Fasma

Consistency has never been my strength, nor that of this world I made. Since I began its creation I made mistakes, some lesser, some... more well-known.   I made rules, I broke them. I wanted perfection and learned to appreciate imperfections. For as much as you may think the world is coherent I can ensure you, my thoughts can be very incomprehensible even for me.   I am not perfect, nothing is. To live is to change, to learn from failure.
Why else do you think everyone messes up things so often?

— Fasma

Amongst all gods of the Cosmic Hourglass, one rules above as its creator: Fasma, the Celestial firekeeper. Someone that exists beyond reality's boundaries, she exists as both an observer and a guide to all that live across the multiverse, aiding them through subtle ways.

While her origins are unclear, her character is not, well known by those in the Wandering Flame's Church. Through their aid and the Fire Maiden's eyes and ears, she hopes to better the world. Or at least make it more lively to exist in.

Aspirations & Goals

Fasma's main goal is to learn more about her creation after her absence and guide it where necessary. To give purpose to those without it, to give meaning to existence, and just make being alive eventful. Though whether that is for the better or worse is debatable.

Tenets of Faith

Those that follow Fasma live by a simple question: How do you want to be remembered?

One tries to achieve a life they wish to preserve, no matter how mundane or insignificant it may sound. The story of a farmer is as crucial as that of the king, to be remembered by family is as important as your name being in the history books. There is nobody to be left forgotten.

And by that she does mean everyone, both the good and the bad. For every good deed to be used as an example, a failure may become a warning to others. To ignore one or the other is to become ignorant of the past, to let mistakes pile up or to become oblivious to the patterns of history.

Traditions

Rituals

• Lighting a candle: Households like to keep a single candle lit so that Fasma may watch over them. Commonly done during sickness or wishing improvement in one's life.
• Note Burning: Those wanting something off their chest write it down and burn it in a fire so that Fasma can hear it. Confessions are the most common with this tradition.

Holidays

• Festival of Flames: A summer festival to help bring together people and their tales. Often accompanied by spectacle, theatre and people sharing their experiences.
• Week of Warmth: Seven days dedicated to the end of the calendar year, based around doing good deeds and setting up promises for the new year. One last time for everyone to come together with friends and family to remember the old year.

Physical Description

General Description

Many depictions of Fasma show her as a middle-aged woman with long red hair and amber eyes. Shoulders remaining bare while wearing fingerless gloves, showing her arms covered in writing and tattoos. She commonly also wears a long white dress down to her ankles to show her wearing only sandals beneath, having her symbol at the center of her chest.

She commonly carries with her a torch staff lit with a cyan flame, while in the other she holds a thick tome worn by use over the years.

Every Fire Maiden that has seen her describe the details a bit differently: how tall she is, how her hair is kept, what race she is and so on. Either Fasma adjusts her appearance to each one, or their own perception filters out certain elements when gazing into the Celestial Realm.

Celestial Form

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Fasma's true Celestial form is an incomprehensible giant of a being, larger than the heavens to the point her presence warps space and time. A multi-faced goddess composed out of star-filled nights, arms reaching out to every direction all at once.

Her fiery hair is now a true sea of flames, crowned with a wheel turning above. The image of a true deity, the personification of everything there is, was and will be.

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Abilities

As a Celestial being, she exists outside the concepts of space and time, and therefor theoretically exists in all of it at once. Nothing in the Cosmic Hourglass can physically harm her, though debates do come up if psychological damage is possible.

Fasma stands above all as the god of gods, and therefor her power is absolute. Her words control existence, her will determines fate, if she wants something she can make it happen. One may argue she can act in such subtle ways nobody may notice it, though others assume she does not like using her full capabilities she would disrupt what is already brought into existence.

I could do so many things with the snap of my fingers, but I rather prefer nudging things into the right direction so it feels more natural.

— Fasma

Despite all her power, Fasma is neither omniscient nor all-knowing. For her to peak into the material, she relies on the light of the First Flame to do so or through the eyes of a Fire Maiden. At least, those are the known ways she observes the universe.

Mental Characteristics

Mannerisms

Despite her divine status, Fasma proves herself as mortal as all other living things in how she behaves. She rarely uses her authority as a creator deity over others, preferring to speak to someone on their level and even going as far to turn herself into an equal to do so.

She is known to have a morbid curiosity of the world, wanting to hear people's tales and what transpires within it. One question leads into another, rambling away or gushing about things that became irrelevant to the original subject hours ago. Sometimes she forgot what the original question even was, merely just enjoying the conversation.

Fasma's tendency to fixate on problems is one of her bigger weaknesses. Presented with one, she ignores all other things to try and fix it, or locks up when no obvious answer exists. She also fails to forget old problems she caused, wanting to rather move on than confront any of it.

She also is prone to ignore the forest for the trees, despite her greater understanding of the universe. Focusing too much on the details, trying to make things perfect on a level few would notice, if not ignoring the bigger consequences of doing so.

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