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Gods of Roa

Updated my Bid for Time :3

I need to start working on drafting the most current Chosen.

Gods of Roa

Silly Cthulhu.

Secrets is Vecatrius' Domain.

Gods of Roa

Rune_Alchemist said
sounds...trippy. but who wouldn't want advice from their future selves? xP

Actually that's the problem, because you are in the city of the God of Time, your future self is also your present self and your past self at the same time since you are crossing time streams every other block at random essentially. The cause of this is the Warp in Time which exists in the Throne Room of the God of Time created by abuse of something they uncovered in the Oldest city, researched in the present city, and harnessed in the future city. And of course Vecatrius has allowed this Warp to persist for reasons unknown.

Royal Hounds ~ (Hunters of the Crown)

1Charak2 said
when was the first ”roshan” born/created

The First Roshan was born circa 130 B.C.E.
He comes after Legion's time, but has been technically dead for far longer as I believe Legion possessed Cain far earlier before Roshan gained his current body.
The Second Roshan assumed the name (and started the tradition) about 5 years after the First's Death, though he was killed by the Third.
The Third is still technically alive, a Living Husk of an Immortal.
The Fourth was killed by the First/Sixth and memories absorbed (but in his wisdom, the Fourth did make a back-up homunculus and is actually alive but inactive.)
The Fifth was killed by the First/Sixth and memories absorbed (he had no back-up plan for his death.)
The Sixth is the First.

Gods of Roa

Working on my Territory.
It's a single city, which is split into three by its past, present and future incarnations.
Each section flows in and out of time to replace the other pieces, hence the city itself tends to change and citizens from all three time lines intermingle during the random temporal shifts which occur relative to them as they travel but eventually return to their own portions of the city.
Should be a rather fun concept to do.

Gods of Roa

Move Over Doctor Who...

Name: Vecatrius
Titles: Lord of Time, Emissary of Fate, The Binding One, The Ruler of Cogs, First Chronomancer, Grandfather

Goal: Vecatrius plays a seemingly passive role in the realm of Gods as he maintains Time. What the other gods may not be aware is of his temporal meddling towards a rather terrifying goal. Vecatrius is the ultimate control freak, a god with a god complex, as he seeks to enforce Fate and yet overthrow Fate in favor of his own design. Thus while he may seem as a neutral and uncaring watchman of Time, he has long since been corrupted in his reasoning and has begun to make small move towards accomplishing his goals.
Domain: Time, Fate, Prophecy, Memory, Machines, Control

Symbol: An hourglass wrapped in chains and filled with gears and cogs in lieu of sand.
Appearance:

Vecatrius

Artifacts:
The Clockwork Sphere: A small metal ball which opens up its plated shell to reveal clockwork mechanisms so intricate and complex, not even the gods dare attempt to decipher what exactly does the chromosphere do nor has Vecatrius been documented to use it but rather give the items to his Chosen mortals. Vecatrius has hinted it to be the heart of time, or perhaps his own heart. Though ultimately, it is the “egg” of the next reality which will convert its most current holder into the next reality’s Vecatrius.

Territory:
Territory for the God of Time is not a matter of where, but when. Though he may lay claim to all time, and has dwelt in time, Vecatrius holds a single city yet due to the nature of his domain, the single city is in fact three separate cities fractured in different times as they float in and out of time itself. The rare and occasional visitors would find themselves easily lost in the ever-shifting nature of the three cities, as time holds no meaning and walking half a block would easily send travellers forward or back in time relative to their original location at random. All visitors must return into the proper city and timeline before leaving the bounds of the cities else be hunted down by the enforcers of the cities.

Agartha

Agartha: The Oldest city of the three, it is an ancient subterranean city buried deep within the earth. There buildings are made of stone and earth, utterly darkened in the depths and labyrinthine. The Native citizens of Agartha are former humans that adapted to their environment, their utterly smooth skin and hair losing all pigmentation, and created a luminescent particles flowing within their blood as their cat-like eyes capture their glow. Citizens of Agartha usually wear thin, often-translucent clothing made from paper which allow them to cope with the sunlight of Avalon and disintegrate when exposed the waters which flooded most of the city. The city itself is designed concentrically, with rising levels of earth as one approaches the center which occurred naturally as mining operations expanded deeper and wider from the outskirts of the city. The major “export” of the old city is ores and fossil fuels, which are used by Avalon and Atlantis, another product Agartha produces is Saquartz: a rare fragment of crystallized time.

