Hikuyo, The Jade Lady
Minor Goddess of the Moon, Transformation, Spirits, Beauty, and Loss
"...This was not how I imagined our first reunion in nigh-on 6,000 years to go, Dearest Cohrminahk." "Nor I. I had promised you next we met would be at the end - when I drove my knife into your heart after the last star in this wretched cosmos perished. Hahh...yet here I am - forced to walk amidst the trappings of a life that perished long ago by my own temporary demise..." "Feeling nostalgic, perhaps? After all, it was within this very room we once promised each other that we would remain together until our dying day." "Hardly. Had I the capacity, I would vomit. Moreover, had I the agency, I would rend this place down to its merest foundations - and you know as well as I that promise was rent asunder forever. Even this meeting, distasteful as it is, is a fleeting dream from which we shall both soon wake." "...You've changed, dearest Cohrminahk. You've grown so cold and cruel...does your heart not yearn for those times? For me?" "Cohrminahk died long ago beneath Fleth - and with him, his heart and soul. I am all that remains - and I have no need for nor the patience to entertain you. I am the undying manifestation of the promise he made to himself, once - to see the gods of this cosmos torn asunder and destroyed for what they did to you. I was close, this time. Next time...I will not fail. " "Perhaps you can delude your followers or yourself with those lies, dearest Cohrminahk, but not me. Any place I once held in your heart was replaced by cold, callous wretchedness a long time ago - all you do now, you do for the sake of your sick, spiteful Ego. You are an engine of hatred that has grown to relish in its wretchedness - nothing more." "Hng. Perhaps. But I am not the only one who has changed, dearest rabbit. Time has not been kind to either of us - though you have donned the more convincing disguise between us. What parts of the woman Cohrminahk once loved even remain, up here in this distant place? What parts remain that have not been twisted by 6,000 years of mortal adoration? I wonder. Were you not the guardian of what remains of my soul, I would perhaps delight in extinguishing you...alas, the weakness of Cohrminahk's heart drove him to relinquish it, and I suffer forever for his idiocy." "..." "...I must go now. We shall meet again, as I - as Cohrminahk - promised you, long ago. When I arrive to drive my black blade into your wretched heart at the end and finally cleanse this cosmos of the divine scourge. Until then, wipe that wretched look from your face - and enjoy this view of yours. It will afford you a pleasant view as I extinguish all life from the face of this planet - starting with the scattered divinities that now dot its surface."Titles: The Jade Lady, The Moon Maiden, The Jade Maiden, Mistress Meihui, The Jade Rabbit, The Royal Rebis, The White Widow, Keeper of the Sacred Locket Favored Weapon: Meteor Hammer Alignment: Neutral Good Obedience: Spend one hour carving, engraving, drawing, or otherwise marking the 77 foundational symbols of alchemy into a circle around you, filling and erasing it seven times over the course of the hour with quicksilver, mercury, or silvery water(If nothing else can be found). Once the hour is up, paint or mark the Taijitu upon your clothes or skin and whisper a prayer to The Jade Lady. Effect: Your attacks are treated as one degree more effective when dealing with incorporeal creatures(Wholly Ineffective -> 50% Effective -> 100% Effective), and you may add the Ectoplasmic Metamagic onto a spell as you cast it without increasing the spell level or casting time as an Immediate Action. Additionally, you may call upon the alchemical power of The Jade Lady to create any single alchemical item of your choosing 1/day and may, as a standard action, adjust the properties of a single held weapon such that it gains one additional quality for the purposes of overcoming DR(Good, Bludgeoning, Evil, Adamantine, Etc) - though the weapon's makeup is only superficially altered rather than fully transmuted. Only one alteration can be made to a weapon at a time, and making a second one resets any prior alterations. Any such alterations to a weapon made using this obedience last for 24 hours before reverting back to normal.
Divine Domains
Darkness, Death, Repose, Charm, Void(Isolation and Stars Subdomains Only), Magic(Alchemy and Rites Subdomains Only), Trickery(Espionage and Thievery Subdomains Only)
Artifacts
Due to the isolated, shrouded, and secretive nature of Hikuyo's faith, no information about her artifacts has ever been conclusively uncovered.
Holy Books & Codes
The Moonlit Tapestries
Divine Symbols & Sigils
The ancient proto-Inaran character for 'Moon' within a circle or crescent shape made to resemble a moon. Designs that are made with full circular moons are considered more ancient and/or 'antique' - relics of an earlier golden age of Hikuyo's faith - while the newer, crescent-shaped symbols are considered more "Modern" symbols of her faith.
Tenets of Faith
Pursue the Higher Mysteries. Seek the great mysteries of alchemy and the world at any cost.
Honor the Forebears. Never disrespect or dishonor one's ancestors, elders, or mentors - those or your enemies'. Seek out their wisdom, learn from it, and preserve it.
Create and Preserve Beauty. Find what is beautiful in the world and do not allow it to be forgotten or destroyed unless greater beauty would arise from its passing. Bring beauty where none exists.
Bridge the twin worlds. Wheresoever the mortal and supernatural realms collide, strive to educate both about the other that they may live in harmony. Combat the evils born of the heart with tutelage and training.
Peace to the departed. Protect the living from the harmful influence of the dead, and guide the spirits of the lost into salvation and redemption where you can. Never force a spirit to pass on through force if it is at all avoidable.
Holidays
Spirit's Arrival (The Winter Solstice)
Divine Goals & Aspirations
To see the the spirit world kept separated and safe from the Material Plane.
To teach the mortal races to overcome their fears and get used to the spirit world.
Protect and keep secret all that happens beneath the moonlit sky.
Keep the moon moving across the sky.
The world sucks. That's just a fact. She teaches that we don't have to be okay with that, that we can learn from those who came before, and do great things. That we don't have to be afraid. She teaches that we can make the world suck just a little bit less.
Divine Classification
Religions
Alignment
Lawful Good
Children
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