Faith begets Faith [IC]

[Emperor Demonking]

Tip

Tip captured a bird and found out that it could speak a language and that it could return to its home if it was taught one. Tip spent all of his free time teaching it to say. "Are you a god?"

Tip then tried to make it return home when it heard the word. "yes."

Tip let the bird go.

[Athaniar]

The great fireball crashed into the Plateau. By all reasoning, the ruins of Oyeth Kar should have been wiped out by the blast, but when the flames and dust had settled, a magnificent sight was revealed: the grand temple city, renewed as it stood at the height of it's power. On the top of the highest temple-pyramid sat perched a giant avian-reptilian creature with two heads, seemingly made out of flames. Below the pyramid, all the peoples of the Plateau had gathered. The God-Phoenix spoke:

Let the golden age begun! What once was great is now even greater! The empire is renewed, and the civilization of Oyeth Kar is ready to conquer the world! Let no one, mortal or god, stand before you!

[Moff Chumley]

And Khaos observed this, and said "Just as planned..."

[alexeduardo]

And when he was finally happy with his creation, he started training his Great Dragon in the ways of war. The dragon eventually became a master general and a respected figure amongst the Sothern.
And even though they did not comprehend why, the Sothern Phalanx was reassembled once more, and the jungle's borders became an impassable swampland.
All this was part of Aleden's effort to survive the coming end

The curse of the Answer, chapter 1

[Emperor Demonking]

Tip

Tip's bitrd continued to fly.

A new king was crowned and this new king decided that it was only right that Tip had a temple. So Tip got to work trying to build his temple and trying to make sure emobodied himself as much as possible.

[qube]

Setsumaru

with a single thought, Setsumaru teleports to the evelasting snow area's of the highest mountain of the world. From there he could well see what was going on in the mortal cities.

From Oyeth Kar, wispers of prayers come to him. He did not care: these one-day-believers should suffer the same as anyone else: icy cold makes no difference between those who pray and those who don't ...

in fact, it seemed that Oyeth Kar had got a patron of its own. One who likes renewal. The other side of his coin...

what else is happening ...

Mortals, who call themself Sajin ... expanding to the warmer south. As long as they remain away from his icy empires, they are of no concern to him.

[Athaniar]

Quite some time had now passed in Oyeth Kar. The Great Phoenix-God dwelled in the heavens, represented in mortal affairs by his high priest, Haknesh-Muruk Kry'Bennu, and his high priestess, Haknesh-Otyaraij Ahghi'Bennu, the former's wife. From the newly-built Grand hlE-ro'kHo* of Duality and Renewal, the Phoenix's worship grew larger and larger, but from within the Rée-lImorkgha'aH**, a dark prescence grows.


Former High Priest of Oyeth Kar's Divine Lord Al'esh-Han Limorandem, a withered husk of his former self, yet more powerful than ever, stepped up to a circular array of rotating golden rings on the wall of what used to be the private chambers of the Divine Lord. In the center of the array was a pulsating crimson orb. Al'esh-Han touched the orb, and chanted quietly for himself: "Soon, my Lord, You will be unleashed upon those who have betrayed You, and this time, nothing will be able to impede Your righteous wrath. aMakORi, amAKorI, makor mAkor ah turaFH, niGora'hshaAlshem-ayAtH, zJ'jalke-R, soon, my Lord, soon You will be free."


*A hlE-ro'kHo (pronounced "Shlee-rack-hau") is a sort of Karan monastery, where devotees can both dwell and learn the teachings of the faith.

**The Rée-lImorkgha'aH (pronounced "Rie-el Imor-keega-ej") is what remains of the ancient and forbidden temple of the old times, formerly known as Psadufum Ulghard ("Saddu-foom Owl-gahd"), the Forbidden Throne. The aboveground temple was razed by the Phoenix, but the belowground level could not be ravaged even by him. It translates approximately as "The Forbidden Abyss in which the Limor Dwell", a Limor being a mythical demonic being, most likely referring to the legend of Oyeth Kar's former high priest.

[qube]

Setsumaru

Time had come once more ... the god of cold had gathered enough enegry since the last ice age, and now was the time to use it ...

In the blink of an eye, Setsumaru teleported to the worlds core. There he manifested two icy blades from his hands. With a circular movement he jabbed both blades into the core, and the blades scattered. With a second blink of the eye, the god of cold was once again at the summet of the worlds highest peek, to look down upon mortals.

A new ice age had begon ...

[Athaniar]

The Phoenix felt a disturbance in the force natural elements. Suddenly, an unnatural cold had begun to place it's frigid grasp around the world. A god of duality he may be, but the Phoenix had never been a bid fan of the static cold, sticking to the everchanging fire instead. He would have to resolve this situation.

Soaring over his Grand hlE-ro'kHo, the Phoenix sent down a beam of concentrated heat towards the monastic temple. Not long after the beam had hit, twelve priests came out of the temple, all dressed in flame-hued light armor and robes, and wielding dangerous-looking weapons in both hands. Their eyes glowed with sacred fire. The Phoenix spoke to them:

You are my bëNar'kAga-h'sH, my sacred emissaries, my unrelenting champion, wielders of the flame! You will go forth into the world and find the source of this cold, and nothing will stand in your way! Show no mercy, and carry out the task at hand!

And so, with great haste, the warrior-priests of the Phoenix went off in all directions of the world, in order to uncover what was causing this ice age.


At the gates of the monastery, a lone monk stood watching the champions go. He was dressed in a concealing cloak, and held some sort of box-like artifact before him. He spoke quietly for himself.

Soon, my Lord...