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Memory 23
The Gods War (significant negative)(ref: HTK 133, 181-182, KoG 245-246)
Description: Yeine POV:
This next one blurs a little with Naha being trapped in mortal flesh, but there's definite overlap.
And Sieh POV:
And I feel like there are other references, but I'm not sure big enough to warrant citing. That's basically how talking about the Gods War goes. (Actually, Gods War II, but...)
Anyway, the gist of it is that there were five days of the primal forces of the universe going crazy and life itself failing because Enefa was dead. Naha and Tempa primarily fought in the gods' realm, but the godlings spilled onto the mortal plane and continued the business of fucking up all of the things. Naha's rage infected the children who fought with her (they refer to Naha as him in the memories because that's how he identifies at the time of the conversation, she was female at the time of the war, to the extent that she identified as anything during the war itself). Naha and Tempa both killed scores of their own children during the fight—and Naha's side was winning until Shahar's move at the end.
So, that is about the shape of things.
Notes:
+NOT SAFE FOR SHARING. Ever. At all. For anyone. Most of it takes place on a non corporeal plane that's not healthy for mortal brains at the best of times, and it is entirely suffused with the crazy. It's pretty clearly stated that Naha and Tempa's fight wasn't something mortal minds could comprehend. Uh. So. Awesome that it's so very sharable, huh? I actually doubt Naha will share it, unless someone really wants to see it, in which case she wouldn't stop them IC.
+Amazing timing, considering that Naha got to relive the sig neg memory that directly precedes this in the game. Sob.
+100 crazy I'm sorry.
+This is interesting! Naha has up until this point primarily associated rage and violence with a male presentation. This changes that in a big way, since it is righteous fury destroying goddess stuff. Context being what it is, this might actually strengthen Naha identifying as female in Aather, but as always I'll kind of roll with that as things come.
Form: Caged birds.
Uses Left: 6 of 7
Description: Yeine POV:
And try as I might, I could not sift the truth from what I'd read. All of the accounts cited the same series of events: the weakening of the world, in which every living thing from forests to strong young men had grown ill and begun to die. The three-day storm. The shattering and re-formation of the sun. On the third day the skies had gone quiet, and Itempas appeared to explain the new order of the world.
This next one blurs a little with Naha being trapped in mortal flesh, but there's definite overlap.
Above, a sky out of nightmare. I could not say if it was day or night. Both sun and moon were visible, but it was hard to say which was which. The moon was huge and cancerously yellow. The sun was a bloody distortion, nowhere near round. There was a single cloud in the sky and it was blacknot dark gray with rain but black, like a drifting hole in the sky. And then I realized it was a hole, because something fell through——
Tiny figures, struggling. One of them was white and blazing, the other black and smoking; as they tumbled, I could see fire and hear cracks like thunder all around them. They fell and fell and smashed into the earth nearby. The ground shook, a great cloud of dust and debris kicked up from the impact; nothing human could have survived such a fall, but I knew they were not—
I ran. All around me were bodies—not dead, I understood with the certainty of a dream, but dying. The grass was dry and dessicated, crackling beneath my bare feet. Enefa was dead. Everything was dying. Leaves fell around me like heavy snow. Ahead, just through the trees—
"Is this what you want? Is it?" Inhuman fury in that voice, echoing through the forest shadows. Following it came a scream of such agony as I have never imagined—
I ran through the trees and stopped at the edge of a crater and saw—
O Goddess, I saw
And Sieh POV:
"Boredom," she said. "Experience. The usual. During the War, it was the ones who’d spent the most time among mortalkind, defining their natures, who survived best." Her eyes narrowed. "Not that you helped."
"I fought the madman who destroyed our family," I said wearily. "And yes, I fought anyone who helped him. I don’t understand why everyone acts like I did a horrible thing."
"Because you — all of you who fought for Naha — lost yourselves in it," Egan snapped, her body tensing so with fury that her paramour lifted his head to blink at her in surprise. "He infected you with his fury. You didn’t just kill those who fought; you killed anyone who tried to stop you. Anyone who pleaded for calm, if you thought they should’ve been fighting. Mortals, if they had the temerity to ask you for help. In the Maelstrom’s name, you act like Tempa was the only one who went mad that day!"
And I feel like there are other references, but I'm not sure big enough to warrant citing. That's basically how talking about the Gods War goes. (Actually, Gods War II, but...)
Anyway, the gist of it is that there were five days of the primal forces of the universe going crazy and life itself failing because Enefa was dead. Naha and Tempa primarily fought in the gods' realm, but the godlings spilled onto the mortal plane and continued the business of fucking up all of the things. Naha's rage infected the children who fought with her (they refer to Naha as him in the memories because that's how he identifies at the time of the conversation, she was female at the time of the war, to the extent that she identified as anything during the war itself). Naha and Tempa both killed scores of their own children during the fight—and Naha's side was winning until Shahar's move at the end.
So, that is about the shape of things.
Notes:
+NOT SAFE FOR SHARING. Ever. At all. For anyone. Most of it takes place on a non corporeal plane that's not healthy for mortal brains at the best of times, and it is entirely suffused with the crazy. It's pretty clearly stated that Naha and Tempa's fight wasn't something mortal minds could comprehend. Uh. So. Awesome that it's so very sharable, huh? I actually doubt Naha will share it, unless someone really wants to see it, in which case she wouldn't stop them IC.
+Amazing timing, considering that Naha got to relive the sig neg memory that directly precedes this in the game. Sob.
+100 crazy I'm sorry.
+This is interesting! Naha has up until this point primarily associated rage and violence with a male presentation. This changes that in a big way, since it is righteous fury destroying goddess stuff. Context being what it is, this might actually strengthen Naha identifying as female in Aather, but as always I'll kind of roll with that as things come.
Form: Caged birds.
Uses Left: 6 of 7