Avalon

Avalon: The Current city of the three, a modern city formed when the earth below Agartha broke the surface beneath a lake flooded the most of the old city and opened it to the world above. Avalon exists as a city emerging from a lake. The city has built itself upon the ruins of central Agartha, designed with a renaissance style, of glorious arches, pillars and domes as splendor and glory of the city upon a lake captures the morning sun and evening moon. The Native citizens of Avalon resemble the average human, however they are generally paler and have larger eyes in comparison. They tend to wear a variety of clothing, with the change of the seasons within Avalon and its lake weather. The city resembles most contemporary cities, though perhaps more advanced due to the technologies it possess from researching the Saquartz found in the ruins of Agartha. The major “export” of the middle city is food created by artificial plots of farmlands that feeds the majority of the three cities. Avalon also serves as the major trading hub between the three cities and the rest of the world who would attempt to glean the riches of the past and future.

Atlantis

Atlantis: The Newest city of the three, it is the future city that exists beneath the lake that had encircled Avalon. Atlantis formed with the foundations of Agartha sitting beneath Avalon broke and sank the city beneath the waters. The futuristic design of the city creates an energy field around the city to prevent it from being completely engulfed by the lake. There are few native citizens in Atlantis, the city is most ran by complex machines which have taken control of the majority of the organic population by harnessing their neural interfaces into the central command interface. The few begins with free will remaining are often the elite in society, being technomancers or chronomancers who wear impressive mechanical suits and have replaced their organics with mechanics. The major “export” of the future city is technology ranging from intricate vessels of transportation to weaponry to appliances.

The sole unchanging portion of the triple cities is the Chronotempris: an anachronomalous feature located in the heart of each city. It contains the three most important functions of the city, the Hall of Records, the Chamber of Prophecies and the Tower of Time. The architecture of the building itself is a composite mixture of the time periods, featuring great domed arches of stone and pyramid-like rooftops alongside towering spires, sweeping spirals and glowing spheres. A central spire holds Vecatrius’ resting place and the warp in time which he presides over.

Here within the Chronotempris there exists the strange biomechanical entities Vecatrius has created as his servitors. Forged from the energies of futures lost to fate denied, they are his agents.

Keeper, Speaker, Watcher

The Keepers: These deaf humanoids serve as the Time God’s warriors. They are guardians and defenders who protect Vecatrius, Time and the triple cities from harm. They are unable to listen to commands ensuring they will not follow any orders other than their directive to defend. These are found throughout the Three Cities and congregate in the Tower of Time.

The Speakers: These blind humanoids serve as the Time God’s priests. They are prophets and seers who hear the commands of their Lord and in turn speak of his prophecies. They are unable to see their world or their Lord, such that they are not tempted to act upon the prophecies they hear. These are often found in the Chamber of Prophecies.

The Watchers: These mute humanoids serve as the Time God’s scholars. They are historians and observers who see and hear the events of the world. They cannot speak to interject their thoughts into their records, offering only unbiased examinations of the world around them. These are often found in the Hall of Records

Powers

Twilight: Quantum Displacement.
A God of Time amongst other timeless beings, Vecatrius would seem unable to touch the gods and cosmic affairs themselves; however, he may control the flow of time over a given space as he pleases. He can alter the rates at which time progresses, making a minute last centuries, or centuries last a mere minute. Furthermore, he is able to step into the time himself, along with any other entities he takes along with him, and appear whenever he so pleases with or without altering the events within the course of time. While he cannot stop the entire force of time, nor would he, he can continue to send himself forward or back in time to make any adjustments needed should something attempt to manipulate his element.

Dawn: Unspoken Inevitability
As the God of Prophecy and Fate, Vecatrius has seen what will be, albeit other cosmic entities or powerful individuals may interfere with the future as they seek, with this ability, he may bind entities to their immediate future as earlier foreseen. Thus rendering the entity assured to a certain predicted destiny. Another adequately powerful being can interfere with this power and unbind the selected entity, however doing so leaves a void which must be fulfilled by another entity. If no such entity is willing to replace the unbound entity, then a new entity of retribution will be created out of the destroyed Future to serve Vecatrius for all time as one of this Three Servitors. However, every so often, a Servitor does not appear, and thus a Chosen is produced instead from the being who was originally bound to Fate.

Dusk: Forbidden Secrets
There are things which should not be known by the waking world, records which should not exist. By manipulating the events in time, Vecatrius can erase memories and records by having influenced their past. This aspect of Vecatrius is perhaps his darkest, in altering the past to remove knowledge; he acts to preserve the secrecy of his Domains. Thus, even if someone had just seen or heard something moments ago, Vecatrius can reach into the waters of time and remove that moment from existence. The ledger of all these censored events exists within the Hall of Records.

