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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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 Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:46 am
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Now he seemed to be cooking with gas. The next section of the scroll was copied rather easily, and revealed a bit more information about this deity known as Oceanus. He was the son of two other deities called Uranus and Gaia, neither of whom were talked about much. They would have to be looked into at a later date. Oceanus supposedly had the upper torso of a man, but also had horns on his head that looked like a crab's claws. His lower body was that of a large serpent, and as a god of the sea that made sense. Even though Kiyoshi had never seen an ocean or any large body of water, he would have to remember to pay reverence to this Oceanus when and if he saw one. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 2/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 11:54 am
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Well that was a failure. He somehow managed to spill ink over what he had already copied, forcing him to start over and recopy what he had already done. He wondered if his thoughts about paying respects to another deity caused Surtur to cause that little bit of misfortune for a moment before remembering that his god had more important things to worry about. He had to plan his offensive for when he was going to set the world ablaze, and such a mission meant that he obviously didn't have time to check up on the thoughts of every one of his worshipers. Then again he was a deity and not human, so any things that happened were beyond his mere mortal understanding. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 2/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:04 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Well that had been a success, and it meant that he had managed to understand a bit more of the puzzle. The scroll he was copying went onto say that his consort was also his sister, another deity known as Tethys. From that union came a race of beings known as nymphs, who were also barely touched on. While the idea of marrying your own flesh and blood confused him, he also understood that these beings were gods, and as such were not subject to the laws of mortals. Even more important to remember was that because they were gods, there was no one else for them to marry. According to scripture there weren't anyone but the gods during this time, so it made sense that they would decide to marry the only people that were around. Even if for humans it was abhorrent. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 3/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:18 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 The next passage was of particular interest to Kiyoshi. As a student of war and all things related to warfare, the idea of gods fighting was of particular interest to him. In this case, what was described was a battle between old gods and younger gods. This kind of event was described in his own religion, and Kiyoshi wondered if this kind of thing happened often. Regardless, the story was about Oceanus or at least his part in it. Apparently he had decided to stay out of the conflict, staying neutral even when his brothers and sisters went into combat. While it was better that becoming a traitor, he wondered how it was possible to remain neutral when the fate of the universe itself was at stake. Surely he would have felt the need to get involved somehow? Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 4/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:41 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 The scroll that dictated Oceanus' role in the universe seemed to end there. The only remaining information was errata referring to other passages that mentioned his name. Moving on, he decided to learn more about these "titans" as these scrolls called them. The next one to be mentioned was Hyperion, and Kiyoshi had to admit that his name was pretty cool sounding. It didn't have the powerful ring that Surtur had, but it definitely had its charm. He was the brother of Oceanus, which meant that he was the son of Uranus and Gaia as well. He wondered what it was like to have real brothers, and not just regarding every other male as a brother, but that wasn't important right now. There was work to be done. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 5/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 12:52 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Apparently very little was written about Hyperion, even though he was referred to as the lord of light and wisdom. That was strange in itself, considering any deity who ruled over light would normally be quite revered. Supposedly he was also the first being to ever chart the sun, the moon, and the stars, and reveal their natures to others. This was quite a feat, and even Kiyoshi would admit that no one in his religion could claim that. So why was Hyperion so ignored in the writings? Very little else seemed to be told about him, but maybe if he looked in between the lines and dug deep in the depository he would be able to discover something. Only time would tell really. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 6/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:17 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 It appeared that there really wasn't anything else in the depository about Hyperion. To Kiyoshi that was a darn shame, and he figured that in the future if he found a library somewhere he would have to check for any information about him. But he couldn't sit around crying about what he didn't have, so he had to move on to looking at the next scroll that he had. It talked about Coeus, the celestial axis upon which the heavens revolved. Certainly he would be mentioned more with his job. Like the other two titans he had looked, he was a son of Gaia and Uranus. It seemed like those two, as the two primordial creators of the universe in this pantheon. It would definitely require more research. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 6/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:51 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Sighing, Kiyoshi moved onto other scrolls. For being big, primordial deities, they were mostly ignored. It was strange to think that such beings would be ignored by mortals, considering in his own pantheon Kiyoshi's gods were all known and made sure that they were remembered. They even made sure to punish transgressors against them like good deities should. Of course, that brought him to one of the more talked about titans, Cronus. He was the youngest of the titans, but he was also the one who seemed to do the most if the length of the scroll about his was any indication. Time to start copying so that wisdom could be gained. