweb. He gazed upon it admirably as he watched a fly become trapped in it, the web's owner quickly setting to work wrapping its prey up. HUM lifted this skilled predator up into the sky in his palm, bringing it closer to his face. Despite HUM's size, the spider reared up at the God's face, ready to fight to the death.

HUM laughed deeply, his voice resounding through the forest as he returned to spider to its place, declaring so loudly that the trees themselves shook, "Truly, this one is more worthy to become a great Race than the pitiful Gnomes and squishy Humans." And so HUM set to work, analyzing the spider's body, replicating it, morphing it. To it he gave proper lungs so it could breath more effectively. Its pedipalps, he turned into limbs with graspers capable of careful work, much like the humans. Its size, HUM increased to that of a human, at least equivalent in terms of mass. To ease feeding the population of spiders, he gave to them an omnivorous digestive tract. To allow them to work together, HUM twisted their minds towards socializing with one another in communal groups. And finally, HUM gave to them his own Blessing in hopes that they would become one of the most physically capable species upon the planet.

Thus, the Arachnids would be born, children of the shadows.

HUM's Actions

HUM pours his Power in crafting the Arachnids, intelligent, human-sized spiders.

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HUM, Handler of Souls, God of Life and Death

HUM felt it not long after the Humans had come into existence. At first, their creation was of little consequence to HUM, until suddenly one perished. Within an instant, HUM found himself facing the soul of the deceased, a nervous, fidgeting man who looked left and right, unsure of what was going on. Just a moment ago he had been starving to death, and now his body seemed perfectly fine, standing alone in an unusually dreary, color-drained land. HUM rose a few feet into the sky and placed his hand upon the man's forehead, "All is okay now, human. You are in Sanctuary, a land of rest and peace. Do as you wish. If you have need of water, it will be provided. Of food, it will be provided. Of shelter, it too, shall be provided. MY Realm is surely endless in nature, for I am LORD of it," communicated HUM to the man.

Within a moment, HUM had decided to welcome all souls to Sanctuary, twisting the Realm to become as close to a paradise as he could. When more humans arrived, HUM hoped they would play games, drink and eat their fill of the perpetually present fruits and water, perhaps even fight with one another yet have their wounds heal once the battle was done. But it was still not quite Life, lacking the true struggle, the true risk of Life in the Natural Realm.

There was one issue though, and that was that HUM would likely soon need his own underlings to greet the humans as their numbers increased. But that day had not yet come. First, HUM had greater plans.

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Lauder has a life and works.

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Will Turn 2 end tonight or tomorrow?

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To be clear, Hum is still in Sanctuary.

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I vote no to Discord.

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Ah, another God of Nothing. :O

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Arrogandaeus did spend a lot of his power making a race just now. So it's entirely possible that Duhyxbin will win.

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Can I turn Sanctuary into a Heaven basically without the use of Power?

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HUM is going to sink Edenia beneath the ocean, Atlantis style. Sanctuary seems to just be a more glum mirror of the Natural World.