Yes, I posted this on the WW forum and it sank with out remark, I'm just hoping for some kind of feedback from people I don't give xp to. Please.
Pluto: The sixth maiden - Maiden of That Which Comes After - There was once a maiden whose purview was the strands of fate that had been cut by Saturn. She took them unto herself, weaving them into her robe, tying them into her hair and mending tears in the loom with them. Some, with minor alteration, were simply handed back to another maiden. The pieces she cut from them were used to properly tie up loose ends – their families mourned and moved on, their spirits wended their way promptly into Lethe. An ended city’s destiny could find its strand tied up into the fates of its refugees, into various scholarly books, or perhaps, woven back into the loom at a later date, after mending.
When the first Primordial was killed, the sheer magnitude of the event threatened to drag all of creation into oblivion after it. Saturn cut every thread of the loom free and handed them to her sister – who, rather than hurling them into oblivion, disobeyed her own Nature and carefully re-anchored them to the loom. This breach of function was her own end – she fell from the sky as an enormous meteor, through creation into the newly congealed underworld. The fragments that splintered off of her were sufficient for the Dragon Kings to construct their orrery in Rathess. The rest eventually became the calendar of Setesh.
Her 20 chosen’s exaltations sit in a shadowy corner of Lytek’s cabinet; their purview has been largely absorbed by other chosen; they are mere curiosities for now. Jupiter moved quickly to have her sisters take over Pluto’s responsibilities. Lest the world know that the incarna can die, she has seen to it that no one learns what happened. Lytek certainly knows, and there are certainly documents that might speak of it in forgotten corners of Yu-Shan. The Yozi’s are sworn to not speak of it, but there may be dark God’s who have escaped the purge.
Obviously, in my game the calendar is mostly starmetal, with some soulsteel alloyed in. If a group were to manage to get a hold of them and through some epic (mumble-mumble) put her back together then the underworld would be completely part of the loom, as would its inhabitants.
Neptune: The Newest Maiden – The Maiden of the Depths that Rise – However she came by it, it is given to Luna to control the Wyld.  Her phases govern its ebb and flow, and unlike the tide there are no lesser gods to assist or countermand her in these duties. Certainly her chosen have some influence upon it, but they are generally more concerned with its creation side than the other. So it was that Luna gave birth to (or fathered upon someone, that is unclear) Neptune, who was to be to the wyld what Saturn is to Endings.
Born instead of made, she is by nature less than the other maiden’s (who are technically her aunts, not her sisters.) and has required training. In the First age she trailed Luna and some of its servants, picking up what she could. She followed solars as they made their way into and through the wyld and observed sidereal planning sessions to learn what destiny is and how it is made. That an incarna should need training was deemed sensitive, so she early on learned to disguise herself very well. Although all-encompassing sorcerer’s sight and essence-sight would reveal her as a tremendously powerful essence 8 goddess, anyone with such ability must spend 8 temporary willpower to not subconsciously skip past her with such sight, as a result of charms she uses.
In the shogunate she wandered through all the new wyld zones and areas that had fully fallen into the marches. She spent several mortal life spans watching various first age cities be devoured by the wyld. When the fae attacked after the contagion, she followed them in.
She did not save creation. One could ask why she didn’t; as she certainly was uniquely situated to have done so single handedly. But she was still training, and no one had told her to. So she watched, and learned more. Eventually she settled in the wyld zone in Firewander, and made it her own. She’s tinkering now, until someone tells her to do differently. Technically, she’s still training until one of the incarna tells her otherwise or until the age turns over. She acts as the emissary because it keeps the city from being run by anyone who would take away her wyld zone – It’s also good practice for co-locating. The Council of Entities doesn’t know what she is, but she has never let them down. Even they disappear if they investigate her too much, so they’ve stopped trying. At this point all of this training and being the emissary is mostly out of habit, and she is growing bored of it.
Neptune remains essence 8 until she takes up her duties in Yu-Shan, whereupon she will be even more powerful. Eventually she intends to completely divide the wyld from creation - which might make creation round and would certainly have unforeseen consequences.
Her problem is that she isn't sure if she has to wait until the next age to begin or if she starts it - and how does one know a new age has begun anyway?
Pluto: The sixth maiden - Maiden of That Which Comes After - There was once a maiden whose purview was the strands of fate that had been cut by Saturn. She took them unto herself, weaving them into her robe, tying them into her hair and mending tears in the loom with them. Some, with minor alteration, were simply handed back to another maiden. The pieces she cut from them were used to properly tie up loose ends – their families mourned and moved on, their spirits wended their way promptly into Lethe. An ended city’s destiny could find its strand tied up into the fates of its refugees, into various scholarly books, or perhaps, woven back into the loom at a later date, after mending.
When the first Primordial was killed, the sheer magnitude of the event threatened to drag all of creation into oblivion after it. Saturn cut every thread of the loom free and handed them to her sister – who, rather than hurling them into oblivion, disobeyed her own Nature and carefully re-anchored them to the loom. This breach of function was her own end – she fell from the sky as an enormous meteor, through creation into the newly congealed underworld. The fragments that splintered off of her were sufficient for the Dragon Kings to construct their orrery in Rathess. The rest eventually became the calendar of Setesh.
Her 20 chosen’s exaltations sit in a shadowy corner of Lytek’s cabinet; their purview has been largely absorbed by other chosen; they are mere curiosities for now. Jupiter moved quickly to have her sisters take over Pluto’s responsibilities. Lest the world know that the incarna can die, she has seen to it that no one learns what happened. