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Chusi was deep in the south, as she had been for a while. She looked around the vast obsidian city in the mouth of the volcano, she had dozens of Ethens in her employ, restoring what had either eroded away or broke and she had discovered some very interesting things that both amazed her and make her mind whirl. She had sent a letter to Susumu simply asking him to come to Mt. Shaelia since he seemed to show a fair amount of interest when she had brought up the Obsidian city last year. They had managed to make the city livable again, they had opened the large center temple that dominated most of the volcano just yesterday and it was by far more grand than anything she had ever seen, it almost seemed like it doubled as a castle as it grew from the center of the Volcanos mouth and rose up to its rim and down several hundred...if not thousand of feet before connecting to the tunnels below... Chusi still had to do a lot of work when it came to the tunnels, if they where going to offer it to the queen to be her new home, they would have to board up most of the tunnels as even after a year, they hadn't been able to find an end to them.

"Lady Chhatrapati, Ser Susumu is here to see you" someone working on the city said and Chusi turned around "Ser Susumu, I'm glad you managed to make it here so quickly" she said to him with a small tight smile "We'ere almost finished with the city, It will only be a few days now before it can me truly inhabitable. I wanted to get your input on everything here." she said as she waived her hand around the obsidian city, it was a pretty dark looking place but that was to be expected. "The temple is nearly as big as the Lionis castle back in the capital but far grander. We just managed to open it yesterday and already their are significant differences between the city and the temple...." Chusi paused.

Chusi looked at Susumu for a moment "I continue to hope that this place can become our new capital. With Blackstone completely eradicated and buried under the hardened stone it would take years if not an entire generation to uncover and with Etherland being... Etherland, The queen needs to find a new place, I'm hoping she could find this place acceptable and the people would soon follow...but I hear that these days she's only a figure head" Chusi said, pressing her lips together in a thin line, obviously not liking the idea that the family her own blood had sacrificed a natural life for was tanking.

She walked with Susumu into the large temple "I know its not orthodox but the temple could become the palace as it seems to already double as one already. Since we managed to restore the stairways most of the way we've found that their are dozens of rooms we have to clear out that are full of rotted and preserved furniture" she said to him besides, if you get to look around the city you'll find their are four more temples. To the north is the Temple of Flames, East is the Temple of Smoke, South is the temple of Embers, and West is the temple of Ash. This large temple that we stand in was called "Mandir ka Fiammetta" she said as she walked with him into the largest part of the temple "However something even more interesting is this" she said as she looked up at a large piece of Ivory as big as the front of a house. It was intricately carved to depict a woman hardly clothed in flowing white sheets and ornate metal jewelry upon her arms, torso, neck and legs. Large heavy wings came from the back of the scantily clad woman that despite being hardly clothed seemed to be powerful. Her hands where carved driving a spear up though the ribcage of another being but this one had large horns coming from its head and pointed teeth carved from its forever screaming mouth. The second being had pulled a helm from the barely clothed woman to show that beautiful face of none other then what could be described as a slightly younger looking Agni. Chusi looked up at it "We where planning on removing this from the room.... but if we remove this then we would have to find something to cover up the obsidian carving behind it...." Chusi trailed off again as she nodded to a few smaller phoenixes that would gingerly pull it from the wall.

Behind the Ivory carving was a obsidian carving of the same horned being that had been speared in the ivory carving, except now the woman with the horns looked less monstrous and more peaceful, surrounded by a gentle flame that was carved into the obsidian in a way to make it look like it was spiraling around the room. The way it was carved it looked like it was ethereal and without a doubt a carving of some other worldly being such as Agni, a possible being of fire and flames, but the very thought of that would probably seem blasphemous to most who saw it, which would explain Chusi's hesitation to move the Ivory carving that depicted Agni in few clothing only to have the wall show an alternate fire goddess. "We're doing our best to improve, but were running across several snags like this, in another room we found what looks like a mass grave of unburied warriors. Since we're in Agni's temple I've tried to get in contact with her despite my misgivings of the goddess, in order to find out how we should burry them... but she refused to speak to anyone"

"I'm actually quite impartial to the carving myself" Agni said as she stood slightly outside the large archway to the temple, dressed in a flowing red dress that looked like flames moving around her tall slender body "Though I'm surprised its lasted so long, its older than Phoenix kind. I expected it to be shattered or recarved" she said as she walked toward the carved Ivory, looking up at it It was carved from the largest Giwa to ever walk this world, the meat from its bones fed the people that use to live here for three months its pelt made more than a thousand blankets" she said before looking over at Susumu, lowering her head to him for a moment "Complete understanding of the Lore is perhaps nearly impossible at this time, however it could just be called history, a history that was long before yours" she said as she reached out and gestured toward Ivory carving "This was called 'The Spear piercing the darkness' an artists rendition of my killing blow against the Queen Fiammetta of Cenere. To you what might be a noble depiction of triumph, is to me... doing as I was told as a soldier" she said as she brought her hands together, twisting one of the rings on her hands "Back then all the gods where at war, gods ruled over other gods, and tried to taken control over this land. It was not even remotely peaceful like it I now, the barrier that I have raised would have been nothing compared to what Queen Fiammetta could do" she frowned "She could stand in the center of the battlefield and send out waves of fire out to destroy her enemies. Thousands of my kin, both siblings and children where killed by her. A war of gods is a carnage you will never see... all over a stupid book"

Agni then looked over at Chusi "The dead do not belong here, they should be moved as safely as possible to the Ancient tower, if they have swords and shields symbols should be carved on the back of them that indicate their names, they should be carve onto their resting places." she said to her.

The knight had not been expecting the sudden appearance of deity, least of all the very one they had been talking about. The knight kept his head low, respectfully looking down even as he turned and with grace and practice dropped to a knee before the goddess in question. He braced one arm on his leg, and the other pressed flat against the ground.

He had no objections to the bodies being taken care of in this manner, and so it would be done if he saw to it himself. The knight was not so bold, certainly not when it came to learning firsthand the story and experience of the goddess. Though, he understood well the responsibility and duty that came with being a subordinate. One followed the orders of those stronger than themselves. He just found himself marveling a little bit at the bravery, or simple foolhardy bravado, of Lady Chhatrapati. Was it wise to speak so familiarly to the goddess?

Nevertheless, now that she had spoken concerning the statue and of the identity of the horned figure, there need not be any confusion and no need to hide the other figure. It was important to their history. For the present, the knight could ask or say nothing. It was not his place.

Chusi bowed her head to the goddesss, she didn't know what to say to that "I'm sorry for your loss" she whispered to her, biting down on her lip, she had never had the desire to be a goddess but what she had just said had her agreeing with what she already knew, she would not enjoy being a goddess.