====== Ascent ======

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===== Content Warnings =====

None.

===== Plot =====

The old gods are gone. From the Abyss, new gods rise, carrying light, memories of a bygone world, and the sins of those they have slain.

To a new world they emerge. A world where they may restore the Eternal Day. A world where they may name and shape as they see fit. A world to call their own.

===== Landscape =====

Once, a nascent world lies empty – the sky above, dark and unfathomable; the land below, featureless and flat. As its gods soar through the winds, it is named, shaped, made into their images.

The land and sea is separated, mountains rise and forests grow, across the land men and beasts roam. The sky is permeated by the eternal Light. Unblinking, unwavering, merciless. 

===== Key Impressions =====

  * **Iiskana**: <color red>**Not Playable**</color>. Iiskana the Victor, the One Who Soars <del>Before her apotheosis, she was once the Youth.</del>, Her Inex̛ơra̛b͘le Rad̛ia̴ǹce, ̡She͝ Who̸ S͝h͘a͘t҉ţere͘ḑ t͜he Su͢n, R̡e͠cl͞ai̷m̶er ̛a͡nd͠ ͟Fo͡r̀ever R҉igh͜t͞f҉ul̛ Ǫwņe͟r ̷of̡ the Lig҉ht,̢ t͡he͡ ҉Voi̷ce̴ ̡who̕ ͟Nam͡ed thé F̧utùre̛,̡ Ĺady ͞of ͡F͞l̛am̀e͘s͢ ͏and Glor͢y͞, ̷Huntres̀s of th̶e Worl̨d̀,͞ ́Qu͜een of t̨he͘ ҉Sea and́ ̕La̛n͜d̶ ̵a̴nḑ ͢Sky̛, **Ţhe̷ ̵Et́ȩrn̕a̧l ͘Day͢**.

  * **Tethnde**: <color blue>**Playable**</color>. Once the interpreter of gods, then the interpreter of world and fate. The Voice who Names the Past. The Traitor Goddess who ascended through the death of her Goddess. Before her apotheosis, she was the Priestess, the Youth's best friend. She atoned for her sins through the surrender of her godhood.  

  * **Siio**: <color red>**Not Playable (unless you ask nicely)**</color>. The Questioner. Gave up godhood alongside Tethnde. A quick brown fox who hunts memories. 

===== Scenes =====

  * **1**: The new gods, wings stretched, soar across the sky. Tethnde names those that came from the previous world. Iiskana names the new world as she shapes it. Together, they shatter the Pearl and releases the Light - the Eternal Day begins.  

  * **2**: The gods bring their people - humans and foxes alike - into this new world they have created, completing their journey from the previous world. They create settlements.

  * **3**: The gods watch their people from above and contemplates. Tethnde realises that they are continuing the cycle of the old worlds, where gods remain above the worlds they have created, and could never be free or joyful. The gods convene. Together they agree to break the cycle by sacrificing their godhood and rejoin their people.

  * **4**: The gods descend down to earth and announce their decisions to their people. Tethnde gives up her godhood, followed by Siio. But they are betrayed by Iiskana as the sky breaks and the earth quakes. She now reigns over this world, alone, unchallenged, eternal.