尺ㄖ丂卄卂几 ㄖ千 ㄒ卄乇 山丨ㄥᗪ,
ㄒ卄乇 几卂ᐯ乇乇ᗪ ㄒ尺卂ᐯ乇ㄥㄥ乇尺
God of Language, Music, Travel, & Wilderness
Roshan Naveed
Title: God of Language, Music, Travel, and Wilderness
Gender/Sex: Male
Age: 1,443
Species: Shadhavar
Information: Shadhavars are rather elegant and peaceful creatures. In their true form, they bear a very similar appearance to gazelles, but are considerably taller. They tend to reach roughly six feet in height, and have white fur with an intricate golden pattern. Otherwise graceful in appearance, their eyes are rimmed by a black streak that travels down their cheeks in a way that resembles tear stains. From the center of their forehead protrudes a single long, delicately twisting horn with 42 strange holes. It is this horn that grants the Shadhavar their unique musical ability. When the wind blows and enters into the hollow point of the horn, it creates a beautiful musical sound more beautiful and alluring than a flute. This noise could almost be considered enchanting, as it attracts humans and animals alike.
The Shadhavars horn is especially hard despite being hollow. It’s comprised of a bony core at the center of the forehead, and is coated in a hard, keratinous sheath that continuously grows around it. The bony center will only grow until a certain point and then stop, but the keratin protein covering will continue growing throughout their entire life. This coating can be shaped and shed to help control its growth, however.
Appearance: The most noticeable thing about Roshan’s human appearance is that he is tall, extremely tall. At 6’4”, he easily towers over most crowds. He has a rounded, square chin with high cheekbones, giving his face a distinctively square-ish oval shape. His almond shaped green eyes are framed by a thick rim of dark and delicate eyelashes. He has a thick layer of dark stubble gracing his jaw, and a trimmed mustache above his pink lips. Roshan has rather curly black hair that reaches just past his neck, although his hair is usually hidden by a headwear of some type. He prefers to have his bangs brush across his forehead to keep covered an almost star shaped scar. His tendency to wear headscarves and the like originally stemmed from his Shadhavarian culture, although now he wears them simply as a reminder of his old life and to help hide his old injury. He forces himself to wear elaborate fabrics and jewels, as he feels that better fits the appearance of a supposed God, but he'd much rather wear plain cotton button up shirts of some sort with formal pants or a long thawb. He has five strange flutes of various sizes on a string, which he usually wears as a necklace or tied against his waist.
Personality: Roshan tends to come across as cold and harsh at first. He can be rather blunt with his words and seemingly uncaring. He’s quick to remove himself from social situations, seeming as if he’d much rather be alone than with others. However, the truth of the matter is that Roshan is extremely shy. He gets very nervous around others, most especially if they’re human, and tends to blurt out the first thing that comes to mind. As a result, his socially awkward tendencies make him come across as rather rude. He’s much more relaxed around the other gods, but he tends to become tense whenever a human is nearby. He doesn’t seem the nervous type at all, but internally he is very wary and always looking for a way to escape. If left alone with other humans, he has a tendency to start panicking. When he panics, Roshan acts rashly and sometimes violently. He is strongly self preserving by nature, and will do anything to keep himself safe, even from a false threat. However, he is not without guilt in his cowardice, and as such he tends to have a rather low opinion of himself.
He’s a being of social anxiety and a creature of habit. He tends to be very detail oriented. Thus, it’s not unusual for him to start organizing random things, whether it be by size, color, or alphabetically. He feels the need to achieve a certain standard of perfection in every aspect of his work. If even the smallest mistake has been made, he has been known to completely scrap everything and start all over. This specific trait of his is what drives him to seek out a unique name for himself. He’s changed his title several times whenever he learns that another god and him share the same one. Over the years he has gone by the God of Deception, Gold, Hunting, and many other titles.
Roshan’s rather insecure in himself, and often tries to keep out of the other gods’ way. He’s uncomfortable with the idea of posing as a god and being worshiped, especially by humans. He doesn’t like being so noticeable and would prefer to blend quietly into the background, but he knows how important it is for the survival of all supernaturals. However, he tends to be mistake prone, often fumbling and breaking things in his nervousness. Because of his cold outward demeanor, most believe he breaks things on purpose out of boredom or frustration. He’s rather ill-adept at showing his emotions, and would much rather prefer to follow than lead.
