Writing Worlds with Words

Gods of Ithia: Aifu

Aifu. Nature Spirit of the Northern Winds, Meditation, Spiritual Pursuits, Monks, Priests, and Temples. 

Known as Aifu, The Spirit, The Breeze and Gale, The Pursuer of Mind and Spirit, The Worshipper, and The Word of the Gods. 

Aifu’s main body is the winds that come from the North. Aifu’s spirit form is some great humanoid visage of clouds, sky, and swirling wind. Barely visible, he appears as a monk in robes of sunlit orange, a tengai basket hat, and playing a shakuhachi to summon the winds to Dodicerous. He sometimes walks windswept mountain roads and along breezy coastlines. 

Aifu is an empty thing seeking to fill himself with pursuits of learning, spiritual ascendance, and the stories of pilgrims.  He is the dedication to ideals, the pursuit of knowledge in scholars, the whispers of a divine mandate in the wind, and the voice of the Vigint gods. He is community, keeper of temples, monks, and priests.  

Gods of Ithia: Exposition.

Exposition. Information is Everything.  Known as The Exposition Dump, The Over-Explainer, The Droning, and The Edited.  Exposition has no form, no personality, his divine plane nothing more than an endlessly stretching library with a desk for each being in Ithia a book filling out their story. One great scroll sprawls forth, maintaining the Canon of…

Gods of Ithia: Romance.

Romance. All life is for the Happy Ever After.  Known as The Romance, Hea, The Tragic Misunderstanding, The Love Eternal, The Gossip.   Romance has no real physical form; her presence often appears as a vaguely feminine swirl of perfumed air carrying rose petals. Romance is generally the least dangerous of the Forces wanting everything to…

Factions of the Dead Age: The Markaris.

The Factions of the Dead Age.   Markaris  ‘The we shall stand above the whips and crowns of petty men.’    Once we were slaves to Kings and Gods, once we bled our wealth to merchants and nobles whose only value was in their birth. The Markaris overthrew the Astarte in Marieland, slaughtered those leaders who tried to return…

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