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 7/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:06 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Of course, it would help if the scroll was in any language Kiyoshi understood. Frustrated, he ran back to the scroll repository, searching for any sign of a similar and translated scroll. After a bit of time he did find one, but it was older and dusty to say the least. He moved it over to the table before replacing the untranslated version. Hopefully someone in the future would manage to translate it better than he could. The current version he had was faded and quite hard to read, but Kiyoshi figured that if he gave it a bit of time he could copy it. After all, it wasn't like it was in another language like the other scroll. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 7/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:13 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 It was as easy as he expected it would be. But the subject matter confused him a bit. To begin, this Cronus was the youngest out of all of the titans. To go further, he was responsible for slaying his father Uranus at the behest of his mother Gaia. Then in committing patricide he was proclaimed ruler of the universe instead of his older brothers. This was quite odd, since in Kiyoshi's mind slaying a father or brother to gain prominence didn't make you a good ruler. Instead it made you unfit to rule, because it showed that you were barbaric and cruel above all else. Such traits should have excluded him from being a ruler, but in this pantheon he was on top. More research awaited, and Kiyoshi was excited to learn more. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 8/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:23 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 It appeared that Cronus' barbaric nature never changed, even though the time that he ruled was often referred to as a golden age because there was a lack of immorality and there was no need for rules. In Kiyoshi's mind there was a very simple explanation for this. Since rules were only needed when people did things wrong, and if everything was allowed then nothing could be considered wrong, then there was no need for rules because in this period everything was allowed. It made sense in his mind, but more than likily he was over-simplifying the true reason. Still, he didn't have that good a basis to go on, he was only ten after all. Figuring that this golden age had to end soon, since good times were never written about for long, he continued reading now that he had caught up on his copying. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 9/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:30 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Apparently the worst part about this character was yet to come. Cronus, after hearing a prophecy that his own kids would cause his downfall as he had caused Uranus' downfall, took the most logical option of simply eating his kids so that they couldn't escape his stomach. Because they were gods, and thus immortal, they didn't die. They just grew up inside him, never able to escape. This was inconceivable for Kiyoshi, whose own gods were killed by each other relatively often. Sure they lived very long lives, but they were warriors and they could be killed by other gods. The idea that any creature was immune to death itself was just insane to his young mind. It had to be some sort of copying or translation error. It had to be. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 10/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:27 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Well it obviously wasn't a translation error. In fact it went further than Kiyoshi had ever thought it would. The downfall of Cronus occurred when his wife Rhea, abhorred by the idea that her husband was eating her children, replaced the baby Zeus with a large rock. One had to wonder if that rock in rags tasted the same as one of his children, but that wasn't really important. What was important this was a story about a father worrying about being replaced by his son, and an older generation worrying about being replaced by a younger one. That was a very normal fear, and Kiyoshi had seen that in the village itself. Older ninjas always seemed to complain about the new blood coming in after all. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 11/15
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Armads the Doom Bringer rolled 1 20-sided dice:
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:47 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 So much for hearing the end of that story. It turned out that it was much harder for him to understand than he expected. The scroll was pretty much unreadable after the point that he had gotten to, so he had to find something else to write about. Perhaps it would be best to look at some other scroll... some other divinity? It could be quite interesting to look at some of the more obscure deities that were worshiped in the world. Of course, trying to find scrolls on them would be about as easy as learning how to do jutus without knowing your handseals at all. Basically, it was impossible, but he had to try regardless. Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 11/15
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Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2011 4:25 pm
Kiyoshi Masaru HP: 10/10 CP: 4/4 MHP: 8/8 Well obscure scrolls were obscure. There didn't seem to be any in the temple's repository regarding obscure religions, but maybe he just wasn't looking hard enough. He spend ten minutes searching for any sign of them, but with nothing to go on he decided it was best to give up and research something a bit more available. Perhaps it would be best to look at some of the divine creatures in his own pantheon? There was a wealth of information on that particular pantheon. Not to mention he wanted to know more about the enemies that his temple had to contend with out in the world. All it took was a bit of looking in the repository for the right scrolls... Analyzing Scripture 1d20+Wis DC: 8 Total Seals Learned: 11/15
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