Table of Contents/Useful Links

- Sheets Thread - Post character sheets here. Easier for us to track them down when we want to look at 'em.
- Fantasy Name Generator - A programmable name generator. I have some codes already worked up to input that create cool-sounding names. (See below)
- Realtime Chat For the RP (Channel: #Waaagh) - I set this up so discussions/brainstorming can happen realtime. It uses the same server and stuff as the Guild's own IRC chat. Note: Just because my name is there doesn't mean I'm always there -- just leave a question and I'll address it in person or in PM. This was a problem in previous RP's, so I'm just stating it for the record.

In Character Summary
[indent]Aroesus, the King of the Gods is slain, the victim of a conspiracy among those he ruled and kept in line. The heavens rage and seethe with plots and anger, with ambition and lust as the many strive to overtake the throne he once held.

A prophecy of his demise prompted Aroesus to increasingly erratic and paranoid behavior, such as restricting other deities to his court in the palace of Krona on Lake Miphas in Hevas, the realm of the Gods. Always a ruler prone to authoritarianism and rule through strength, he started to become nervous of his own subjects, and began to spend his days brooding over the most trivial of imagined slights and became more prone to punishing others for crimes they didn't commit by sending them to the islands of Lake Sharzunates, the underworld equivalent of Miphas that is linked to it by the Great Nasan Falls, where beings of power were imprisoned for transgressions against the pantheon.

While there had always been jealousies against Aroesus and those desirous of seeing him deposed, there was now an impetus for a conspiracy. These deities came up with a plan; Aroesus, as his sanity dwindled, become more a creature of lust than he was before. Before, he was known to rape other beings and egregiously cheat on his marriage. But of late, Aroesus became obsessed with the young Lyrikes, the beautiful son of a nymph and a god, whom he sought to seduce. Lyrikes, no fool, used this adoration to his advantage to gain power quickly in the court, though he never quite became the lover of Aroesus. He always teased Aroseus, drove him mad with desire until he was willing to shower more gifts upon Lyrikes in his lust. This, of course, worried the other gods, who resented this newcomer, who was vicious to most of the others and was arrogant to the point of offending many; he did not lack for enemies, and he treated them harshly, largely by convincing Aroesus to condemn them to Sharzunates for various reasons.

When the gods resolved to kill Aroesus, they decided to do it through his greatest vulnerability; the young Lyrikes, whom so many of them loathed but upon whom Aroesus lusted for to the point of insensibility and blindness. These gods destroyed the soul of Lyrikes while keeping his body alive; they poisoned his body and sent him to Aroesus' chambers. When Aroesus took the suddenly receptive Lyrikes in a fit of lust, he felt the poison course through him, weakening him. That is when the other gods struck with blades crafted from the flames of mount Mithsurash, a great volcano whose fires were said to be all-consuming. Both Aroesus and Lyrikes were not merely killed, but their souls utterly destroyed, so that even in death, they could possibly be summoned forth to give account of what happened to them.

With the death of Aroesus, those beings imprisoned on the islands of Lake Sharzunates are freed, as are the gods who were functionally imprisoned within Aroesus' palace on Lake Miphas. There is no one strong enough to take the throne and govern, and therefore the gods are thrown into anarchy, with the many fragmenting and pursing their own agendas.

The gods themselves thunder away at each other. It has gone beyond words and into the realm of war; and as in heaven, so it is below in Lymaeus, with the mortals warring among each other as prophets and their followers murder one another in the streets, while armies march and burn the lands of their enemies with a religious fervor.

