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mantleoflight · 1 year ago

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//OK! SO! I'm doing a lot better and am coming off Hiatus to Semi-hiatus and will be putting asks and threads in the queue. I'm in a much better head space and have been absolutely buzzing on ideas inspired by this season's content.

//Namely extensions of Echo's Hive!AU in which she tries to talk terms with Savathun and ends up as one of her Oubliette experiments instead.

1. Weapon of Sorrow

//The first is "Weapon of Sorrow" au in which Echo is discovered/revealed after being defeated by a trio of guardians and is brought back for examination. It runs on the idea that Hive Magic is meant for infecting and transforming living biological beings, not inorganic life forms like Exos and Ghosts. Yet it still affects inorganic materials, as seen in the Weapons of Sorrow. //This also runs on my HC that all Exos have Alkahest running in their bodies, maintaining their minds and humanity while also adding a biological component to their beings, albeit minimally. //Thus, when Echo is retrieved and her chitin (courtesy of @bandit-prince's hive OC, Taûryx) is removed, her main body is revealed to have been heavily modified by the terraforming ability of the hivified Alkahest (modified/refined radiolaria, IE the exo's blood/only biological component). Where once was the sleek, human-like model of Clovis Bray's exo design, now lay something looking like it was made of knives and bone, much like the Necrochasm and Osteo Striga. //Naturally, Echo's ghost, Whisper, beseeches the Vanguard for help in bringing Echo back as a guardian and cleansing her of the Hive magic Savathun and Taûryx used on her. With some help, they are eventually successful in cleansing and restoring Echo, yet she still feels some effects of being an exo acolyte. This AU actually extends to another AU, a "Bad Timeline" au that combines "Weapon of Sorrow" and "Ties of Binding" which will be detailed in a section below.

2. Bad Timeline AU

//In this second au, "Bad Timeline" mixes the WoS and TtB verses with one of the Bad Timelines where the Exo Stranger came from. In it, Echo becomes her "Weapon of Sorrow" self by design, submitting herself to Hive!Eris Morn as a way to get close to her and Savathun. She does this in order to find the Hive God ritual and use it herself. In this, she would try to become a rival to Eris in the pantheon of hive gods and give the remaining guardians not completely lost to the darkness, a chance at retaking their world with or without the Traveler. //This would be tricky though, since she'd know that she'd need a Worm in the pantheon to do this. So she gets the only one she could find on hand: the one inside the YW's gun. Using different magics, including the Essence Transfer magic utilized in the Scarlet Keep, Echo speak with Xol, contending with him that he was the weakest of his pantheon because he didn't live up to his name. Because up to that point, he hadn't been the Will of thousands, only the will of one. But if he made a deal with her, she would make him the will of thousands, and his tithe would be greater than had ever been for him. //So through this, she becomes Ehkos Ahnan, Hive diety of Ties and Binding, taking strength from bonds between her brood (the guardians who accept her offer). Her first act of binding was binding Xol to his physical form, remaking him and gaining strength from the bonds of love, hate, rivalry, etc. made with and extended to her by other sentient beings. To other's surprise though, she had not relinquished the Light, only hidden it until the time to reveal it came. //Now the Deep and Sky battle within her as she runs against the clock, seeking to become the one Blade willing to carve its place in the universe and allow to shelter beneath her in exchange for obedience to her terms and tithes of Light and violence in defense of their new kingdom.

//We are the ever-grasping hands. Those who accept us are bound to us by our Mercy. We are the ever-shaping truth! Those who reject us are cut down by our blades and bonds! For Mercy can only be given by those Strong enough to carve it from the hands of their enemies! And those whom you gain and bring to me by Mercy are yours by right of Submission. Through this bond, they must tithe and prove themselves worthy of your efforts, your protection, and their place in the world. As well, you must prove yourself worthy to keep them! Carve their place into the chasm that is your domain, claim, and grow! Prove yourselves worthy to be called mine! Aiat!"

