Real Name: The Green Ancient AKA… too
damn many to even try.
Age: Never ask. Just tell her she doesn’t
look a day over two thousand.
Occupation: THE Goddess (she makes us use all
caps)
Quote: “Tidal wave, tidal wave, fire,
famine, earthquake. Hmmm… looks like my week is all planned
out… better add an eclipse though. They love those.”
In
the beginning there was fear. No sooner had life emerged onto the
land of the primitive world than it cowered at the world about
it. The stark rocky terrain, the twisted prehistoric plants that
wrapped around anything they could dig their thorns into. Not to
mention the darkened sky above full of rage and rain, as well as
lightning in an almost constant stream. So without even a spoken
language they huddled together and prayed for help. They couldn’t
know where it would come from, or even if it would, but they really,
really hoped it would. And so from the darkness she came. Manifested
from sheer belief in something it was formless, but over time it
became more and more like those first creatures. And as they evolved
so did she. In time those beings ceased to be, but she did not.
Different cultures have called her different things on each of
the worlds she has visited, but the tone has never changed. She
is looked upon for help in times of great need. Fear being her
greatest asset and key to her belief she’s developed a bit
of a perverse sense of humor over the millennia and has taken to
toying with her worshipers by bringing them disasters of all manners
and then always being there to help afterwards.
Many times she’d had the power to ascend to a cosmic level
of deity, but at each turn she’d blow off the chance. Fearing
that would only make her part of some cosmic consciousness that
would only watch and never interact (the really big gods are real
slack-asses).
Instead she remained content living from world to world shaping
the inhabitants and playing her little games. However this disaster
was one she’d wished she had the power to contend with. However
while she was short, she was close. Close enough that a little
help and there was a chance.
And so The Three came together and through their combined will
and power, brought the MeshWorld into being.
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