IC INBOX ( KENOS ).

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█ To Commune with Set is to stand barefoot in an endless, scorching desert. The sun illuminates all, scalding the shadows themselves out from underneath whomever enters his dominion; the arch of gentle, distant, waves of sand mask the precarious chasms, towering dunes akin to mountains. The sense of vastness, timelessness, is of particular notice, lending itself to the alien, eldritch quality of his mind. There is a dark storm in the distance, and you know intimately that this divine being is far from benign. You cannot bargain with a force of nature. You can only survive it. COMPATIBLE WITH: Exalt, Iconoclast REPELLED BY: Advocate

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[muchalucha]

[ Set’s (a little surprising!) easy acceptance of their alliance sparks a warm joy, even with the caveats he applies. He would be completely within his right to think of her as a little simple, but that’s Quetzalcoatl for you. Even in her own pantheon, she wears her feelings more openly than most. ]

Mm, I won’t force you to do anything, I promise! But I can give advice, right? So, that’s what I meant by being nice! [ She’s simple, but at least insightful enough to pick up on the implication there, or at least guess at it. ] If you’re too grumpy, it’s scary!

[ She laughs warmly, since she’s teasing just a little bit. Characterizing Set as “grumpy” is probably a little of an understatement, but… She’ll at least move on from that subject, at least for now. She does have questions and a little concern over him claiming to work with Zenith, but that’s something they could talk about later, she thinks. She doesn’t want him to get defensive and withdraw completely, so the hope behind their faction’s promise is a better subject. ]

I think about the same. For my family it’s… Hm, it seems a little more complicated than other pantheons because of how our people believed in us. [ DON’T ASK, SET, IT’S FATE SHIT!!! ] But together, we’re all teotl, the expression of divinity and power, so we can all make and unmake the world. It could be unmade outside of us, sure! But then <>teotl itself would be gone, so my existence would go with it, you know? So, that’s why I’m sure. It’s out there, somewhere.

[ And, of course, she has to add: ]

…But tell me about your grandmother a little bit! If she’s a fellow god of the sun, obviously I’m curious! Is she like me at all?

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You say that now.

[ It won't take much, in his experience, to lead Quetzalcoatl to the conclusion that the only thing that she can do is force him into compliance. It not woe that has lead him to the conclusion that he is entirely incomprehensible, even to other gods, but experience, fact. Despite being made in the image of an orderly world, he had been given the power of one who would forever defy it; a god designed to carry the thankless burden of providing meaning to everything. Not even Ra herself had such authority. And Set, within Kenos, was kept far from such dominion.

Instead, he coveted war and disorder. The confusion of those with weak hearts and the conviction of those who clung to their desires; had he Anubis's shard ( — had he Horus's ), he would find no further meaning in playing dutiful Shard-bearer. True anarchy would reign from him. True anarchy might yet, if his deep paranoia consumes him... #yikes. ]

— yes, it is like that. Had the unmaking been full and true, I would not be here. I have yet to meet anyone before you, who truly comprehended the meaning of a divine presence. It is uninspiring, to know that only another god knows of it. Some of the other Shard-bearers were so naïve as to think that my sovereignty was delusion [ what a relief for kenos, that he's got people who acknowledge him, even slightly..... ] and not proof. I am proof that Meridian is correct. Yet, Zenith's conviction that the opposite is true is a matter I must investigate, still.

[ Two things can be true. After all, gods are impossibly contradictory! ]

Ra is the first and chief among us. She gave birth to herself, and in turn beget the lineage of the Ennead and the land of Kemet. I find her difficult to understand, she is the epitome of divinity and the furthest removed from the humans that my siblings and I ruled directly. I find her — funny. Annoyingly so. [ That's because Ra and Set think alike, about the world and their role within it. Even if he covets human-like attachment to family and lineage, in the way she rejects it. ] I can see similarities between the two of you, unfortunately. An inscrutable attitude of delight and joy, and —

[ He leans in, without preamble. Close to the waves of Quetzalcoatl's bright, golden hair in order to sniff her with his ever-sensitive nose; like this, he can smell the unique presence of her divinity, the elements of her like a peerless structure — each one a hint into her nature. ]

You are both very warm.

my html.......also no,,,,

[muchalucha]

[ It’s easy to imagine how his divinity being considered a delusion would bother Set. Even if she’s wrong about the full extent, she’s actually not far off with what she imagines. It’s something she knows (noticed?) about gods of other lands. Their divinity is fundamentally different from her own because the gods of Mesoamerica are both more and less than those distant gods. They have a different sense of pride when it comes to the mortals that believe in them. ]

Aw, don’t be so hard on them! Mortals are… Well! They don’t know better, right? The way we work is really hard for mortals to understand, I’ve noticed. That’s why we have priests to interpret things for them! Or, well, did, I guess. [ She laughs ] I loved my teopixqui, but it’s also probably better to not have any here!

[ Since even if it’s not a conflict for her, personally, how time has gone on since the height of her people’s empire as well as some of the knowledge from the Throne makes it clear: the human sacrifice part of rites wouldn’t go over well…

She listens attentively as Set describes Ra, and she smiles, warm and easy. Considering how easily she had taken to Set, of course she’s interested to hear about a god that shares her particular domains. It makes sense that they would have similarities in their personalities, for what could the sun be but joy and life? And, so, she simply laughs as Set takes a whiff of her.

There’s warmth in her presence, but in the smell are the other parts of her domain. She’s wind and lightning, clean and crisp as the air before a storm. Technically the sun was only a former domain… But the association stuck with Quetzalcoatl far more than it did to any of her other family members that had been the sun. ]

Sí, it sounds like we would definitely be friends, then! Or at least be interesting! My father, Tōnacātēcuhtli, he created himself like she did and the heavens, but then we four kids did all the hard work! So, it sounds like I’d have plenty in common!

[ But, Ra isn’t here. Set is, and so he’s the recipient of her affection. Since he’d smelled her hair, a very normal thing to do, she responds teasingly in kind by giving the crown of his head a playful ruffle. With all of the hair he has, it’s not quite as effective, but it’s the thought that counts. ]

And annoyingly funny is pretty good! If I get to be that, I’ll be muy contento!