Pekepeti-Brother Water

LG male deity of: Kolobvol, water, travel, law, sailors, fishing, and writing

Edicts: Follow the laws of the Kolobvol, respect the waters, travel as far and as often as you can, fish only to eat what you fish, write down what you know for the future generations.

Anathema: Break the laws of the kolobvol without reason, go swimming without checking the water first, if possible, tay stagnant, fish for sport rather than for food, keep what you know secret.

Divine Attribute: Constitution or Intelligence

Religious Symbol: A calm shoreline, with a conch shell.

Sacred animal: Mosasaur

Sacred colors: Blue, cyan, gray

Devotee Benefits

Cleric Spells: 1st: Hippocampus retreat (except that your bottom half becomes that of a mososaur, rather than a hippocampus), 4th: Coral Eruption, 7th: Dancing Fountain

Divine Font: healing

Divine Sanctification: holy

Divine Skill: athletics

Domains: Water, travel

Favored weapon: Spear

Aphorisms

The law of the ocean: While this is often misused to represent a "Law of the jungle" mentality, it is a phrase that followers of Pekepeti use to refer to the hierarchical situations in life. Air is more important than food, food is more important than clothing, clothing is more important than entertainment. That sort of logic is quite often used in the legal codes of the kolobvol.

What a trench: Refers to a situation that is both really bad and difficult to get out of, like a deep-sea trench.

Champions

Champions of Pekepeti are fairly common, in fact, among the tribes champions are most plentiful in the riverside temples of Brother Water. These are places of law and cleansing. It is the duty of the champions to cleanse the water as it flows downstream, and they take this duty very seriously, as the river water is the only source of potable fresh water on outer Daebzat.

These champions are more defensive than those of other tribes, but other than the fire tribe, and the iron tribe, they suffered the most, as they were often on the front lines of battles that could not be retreated from, and during the battle of dual-peaks, one-hundred champions of Pekepeti and two-hundred newly anointed champions of Gaepyolaenga held the line against two-thousand Jant for three days until aulven reinforcements arrived to turn the tide of battle. Only forty Kolobvol survived the battle, but all forty are among the greatest songs ever told for the Kolobvol, though only a dozen remain from those battles, and none are still actively fighting, though most still hold positions of honor in Kolobvol society.

History

Pekepeti was a warrior after the age of Aepyozoi -Skybrother's ascension. The Jant in the mountains had begun to dam the rivers, and the tribes had begun to go thirsty, rationing their water. Pekepeti went in search of water, when not enough was found in outer Daebzat, he took his brave warriors into the inner desert through the pass that Gaepyopizi-Worldsister had found over a millenia previously.

His men fought through trial and tribulations, fighting beasts up until then only perceived in nightmares. They had dowsing rods, and found small amounts of water in plants, but not enough to satiate the kolobvol. The warriors were lost in the desert for months, battling the terrible heat of the desert sun, and the horrors of the crater. Many were lost to a giant ooze that devoured them in an instant.On a later date, they came upon a pit of giant scorpions that attacked, and dozens of the warriors fell. Giant flying dinosaurs would occasionally pick off warriors, and sand lions the size of horses would pull unsuspecting kolobvol down into their sandy dooms.

At one point a blindfolded humanoid woman with a small well, in a desert cave, who had snakes for hair offered to help them find their way to an oasis but it would cost them one of their number to stay with her. The Kolobvol hero Line-in-sand offered himself for the duty, and the sanke-haired woman pointed them in the direction of the sand nomads. She told them that they would need to show the nomads respect, and give them honor, and in return they would be seen as kin, and would be shown the way to the oasis.

The remaining kolobvol, now all memorialized heroes in the tales of the tribes found the Desert nomads, who would later be known as the desert Jant, and offered them silk dyed in the colors of the sand, and half of their remaining honey. The Jant were so impressed by the quality of the silk, and the flavor of the honey that they accepted Pekepeti as kin, and his men as blood to the desert Jant, an honor that has allowed the Kolobvol their aid in later difficulties with the other jant tribes.

After ten more days, the desert Jant arrived at the oasis, and the Kolobvol were given one magical bag each, that could contain enough water for hundreds with the weight of an empty giant's pack. Then they were given a compass by the Jant chieftain, and told to go straight south. With the compass in hand, the kolobvol only had one more obstacle as they travelled, the rune Jant Korkorexes. he had come to obtain water for his tribe and had come across the Kolobvol as they trekked south. Neither group wanted to fight, but Korkorexes refused to allow the Kolobvol to go without an offering, and told them that they could pay the tax of half of their water bags, and he would let them live.

Pekepeti could not let this happen, but neither could he allow his men to fight Korkorexes, who was a mighty warrior even among the rune tribe, so he made the Jant a deal, forcing him to swear to uphold his end by Pekepeti's own law. Korkorexes thought this was a silly stipulation, and had no intention of following Kolobvoli law, but agreed to the challenge, thinking if he lost that he could simply double-cross the kolobvol. The following day, the challenge would be set, and during that time, Pekepeti was allowed to send half his men aaway, so long as they left their water skins.

The challenge was to see who could get higher above the dunes. Whichever side won would have to give up their water skins to the other side. Korkorexes laughed, and agreed instantly, climbing the tallest dune and jumping high into the air, more than doubling his own prodigious height with the effort. Pekepeti removed his gear and took out the skysail he and his men had crafted in the night. Korkorexes was confused at how a strange shaped object would allow Pekepeti to climb into the sky, but Peblui- Sister Flame and Aepyozi smiled upon the kolobvoli hero and a hot wind picked up, and the sail shot into the sky, a single threat of Tipø trailing from it, held by Pekepeti's men prevented him from sailing away, but was long enough to more than double the height that Korkorexes had jumped.

