Fall the God in Tears

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

I see that Father God shall die,
His eagle standard melted in the fires
of Demon Hell, His Church torn asunder
And lost in the shadows of the Djinn.
The world shall fall into the hands
of the Devil, his pleasing voice and
Handsome face shall hold the world
Enthralled. And chaos shall rule,
And evil shall conquer the mighty
Empire of God. And all shall despair.
But, lo, a Light shines forth from
Lost places, where the Goddess
Holds her Court. The Mother's tears
A channel of rushing waters to hold
the Devil and his Wild Hunt at bay.
The Children of the Emerald Earth
Shall Arise, the Avatars of Light,
To release the Goddess and
Bring the world to rights again.
And the Mother shall revive her
Love and together they shall banish
The night and return the Devil to the
Fires of his eternal hell. And the
World shall be good once more.

Caesar Princeps is dead, murdered in his sleep, and Tiberium is overrun by demons. The Empire, vast and powerful, has collapsed, throwing the world into chaos and ruin. Its mighty temples and aqueducts have fallen, and the world, once connected by Tiberian roads, has splintered into fiefs and villages with little connection and no enlightenment. The world is truly in a dark age.

The mighty Church of God is destroyed, Demons and lost souls posing as Church officials, all the while warping it to their own ends. The Pope himself is Beelzebub, Lord of the Flies. Worst of all, the Devil seeks to ensnare the world and heaven, using the ruins of mighty Tiberium and its Church to do it.

The Devil's plot is simple. He wants his Throne, the one he never got to take, the one that got him thrown into Hell. And He's killed God to do it. When he killed Caesar, a God on Earth, the Devil intertwined that death with God's. Every second of agony visited upon Caesar mirrored onto God. Their deaths were simultaneous and excruciating.

Thus, the world sinks into darkness and despair, demons and monsters of the deadliest ilk pulling the strings and visiting pain and death upon the people of the world.

But the Devil knows the prophesy, the last of the Pythia at Delphi, and he knows that the Goddess can revive the God. So he assumes the face of a new Caesar to reunite the world and, along with his vassals, begins an anti-woman campaign in an attempt to wipe the Goddess from the face of the earth. Under his watchful eye, women become less-than-human. It becomes no crime to rape a woman, to murder her. Women are burned for amusement, beaten and tortured for pleasure. And, for every woman killed, the Goddess screams in pain and sorrow. Her tears, abundant at the death of her Lover, become a torrent. But the Devil’s tricks do not kill her, and it is this oversight that will doom him.

On the far side of the world, where the Golden Eagle never soared, the Goddess finds a safe haven. In the Emerald Isle, Eire, hidden behind the Goddess' tears, the Avatars live and love, unaware of their impact on the world, unaware that a madwoman thousands of years earlier had known they existed. Unaware that the Goddess herself had chosen them to revive her Love and Banish the Devil forever.

This is the story of their quest.

[Quaddy]

I can imagine that there will be questions for this one. Do please share them.

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

How is this going to start out?

[Quaddy]

Well, I just posted my first addition. That should give you an idea as to how things are going to start. Essentially, God is killed and Satan takes over the Empire. A secondary character of mine (Agrippa) becomes God's Avatar, a spirit that must track down our characters, who will act as the Goddess' Avatars. Well, Agrippa tracks down my character (the only one who can speak to him, and can bring him into our realm so others can see him), who then tracks down the others. The idea is that our characters act as the Will of the Goddess to help her bring back the God. It's a re-writing of the Isis and Osiris myth. We will track down pieces of God from around the world and bring them together so the Goddess can unite them.

The first addition is a bio followed by a written introduction. I recommend dreams/visions/senses of some sort that my character is going to be finding them and that the Goddess is calling out to them. Something like that.

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Alrighty cool I can do that. This is a weird one for me lol. Mainly cause of the whole Christianity thing.

I'm trying to embrace the odd sense of...disgust -for lack of a better term- with the concept of God being killed.

We'll see how it manifests. Should be interesting.

