#under her spell ;; rhok'zan hcs/about

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@nemxricultrix sent: Anything odd to know about offspring with Rhok'zan or is it just left to interpreting?

Her offspring, unless being between two eldritch entities, are often the typical species and race of the other party. They're mostly up to the genetic lottery, but her traits are often only used to diversify the pool and keep it from being an exact clone of the other parent.

They may get purple hair, eyes, etc. Maybe stronger/softer features, maybe even more inclined to druidic supernatural activities, the occult, what have you. They may even hit the genetic jackpot and be incredibly skilled in those regards, but that's a rarity and not the norm. Just expect them to look good, at the very least, whatever good is in your definition.

Unless it's another deific figure or an eldritch entity like herself? Expect what you'd expect from any mating between two of the same species, with perhaps more or less bizarre traits if what she brings to the table isn't compatible with the norms.

Because, more oft than not, she's going to intentionally do that when it comes to another's offspring, because she wouldn't want them to be outcast for not fitting in.

One of the more bizarre traits of someone who's meant for this and has a very notable amount of control over what her offspring will come out like. She chooses for them to be the norm, above-average- the pinnacle of their species at her leisure. She could even choose to have a dragon with a human mate if she really wanted.

But, no, you're more likely to get what you expect from your species. She doesn't like to rock the boat in this modern age. Unless you're in a real and proper relationship with her, which isn't something she's looking for at present, then you're going to get your species with perhaps a few traits of her own that wouldn't scare anyone.

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I’m lazy so have discord convos as a hc/lore post (and also outing how fucking gay I can be)

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@anonymous sent: What kinda boons do we get for having kids while worshipping her? Fertility stuff I'm sure. Something like higher stamina in bed or even in general? Guaranteed fertility on both ends? A more appealing form?! A BIGGER PEEN?! ...Asking for a friend.

Standard... boon-y things, really. The obvious fertility stuff, yes. Increased stamina, durability, what have you. Maybe magic, maybe a better form overall. Naturally getting bigger assets or something more bizarre if you're a proper Freak (affectionate) is in the cards. She isn't going to judge you, there's no way you're a bigger freak than she is.

You could also get a more bountiful harvest for your crops, your livestock could last longer and become more giving as well, you could wish for your tools to never wear and tear- heck you could wish for magical farming tools altogether or even eldritch livestock as well- and your offspring could be more inclined to get "luckier" opportunities. Her boons are plentiful and far-reaching, even if some of them may come with some non-euclidean side-effects (you are dealing with an Eldritch Goddess rather than your standard affair, after all).

While her boons are certainly more geared towards what one may expect, she still has a good amount of sway over reality, and so nothing is really out of the cards, either. Just keep in mind that she is a dubiously morally good figure so you wouldn't want to ask for something that could be against her code.

Besides that? The sky's the limit and the more likely you are to get better boons the more offspring you have while worshiping her. It could be as vague as more fortune to as specific as wanting a furry schlong, frankly--

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@anonymous sent: So whats the effects of sleeping with miss "sex tree" if one may ask for totally not potential worship purposes

Well, besides the likely indisputable best sex of your life (if you survive it, always a possibility).

You'll never have kissed her on the lips. That's something she never allows under any circumstances with mortals. It would curse one with immortality (but not invulnerability)

Someone's undoubtedly pregnant. There's the rare chance she was convinced to either not use your proper 'entrance' or vice versa, but otherwise? Someone's pregnant. Infertile? Doesn't matter. Snip-snipped? Doesn't matter. Someone's pregnant. Many people pray to her for this exact purpose, in fact, and if they actually get her to listen then it works flawlessly.

Being a follower comes with boons expressly linked to the number of offspring one has. If you have none? She can't help you whatsoever. She can't give you a singular boon unless you have kids, and the more kids the better boons she'd be able to give.

Her cult is (supposed) to be entirely about the positives of a large family and spreading her 'offspring' out to cover the world. She wants, effectively, all living things to be related to her in some manner or another.

Her following usually frowns on unnecessary killing, though there's nothing in the rules expressly forbidding it and you won't be punished for it. Just, well, she may not like you that much (but again she wouldn't harm you, she's strictly against hurting her own flock).

So generally, if you just had sex? Someone's walking out pregnant. If you're an actual follower? A boon of some varying degree based off child count.

Also bad parents generally lose said boons because, you know, family is one of the core concepts that made Rhok'zan, so it's held in strong regard for her.

