Quarae - Revision history

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Nyx: /* Introduction */

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Introduction

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History

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Sovereign at 00:58, 28 September 2021

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Demigods

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 ===Introduction===
-Quarae is a strange creature that's perhaps seen one of the longest and strangest histories among the other Gods. Starting her life as a God of Bravery, Valor, and Protection, through the course of her life each of her three domains has fully changed into her current state of the God of Fear, Desire, and Monsters. In addition to that, she's the only creator God to have all three of her domains change so radically. Her history itself is speckled with a number of strange and jarring events that have left her in her current state, the weakest and most neurotic of all the Gods, corrupted or living.
+Quarae is a strange creature that's perhaps seen one of the longest and strangest histories among the other Gods. Starting her life as a God of Bravery, Honor, and Protection, through the course of her life each of her three domains has fully changed into her current state of the God of Fear, Desire, and Monsters. In addition to that, she's the only creator God to have all three of her domains change so radically. Her history itself is speckled with a number of strange and jarring events that have left her in her current state, the weakest and most neurotic of all the Gods, corrupted or living.
 =History=

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 A number of Gods, like Azunath, grew more and more disgruntled with Quarae over the years that followed. None ever really directly lashed out at her. Despite how much of an annoyance and destructive influence she made herself, most of the Gods pitied her and still remembered her original form fondly. Quarae for her part in the matter only grew more pitiable the longer she was left to her own devices. Her form she took changed over the years, her actions and movements becoming more neurotic. The only time Quarae ever seemed to vaguely resemble herself was in the presence of Brazim.
-This was how Brazim, the God of Youth, was forced to grow up in a sense and become the keeper of Quarae. Their roles almost seemed to reverse. There was no one who felt worse about the entire situation than Brazim, who often blamed himself for the fact Quarae got hurt in the first place. He was the one who kept ignoring the rules. He was the one who led Quarae right into the jaws of the beast who broke her. He took responsibility for Quarae and for the rest of history until the Sundering one was never seen without the other, even when they took mortal avatars. Brazim always made certain that he was within arms reach of Quarae and Quarae almost seemed stable again as long as Brazim was around. Combine that with checkups from Maztyx and sometimes it seemed like Quarae was actually recovering. Bits and pieces of her original persona shining through.
+This was how Brazim, the God of Youth, was forced to grow up in a sense and become the keeper of Quarae. Their roles almost seemed to reverse. There was no one who felt worse about the entire situation than Brazim, who often blamed himself for the fact Quarae got hurt in the first place. He was the one who kept ignoring the rules. He was the one who led Quarae right into the jaws of the beast who broke her. He took responsibility for Quarae and for the rest of history until the Bleeding one was never seen without the other, even when they took mortal avatars. Brazim always made certain that he was within arms reach of Quarae and Quarae almost seemed stable again as long as Brazim was around. Combine that with checkups from Maztyx and sometimes it seemed like Quarae was actually recovering. Bits and pieces of her original persona shining through.
-Her progress was cut short by the Sundering. When Brazim went instead of Izonata. Quarae is notable among the Corrupted Gods because she wasn't one of the original seven who went to Venadak's aid. Izonata's original intention was to go but Brazim went in her stead. Quarae wasn't allowed to go because of the state she was currently in. She'd recovered a lot, and her Divine Spark had even recovered slightly, but Quarae was still considered to be unstable, and even if she was originally one of the most combatively aligned Gods, it was considered a risk no one wanted to really take. The trade-off for this decision was that when Brazim was corrupted, Quarae completely reverted in all of her progress.
+Her progress was cut short by the Bleeding. When Brazim went instead of Izonata. Quarae is notable among the Corrupted Gods because she wasn't one of the original seven who went to Venadak's aid. Izonata's original intention was to go but Brazim went in her stead. Quarae wasn't allowed to go because of the state she was currently in. She'd recovered a lot, and her Divine Spark had even recovered slightly, but Quarae was still considered to be unstable, and even if she was originally one of the most combatively aligned Gods, it was considered a risk no one wanted to really take. The trade-off for this decision was that when Brazim was corrupted, Quarae completely reverted in all of her progress.
