We eventually reach a gate. It’s tall and wooden. Many symbols are carved into the door, some old and some newer looking.
“What is that?” I leaned into the God of Fertility more, the gate’s intimidating even to me. A soft chuckle came from the chest I was pushing myself into.
“Oh, little forbidden Child. That is your new home. The gate to the new world. All worlds have gates, it keeps things out. Sometimes rifts or breaks in the wall of a world can appear letting things in. Don’t worry about that though. Shall we go?” The God of Fertility smiles warmly at me as he walks through the gate not waiting for me to answer.
Now below the bridge we are walking is a world in the sea of darkness. This world looked different. It was almost softer than the world I was used to. Looking closer I noticed there was only one grey moon, instead of two blue ones. The star at the centre of the solar system was also different. It was yellow.
“Yellow?” I ask pointing to the small star. The one I knew was a blue/white star.
“Yes, this yellow star will be easier for you to live under. Especially since you have a curse to burn in the sunlight. Unlike our blue/white sun, this one is less hot. It means less UV radiation. Having not had to develop under such hot conditions this world has much more fauna and flora.” The God of Fertility speaks the last part loud enough for everyone to hear.
Many people are getting excited. We had lived in a harsh world. The sun burned many people, especially the fair skinned. The surface was usually bare, with flora having a hard time growing under the white light. We lived under the surface. In cave systems. We had created a system of bent caves to let in the harsh light to grow food.
We did advance as a society to the point of tara forming our moons despite the harsh environment. I lived lives in dark caves before we figured out how to cook. I also lived lives on the tara-formed moons. I had the pleasure of watching the humans of Earth_7583 go from struggling in the dirt to our journey in the stars. I feel a bit disappointed that I won’t see the next leg of that journey. The tara forming of a planet further from our blue/white sun is well underway. The humans of Earth_7583 dream of a lush green world with water on the surface. Much like the one below us right now. Will my last world ever know this beauty?
Everyone around did not seem to mind they would have to relearn a lot of information. Then again, most would not be born with their memories like me. The new world had more pros than cons for them.
“The world is in a more primitive state. Not many have the levels of intelligence it takes to match the scientists of our world. Some do, the rich, or the lucky mostly. So, you do not have to worry about not being able to use your knowledge. You will catch up quickly.” The Sun God winked at me. He had guessed again, my worries.
“He is right little one” The God of Hope smiles.
We walk to a big open space. Similar to the one we had been in at the start of this journey. This space had a few doors in it though. One door was blue, one red, and one purple. There was a yellow door as well, though not many were going into it. It seemed like everyone was being forcefully drawn to a door. I wanted the yellow one.
“This is the place where the Gods of this world have dead souls who are going to be reborn go. Everyone is drawn to the right door. The blue one is for souls that no God has taken an interest in. It is best that way.” Sun starts.
“The Red door is for souls that the Gods have taken an interest in. Only a small interest in though. They get some perks but nothing big. These people might get past life memories, or a slight boost in stats. This is an okay door” Hope speaks next.
“The purple door is the pressure door! The Gods expect a lot from these people, if they fail to live up to that they could be shunned for a few lives. Gods don’t like to be let down.” War who had now come to join the front speaks.
“The yellow door. That is the door you will go into. Anyone who doesn’t fit the other ones go here. If they are hated by the Gods, they go here. Anyone with special circumstances go here as well. Like if a God kills them by accident, or they are unique people. You fit under unique.” Fertility puts me down.
By now most people had left the hall. Except one the short boy who was unstable. He smiled softly and grabbed my hand. We started walking towards the yellow door.
“Why?” I ask the boy.
“The Gods asked if I wanted to come with you, they said I should keep why a secret.” The boy smiles gently at me and continues towards the yellow door. He leaves me in front of the door. Smiling one last time and went to the red door, disappearing.
“That was odd, why did you have him follow me?” I ask now remembering him slightly. His voice was that of a boy I met in class in my last life. He seems more familiar than that though.
“We must say goodbye now” All the Gods I have grown to love pat my head and gave me their blessing one by one. “Our blessings won’t do anything in this world though, sorry” Hope smiles.
“I thank you for them anyway,” I say “Goodbye my family” I walk through the yellow door backwards. I cannot stand to turn my back towards them. “Thank you for loving a forbidden child such as myself.”
“Forbidden or not, we love you enough to let you go” War smiles wryly “After all Gods don’t let souls, they take an interest in go so easily.”
“Live well my child.” Fertility smiles, and tears fall down his face.
As he speaks the door closes automatically between us. I am left staring at the blurry sight of a yellow wall. There is no going back. I knew that when I agreed to come to this world. Still, it hurt to leave.
I am a soul that was not created by the Gods of Earth_7583. I arrived by the World Gate. I was crying and could not speak the language. They took me into their world and let me be reborn. That was at nearly the start of their world, I joined the small population of humans. As they huddled in the dark, scared, and hungry. They did not need to be so kind, to allow me to mingle with their people. They didn’t care, not even about my curses. I felt nothing but kindness from them. I can feel a hole growing in me, a void leaving them has created.
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I am cursed with two curses. They told me one was “To burn” which made my skin fair and easily burn in sunlight. In my last world, it was a huge issue. I could get three degree burns if I travelled to the surface, even when in the moon colonies.
The next one was “Forbidden Child of the Twin Gods” they said it would bring bad luck. I was not given more information. The status screen of my last world was incomplete. Apparently, because I was not created by the Gods of that world the status screen knew nothing before, I arrived at the gate.
My story always begins with “A forbidden child arrives at a gate lonely. They were welcomed by the Gods behind the gate”. The status screen of the old world was just a record or story of the soul. Mine was much too long to read. Though sometimes I jump to the beginning and read about my first mortal life, and arrival. I can remember bits of it though most reads just like a story book.
