Sea of Souls
Two figures stand on the beach, underneath a simmering rosy golden sky. The sand at their feet shines like gem underneath the sky. The two figures, a man and the other a woman, seem to be fishing with poles that seem endless. The woman stares out at sea in deep contemplations, a small frown on her face. "Do you think that we will find them all." She asked the short man next to her. She is easily three meters tall will the man isn't even half that, but despite that you can still her the respect in her words. "We have too there nothing more to it than hat. After all we did, all the pain and chaos that we caused them this is the least that we can do for them. If we don't, we'll never be able to face the elders." A hint of finality in his tone.
"I don't care about facing the elders, that's not why I even agreed to help." She said still staring at sea of soul.
"Then why did you help?" He asked her even though he already knew the answer to the question. This wasn't the first time that they had this conversation and in wouldn't be the last time either. He was only responding because it helped her work out her thoughts.
"I'm supposed to be the goddess of love and family, but I spent nearly a million years taking the family and love away from a man who did nothing be give love and compassion to all that followed him. Even if i was a young goddess at the time there is no excuse for doing that, not to anyone it goes against my very nature so why, why did I enjoy hurting him so much!" She screamed over the endless sea. This wasn't the first time she screamed out her frustration. Since she spent so much time going against her on Concepts of divinity, she has been suffering from the backlash of her that. And since her Concepts is based on emotions that is where a lot of the backlashed is concentrated. Even without the backlash she would still be filling this pain, that just the type of being she is.
"You should just do it." The man said a hint of sadness in his voice. "It is eating you up more than the other because of how powerful you Concepts and just hard you went against them. We will wait maybe you should move on." He spoke gently to her reaching his hand out and placing on her head. "I think you should bind yourself to him and reincarnate also. You won't be a goddess anymore, but you never really cared about that. Your pain and guilt will be left behind and you can start anew with someone you know will be there for you."
"..." She just sat there staring at the sea degusting his words. It's not like she had not thought about it before, but she didn't know if she would just be running away from her well-earned punishment after the pain she caused. As she was thinking about that, she also back to his soul. It was marked by so much pain, pain that not even deities like her would want to bare, and despite all of that his soul is still a pure purple the same as it was at his birth just marred by pain.
"I know that look on your face. Don't think of it as running away, think of it as having a chance to make things right. Even if it's not you as you are now, it's still your soul. I really do think that this is the best think for you, and I'm not the only one either." He said staring directly into her eyes which made her squirm under his scrutiny.
Many of the gods wanted her to reincarnate. The tole on he was just too much, but this was the first time that any of them actually brought it up to her directly. Some of them even thought it would be best if they just made her do it. Out of all of the gods she was one of the most loved and they hated seeing her in so much pain. So, after they all discussed it, they asked the short man to bring it up to her.
After long time she finally spoke, her words a bare whisper but he still heard them. "Would it really be okay for me to just move one, am I really allow to know my own peace after all the pain that I caused."
The man didn't say anything he just simply nodded his head.
"I think I'll..."
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The Eternal Kingdom Capital City, Valen
Sprawling city that stretches into the horizon. Valen, also called the eternal city or the endless city, with building that reach the stars. It's a bustling utopic city unique in its design, with direct separated by small farms and forest. suburbs intermixed city blocks, and small Island floating around the city.
In this city where the streets were usually bustling and crowded, today the street were all but empty, except in one location. Just outside the castle, it seemed like every citizen of the city was gather here, even the floating island were floating above the castle pact with citizen. This was because they heard that there was going to be an important announcement, one that had to do with their beloved king, and there wasn't a citizen alive who would ever miss seeing there king. Even those who were not well off still love the king because they saw everything that he did for them. So, when they heard of this announcement they came running.
They had been waiting for half an hour when someone shout. "Someone's coming." And as if someone muted the tv, the entire crowd went silent, but the quickly turned to confusion. Instead of the prime minster or the king himself, a few dozen figure stood on the king's balcony. This was odd because the citizens were aware that the king never saw anybody after the curse that the gods placed on him. So, of course there was confusion when this unknown group showed up. One man stood front and center of the group.
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"I am Titus the Patriarch of Trice pantheon." When He spoke these words, the people could feel the truth of his words in their bones. But, instead of kneeling, bowing, or showing any deference to the gods that they believe in, they turned their back to the gods. To the younger gods, this came as a shock they had never seen mortals show so much disrespect towards the gods on such a large scale, some of the more hotheaded among them were even about to punish them but Tirus raised his hand to stop them, and not even they would go against him.