 She went ballistic. For Quarae it was a slap in the face. She sacrificed so much to protect Brazim and then she couldn't prevent this? She rampaged, causing large amounts of damage to the surface of Muid before the other Gods stopped her. Brazim was the last thing keeping her grounded to her old self, so she completely threw it to the wind. Quarae saw the corruption two-fold. It was a way for her to get stronger and it was a way for her to be reunited with Brazim. Quarae believed that if she intentionally became corrupted, she would be able to regain some of the strength she'd lost, and she would be able to corrupt as much of the rest of the world as she desired. Then, there would also be no reason for the other Gods to live in Bel. They could all rejoin one another, like family, and they would be able to understand Quarae herself better than before. That thought is what sent Quarae to the point of no return.
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 ===Society of the Vermillion Wolf===
-The Vermillion Wolf is notable for being Quarae's first symbol. The wolf was something that often was associated with protection, loyalty, and combat, hence why wolves are animals associated both with Quarae's first self as well as Azunath. Vermillion, a shade of red, was associated with Quarae due to red being a color oft associated with fire, combat, and the regal phoenix. The Vermillion Wolf was therefore the symbol of Quarae prior to her fall and a symbol that Quarae's very first demigod took up in her honor. Prior to Quarae's fall, she only ever had one lover and by extension, she only ever had one Draedan. Her focus on the other Adac and acting as a protector often left her as the least interested in the mortal races prior to her accident, but the father of her Draedan was unique, her first champion and a loyal friend. That's perhaps the only reason she was willing to have her first child, Mirizion. Mirizion as such was the only child of Quarae to ever take after her mother's original domains and after Quarae's fall proceeded to found the Society of the Vermillion Wolf. The goal of the faction was original to help Mirizion strengthen her own Divine Spark in order to offer up its energy to Quarae in an attempt to repair Quarae's own, a task that was aided by a number of Draedan of other gods (most notably the Draedan of Brazim.) After the Sundering the goal of the Vermillion Wolves shifted slightly and became twofold. Those who were recognized Draedan with Divine Sparks continued to strengthen their own sparks by any means possible, avoiding routes that would lead to corruption like hunting other Draedan in Bel. Those without Divine Sparks would look for a means to cure the corrupted Gods.
+The Vermillion Wolf is notable for being Quarae's first symbol. The wolf was something that often was associated with protection, loyalty, and combat, hence why wolves are animals associated both with Quarae's first self as well as Azunath. Vermillion, a shade of red, was associated with Quarae due to red being a color oft associated with fire, combat, and the regal phoenix. The Vermillion Wolf was therefore the symbol of Quarae prior to her fall and a symbol that Quarae's very first demigod took up in her honor. Prior to Quarae's fall, she only ever had one lover and by extension, she only ever had one Draedan. Her focus on the other Adac and acting as a protector often left her as the least interested in the mortal races prior to her accident, but the father of her Draedan was unique, her first champion and a loyal friend. That's perhaps the only reason she was willing to have her first child, Mirizion. Mirizion as such was the only child of Quarae to ever take after her mother's original domains and after Quarae's fall proceeded to found the Society of the Vermillion Wolf. The goal of the faction was original to help Mirizion strengthen her own Divine Spark in order to offer up its energy to Quarae in an attempt to repair Quarae's own, a task that was aided by a number of Draedan of other gods (most notably the Draedan of Brazim.) After the Bleeding the goal of the Vermillion Wolves shifted slightly and became twofold. Those who were recognized Draedan with Divine Sparks continued to strengthen their own sparks by any means possible, avoiding routes that would lead to corruption like hunting other Draedan in Bel. Those without Divine Sparks would look for a means to cure the corrupted Gods.
 The Society of the Vermillion Wolf continued to grow far past what would have ever been expected of one of Quarae's other religious factions simply because the goal of the Vermillion Wolves made it accessible not just to the children of Quarae, but the Draedan of any corrupted Gods who didn't wish to go to Bel with their parents and instead wanted to try and help cure their parents. This included other children of Quarae, both those taking after Quarae's current domains and the rare one or two that somehow inherited her old domains. The Society of the Vermillion Wolf has since grown far past just a faction dedicate to Quarae and boasts a higher number of demigods than most other factions will ever receive.