3. Ties that Bind

//The second AU is set after her Hive verse in which she isn't made into a Weapon of Sorrow but is still discovered and recovered from being an Acolyte. After providing all the information she has and being aided by Eris in her recovery (specifically during and after Season of the Haunted), Echo goes on as usual during the rest of the year. //However, in hearing the call to aid to help Eris with Immaru, Echo defies strong recommendations of her leaving the situation alone and goes to aid Eris. Ikora has strong reservations about letting Echo continue to aid Eris, but Echo insists that with her experience the previous year in the Hive, she would be the best suited to help Eris in her current endeavors. Ikora's fears prove founded as Echo begins to slip into her old Acolyte patterns as she fights and tithes to Eris. //However, despite their efforts and how fruitful they've been, Echo's discovery of Ahsa's involvement puts a huge damper on her efforts. She knows the corrosive power of hive magic and fears they can't last much longer without hurting, or worse, killing Eris and Ahsa. Thus she begins to prepare a secondary plan, which in reality is a terrible idea but what else can she do when good ideas don’t show themselves? //So she contacts an "old friend", and whether by bonding with him as a Darkness Risen ( @aurea-fide) or raising his essence from the weapon of his own destruction, she calls on the weakest of worms with an assertion that he was weak because he hasn't lived up to his name, and a promise that if he abides this new contract with her, he will become that which he claimed to be: the will of thousands instead of the will of one. //In this line of action, she intends to pick up where Eris left off and join the hive pantheon -- not as villain or antagonist to humanity, but as a paracausal advocate and contender against greater powers. //"If the Traveler is the Gardener then I am its guard, for I know by right, all who are born in this universe have a place in it. If this is a garden, then I will tend it and carve a place for all things in this universe.”

Addendum to Ties that Bind is that it would be a precautionary plan. One that is likely discovered and not acted upon since Eris seems to have things well in hand. Seasonally, this is Eris’s journey and our goth girl deserves some good things. UuU

Echo: “and this is why Eris is doing this. Because she won’t fall to the temptation of the Deep like I would. She’s the Stronger Truth, a true light in the blanketing dark. A friend, a protector, a guardian. aiat.”

#thoughts #ooc #ooc || out of light #season of the witch spoilers #spoilers #sotw #destiny 2 #destiny spoilers #au #echo's au #hive aus #Weapon of Sorrow || alt!hive AU #Binding Ties || Hive god!au #Bad Timeline || Bad end au #// hhh apologies if this sounds precocious #//sometimes you just gotta marry sue your character in an interesting way when they spin at Mach speed In your head #rp

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slayanyhivegodslately · 4 years ago

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So they really need to fix that weird ass Witherhoard glitch where the blight from the gun will just, hang in view after you stow it sometimes.

#destiny 2 #xol will of thousands #season of arrival #my posts #screenshots

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sundayswiththeilluminati · 5 years ago

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Whisper of the Worm

A Guardian’s power makes a rich feeding ground. Do not be revolted. There are parasites that may benefit the host… teeth sharper than your own.

Type: Sniper Rifle

Slot: Kinetic | Energy | Heavy

Element: Arc | Solar | Void

Perk: White Nail - Higher base precision damage. Rapidly landing three precision hits will refill the magazine.

Masterworked Trait: Whispered Breathing - Aiming this weapon without firing for a brief moment grants bonus range and precision damage while it remains zoomed.

Ornaments: Bound Hammer, Between Breaths, Roar of the Wyrm

Origin & Description: Whisper of the Worm is that rare Exotic important in all three ways an Exotic can be: important to lore, important to gameplay, and important to the history of the community. Lorewise, there’s no nice way to say it: Whisper of the Worm is the distilled being of a Hive Worm God who decided to become a weapon for us to use so it could feast on the violence we create. We’re okay with this because…it makes a super strong weapon. Really that’s a reason to be more wary of the arrangement, but Guardians never met a problem they didn’t want to shoot nor a gun they didn’t want to improve, and thus the Worm stays well-fed.