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Rhok'zan, naturally, cannot leave her woods. Because they are an extension of herself. She could send her followers or children out, true, but her Avatar could not step outside the perimeter of the outer glades; though with the roots extending and ergo the forest itself bit by bit?

Well, she'll get farther out eventually.

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Also, just since I want to clear the air (and since they were made before the game came out): Lila @/playnights and I's Nyan Nyan and Rhok'zan are siblings rather than Rhok'zan being another niece of the cat.

Really, the non-euclidean hell that it probably is isn't something I'm particularly thinking of, so both could very well be true at once, but for simplicity's sake we'll just smooth that over to siblings.

Of course, if there ever somehow is another Nyan Nyan, I'm more than willing to adhere more to canon for obvious reasons of the source material coming out now.

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Rhok'zan is incredibly drowsy in the fall and near hibernating in the winter if she's in the material plane.

The other eldritch beings practically use her as a calendar for the mortal seasons. It's not that bad at the start, but the closer it comes to winter the worse she'll be. You'd be lucky to get her from one end of a home to another without dozing off when winter's about to come.

And, conversely, she's oddly lost all sex drive for the time near the tail-end of winter coming into spring. An embarrassing time for her, as one so tied to fertility, family and the like. Someone so intertwined with sex suddenly not even feeling up to the most casual thing is a touch humiliating.

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Trying to burn down the forest is an option, but trying to do it from the top down is a recipe for disaster. It would more than likely go out long before actually reaching her hearts and you'd just earn the ire of a being that's gone from hospitable to your worst enemy. Even then, mortal flames without any additions would have an immense amount of trouble finding purchase.

You'd have better luck going down there and fistfighing the hearts, frankly.

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Being a fertility goddess, she has control over just about every aspect of the process. Rhok'zan could even speed up or slow down the gestation period if she so wished. Her core traits are family, fertility, and nature. So she has INTENSE power over everything that are in those domains.

Being a shockingly morally good person, Rhok'zan has very rarely used these powers for "bad" reasons, though. There are some rare occasions where someone has broken her rules in the past and has been punished for it, as she is one of the Eldritch Deities most worshiped (if not just The Most Worshiped); as this means she's had many a follower and unfortunately bad apples can appear in even the most well-looked after crop.

Though unless you're in her good tidings (something intensely sought after by many for countless years by countless species) then your offspring will be rather run-of-the-mill for your species. The more boons you have or the more you have her attention? The more likely your offspring will develop positive traits from her or just in general.

Those that she personally views as close to her have entire free reign with their offspring and can make any and all requests they want. Some of her most revered worshipers in the old days sometimes even burnt entire lists of desires for their young and saw all requests met without exception.

Of course, with modern times making her a thing of more myth than reality, those times have passed. There's only really currently one person that is allowed to make any and all requests for their offspring together. She is, much to Rhok'zan's chagrin, asexual anyways.

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@biteyourcrush​ asked: 💭 The Other Eldritch Gods + Zoe!

“Oh wow, I don’t actually know her! That’s really exciting, honestly! An Outer Goddess that isn’t part of the family... I don’t think that’s really happened before, honestly! I hope I get to meet her!! It’s kinda funny that transitioning is apparently just an eldritch horror thing, huh?” She can’t help but giggle at that, realizing that it’s apparently some cosmic constant that, yes, elder gods shall trans their gender. 

“...I fail to see what of note there is to say. She wishes to be like any other humdrum person, so why would I waste my time explaining to you some random background character? Devoting undue time to explaining an individual that is not of interest is poor writing.”

“...poor dear. She’s been alone so long. It makes my heart ache to know she had to figure all of this out on her own. That the seasons changed, with none to hold her hand and guide her through it.” A stirring in the woods. Some tree in the distance collapsing. It’s almost tranquil, for how violent such a thing is often portrayed as being. Just something that happens. A brief disturbance before things settle again.“I only hope that will change in the near future, for it would only make me feel worse if she was just left out in the cold when there’s somewhere waiting for her nearby...”

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@dyavol​ asked: 💭 + Estir (@ Rhok'zan)

It shouldn’t be this quiet, should it? There should be some stirring in the trees. The grass. Some noise from an insect or animal somewhere. Yet, no, it’s gone decidedly quiet as Rhok’zan sat there. Just as she always did, just.. different, somehow. Like the hearth of a home had been snuffed out by a powerful winter breeze and the chill of a blizzard-ridden night was just resting in your home instead.