Midnight: Grand Apotheosis
Vecatrius does not draw his power from worship or followers alone, but also from the very essence of time itself. Though worshiping and following him is a strange concept given to the God of Fate and Control as one could argue anyone following Fate contributes to a portion of his power, yet the bulk of it remains through the channeled obedience of his Keepers, Watchers, and Speakers. His other followers include seers and diviners, scholars who would scry the future or study the past, tinkers and inventors who offer their short prayers for a vision of the future, monks of the Order of Hours who take discipleship underneath a Speaker, and chronomancers and technomancers from the far future. Time in itself is a force of the universe, and he is considered a "God of the Universe" rather than a "God of Humanity.” As God of Time, he stands amidst the astral waves of time, existing as one being in past, present and future directing the flow of time and serving as its arbiter in temporal affairs. As such, he has already experienced the future, and ensures the present remains on course towards the future he had already experienced in his relative past. Thrice-lived, Vecatrius is primarily unconcerned with the dealings of humanity unless their fates are intertwined with shaping the future as the Chosen are who receive his blessings of freedom from Fate and Time. The Chosen created from Dawn are severed from Fate and Time, and yet are granted a portion of Vecatrius’ powers of prophecy and but also bind them to his will. They are given the illusion of free will, yet are unwittingly his agents as well as they become slaves to Fate over Time through the disturbing prophecies they receive. Moreover, since they are being who can alter the course of Fate, their attempts to change their visions align with the Grand Design of Vecatrius who seeks to control Fate itself.

Origin/Background
Before time, there was Vecatrius, at time there was Vecatrius and after time, there was Vecatrius. There always was Vecatrius, and never was Vecatrius. His existence was, is and will be, a being which was not born nor created, but merely existed indefinitely. None can explain his origin, as even he cannot remember his first memory, and memories are his domain. Whispers may say he never existed in the first place, or perhaps that he had influenced his own creation, and others speculate he is the last survivor of the reality before ours. Or perhaps he is but a tool for a servant of an even greater power which had grown a sentience.

Godly Relations
Vecatrius tries to maintain a neutral relationship with the rest of the cosmic pantheon. While he is disinterested in their dealings, he does have some relations with the other Gods who represent the more abstract concepts: Secrets, Death, Order, Chaos, and Knowledge. Often times his will forces itself into their domains, at which begins the politics of the divine.

Royal Hounds ~ (Hunters of the Crown)

So intelligence it was, they had summoned him to play a chaperone for their top men? What a petty use of a god. What good was their modern science? This ability to create monsters was done long ago by his predecessor, they still could not replicate the grand alchemy the Fourth did. In fact the partner she had just assigned him would probably envy the ability to create a blank vessel for his consciousness to possess. Yet certainly they had been placed together in their mutual distrust of each other and abilities to murder the other outright. And as they filed out, like sheep and lambs to slaughter, Roshan still coiled about his throne of sand watched them go, their scents disappearing as each left.

"Elixsssserssss have I to brew..." The Basilisk-esque creature was the most interesting of the lot, perhaps he would keep it as a pet or better yet make better versions by a successful study of its origins and compositions. But the specimens were no use to Roshan dead, and His partner was a loose cannon. No better than a wild dog, barking madly and chasing without a cause was his thoughts of this being which stood before him, intent on staring him down as if he could read Roshan's stoic mask for any hints of the Naga's thoughts. A foolish little imp going against Mephistopheles himself, while it was reputed the boy before him has killed many by his hands, Roshan had killed many more by merely his Words. For as impressive as it was to be named Legion, Roshan did after all, command the legions to which, he took little regarded Legion as little more than a living tool for their aims without any patience for the fine arts of subtlety.

"Keep yoursssssself on a sssshort leasssssh..." Roshan spitefully remarked to his partner as the sands began to crumble and once again accompany him back down into his lair.

(short for the short post, not much to interact with.)

Royal Hounds ~ (Hunters of the Crown)

Alyss Dolyss said
Hehe yup, I was wondering what you were thinking~ : I just want to make sure because I just realized something. You know Roshan is staying behind on this round, correct?

Yes I do. He will be busy brewing some lovely little elixirs. He might just keep the Wolf-Basilisk as a pet.

Royal Hounds ~ (Hunters of the Crown)

Still waiting for Legion to post before I make my post.

Well it's not everyday you see a snake-monster slithering on a ship...
Although he can create a mirage of himself being a "Normal" human as long as there is daylight.
But seriously? Snakes on a Train? Snakes on a Plane? Snakes on a Blimp?

Royal Hounds ~ (Hunters of the Crown)

I'll wait for your post then.
Roshan doesn't use airplanes. A ship is fine, although a submarine or train is right out.
Perhaps a nice chariot?