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 During Atharen's earliest days this is the version of Quarae that was present. A knight protector. This is also what Quarae modeled her domain in Muid after. Unfortunately, also during the early days of Atharen, there was an... accident.
-After an accident involving Draz'Rizel and a nameless beast, the Gods had learned that venturing too far outside the planes created by Venadak could be dangerous. It was an unspoken rule that no one left after the planes were first created and they had Muid to call home. It was an unspoken rule that Quarae tended to follow. Brazim, the embodiment of what it meant to be childish, didn't. These were the only moment that Quarae disobeyed the rule. When Brazim went exploring. Quarae tended to follow after Brazim, speaking warnings but never straying from his side. It was during one of these sessions that Brazim stumbled across something. A monster. Old and powerful, nameless and dark. Something that had to potential to prove a threat. So Quarae's instincts as the kind of God she was kicked in and she sent Brazim away before braving the beast herself. Brazim immediately returned to the other Gods and told them what had happened. Having seen something similar before it was Venadak and Izonata themselves who went to go assess the situation and hopefully retrieve Quarae.
+After an accident involving Courlan and a nameless beast, the Gods had learned that venturing too far outside the planes created by Venadak could be dangerous. It was an unspoken rule that no one left after the planes were first created and they had Muid to call home. It was an unspoken rule that Quarae tended to follow. Brazim, the embodiment of what it meant to be childish, didn't. These were the only moment that Quarae disobeyed the rule. When Brazim went exploring. Quarae tended to follow after Brazim, speaking warnings but never straying from his side. It was during one of these sessions that Brazim stumbled across something. A monster. Old and powerful, nameless and dark. Something that had to potential to prove a threat. So Quarae's instincts as the kind of God she was kicked in and she sent Brazim away before braving the beast herself. Brazim immediately returned to the other Gods and told them what had happened. Having seen something similar before it was Venadak and Izonata themselves who went to go assess the situation and hopefully retrieve Quarae.
 They were quite thankfully able to retrieve the God, but something had happened to Quarae. While she paled in comparison to Venadak and Izonata, Quarae had originally been one of the stronger Gods. This wasn't the case anymore. Going from one of the strongest, Quarae had become one of the weakest. She stood her ground against the beast, but the repercussion was that a part of her Divine Spark has quite literally been devoured. A piece of her gone in an instant. It did things to Quarae. Sadly, there wasn't anything any of the other Gods could even do.

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 Quarae's palace sits in the middle of the bazaar, the best place to go-to for truly exotic items or rare requests. Though Quarae's prices, in turn, are often the steepest and have a tendency of forever binding the buyer to the bazaar and Quarae. Her cheapest prices usually demand help in increasing the population of monsters in her bazaar, which can be accomplished through a number of different means with each one being more disgusting or morally reprehensible than the last. While the bazaar is colorful, Quarae's personal palace is best known for its color scheme of dark shades, most often red, gray, and black.
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+Valkvangr is the long-abandoned Muid realm of Quarae. Where Valkvangr differs from the other abandoned realms is that Valkvangr is actually still tended to regularly.
 =Demigods=

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	===Mirizion===		===Mirizion===
	The single most well known Draedan of Quarae is Mirizion herself. The founder of the Society of the Vermillion Wolf, Mirizion is often referred to as ''The'' Vermillion Wolf. She's exceedingly loyal to Quarae, or more specifically the original version of Quarae, and her domains as a Draedan are identical to what her mother's were. Mirizion is still well known because she's one of the most active demigods on Atharen and actively preaches the old dogma of Quarae and tells people about the kind of person Quarae used to be as she tries to recruit new Wolves in the name of saving her mother and the other corrupted Gods. Mirizion is at liberty to travel the world as openly as she does because her domains have led her to a specialization in combat that's borderline obscene. The risks of attacking her far outweigh the benefits for most and her age certainly makes her a continual threat. That being said, she often doesn't engage in fights when she's present on Atharen, most of her time is dedicated to finding ways to strengthen her Divine Spark and visit other planes in the name of helping Quarae get back to her former prowess. A lot of people have argued back and forth whether Mirizion has grown into a lesser god or if the amount of energy from her Divine Spark she pours back into her mother has resulted in her ability to reach full realization to be stifled.		The single most well known Draedan of Quarae is Mirizion herself. The founder of the Society of the Vermillion Wolf, Mirizion is often referred to as ''The'' Vermillion Wolf. She's exceedingly loyal to Quarae, or more specifically the original version of Quarae, and her domains as a Draedan are identical to what her mother's were. Mirizion is still well known because she's one of the most active demigods on Atharen and actively preaches the old dogma of Quarae and tells people about the kind of person Quarae used to be as she tries to recruit new Wolves in the name of saving her mother and the other corrupted Gods. Mirizion is at liberty to travel the world as openly as she does because her domains have led her to a specialization in combat that's borderline obscene. The risks of attacking her far outweigh the benefits for most and her age certainly makes her a continual threat. That being said, she often doesn't engage in fights when she's present on Atharen, most of her time is dedicated to finding ways to strengthen her Divine Spark and visit other planes in the name of helping Quarae get back to her former prowess. A lot of people have argued back and forth whether Mirizion has grown into a lesser god or if the amount of energy from her Divine Spark she pours back into her mother has resulted in her ability to reach full realization to be stifled.
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		+	===Dalgeth===
		+	If Mirizion was representative of the Vermillion Wolf, then Dalgeth was representative of the Valkyrie. Not actually the child of Quarae, but the grandchild, Dalgeth was actually the firstborn daughter of Mirizion and followed in Mirizion's footsteps. No one has ever been able to confidently say what Dalgeth's original race was, but Dalgeth over time became most well known for the pair of large, golden wings she sported. Dalgeth was just as loyal to her mother and grandmother as her mother was to Quarae, but she was most well known for the fact Dalgeth disappeared from history relatively early on while her mother stayed extremely prevalent. While there have been a scant few sightings of the demigod to prove that she hasn't died, she's gone well under the radar when compared to Mirizion and has been recorded as being particularly difficult to find.