Whisper of the Worm is the essence of/was created by the Worm God Xol, Will of Thousands, after its death at our hands on Mars in the Warmind DLC. Post-death Xol retired to Io, where the Taken worshipped it and asked for direction, but…you know what, I’m just going to paste Whisper’s lore tab:

Xol, the Will of Thousands, perished but was not destroyed. Death is a road, death is metamorphosis, the unsacred union between destroyer and destroyed. The might which defeats a god is also the ambrosia that god craves, the meat-sweet logic of Existence-Asserted-By-Violence, the binomial decision between two ways of being which deny each other. In dying, Xol fed richly. Now came Xol unto the Taken upon Io, who fed Xol with plunder and tried to make of it an idol and a commanding will. Yet Xol was bound joyously to the very logic that sustained it in its death. It wanted the sword proof, the single proof. It wanted to become a rule which divided the mighty living from the mighty dead. So it whispered the Anthem Anatheme, the temptation to dominate the objective universe with the subjective will. It said, I shall be an engine to make your desire hegemon over your conditions. It said, WIELD ME, AND USE ME TO TEST YOUR FOE. This was its worship. Aiat.

So yeah. I’m sure this will be fine.

Problem is, Xol wasn’t exaggerating about “teeth sharper than your own." Whisper has a maxed impact stat (base damage relative to other weapons of the same archetype) plus an extra precision damage bonus from its intrinsic White Nail* perk. For a long time I didn't realize the symbol for its perk is its dragon-mouth barrel - I thought it was just a Whisper round shattering its target, bceause that's pretty much what happens to whatever you point it at. Xol turns out to pose far more of a threat as a sniper rifle than as an actual giant Worm God, which begs a lot of questions such as, "Is Whisper a really good gun or was Xol a really shitty Worm God?" But I guess the other great part about turning into a gun is you don't have to talk much anymore.

* So why is Whisper’s perk called White Nail? In Destiny 1, the Hive Prince Crota, Eater of Hope, wielded a rifle called Black Hammer. Guardians could get Black Hammer as a random drop from the Crota’s End raid, and it came with the original White Nail perk - Black Hammer, White Nail, you get the idea. In Year 2 of D1, dismantling a Black Hammer had a chance to give you some odd objects that led to a complicated puzzle-quest ending with Black Spindle, an exotic retooling of Black Hammer made by Crota’s twin sisters, which also had the White Nail perk. Whisper of the Worm, though it has a different origin, is mechanically a D2 version of Black Spindle and hence inherited the name “White Nail” even though it no longer makes any sense.

The text for White Nail doesn't end at "base precision damage," and that leads us to the Year of the Whisper aka July 2018 - June 2019. Consider White Nail’s second sentence: landing three precision hits refills the magazine. Not “from reserves.” Just refills it. For free. With no additional consequences or downsides. In boss fights & raid encounters, where player damage is often constrained by the availability of power ammo, Whisper’s ability to regenerate ammo forever is nothing short of godlike - especially since raid bosses with damage phases usually expose a large, stationary target during that time, making it far easier to land multiple rapid precision hits. And since White Nail regenerates directly to the magazine instead of to the player’s reserves you don’t even have to stop firing to reload all that sweet sweet free ammo. Pretty much every raid encounter during the year of gun-Xol's ascendance came accompanied by the thin click-drop of Whisper firing in six-part harmony. It wasn't universal - a handful of raid encounters needed different tactics, and there were always players like me who for whatever reason couldn't hit three Whisper shots to save their lives - but its dominance strangled both other Exotics and raid encounter design. After experimenting with other raid mechanics and debuffs to circumvent Whisper's obscene DPS, Bungie finally gave up and nerfed White Nail in June 2019. Whisper still deals backbreaking damage, but now it only ("only") auto-refills from ammo reserves instead of regenerating it out of thin air.

Whisper is as famous for the method of its acquisition as for its performance. Take a trip with me down memory lane back to July 2018. It's still Year 1 of Destiny 2 and things are not going well in the solar system. Much of the player base still misses Destiny 1 and any change to D2 is met with unflattering comparisons and demands of "When are you going to add [X]??" A lack of endgame content on launch plus a disappointing first expansion has soured a lot of people on the game entirely. They miss the experience of Destiny 1 and players are starting to feel like that magic is gone for good.

It's the weekend of July 20th, 2018. Io is the flashpoint and players dutifully gather on the little sulfur-coated moon to shoot their way through adventures and public events. Then someone takes a wrong turn in the Lost Oasis public patrol zone, and...

"Ran into this weird boss on Io today named Urzok?? It was a Taken Knight. Wasn't Urzok in Destiny 1? Never seen this guy spawn before so just wondering if I missed something."

