#Panashua

[yoel-o-fellow]

Panashua is a mythological monster originating from Northern Sienite cultures.  His legends were often retold to deter children from venturing too deep into swampland.  He is a creature that inhabits the swamps, whose endless hair is the weeds that sprinkle the riverbeds and whose skin is the rotting flesh of those who drowned in swamp’ waters.  Some legends describe him as a great necromancer, forging an army of drowned corpses.  Others believe that by looking into the empty sockets of where his eyes once where, the very act brings about death to the viewer or bad luck.  

Sverenne’s historians are quite certain that Panashua is a more contemporary appropriation of the Dualdhite god, Levehethen, and was created by the Sienites in rejection of Dualdhism and Southern cultures.  Panashua’s never ending hair, blindness and lanky appearance can be all be likened to Levehethen’s coinciding traits.  They both inhabit swamps and in some retellings they are both said to be omens of bad luck or death. 

[yoel-o-fellow]

Okay okay I wanna know about the Pale Eye. Are they almighty and powerful or someone’s pawn in the bigger part of things? Are they seen as a powerful deity or a fiend?

They’re blind and can see so much, can they see a future where I take them on a date?? (Only half joking)

Ooo, thanks for the question, Mooki! I really appreciate it ;-;

Levehethen (a.k.a. The Pale Eye) is a new god, which means he transcended to godhood as a mortal, as opposed to the old gods who were birthed as immortals by Habenumbra, the mother of all gods.

The term "god" is debatable in his case, because some (particularly atheists like Zephry) would argue that he is essentially just an overpowered mage, and does not have a direct influence on the nature of the universe. Levehethen himself would agree, and he thought it a little disconcerting that the people labeled him in this manner. But those who are dedicated to the faith insist that Levehethen and the Triad of Time are partial reincarnations of Habenumbra, the Supreme God of space and time, and that they gained temporal omniscience and immortality in order to carry out her will. Levehethen is even said to have replaced his blood with the tears of Habenumbra, so that alone gives him a divine quality. But as far as he knew, he enacted his own will and manipulated the web of time based on how he personally wanted the future to look. He never would have admitted that though.

His status of worship really depends on who you ask. The Ottoneshans revere him but in temple his idols are partially obscured to reflect that he was responsible for the crumbling of the Alluneshan civilization (their ancestors). The Sienese reject him like they do the rest of the new gods, and so they transformed his legend into a monstrous cryptid named Panashua. The Levetheites in the North Eastern hemisphere live by all his sagacious teachings, and worship him as their one central focus.

And YeS, he can see a future where you take him on a date. Just don't expect to surprise him in any way, because he has already prognosticated the entire thing.