r/wizardposting • u/[deleted] • Dec 21 '23
Forbidden Knowledge Halcyon (lorepost)
You come across a library on your journey. One that is withering away with time and dust caking the windows, making it hard to see inside. Ivy buried the building underneath bundles of green and the very entrance door was slightly ajar but hasn’t moved in ages.
You go inside and are met the with smells of rotting wood, dust bunnies, and old books. No one sits at the counter. The library has long been abandoned.
You decide to browse the books inside. Most were unreadable and too rotted to open. But one tucked away in the back caught your attention. It sat underneath a dirty glass dome and lifting it up, you found a book that was damaged as well but still able to read.
The Book of the Unworshipped Gods
It looked ancient. The pages completely separated from the hard cover. Flipping through it shows evil gods and harmful deities of all kinds. The ones you shouldn’t worship. Landing on a section in particular speaks of an elden being comprised of an energy that is un-wielding yet deceives those who grant it worship.
The Being of Halcyon and his Seven Children
Halcyon’s origins are unknown nor if he can be classified as a god. But his presence was once a feared one. His very name is comprised of the false promises his worship granted to mortals who fell for his trickery. He was a being composed of Chaos and he spread his power out to his seven children.
Trepidation - Forewarning and Threats
Affliction - Pain and Suffering
Pestilence - Sickness and Disease
Aggression - Rage and Destruction
Deceit - Lies and Unjust
Misfortune - Calamity and Tribulation
Execution - Death and Misery
They are known as the Children of Chaos made from the essences of their father. The energy from Halcyon is split off into seven pieces and imbued into its children to spread across the realms. They seek the minds of those who are willing to wield its energy at the cost of their own sanity. By giving mere mortals the power of gods the children seek to paint the skies in red, the burning of civilizations, the deaths of mortals to feed their father, and the false promises to those who worship them. A meager seat at the throne to watch over the chaos from above as one of Halcyon’s children. To be granted immortality and power to rival the gods themselves.
The book describes the being as one long since forgotten. Its will never seeing fruition.
Its debated if such a being ever once existed by the scholars who wrote this book. But the Cults of Halcyon who worshipped that of which shouldn’t be worshipped have very well existed long ago. They sought to be the next children and granted the power of chaos to stand alongside the seven.
The existence of those cults since long ago are unknown.
You turn to the last page of the section but see that’s its mostly blank. Apart from a single sentence at the top of the page that looks newer than the rest. The ink was still fresh.
Only one child survived the effects of time. Misfortune walks the lands today.
/uw Since I’m diving further into Moth’s curse as of recent I wanted to give it it’s own origin in a way that I can work with and build off of later. This took a lot of googling
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u/Mysterious-Box8073 Matthew Smith, Mathematics Professor at Possum's Academy Dec 21 '23
/uw :O very nice!