[Quaddy]

It's easy when you're 1) Pagan and 2) A religions scholar. I make a habit of studying myths and philosophies. Essentially, I just took the myth of Isis and Osiris and put it on the bigger scale. Basically, what happens is that Set kills Osiris and chops him up into 13 pieces. Hathor, Nephthys, and Isis search for and find twelve of the thirteen pieces and Isis, using her magick, fashions a thirteenth (which just happens to be his penis, but that is irrelevant to this story) and puts Osiris back together. And then they make with the lovin' and have Horus.

It's basically that story, without the Horus and the missing penis. Our characters play the role of Hathor and Nephthys, basically, searching out the pieces of God around the world so the Goddess can put them back together.

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Lol I'm aware of your religious disposition lol, as well as the gist of the Osiris myth. Of course from my standpoint I don't associate Christianity with Mythology as it's my actual belief system. I do in fact believe that stuff to be reality. SO it's more of separation of that thought process from my creative mind. I've done it before, just takes some writing to get myself solidified in that mindset.

No worries!

[Quaddy]

Yeah, I rarely associate religion with reality. What we get as far as religious texts and rituals is usually so badly warped from years of human politics that I have no problem disassociating myself from religious principles. I separate faith from religion almost entirely these days.

[Quaddy]

(That wasn't meant in a judgmental light, by the way. Just my own philosophical view, which is why it's so easy for me to write things that other people might deem blasphemous. I mean, look at my NaNo novel. Eve and Lucifer as the good guys.)

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Lol yeah I'm not taking it personally or anything I understand. It's just one of my things. God has a place in a couple of my personal stories and such but it's never exactly the same as what's dictated by religion.

In one for example a man makes something that allows the ascent into heaven. He is warned that doing so will have grave consequences which he ignores. Due to that God takes heaven and disappears from our existence.

He was pissed that we would not use our faith and creativity and things he gave us to expand and insisted on Seeing is Believing so he took himself out of the equation. It's the start of one anyway.



Regardless I'm about to finally go in and get to read your add so I should be able to post today.

[Quaddy]

I saw the post. It was quite good. Hopefully this thing goes farther than round two. The last one didn't....

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Oh yikes really? Hate it when that happens. Same with Perfect War and Magistricide. Glad you liked my post

[Quaddy]

Yeah, it was good. Really fit with the feeling of the story.

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Awesome. Good to hear, you know me. I'm always worried about putting up a weak add.

[Quaddy]

Well, just slow down and re-read everything you write after a break. Typically, I finish my addition one day and post it the next, just so my eyes are fresh. It's the way I've written for years. Learned it for school. Actually, I read everything one sentence at a time...backwards.

Historians. We're weird. Actually, now that I think about it...I think I learned that trick from a Literature professor...

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Hmm interesting. Yeah I'll probably do that from now on. It'll help if I can get it done a day ahead of schedule lol. that way I don't rush it out right after it's done and reread very quickly.

[Aldersmaine]

Oi, I need to pay better attention, I didn't realize there were other boards being posted. /fails/ So... Yeah, Weird.

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

Lol yup I fixed the site up so it should be easier to navigate now too All stories and such will have their own board from now on.

[Aldersmaine]

/nods/ I'm glad i took a closer look.

[Quaddy]

Hi! Yeah, I'm here. Not all of them, but the ones involving everyone here.

[Zephyr Shenkiken]

If you want more up just let me know.

[Mynt]

Omg, Quaddy! I totally finished writing the addition for this. Now comes the arduous task of typing it up...

[Quaddy]

YAY!!! I'm glad you got through it and I look forward to reading it! (That sounded like such a formulaic response. It totally wasn't. I've been on the road since 9 this morning driving home from Atlanta.)

[Mynt]

After I finish fiddling with this speech that's supposed to be done by tomorrow I'm all over typing this up. Also like, belated birthday girlfriend!

[Quaddy]

Thanks! 25 years on this planet. And my boyfriend does what to celebrate it? Takes me down a mountain without telling me it's free form. Four days later and my calves are still sore.