My tears all dry up I moved away from the door. I had seen a few people enter the door. There was no one here now though. The room seems like a waiting room of kinds. There are a few chairs, a table, and a bookshelf.
Picking up a book from the shelf I sit down in a rocking chair. The book caught my eye because of the title “Job Descriptions”. I was told this world had special jobs for everyone. It was like a game, people had jobs, skills, and levels.
This book explained that most humans had one to three jobs. Some rare people had up to five. However, humans all possessed the potential to have ten jobs. It was odd if the potential was so high, why did the people of this world usually have less than 5? I notice the writing stating the potential was in a different colour. It seems the different colour are notes from Gods that control this world. So, the book from the mortal world had been edited before being placed on the shelf.
The book continued. People have skills, these skills were displayed with two words. The first word is how much effort the skill was trained with. This was displayed as low, medium, and high. The second word coincides with the person’s job level that skill belongs to.
Job level only increases when skills are used form the category. This means a person can be an Expert over level 38 and have jobs still in the novice category. Skills without a job are usually novice level.
The overall level of people can be different from the various job levels they have. The overall level of a person can be increased through official guild quests, killing monsters, and through Gods quests. God quests are given through the status screen at random.
The overall levels of people are organized in a nice chart in the book. It also explains that the average human has a level 30-115. The average levels for beings like elf, beast kin, dwarf, and other long-lived beings are 30-150. Heroes’ can reach between 160-200. Some legends say some heroes have reached 300. Though they are most likely rumours. The sentence stating, they are rumours has a single line through it. The books also state overall levels follow the same pattern but is discussed in detail in a different volume.
Job category
Job level
Novice
0-5
Beginner
6-16
Common
17-37
Expert
38-78
Master
79-159
Spirit
160+
A person will have job slots. When they are born a person will have one job slot. More job slots can be given to a person from the Gods. Why and when are unknown. However, the second job slot usually opens once the job in the first slot is Beginner level.
Humans can be born with jobs, though most are not. In some cases, A person is born with multiple beginner level jobs.
The book continues with detailed explanations on many different jobs. There are close to a thousand different jobs in this book. It gives me a headache. A few titles I look through are Thief, Sage, Tailor, blacksmith, Swordsmith, Tamer, Tank, Spell Weaver, Knight, Light Knight, and more. I notice many jobs can be very similar with each other with only slight differences.
I don’t see why I should worry too much. It said most people work towards a job they want, and eventually gain the skills that merge it into the job. Some get a job by completing God quests, and sometimes the Gods grant jobs randomly. So, I can worry about it once I am reborn.
“Are you finished reading? I didn’t want to interrupt you” A small lady with blue and pink glowing hair speaks. She stands near a door opposite the yellow panel. I had not noticed it before.
“Have you come to guide me to the next life?” I ask reshelving the book.
“Yes, Forbidden Child. I am called Lotus. I am the God of Fresh water. The mortals have also given me Health, Love, and Change to guard.” She opens the door gesturing to the doorway.
“To guard?” I ask as I walk through.
In the new room there stood a table in the middle. As well as a big table with seven people sitting at it facing the middle table. The Lady sat with the other seven people. I sat at the table in the middle. There was nothing else, even the door disappeared.
“When we say guard, we mean the attributes or domains given to us by the mortals. We Gods started with very basic domains, as the world grew so did we and our domains. I am Holly, God of Seas. I also protect sea travellers, calmness, and exploration.” A male with dark blue hair speaks.
“I am Yucca, God of deserts. I guard intelligence, perseverance, and strength.” He has grey hair like all Gods seeing their face was difficult.
Lichen spoke next he seems tired “I am Lichen, the God of Caves. The humans see me as pain, fear, and darkness. In reality I am a God of exploration, curiosity, and darkness the other races acknowledge this.”
“Parraya is the name! I am the God of winter. The mortals have me guard loneliness, cold, and beauty. Nice to meet you!” She looks young with vibrant purple hair.
“Yarrow, pleasure to meet you. I am a God of Wind and mountains. Engineering, craft, and adventure is mine.” With a nod the yellow haired women looks at the next person.
“Ohia Lehua. God of Volcanoes. Violence, Beauty and combat is what the mortals give my name.” A man with vibrant red hair puts on a wry smile. Like he wants to eat me.
“Lastly I am Iris. God of earth. The mortals give me fertility, harvest, and stability.” She moves her brown hair behind her ear and looks to Lichen.
“You were brought here because Earth_7583 would not give us souls if we did not take you. We were told you need special treatment. We don’t think you will.” Lichen gets up from his seat and stretches. He doesn’t sound mean, or aggressive more exhausted.
“We think instead we will let you live your life. We don’t think you will struggle as much here as you did on your old world. Most curses don’t transfer with the souls on such long journeys anyway. Once you are reborn it will probably disappear due to your new vessel.” With a smile he comes towards me and picks me up, I feel only warmth from him.
“And if I just die a cruel death? Will you then give me a hand?” I ask. Knowing my curse as a forbidden child usually lowers my survivability.
The forbidden child curse was a Godly curse unable to inhabit a mortal vessel. Instead, it was stripped to a lesser but still awful curse Taboo Child. Mine was special. It showed as Taboo child in my mortal bodies, even though the full curse was present. Mine had a specially made clause, even mortal vessels will experience the full effects of the curse. The only vessel that would not was a vessel of a lesser form. Basically, I could live as a healthy bug, curse free. However, after death the curse would still be on my soul. I have spent a few of my lives as bugs, animals, and once a tree.
“You won’t, now be sure to enjoy your new life.” Lichen smiles, and I am sent to a new world. I feel the warmth from his arms as I peacefully fall sleep, ready to be reborn.