“Ah, yes, my dearest little Estir.” She spoke it freely, for no light from the heavens could descend here. No, the canopy above was too thick for it to reach here. No, the only light here was decidedly just pleasantness on the Black Goat’s part, which seemed to be.. waning. Shadows becoming more prominent. Darkness seeping back in. 

“I have nothing but love for my family. I wish to make that expressly clear. It is one of my fundamentals that shall never change, no matter what. However, I cannot say I am fond of some of their... tactics. It’s like a predator, who no longer kills for the necessity but for sport. Hunger that shall never be abated, so it keeps prowling for more. An invasive species that is hurting the natural flow of things, because it does not know any better.” 

A low hum, four pinpricks of purple as her eyes start becoming more noticeably bright in the encroaching darkness of the woods.

“She needs to abate her habits, truthfully, before she ends up getting herself hurt. Yet, a humbling show to curb her enthusiasm might be precisely what they need for it. So we shall merely wait, to see what comes from it. If their poorly constructed web of Suitors shall support her forever, or if she’ll be sent into freefall without a net to catch her.” 

Just like that, things were normal again. A hoot of some owl in the distance. Insects buzzing. Flickering wisps of lights from fireflies flitting about. Life breathed back into the lovely grove.

“Things shall play out, conclude, and then they shall continue, as they always do. Things do not merely get tied up nice and neat in a bow at the final Act, like a play on a stage.”

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@dyavol​ asked: 💭 + Mortals and mortality (@ Rhok'zan)

“Hm. I fail to see what you wish for me to shed light upon. Mortals are mortals, fleeting lights in the sky. Beautiful, to be cherished for what they are, and then they will go out. It is a necessity, as unfortunate as it may be, and yet that is how things are. It is the way things are meant to go. Mortals die when it is their time. I do not judge those that wish to circumvent that by means, for inevitably they will be shown the folly of their way, or perhaps something new will come from it.” 

A pause, nails dancing along her dress’s skirt while she considered. Surely, she must have something to add to this. It was in her domain, in a sense, after all.

“For entities such as us, we.. deal with it differently. Mortals are gone for us sooner than a blink of an eye. Humans, especially, vanish so hurriedly. I understand why that may make it hard to want those connections, yet... Connections are a beautiful thing. All things that deem themselves alive must make them, in some manner, in order to truly.. be. I believe the saying is ‘It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all’. For what beautiful things will come from that brief moment of light. 

...Even if, inevitably, that light will one day stop shining after the star it came from is snuffed out.” 

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@dyavol​ asked: 💭 + The Natural Order (@ Rhok'zan)

A hum, consideration, as she thought it over. Sitting on what can only be called two trees that decided ‘yes, we should create a place to rest between us’, as they twisted around, intermingled into a smooth flat surface, then departed like it had never happened back to a more standard climb upwards. Eyes do not even open initially, before the lower pair peek open just so, appearing ready at last to speak.

“Natural, yes, I suppose that is the word to be more thoroughly pinned into, is it not? For what is natural to one is woefully alien to another. Many sapient creatures have deemed their own definitions of this to be correct and, ah, are rather firm that it’s a them vs. us debacle. Some would even be insistent that is not the case and, yet, it is merely hiding behind a different name. To respect and be respected. Ebb and flow. Live and die. Heal and hurt. When things become the fundamental, suddenly they must be contested. Must be shown that, why yes, we are superior to such trifling things. It’s... vexing. 

The natural order exists for a reason, of course, and it’s something to be respected. Yet, I cannot blame any who choose to not do so. It’s a frightening thing, when you view it less as your ever-present friend and instead the terrifying looming presence you cannot escape. True, things will come and go. Many will even forget that it was even there. Yet their passing will spark new life. No one thing ends that does not spark many beginnings from it.” 

A pause, hands that were resting on her lap moving to pat the tree that she was resting on. 

“This did not sprout from nothing, after all. Each and every step taken is one something has taken their last on. Yet, we do not drown in the mourning of them. We partake in the nourishing life that was made from their end. We continue on, knowing that their loss will allow something else to carry on. It’s a wonderful thing. I merely wish it was seen for what it was by more people.”

The Outer Goddess, something made long before and many would argue was the farthest thing from ‘Natural’ you could get, smiled. Serene. 

“But of course, those that do not will one day be forced to learn, unfortunately for them. Even if I do understand and can sympathize... Order will return, once the chaos subsides. It always does; no matter how long one pushes it back for.”

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Also ignore me.