"Landed in Lost Oasis to do a PE and there was a weird portal thing on the cliff so I went over to it and it said 'Enter the Anomaly' so I pressed interact and it took me to the Lost Sector (Grove of Ulan-Tan) but it was empty. I thought it was a weird bug but there was a timer counting down 20 minutes and my objectives said 'The Whisper.' After 20 minutes it warped me back outside and the portal was gone."

"Anyone know why Drevis from House of Wolves is suddenly spawning in Lost Oasis? I think it only happens with the Taken Blight public event."

Suddenly, silently, Lost Oasis had begun to spawn hidden extra bosses - one of three possible bosses hidden somewhere in the public patron zone who, when defeated, caused a weird Taken portal to open on a cliffside. Standing in front of the portal gave you a prompt to "Enter the Anomaly." Take that prompt and you found yourself in a deserted, shadowy version of the nearby Lost Sector, the Grove of Ulan-Tan. Your objective banner changed to "The Whisper" and a timer began counting down 20 minutes until "Anomaly Collapse." It's impossible to figure out who exactly made first contact with The Whisper, since while the bosses are out of sight they're still in places any random player might stumble across them by accident. But people began to post on forums and word spread like wildfire through the community: come to Io. Something's up. Something's here.

After a few hours of attempts - and total silence from Bungie - players had the basics figured out: whenever the Taken Blight public event fired, a giant Taken version of one of three D1 bosses - Drevis, Wolf Baroness; Urzok, the Hated; or Valus Ta'aurc - would appear tucked away nearby. Killing that boss opened the portal to the "Lost Sector," except now on a high ledge near the entrance a small Taken Blight had spawned over a hole in the ground. Kill the Blight, jump down the hole, and you would find yourself in an environment totally unlike anything in Destiny 2 at the time. The first portion of this special timed dungeon was a complex jumping puzzle that had you leaping from ledge to ledge across vast open spaces foggy with distance amid an eerie, discordant soundtrack. Until you made it through the huge, half-ruined labyrinth the only signs of "life" were chunks of dead Vex and a handful of (max level) Taken snipers. Xol's booming voice arrested you at a couple of stages, threatening you the same way he had in the Warmind expansion, but he gave no further explanation. Make it through the maze and your reward was a no-holds-barred combat gauntlet of some of the nastiest enemies in the game. Two major and two minor rooms stocked with massive Taken foes all at max level and arranged such that there was nowhere to hide and no way to progress without killing them all led to a final colossal battle against all three of those yellow-bar Taken bosses. At once. It took hours of falling off ledges, dying to hobgoblin snipers, and of course loudly complaining while waiting in Lost Oasis for the Taken Blight PE to spawn again, but at last a fireteam conquered The Whisper and seized the prize.

Over the next few weeks Whisper would unfold additional secrets: a second run dropped the catalyst and five hidden chests progressed it, with a sixth locked behind yet another puzzle that awarded the blueprint for a beautiful, strange new ship. That last chest closed an old time loop in Vault of Glass, Destiny 1's very first raid and an aesthetically-similar space. D1 players found six hidden chests in the Vault and, knowing Bungie's love of 7s, became convinced there was one more to be discovered. They even fixated on a broken Vex gate on a lonely rock spire as its location. Somehow there must be a way to activate that gate! But there wasn't, because there was no seventh chest...or was there?? ...There wasn't. But now there is! Whisper's last puzzle starts at a broken Vex gate on a lone rock spire and requires knowledge from Vault of Glass. When completed, the activated gate shows a view through to the Vault and produces Whisper's - and by extension the Vault's - final secret chest.

As time went on strategies developed, Light caps rose, gear improved; players solo'd Whisper, solo flawless'd Whisper, speedran Whisper, solo speedran it with a Guitar Hero controller, whatever. The uniqueness of it faded. But the mystery of its appearance and the excitement of hunting, solving, and hacking their way through to emerge, bloody and exhausted, with its spectral prize had re-energized a community that badly needed something to go right. Destiny had fulfilled its most fundamental promise: to create stories. We as players experienced something together. A fan-favorite weapon returned with a beautiful new appearance and stunning damage, and it did so in a haunting, thrilling fashion that the community would retell for years. It wasn't the first time Bungie had done a hidden quest/puzzle/adventure leading to a new exotic, and it definitely wouldn't be the last - Whisper set the standard for future Exotic dungeons like Zero Hour and The Other Side - but it hit at just the right time and with just the right mix of beauty and terror in its design to make a lasting impact on Guardians.

