Face of the Nameless God

Once there was a God in the Heavens whose name has since been lost to time, now known only as the Nameless God. When the Giant Kingdom fell, much of his faith was lost, and all organized sects of his worship went away with it. Over time, he was all but forgotten.   What did this God look like? Not even those who have seen him know. The members of the United Holy Front who, alongside Divine Amukk fought and killed the Nameless God twice returned with no memory of what the God or his Heavenly Realm looked like, and even his followers were not certain. It seemed there was a power he had to keep his identity a mystery, whether it was of his own free will or not.  

A Graven Visage

A statue exists on the southern coast of the largest landmass in the Northern Islands archipelago. Partially sunk in the sand, only the head of what may have once been a massive, full-body statue remains. Was it Selene's Fury that destroyed the rest? A war between Giants and Oni? Some other tragedy? No one knows for certain, but the mystery does not end there.   There are rumors that this statue was of one of the great Giant Kings or one of the mages that helped rule in their courts, but while many traditions from the ancient kingdom have been lost, some of those statues and records still exist, and observable traditions show that Giant Kings were given smaller statues engraved with their names and deeds on them. The acts of man were vulnerable to the twists and turns of time, and to be immortalized, they needed to be engraved on the stone. But, as can be observed from another surviving statue from the Giant Kingdom, of the Goddess Athena in her Church, the Gods were eternal and all were expected to know their deeds, domains, and names from just one look at them.   There are no engravings on the statue of Athena, and there are none on this statue either. Therefore, if it is a King, it is a King with divine blood, perhaps a Demigod like Asa (though tales of Asa herself indicate that the concept of Demigods was largely foreign to the ancient Giants, and if there was a Demigod King with such high honor as to earn a large statue with no engravings, some record of him in other folklore or tradition would have survived, as Asa's tale did.   So whoever this statue was made to depict, it must have been someone divine and universal to the ancient Giants of the Giant Kingdom. With so few records, one must toss out the idea of it being a created God of the Giants, one that has no other history or tradition. While cults have existed as far back as the ancient cults around the Dragon Lords, and still exist with things like the Paragons of Unity and Sanguine Ketchup, the idea that this belongs to a cult figure is discarded by most scholars who actually seek a concrete answer, as it would simply be shrugging their shoulders and giving up on finding the true identity of the statue's inspiration.   Of course, one name comes up in all of this: the Nameless God.   No one is certain why the Nameless God has so little left of his faith. Was it all targeted by Selene and the other Gods when the Kingdom fell? Was it an edict of his faith that he not be depicted in any artistic renderings? If so, was this statue against the tenets of his own religion?   As no records of him exist, save for the fact that he was a God primarily worshipped in the Giant Kingdom, and that he likely resembled the Ancient Giants more than any other God nowadays does, what little evidence there is lines up perfectly for this head to have been intended to depict him. After all, it could be someone like Asa if not for the fact that the statue has a beard and she, most likely, did not.   It is not a concrete theory, but it is the most widely believed, that this is a statue of the Nameless God from the years when his name was still known and his religion the most practiced in all of Totania. If it is him, it is the only surviving depiction of the deity. Without even a name, this face is lost in a sea of speculation and mystery.  

The Look of a God?

The statue itself depicts the sunken features of an elderly man with a long beard. On the upper part of his head, covering his hair, sits a traditional Giant war helmet. His eyes are looking out listlessly off the coast, and it appears that he looks out in the direction of Nerodil (though the question has been asked of if that was his original position before the destruction of his base, and before he was discovered by adventurers from Nerodil who would benefit from this divine statue seemingly "blessing" their city).   Made of the stone found on the island, some believe this massive statue (which is 164 feet tall with just the head) may have been carved out of a mountain that once sat on the island, while others say it was likely an earth mage from a nearby settlement who carved it.   Sadly, all that can be done around this statue is speculate. Who did this truly belong to? Why was it carved? Was it an official statue of the God and Kingdom, or was the creation of it an act of blasphemy and treason? Will the identity of the disembodied head ever be discovered? And why does he look so terribly sad?  

Myth, Legend, and Rumor

There are many myths about the Face of the Nameless God. Some say it is of someone who has not yet lived, sent back by Time Mages as a warning. Others say that the Nameless God lives on in the head, either blessing the Kingdom of Man by watching over Nerodil, or cursing it, with some even swearing the Face is responsible for the disappearance of the first King of Mankind, Gellark Lionrage, in the Northern Sea. If this is to be believed, Gellark is inside the Face, or was transported somewhere by it, and is being held captive (or dead).   There are plenty of other stories. Petrified Giants being decapitated, warning that there is some dangerous power one must not trifle with (a power which has since left the island that the statue had guarded), is one of the more outlandish tales. Another believes that the Nameless God's head, once severed by Amukk (if that was how the mortal-turned-God killed him) fell from Heaven down onto this island, and that this is not an image of the Nameless God, but the sole remnant of his holy body. Many more myths exist around this head, but this makes everything from the most normal to the most ridiculous things seem just as plausible.