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 =Depiction=
-The absolute oldest depictions of Quarae have her depicted mostly in knight's regalia. If anything, Quarae's first depictions are what really shaped the culture of what is a "knight". The ideals of chivalry and nobility were ones spawned from her image. It was worth noting that all of the first depictions of Quarae were beautiful women in thick armor with an air of regality. A lot of her depictions showed her with golden hair, golden eyes, and skin that ranged of any color. Dark skin was a common one for Quarae's earlier depictions.
+The absolute oldest depictions of Quarae have her depicted mostly in knight's regalia. If anything, Quarae's first depictions are what really shaped the culture of what is a "knight". The ideals of chivalry and nobility were ones spawned from her image. It was worth noting that all of the first depictions of Quarae were beautiful women in thick armor with an air of regality. A lot of her depictions showed her with golden hair, golden eyes, and skin that ranged of any color. Dark skin was a common one for Quarae's earlier depictions. It's worth mentioning that a lot of Quarae's early depictions included her two 'symbols'. The Vermillion Wolf and the Valkyrie, which were representative of Quarae's faith. After her accident, Quarae didn't take up any new symbols, instead just butchering the Valkyrie to resemble something closer to a Kindred and outright abandoning the Vermillion Wolf.
 Later depictions of Quarae after her accident would start a trend of constantly trying to depict her as more and more monstrous. In depictions where Quarae was noticeably more human, she'd often display completely stark white hair, skin that was pale and clammy, and deranged white eyes. Even in her more human depictions, many people tended to paint Quarae's later images with vaguely unsettling features like teeth that were too sharp and nails that were too long, or making her features just ever so slightly disproportionate to the point they didn't look like any of the mortal races common found on Atharen. The majority of her later depictions though didn't even bother to try and give the allusion of humanity. Sometimes she was a woman with the lower body of various insects, other times she was simply depicted as a writhing mass of tentacles that ripped and tore at anything within reach. People often consider the most accurate art of Quarae to be the art that makes her the most terrifying, truly transforming the once elegant and noble God into various eldritch monstrosities.

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 The Society of the Vermillion Wolf continued to grow far past what would have ever been expected of one of Quarae's other religious factions simply because the goal of the Vermillion Wolves made it accessible not just to the children of Quarae, but the Draedan of any corrupted Gods who didn't wish to go to Bel with their parents and instead wanted to try and help cure their parents. This included other children of Quarae, both those taking after Quarae's current domains and the rare one or two that somehow inherited her old domains. The Society of the Vermillion Wolf has since grown far past just a faction dedicate to Quarae and boasts a higher number of demigods than most other factions will ever receive.
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+=The Dread Bazaar=
+The Dread Bazaar is Quarae's home within Bel. As the name implies, it's a market of sorts where someone's greatest wishes and desires can be found. It's said that anything a person could ever want for could be found within the Dread Bazaar. However, nothing is without its price. Often times the prices found in the Dread Bazaar aren't physical. Gold and silver aren't enough. The prices vary wildly in the Bazaar, with each stall being tended by a different monster. A creature given sentience, a corrupted child of Quarae. These monsters ask for prices which are more along the lines of a piece of the buyer's soul, or a thousand years trapped under the monster's command. Those are the tamest asking prices. Some of the more valuable items go for prices that are truly disgusting. Asking the buyers to subject themselves or a proxy to all manner of humiliation and loss. These prices follow the buyer from one life to the next as well if they're unable to pay it off in one. Some of the prices can even block someone from entering the afterlife, immediately forcing them back into the reincarnation cycle until they finish paying it off or someone steps in to pay it off for them. Proxies are common in the bazaar, servants, and slaves made to pay the price instead. Still, just possession and objects to be used for the sake of fulfilling one's desire.
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