With the vaulting of Io as a destination at the beginning of Year 4, the Whisper dungeon finally vanished into the mists of memory, and new players now pick up its eponymous sniper rifle at the Monument to Lost Lights in the Tower. But the Vault of Glass returned the same year, and in the updated raid that lone original gate became the source of the Vex Mythoclast catalyst. When activated, it shows the corresponding view back through Whisper's own gate, one last, lingering glimspe of the dungeon's hazy blue. Listen when a veteran shows the new Guardians that gate and you'll hear them start with a story: it was a Friday in July in Lost Oasis when we heard the strangest thing...

Destiny 2 Compendium Armarum Exoticarum

#Destiny 2 #Whisper of the Worm #Xol Will of Thousands #The Whisper #aiat #Black Hammer #Black Spindle #Destiny Compendium Exoticarum #this is the wager of existence #Destiny

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dngrs-untld-hrshps-unnmbrd · 6 years ago

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Dating Nokris would include

Kind of problematic, but then he is a necromancer with abandonment issues. NSFWish.

An extremely cold and distant first encounter in which he probably tries to kill you

Following him into his Throne World after the other Guardians think they’ve killed him

Earning his respect and admiration when he discovers you’ve been spying on him for days

His embrace feeling cold despite his solar abilities

Lots of bite marks all over your body

Menacing silences that you quickly figure out mean he wants to fuck you and is probably about to

Telling him that Xol is the Will of Thousands and that worm is less stubborn than he is

Him suddenly materialising by your side and demanding to know where you’ve been and who you’ve been talking to

Practicing Thanatonutics and necromancy at the same time with him and becoming so euphoric that the Hive feel more like your brothers and sisters than any Guardian does

Gifts of lavish robes with strange sigils

Plots against Rasputin, his ultimate nemesis

Feeling hypnotised and unnerved by the green soulfire that dances in his eyes, but even more drawn in by its beauty

Hiding away from everything in his throne world together for hours that last a century and decades that last a minute

Pledging your soul to his for enternity, and knowing that he will guard it jealously and protect with all his power

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Requested by several nonnies. Thank you, you adorable little deviants.

Find the full list of dating headcanons here.

#nokris #destiny warmind #destiny 2 #destiny hive #xol will of thousands

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fire-mage-719 · 2 years ago

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And here's the gun we made from Xol, Will of the Thousands. And here's the gun we made from Oryx, the taken king. And here's the gun we made from Savathun's worm. And here's the gun we made from a bunch of vex. And here's a gun made from that one tech disease that Rasputin made, don't worry he's cool now. And here's a gun we made from Mara's old space wish dragon pet who got Taken-- was named Riven so you know. And here's the gun we made from some taken things, I don't think how it works ask Drifter. Anyways here's a gun from the Golden age of humanity that was just laying around when we woke up. No we don't know why it works.

so I got into Destiny 2 recently

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sun-singer · 3 years ago

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Inktober day 30: slither

“You shall drift. You shall drown in the deep.”

#destiny #destiny 2 #destiny art #xol #will of the thousands

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mantleoflight · 2 years ago

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Lightpocalypse: Lightless

Echo stumbled and fell to her knees, her vision swimming as the Light vanished from her body. Somewhere near, she heddard Whisper’s shell clack against rocks as she fell to the ground. What was happening? She’d just been organizing her stash when... when the light was just gone.

With a soft groan, the exo leaned against a mossy boulder, grateful for the cover given hanging lichen of Savathun’s Throne. “Whisper?” she croaked, looking around for her ghost. “Whisper?”

“Nnng....” came the reply, weak but still there.

Echo shifted on her knees, crawling to her ghost before scooping her up and holding her close. “Don’t worry,” Echo said meagerly, “I’ve got you.”

She pulled out a trusty hand canon and moved to reload it, only to find it completely useless and devoid of light. Echo’s stomach dropped.

“Oh no...”

She was lightless in the middle of a Hive throne world in a war with the Scorn, with no ammo or anything to her name. There was no way she would survive as she was. Not without a weapon and certainly not without the access to the supplies she kept transmatted in her inventory.

