Game news:Mortals Bring Change

OOC Note: This is the 'time frame' that the mortals affect. Everything written from here onwards is as a result of the actions of the players of Atharia.

With the creation of kingdoms, the granting of magic and new ways of living the mortals continued on with finding ways to appease the Gods and with trying to reign in the Council of the Devoted and their extreme methods. The question now is will the mortals meet the expectations and achieve the things they must in this generation?

When the Gods decide to meddle, they do. Their meddling, this time, resulted into a plead to find the Children of Gods, their children. Mataya pleaded with the mortals to find them and bestowed upon them a necklace with a glowing orb that alerts when an awoken Child of Gods is near by. With the necklace and the plead of Mataya the mortals set out to find the Children of Gods, facing perils and difficulties they were not expecting. They have, so far, succeeded in finding the Children of Gods and protecting them. The Children of Gods currently found, in the order they were discovered, are: Kamala Divinus, Liam Santua, Valeria Santua, Ozymandias Luminat, Taya Divinus, Lilah Willowbrooke, Tai Farreach and Ren Whitewater.

After the first two Children of Gods were found Tranquil City in the Seat of Gods rumbled, as if an earthquake, and started to whisper of a new building created by the Gods. Elysium, the safe haven for the Children of Gods. It was quickly learned that only those trusted by the Children of Gods, the Clergy, the Kings and Queens, and those temporarily given access by the Gods could enter the building without being forced out. Several of the Children of Gods have been found by the mortals and those Children have begun their tasks from the Gods.

In tangent with the search for the Children of Gods, Queen Missiah, under orders of Ossian, set forth the people of Atharia to find a creature that Ossian wanted found, something called 'Song of the Sea'. As with all missions from the Gods there was no solid details to just what the 'Song of the Sea'. Missiah Choisi, Taya Divinus, Ozymandias Luminart, Valeria Santua, and Hilda found the Song of the Sea, who are merfolk, and brought it back to Tranquil City where Mataya took the mermaids away then some months later created a haven for them in House of God Mataya. Lilah Willowbrooke, Tai Farreach, Taya Divinus, Ozymandias Luminat, Larthin,Berilys Fielding, and Ren Whitewater were also involved with finding the 'Lost Gods'. With a book provided by Ren Whitewater they learned how to find the Lost Gods, as on the last pages of the books were what looked line instructions. They went into the lands of The Seat of Gods and to the spot where 'Mataya fell'. In the caverns below they found the twin Lost Gods.

When Ossian fell to the earth from Larthin’s eye, and created night and day something else was created, a moon at night and a sun. When night became a thing with Ossian’s fall and the moon formed, a figure came from it, still too dark for some mortals to see what it was. However, the other Gods saw what the figure emerging from the Moon was, another God. As the Moon God started to fly across the sky on luminescent wings and the sky began to light up with twinkling stars, hundreds of them. As Ossian stood, bringing the light, the unnamed Moon God that started to fly across the sky with luminescent wings, seemed to flee the forming sun. From the sun emerged another figure, pulling the sun up with it and pushing the moon away to follow behind the fleeing Moon God. The sun was so bright that it caused the stars created by the moon God to slowly fade away. The sun God was as beautiful as its counterpart and had wings of flames. The arrival of this God from the sun was missed by many mortals because it was so bright and shining. The Gods, as expected, witnessed the creation of the Sun God. Before more mortals could see these Gods they fled, hearing only the whisper of Ossian’s voice, their father, naming the Moon God, Hilal and the Sun God, Soleil. Soleil and Hilal are not Gods who frequently get seen by the mortals.

The mortals have found more of the Children and have made mythical creature discoveries. Kelvin and Jesse were asked by Hilal to seek out and pacify a creature that was taking honor from the mortals. They took out the leader of the medusas and saved the majority of Santuan villagers that had been turned to stone. Kelvin, Ozymandias and Drew found the Seventh God. Well, more that they felt a call from the God and were 'summoned'. They discovered a demanding dog in the market square and were pulled into the fountain, to a living room, where the Seventh God was. Masquerade, the Seventh God, spoke with them and awoke Drew as it's Child. Eventually the tale of how Masquerade came to be started to spread:

The birth of the seven main Gods of Atharia are tied to some abnormal way. They were not ‘birthed’ in the fashion that mortals are created. However, there is a major God that is an exception to this and that is the Seventh God, Masquerade. Masquerade is the First Child of the Children of Gods. They were born from a union of Larthin with a mortal he favored at the time. This is back well before the mortals were killed by Larthin. Masquerade was awoken the day they were born by Larthin and the name they originally had has been long since lost. Masquerade does not recall the original name it had nor whether it had any gender. Masquerade, the mortal, was believed to have failed the tasks it was given as a Child of Gods because very few stories circulated about it once the Seventh God was believed to have finished the Children of Gods tasks. Masquerade, however, did not fail its tasks. The Seventh God excelled at them, in fact. After it ascended with the successful completion of its tasks Masquerade preferred to keep a low profile, much to Larthin’s annoyance. Instead, the Seventh God opted to travel Atharia in various forms to help mortals, especially the Children of Gods. It did not have a consistent form it took so Masquerade was sometimes human, sometimes an animal or creature. No matter the form Masquerade too it was to help the mortals with whatever, especially the Children of Gods with their tasks from the other Gods. This lack of consistent forms did cause Masquerade to become a genderless human-like silhouette in their God form.

Return to 'The Story' or read the creation stories of the four found Gods.