Vei Ohm God
Description:
We know not what the old gods were, but this dreadful sickly proto-celestial being knows it all. He keeps his mouth shut for reasons now lost. A sad old and all knowing thing, driven mad one moment and quiet the next for what they have witnessed,
and what they expect to come. And so we have Vis'ras - said to have once been a servant to beings now long dead. They cling to the charms of the past, and have the stooped posture of the betrayed. Many titans have diffuclty adjusting to the void and life now, but Vis'ras especially has never come to terms. They still experience time all at once, and it is not known when exactly Vis'ra is. There may be many at once or perhaps different peices across different times or timelines, which some think explains their collapse of thought.
Sometimes they want simply to be left alone with their memories, those so rough in their draft that they tremble to hold on to them. Now free from servitude, they dream of creating a paradise free of remembering, but finds their power lacking here, and so tries ways of gaining power, including gaining some followers - rather odd thing for a titan. However nothing seems to work.
Miserable and sick, they are one day turned to ash by Nakana in the First Debate, in effect a sort of daughter to Vis'Ras. Nakana seeks only to convince Vis'ras to find their maddening truths as a responsibility and a blessing, but this in effect unravels the strucutre that kept Vis'Ras in this world. It is not know whether the titan died or simply one piece vanished.
From Vis'ras's last follower was born the god Rajiyu.
Story connection to Vei:
Like other titans, they were at one time imprisoned behind a gate
- However, as a servant to the old gods Vis'Ra was privy to all the terrible truths of reality, and like his sisters
went mad with wisdom, time, and knowledge
- titans eventually escaped The Before and created the void and the first gods
- Vis'Ra had long fantasized of their freedom and wanted nothing but to forget what was in their head
and behave like the old gods had, moving endless energy into great expereiments and joys
- they wanted some kind of paradise to exscape their memories and madness
- however they found that the void had a limited enrgy, limited resources, and that though they had magic still,
its scope felt quite small in comparison to before
- They began to gather followers and mimic new gods in other ways, in hopes it might escelate their powers, but it did not
- this is why there are a small number of followers at all
- Eventually Vis'ra meets Nakana, in some ways his daughter, and wants nothing but to learn of her
- But Nakana only sees someone who is misguided, beleiving in multiple truths, and beleiveing in no responsibility to seek and spread the truth
- So they debate, Nakana winning the few followers Vis'ra had, but ultimately battling with a mind already deeply hampered
- Seperating and debating the madness of Vis'ra simply seperates and divides their mind, their power, until they crumble
- as much defeated by the order of Nikana, as much as happy to find some place to rest
THEMES: knowing all truth either corrupts or impedes choice. Wisdom does nothing for those who are forgotten/ill/used. Knowing every deep secret of the universe is chaos. for the universe is filled with evil secrets as well. And the contraditions may never leave one alone. It is only with order that wisdom can appear in a state of calm, can choose a direction, and be a path.
Nakana's birth is contentious among scholars. The conventional wisdom is that she was the first born of the World Flower - the womb of the cosmos. Others say Nakana could not have been born, that she was born of herself, with no origin older than her - simply there is Nakana.
Whatever the truth, when she came, there was much life that came soon after, and she wandered the worlds observing the glories of creation, and pulling from her mind her own creations to run and live among the ever expanding splendor.
One day Nakana was inspired by the smallest flower with the most petals, a pattern much like the spiral of all. So inspired, Nakana birthed from her mind the god Abdesh, who saw to writing Nakana's further discoveries, and designing lives for the new life of the worlds in the form of placing and removing poetic obstacles.
She paced the worlds in a large circle, causing the orbits and spins of the cosmos. She held close the happiness of learning and preserving the truth, and would whisper it all long to the life of the worlds she met.
It is this ideal that brought her to the First Debate with Vis'Ras, and compelled her, despite their sickness, to try and find the same splendor in Vis'Ras. However the Truth only worked to bring Vis'Ras from the unstable titan to the Lost Truth in a great pile of ash. This is Nakana's only secret, and she does not like to discuss it. To preserve Vis'Ras's Truth, she whispered her wisdom to the last follower of Vis'Ras, thus creating Rajiyu - The Transformer Of Truth. From the first debate we get the first two scrolls of Abdesh.
Many moons later, the Second Debate would occur between Rajiyu and a follower, after Rajiyu bows to Nakana. When Nakana intervenes, the debate wavers to many different subjects, many now lost. Eventually Nakana rewards the follower, by speaking the Truth to them. They became the god Suragni - the Defender of Truth. From this debate we get the final scrolls of Abdesh.
RP: Nakana is very head strong, idealistic, and narrow-minded in some ways, believing that the truth is eternally beautiful and creative. She loves to create and give things life ,and has created countless children around the universe. Nakana is often responsible for speaking the contents of the Four Scrolls, and so may visit those who are struggling with matters of spiritual, meditative, yoga, or other related matters. she is almost completely unwilling to discuss the death of Vis'Ras, the Lost Truth, and in consequence is strange around discussing Rajiyu and their status as a god. Nakana's version of the truth, if it needed to be said, is about the absolute cosmic truth - a sort of mental understanding of how everything is connected, the death of the ego/materialism, and ultimately an aescendance of the mind. It is for this reason that she is most powerful in abilities of the mind, spirit, and perceptions of the soul.
Visual: Nakana is a woman with four faces and four arms. The four faces face the cardinal directions. Some hold the long bearded face of a sage. They often sit on a flower similar to a lotus or the World Flower. They usually hold the Four Scrolls, prayer beads, a water pot, and a fire. She never holds a weapon, a god enveloped in peace. She usually wears red or pink, and has golden skin. Her hands sometimes take the mudra forms of grabnting refuge or giving a gift. She rides a goose.
In nature she is a goose or swan.