Whisper shifted in Echo’s hands and lifted a flickering blue eye. “nnng I hate to say it... but I think... it’s time to call your worm friend...”

With a soft pant, Echo nodded and rested herself against the boulder in lichen covered cave. Gently, she rested the handcannon aside and a hand in supplication. “Xol,” she murmured, head drooping from weakness, “will of the thousands... give me the strength... and ability... to fight and defend myself.“

#Echo-17 #|| Echoes & Whispers ||#Whisper #Xol || Hive God Horrors #Xol || Will of the Thousands #Xol || The Thousand Whispers #¢::Passin'Gossip::¢#open #open starter #//FEEL FREE TO HARASS THE EXO ABOUT HER WORM DEAL

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anactualmoth · 4 years ago

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Xol and Riven quote wallpapers/digital art by me

Maybe we can’t keep these cosmic monstrosities in our backpacks as guns in real life, but we can have nice wallpapers of them on our phones. Feel free to use for whatever they were actually pretty simple to make.

#destiny #destiny 2 #destiny 2 shadowkeep #destiny art #beyond light #destiny 2 forsaken #destiny 2 warmind #xol #worm god #riven #riven of a thousand voices #ahamkara #destiny hive #hive destiny

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dromaeo-sauridae · 2 years ago

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im glad you like it!!! that makes me so happy cnsjehehf

so to talk about xolakaal i gotta give more context for the other god the ones thats fuckin dead. his name is cadaver and he was the head of the gods alongside daksari, and he was basically like. the god of the dead. i havent really developed like the realm of the dead cuz im bad at this but he pretty much took care of everything after it died. him and cinder were friends so he hung around cassandra a lot. he was aware that she wasnt supposed to be giving mortals access to magic and gods and all that but cinder was basically a lonely emo teenager and wasnt hurting anything so he just kept an eye on her and didnt say anything

when dak found out about everything and came over cinder got pissed and they ended up duking it out big time and destroying a bunch of shit. cadaver got caught in the crossfire and was subsequently killed as fuck, which upset dak and cinder even more. cut to a few thousand years later

the way gods and magic work is weird, and because such a massively important god was killed shits kind of all over the place. its like a massive blank space where someone is supposed to be. an empty niche so to speak. well since theres so many dead things just hanging around helplessly SOMEONE had to come in to do something, and that was xolakaal. it can barely be considered a god with how young it is, but it gained enough power quickly enough that it might as well be. (however being so young it is stuck on cassandra, so its really only affecting this place, theres probably TONS of other weirdos like it around other areas with life)

so yeah xol is basically a weird invasive species going around eating a bunch of dead things. he becomes very important to the story but this post is really long already djfhsjrj i might make that another post if you/anyone else want it

hi, I know nothing about your og story, but I would be interested in hearing more. I love learning about the worlds in other people's heads. I might've missed if you've said anything about it since I started following you, so I apologize if so, but please by all means, I'd love to learn more!

sjjfhehfhe so promethea is something that i (and @moshimene is like the co auther hi) have been developing for a fucking While but recently turned it into a specbio project cuz i Love aliens and creatures. the main plot is currently um …. under construction

theres a lot of “main characters” i guess but the three most important people are the gods daksari tamman, cinder, and xolakaal. technically theres another god but he is dead so he only passively influences the story but the basic plot is:

promethea is a country on a moon called cassandra, orbiting a gas giant named ouranos. cassandra was created by the god cinder out of boredom and she gave one of her creations (humans lol) the ability to see and understand her. this is taboo because creations are below the gods and arent allowed to Know of the gods, which is where daksari comes in. dak is kind of like zues i guess shes the head and the eldest and shes cinders mom. she doesnt like what cinder is doing and as punishment locks her underground and kind of deletes all knowledge of the gods from the mortal’s memory. couple hundred thousand years later cinder breaks out and is killed by a human named dawn and then ………… thats all the stuff that is being redone rn. basically the other god xolakaal comes in and fucks everything up then cinder gets resurrected the end.

uhhHhhhhhh yeah thats kind of everything i left out a lot but if u wanna know more about characters or the creatures n stuff i’d love to tell u 👉👈

#promethea #xolakaal #act 1

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