History: Roshan is fairly young compared to many of the gods, which means that he did not participate in the Great War between man and monster. However, he was also not born within this country. He lived in a country far across the waters, where the supernatural creatures never discovered the idea of posing as gods. Instead, the humans began using these creatures as power sources or for their own personal needs. Many were hunted and killed, while others were enslaved. Many of the magical species of his land were nearing extinction.
Roshan’s family was no different. They had spent the majority of his childhood on the run, living within the wilderness. They were an unusually large group, large being described as 5 when the number of alive and free supernatural creatures was already harshly diminished. Roshan’s family consisted of his two parents, his sickly grandfather, his younger brother, and himself. Supposedly, his grandmother used to be with them as well, but she had been killed before little Roshan’s earliest memories. The only proof of her existence that the family had left was her horn.
His parents tried to give their sons a happy life, but it was not to be. As his grandfather got older, the man began to deteriorate both physically and mentally. Roshan still remembers hearing his parents nightly whispers, saying that the man was giving up because of the loss of his wife. Then one night, when the boy was only 16, a group of hunters had tracked the family’s camp down in the middle of the night. When they tried to flee, Roshan’s grandfather refused to go with them. No amount of begging and pleading could move him. Fearing that their children would be killed or captured if they wasted any more time, the family left without their grandfather. A few weeks later, Roshan’s parents somehow managed to retrieve his grandfather’s horn, the smell of human blood heavily clinging to them.
Only a few months had passed, when another group of hunters managed to find them. They were captured, their horns broken before they were thrown into cages. Despite being starved and beaten, trapped, and painfully stripped of his most crucial defense, Roshan was able to escape. However, the events that transpired can only be described as tragic.
His parents were already trying to find out how to best escape with their sons during the months that they were caged like animals. They had just set up a plan and were going to prepare it into motion the next night, but unfortunately the group of hunters found themselves peckish. They were running low on provisions and had little to hunt, so they opted for an easier method. Roshan has since been terrified of humans after his father’s murder.
The events left the family of three shaken, but made Roshan’s mother now only more determined to save her sons from the true monsters who had trapped them. The humans developed a particular liking to the woman after her husband’s death, one which she decided to use to her advantage. She let them believe they had broken her, coaxed them into underestimating her so that one night when they took her from their cage they were unprepared. She attacked the hunters, shouting for her sons to run. It was a night of chaos, a nightmare of which only Roshan had been able to survive.
He largely avoided humans since then. He traveled alone for nearly six or seven centuries, hoping to find some place far away from the monsters who took his family from him. His fear and desperation grew so large that when he was once again trapped by another group of hunters, he instead threw himself into the ocean. After many months thinking he was going to die in the salty waves, he was eventually washed up on the shores of a foreign land. Fortunately for him, the person who found Roshan’s unconscious body was a creature acting as a god. It was through them that he too eventually came to do the same.
Mythical Significance: Due to his association as the God of Travel, Roshan is considered the patron of merchants and refugees. However, through that same vein he is also considered the patron of thieves. Many villages have a ritual of beginning a long journey with a song as a way of wishing for safe travels.
As a God of the Wilderness, there is a superstition among hunters that before entering the wild you must pay your respect to Roshan, else he will seek revenge. Paying respects after is considered sometimes forgivable, but believed to carry a risk of failure to appease him.
As a minor god of Music, his horn has inspired the creation of similarly shaped instruments. The instrument is quite notorious for its difficulty in both creation and mastery.
He is most closely associated with the number 5 (the number of horns he has on his necklace) and the number 42 (the number of holes on each horn, including his own).
Relationships: None yet, but looking to add some! I would love in particular to add either someone that may have found him when he first awashed on shore and needed help adjusting, or someone that may have provided him with some sort of reason to attend the festival this year since he normal avoids these celebrations. Or both!
Color: Sage Green - #848B79
Other: The smell of cooked meat makes Roshan incredibly nauseous, as it reminds him of the night his dad died. As such, he is a strict vegetarian.
Roshan has a very slight, undeterminable accent, as his original tongue is the language of his country and therefore unheard of in this new land. He donned the title of God of Language as an attempt to explain his accent, but now that very title has driven him to attempt to learn many more languages, so to uphold himself to an arbitrary standard. His broken horn has regrown over the centuries, but it has a slightly upward curve shape to it.
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