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Description:

In the earliest days, even among the tribes of men who did not know his name, few Children of Aton were invoked more than the Great Beast, Nod. When mankind, newborn and helpless, faced the immensity of the unknown, his was their courage. When mankind, soft and without weapons, were set upon by the predators of the land and air and sea, his was their strength. And when mankind, arrayed in vast armies, fell upon each other with the glory of war burning in their wild and chaotic hearts, his was their joy. If he is not the father of conflict than he is its most prolific author, finding no greater purpose or pleasure than the lustful heat of battle.

In all his aspects Nod appears as a gigantic white-furred humanoid lion, densely muscled, standing three meters tall and weighing more than four-hundred kilograms. His right eye is a brilliant, piercing blue, while his left is naught but a mass of scar tissue.

Despite his savage mien and nature, Nod is no berserker driven by a mindless, consuming rage. In truth, his spirit is more akin to a limitless ocean than a torrential rain. He is freedom and purity personified, beholden to no discipline, no creed, and no master but his own desire. To his bright eye there exist no shades of grey. He is self-assured. He is complete. He brooks no agenda, no secrets. He possesses nothing inside him that could be called doubt.

Given this mindset, Nod disdains magic and detests all manner of machinations. He views trickery and politics as the tools of vermin, fit only for cowards too weak to wage war, while those who face fate with courage will always find his favor. His mercy, on the other hand, is reserved for no one.

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Powers:

Nod is a warrior true and clear, a cyclone bound in flesh. Despite his sheer mass he moves as though he were weightless, every muscle a wellspring of energy and vitality. He is among the strongest and most imposing of Aton's Children, a juggernaut whose claws can punch through steel plate as easily as if it were a butterfly's wing, whose hide can withstand and recover from untold punishment. Though his own natural lethality and fighting prowess is already virtually unmatched, Nod also wields Magog, a massive double-headed axe that would require a team of draft horses to move, a single swing of which could cleave giants in half.

Owing more to his clarity of vision and razor sharp intuition than any supernatural gift, the gaze of Nod's right eye can unravel nigh any ruse, uncover nigh any deception. While the illusions and weavings of his more magically inclined brethren can be complicated enough to beguile him for a time, no sorcery, no falsehood or disguise can forever withstand his keen scrutiny.

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Original tribe:

The Golgoth were among the earliest tribes of men, the first to settle in the dense jungles of present-day Xochimilia. They were also the first to know Nod, to turn to him for guidance. Under the aegis of the Great Beast the Golgoth flourished into the most renowned warriors in the South, fighters cloaked in the trappings and totems of wild animals, a sweeping horde whispered about in the same hushed and fearful tones as the Death Monks of the far northern mountains. The Golgoth were a people dedicated to the virtue of combat: every man, woman, and child a soldier for whom death at the hands of a worthy foe was the greatest possible fate.

This state of total war left them no architects or builders, no farmers or scholars. Instead, the Golgoth were regularly paid a tribute by the other tribes of the southlands, bribes of crops and livestock, slaves and raw materials, that their people may be spared and their cities left unrazed. But despite the viciousness of the Golgoth, they were not unduly cruel. They did not torture nor rape, and left unmolested the villages and settlements that had no warriors to defend them. They were not thugs or murderers or bandits - much like their patron the Golgoth lived solely to kill and die on the battlefield. In this manner they were as simple and uncomplicated as the Great Beast himself, a truly free people.

In the years following their warlord's captivity in the Pit, the Golgoth found themselves unable to last long against all their enemies. Grossly outnumbered and besieged by their rivals from all sides, but unwilling to compromise their ways of war, most of the Golgoth died as they had lived. Of the survivors, many lost their will to fight without the Unfettered's joy to stoke their spirits, and were assimilated by the Etruscans. The rest retreated back into the impenetrable canopy of the southern jungles, where their descendants still dwell today in disparate clans, patiently awaiting the return of the Relentless Storm to once more cover the world.

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Faction:

From the start, the Unfettered refused to take sides, knowing that to ally with any against another would only compromise his own pristine ethos to serve no one and make war where he finds it. Though there were many Children who similarly stood on their own but eventually found themselves forced to join the ranks of either the Angels or Demons, Nod was powerful enough and feared enough among both armies to remain independent throughout the entirety of the war, gleefully taking on and crushing whatever adversary sought to challenge him. In the end it took a unified effort from several of the strongest Angels - among them O-Dan, who was the Spirit of the Mountain and the only one among the Children whom Nod regarded as his equal - to defeat the Great Beast and cast him into the Pit.

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