The world itself trembles, as old enemies see their opportunity to reclaim their right and take revenge upon their oppressors and tormentors, new enemies see the opportunity to attack the structure where it is weak and cause it to crumble, and meanwhile the Gods themselves wrangle among each other, divided and distracted. [indent]

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History

This is fragments done by myself and other players, but the parts posted here are considered canonical:

Ventu was a primal deity of fire, creation and destruction, but also the absolute ruler of the world. He was content to rule the cosmic forces without doing too much with them, being a simple being of simple tastes. He sired, upon the stars, other beings, including Aroesus and Svanus, who were of a more creative, cultivating bent. They created and Ventu destroyed before the creations could get out of hand and his children become empowered. His final child was Sileon, who was like Ventu in so many respects that Ventu favored this youngest over all. And yet, Sileon stood in awe of the things he didn't entirely understand, and learned from watching his elder siblings as they moved through the world and created things, including fickle humanity and spawned their own progeny.

The time came again when Ventu was inclined to destroy the works of his children and the other things that came to being in the world, and that was when Aroesus and Svanus (and others) rebelled against them. And it was Sileon, left free, trusted, who Ventu thought understood the best, who freed them from their imprisonment in Sharzunates, who decided that he could not bear to see the works of his siblings, whom he loved, destroyed.

Aroesus and his host organized, a thing unknown to Ventu, who ruled in singular absolutism, and revolted against the king of the gods. After the death of Ventu, there were other mighty beings that tried to take Ventu's place in turn and Aroesus' Pantheon fought them under his leadership. The other siblings found roles in the court of Krona that befit their talents; but Sileon inherited the raw strength and primal of his sire, and became a force of destruction akin to his father, though he voluntarily put himself into slumber in a mountain so that the creation might thrive, electing to hold himself aloof until needed. From time to time, Aroesus would call upon Sileon to assist in maintaining the order of Krona, to bring other deities and beings into the order, and for this, he would be awakened and unleashed upon enemies. Even if they were powerful, they were brought low by the combined cooperative might of the sons of Ventu. (HeySeuss)

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First there was Ventu and his creations. But Lymaeus (Like Gaia in Greek myths) lived in those days too, before she had become heartbroken with grief and pain. Before she had retreated into herself and spoke no longer. When she saw the children of Ventu she longed for children of her own and her longing birthed Titalarus. But he was so monstrous that even Lymaeus didn't know what to make of him. She tried again and her own children rose, elemental and powerful from within her own form. First came Aldaril First Born of Stone, then came Mirra Second Born of Water, then Nyxis Third Born of Storms, then Lloris Fourth Born of Fire, then Glissa Fifth Born of Forests, and last came Nihris Last Born of the Depths. Nihris became the goddess of death among her other traits and she created the twin Gates of Nihris to bar the way to Hevas and Malebazus so that the dead could not leave and the living could not enter before their time.

For many long years the children of Lymaeus claimed that their mother was theirs and ruled over Lymaeus and the lesser gods who also lived upon her. But Ventu tired of creation and he turned to destroy it. The children of Lymaeus joined their strength with Aerosus and his brothers to fight against Ventu and in the end they won. But when victory was won and the children of Lymaeus tried to return to their domains on Lymaeus Aerosus ordered them to submit to him and surrender their birthrites. They refused and he declared he would take it from them. And they fought.

Aldaril raised mountains and called on the stones for strength but he fell, Mirra fought with balance and illusions but they were pierced, Nyxis raged across Lymaeus but the sky rejected him and he fell, Lloris’ fire was quenched, Glissa was uprooted and cut down. Nihris called to her children and they flocked to her in a cloud that blotted out the sun. But they died in their thousands and when she tried to hide among them Aroesus broke open their caves and burned them.

Nihris sued for peace, begging that her children be spared. She offered to serve the new god king and was spared but the price was harsh. No longer would Nihris Last Born of Lymaeus be the goddess of death and no longer would the Derevi breed as they once had. When Aroesus demanded that no more Derevi be born Nihris obeyed but she denied her children oblivion, prolonging their lives so that they would not pass from the world. She survived and has continued in the role she has left in the world for her children still live and that is the most important thing.

Now Aroesus is dead and Nihris has lifted the restriction on the Derevi breeding, commanding her children to breed once more. Rumors say she gathers the most ancient of her children to take back Malebazus and free her brothers and sisters from lake Sharzunates. (The Fair Lady)

Family Tree of the Deities