#((in like. less esoteric terms: adarus not exactly like. a very well venerated god. but he's still important

[lantern-lost]

💭 + the arts? (Music, visual arts, dance, whichever.)

send 💭 + a topic to receive a headcanon about said topic. Gods are often glorified through the works of their followers; they are made icons, through art, poetry and music. It is a shame, then, that Adaru does not engage in the arts as thoroughly as his heralds.

Over the millennia, there have been examples of his heralds work; especially those of Sacrifice and Legend. Fear, as a character, has endured through songs of fitful terror and gruesome murals; he has been the villain of countless folktales. But Adaru himself, as an artist, is... more understated. He sees no need in telling his own story, so long as his reputation arrives before him. And it usually does.

... Even so, it is invested in preserving those stories as much as he can. You'd be surprised at just how well a low, growling voice like that can sing. At how it conducts itself with such awful grace. At the fact a little part of him, even now, holds the stories of his past so close to his chest, and is eager to retell them.

Blood and teeth and terror can only convey so much for so long. People remember stories. And Fear has been the crux of many of them.