Enraged, and thinking himself immune to retrubution, Korkorexes attacked, slaying one of the nobel Kolobvoli heroes, but then he stilled, and jerked, massive spears filled his body from all directions. The desert tribe had come, called here by the warriors that Pekepeti had sent away the previous night, and had seen Korkorexes break the law of their kin, Desert Jant law, and the punishment for doing so, and causing violence to their blood was execution. So it was that Korkorexes, the next in line to become The Mountain King fell bloody upon the dunes. Pekepeti once again gave honor to the Jant, and offered them the bags of Korkorexes as a sign of unity between their people. The Jant accepted, and guided Pekepeti the remainder of the way south, as brothers and sisters.

Pekepeti returned with the compass and the bags, bringing hope and water to his beleagered people. Once the Kolobvol began to dring, Pekepeti stepped into the trickling stream of his village and melted into the water. He ascended at that time. To this day, the water tribe and the desert Jant share their unique laws, separate from other jant and kolobvol, and it is the sworn duty of each to uphold those laws for the other. The dozen desert Jant who died in The Daebzat Crater War perished rescuing their water tribe kin from the overwhelming force of their jant siblings.

The Church

The temples are where inter-tribal disputes occur, as all of the tribes trust the water tribe to be fair and impartial. With the Frost Jant almost all gone from Daebzat, new temples have been founded in their empty halls on frozen peaks of tall mountains, entire dead cities that once belonged to the Frost Jant now exist as permanent sanctuaries for the kolobvol, and they are guarded by the extensive military wings of Pekepeti and Gaepyolaenga- Mercurial Maiden.

There are also temples on the now free-flowing rivers of outer Daebzat, for the purposes of water cleansing, and the great water-temple build into a glass cylinderthat spirals down into the heart of Tal kët - The Waters of Life the great oasis in the center of Gënlèul.

Followers

Followers of Brother water are lawmakers, warriors, cleaners, travelers and others who swear duty-bound oaths, as well as a number of desert Jant. These followers are often seen as steadfast and true, and any lawmaker who breaks their own laws are punished with solitary exile for a time period fitting the crime.

Relationships

Pekepeti has a warm relationship with most of The Ancient Ægadia. He provides the water for Pyotyukae- They of the Flowers and Trees and their plants. He provides the rain that fills the clouds of Aepyozoi -Skybrother's comrades, the clouds, as repayment for the winds during the challenge of Korkorexes, and despite disagreeing often with Peblui, he alway offers her the valuables from their squabbles, and thus her temples and tribe are given all of the obsidian by right of repayment. Gaepyopizi-Worldsister and Pekepeti have similar mentalities on the world, even if, ironically, Worldsister sees Pekepeit as a bit rigid. After the battle of dual peaks Pekepeti has formed a close attachment to Gaepyolaenga, and their two tribes interact more than most kolobvoli tribes, even outside of the central city.

En-shanni-Vatti-Brother Shadow has a sort of grudging respect for Pekepeti among all the Ancient Ægadia , as he has proved through his quick wit and cunning that he has skills that make him respectable in Brother Shadow's black eyes. Storyteller has earned Pekepeti's respect for spreading word of the heroes who travelled with Pekepeti, and giving them remembrance among the tribes. Pekepeti is also often the final deciding factor between divine matters within the Ægadia.

The Eternal Truth is a respected ally of Pekepeti, as it too is knowledgable about laws, and will occasionally help Pekepeti interpret laws in clear ways. Pekepeti has less interaction with Ashana than the other Ægadia, as she is focused outside of Daebzat, and his role is more defensive, and she actively sows discord in Galvander's lands, which Pekepeti appreciates, but cannot actively support, though he can assist in getting the freed slaves home, once they enter open water. Galvander is hated by Pekepeti, though he has a grudging respect for the order, if not the morality by which the tyrant king governs. The mountain King hates Pekepeti almost as much as he hates Brother Shadow, for killing the great hero of his people, though ironically, if Pekepeti had not, the current Mountain king would have been very unlikely to ascend the to the high seat. Pekepeti respects Tvohhdknohd Tvokhkhzohk- Ocean Queen, and has, if any deity has, built something of a rapport with her, and she now allows him dominion around the shores of Daebzat, and gifted him the alliance conch, which allows him to talk to her directly, though he has only used it in the reverse, on three occaasions when she reached out to him to converse. Finally, Pekepeti believes that The Interested Party is a secretive menace.

Divine Allies

Pekepeti has a small retinue of archons and Aeons.

Eschexthelon (Giylea Archon)- An especially powerful wheel archon, Eschexthelon serves as Pekepeti's right hand, giving advice where necessary and meting out justice readily on behalf of Brother Water. Unlike other Giylea, the wings of Eschexthelon are made of waves, rather than flames, and his eyes are blue, rather than red.

The twins Vigilix and Codilix (Vigilia Aeon): With the laws of Kolobvol and Desert Jant two great Vigilia were crafted by Pekepeti to perfectly codify the laws, those are Vigilix, who contains every Desert jant law, and Codilix, who contains every law of the kolobvol. They were originally constructed as servants, but when they showed great intellect and comraderie, they quickly ascended to be Pekepeti's closest advisors.

Divine Intercession

In certain situations where a great lawmaker or defender of law must uphold the laws of the land by force of arm, Pekepeti grants his blessing.

Minor boon: Once, for one hour you gain resistance to all damage equal to your level (minimum 5)