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Isthekenous

  1. Champion of the Llegnais Pantheon
  2. Founder of the Aegum of Realities
  3. God-Hero Achetat
  4. The architect of the ‘folly of Gods’
  5. The God of Designs, of plans
  6. The Wandering Builder
  7. Warhost Leader of the Resprvchin Pantheon
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10.18 E Some aspects of the design itself bore the ‘fingerprints’ of multiple authors. But the majority had been created by Isthekenous.
10.18 E Who was Isthekenous?
Goblin Days (Pt. 2) — The Pilot and the Knight Isthekenous.
Goblin Days (Pt. 4) – Order, Oddity There was no error in its processes. There was nothing around Mrsha that explained what the hell that had been. The Grand Design ran as many searches as it could, including Isthekenous’ custom spells.
The Roots (Pt. 1) Isthekenous had found the first books here so fascinating. And that had been a long time ago. It was one reason why she and Melidore kept reading, even if it was pointless and the real battle lay with Shaestrel and the others.
Heroes of Hraace (Pt. 1) Isthekenous, the one who began it all.
Heroes of Hraace (Pt. 1) Isthekenous, who had a right to at least write what a hero was in the fabric of reality.
Heroes of Hraace (Pt. 1) Isthekenous, God-Hero Achetat, Champion of the Llegnais Pantheon, Warhost Leader of the Resprvchin Pantheon, Founder of the Aegum of Realities—these were his titles before he came to this place. Not all his titles; those would have been too many to count. These were his titles such as even the divine acknowledged and witnessed.
Heroes of Hraace (Pt. 1) Isthekenous, God-Hero Achetat, Champion of the Llegnais Pantheon, Warhost Leader of the Resprvchin Pantheon, Founder of the Aegum of Realities—these were his titles before he came to this place. Not all his titles; those would have been too many to count. These were his titles such as even the divine acknowledged and witnessed.
Heroes of Hraace (Pt. 1) Isthekenous, God-Hero Achetat, Champion of the Llegnais Pantheon, Warhost Leader of the Resprvchin Pantheon, Founder of the Aegum of Realities—these were his titles before he came to this place. Not all his titles; those would have been too many to count. These were his titles such as even the divine acknowledged and witnessed.
Heroes of Hraace (Pt. 1) Isthekenous, God-Hero Achetat, Champion of the Llegnais Pantheon, Warhost Leader of the Resprvchin Pantheon, Founder of the Aegum of Realities—these were his titles before he came to this place. Not all his titles; those would have been too many to count. These were his titles such as even the divine acknowledged and witnessed.
Heroes of Hraace (Pt. 1) So many rules about what they could be, because he had always valued that. Experimentation, growth—he had created his new project around that idea. The God drew from a multiverse of worlds where children dreamed and designed games and worlds. These concepts they played at, he made manifest reality. Isthekenous melded a true system from countless realities into a single, ambitious project that would transform everything.
Heroes of Hraace (Pt. 1) But he had never been granted a new title for his achievement in this great creation. His dream had never been fully completed. Still—his work continued, and one of the things Isthekenous had written into [Heroes] as they changed, evolved, rose, and fell was this:
10.25 MG “No, even more elementary. Conceptualization. The basis for reality itself. Now, that was this world—but there were other ones. Other realities, each with their own set of rules and divinities. And one of them had an idea. His name—was Isthekenous. A survivor of multiple realities.”
10.25 MG Suddenly, he was doing it. Everyone glanced at each other, and Magnolia sat forwards. She’d heard Isthekenous’ name invoked once when Teriarch sat on a sword.
10.25 MG “Oh yes. Laedonius Deviy—I am told that one is fallen, so it is safe to mention. There were threats to them, you see. The ‘rot between worlds’. Seamwalkers and their get, only on a vast scale. I suppose it is safe to mention the truly dead. First of all was Isthekenous. Next came Tamaroth, and with him followed multitudes. Not all the same scope and scale, you understand. The remaining six were always some of the stronger of the divine. Not the strongest, necessarily. But the most tenacious, or cunning, or…”
10.26 MM No infinite supply of the dead. Just three beings. They knew it was their end. The only being capable of entering this place was Isthekenous’ final creation, and it ignored them. If anything, it seemed to be taking pleasure in their unmaking.
10.26 MM “That unfinished creation of Isthekenous shall not destroy me, nor the Faerie King’s wiles, nor any other being. I am Kasigna. I never die. I have walked before time itself and bested rival gods by the hundreds. The old ways sing through reality, so deep that even the rot between worlds kneels to them. There is a way.”
10.27 GMG The Grand Design came with wrath to assess another foreign entity to its closed system. And it would terrify foreign gods. The Grand Design was a horrifying thing that should never have had the ability to think—not like it currently did. It should have merely obeyed; Kasigna had never wanted Isthekenous’ creation to have a will of its own.
10.27 GMG She had argued over it countless times, opposed the foolishness of his work. She had not been his murderer, for she had respected him too much. But she still believed Isthekenous was wrong.
10.27 GMG Blood was dripping from her fingers. She stared back down at her hands, then peered down into the world Isthekenous had dreamed of.
10.27 GMG Isthekenous. I wish you had lived to see your world made. What strange tricks are being played in your vision?”
10.30 GGMG “It is malfunctioning! Isthekenous’ tool has gone mad! It—”
10.31 – Pt. 1 The strain. The effort and the masterful creation in real-time by Isthekenous’ servant was beyond incredible, even to Kasigna. Most gods had to work off templates when creating something as fundamental as reality. Many cribbed notes from each other or just copied outright. The average time for a divine being to create a reality was about ten Earth days, and that was a basic world.
10.31 – Pt. 1 The Grand Design (Second Edition) was beyond a master. As it had been made. It was twice-bitter, then, to see it executing the very ideas that Isthekenous had proposed. It could duplicate itself, literally shape and guide multiple realms. The Crone’s lips twisted with both desperate hope and regrets.