To the older gods this came as no surprise, they all knew just how loyal the people of Valen were to their king. Even if none of them, aside for the True Immortals and undead, were alive when there king walked among them the families still passed down stories about him even after almost a million years. But the older gods were surprised that the people didn't make any negative comments about them. This was despite everything, there king still prayed to these gods, so they did also even if they don't hold the same love for them as they do there king.
"We understand that you don't have much love for us, you respect us even if it only because your king asked you to. We have come here to right a great wrong that we committed. A wrong that we committed when we were young, but a wrong none the less. We didn't come to ask for forgiveness, we came to apologize." And with that the older gods and goddesses bowed one to the crowd then turned around a longer and deeper bow to castle. When the people saw the second bow the looked towards the castle and to their Suprise, they could see their king standing and they all cheered. This was the first time the king was seen, beside new year's, in hundreds of thousands of years. Crytos smiled and waved at the crowded tears in his eyes, then he bowed back to the gods and his people followed his lead. This surprised Titus who wasn't expecting them to bow back but he didn't let it show on his face. "We asked Crytos what we could do to apologize to him, and he only asked for two things. The first was to make sure that his people will be taken care of, and the final thing he asked for was for rest. So, we will be granting those wishes..."
All of Valens knew what he meant by rest, so they all turned back to their king and shouted, "My you find Infinite love and eternal happiness." which is a Valenion expression used during major events. The shout was filled with love and happiness then knew just how hard he worked and for so long without a single day off. None of them would slit him the eternal rest even if they would be sad to see him go.
After the crowd quieted down, Titus spoke again. " As for the people of Valen, we will be making Valen a higher plane turning it into a celestial plane naming you all celestial giving you a choice in your life and peace to the country for as long the gods are able. We made an oath on that. Now let us finally grand Crytos his rest." And with a wave of his hand the king was finally put to rest to the cheers and sounds of love from his people
The gods erected a statue made celestial star steel. On that night the people of Valen had never celebrated or cried as much as they did that night and for the following week.
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Trice, capital of the Trice pantheon Heavenly plane.
In the castle, in the royal hall stood all the gods of the Trice Pantheon were in attends in a circle surrounding a deeply purple soul, this soul was Crytos. The gods were pouring blessing and power into his soul. They were sure where his soul will end up, as the sea of soul doesn't fall under any pantheon, but they would make sure he would be well prepared for whatever happen.
A blinding array of colors fused with the soul making if flash through shades of purple before returning back to its original color. The only different was there is now a deep purple peal in the center of his souls which holds all his blessing. The pearl will shatter and imbue the soul with all of the blessing after he is reborn, and his body can handle them.
And with that they send the soul in to the sea of soul where it will wait for its rebirth.
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Down the sea of souls
An ancient looking man and woman are walking by when the man sees a beautiful soul with a dazzling pearl. The old man reaches in and grabs the soul then he shows it to the woman next to him. "It seems that the Trice brats love this soul very much." he said to his wife
"No look closely these aren't for love be for atonement. The must have really hurt tis poor soul because these are some decent blessings." the woman said but suddenly and stare at soul then hands it back to her husband "He's been through so much pain and is still such a kind and pure soul." she said a single tear sliding down her cheek which makes her husband eyes go wide then he looks into soul. "Damn, the did a number on him." he stares at soul for a long time before sending his on power into the soul and it flashes brightly but unlike before when flashes end you can see little specks of silver float around like stars.
"I'm surprise you even did that, when was the last time you gave a blessing. No that doesn't even matter." She said before sending in her own power which more silver stars appear, but these had a hint of blue in them. After those, three more tendrils creating even more stars in and on the soul, causing the old lady and man to laugh. "To think even those fool would take part in this. this soul is definably going to be interesting. Maybe I'll watch the mortal plane for a changa see what kind of monster we create and see where he ends up, but with a pure soul like that I doubt it will be too bad I mean for us that is." she went from laughing to cackling and her husband joined in with her
"This ought to be fun." the man said with a smile on his face before he put the soul back in the sea. then he and his wife simply vanish from where they were.
A Tiny tendril that was connect to many other, but this was not a blessing. It took many of its connections and time them together, then it tied itself to soul as well. It didn't try to take power or add to the soul it just wishes to follow it to where it goes.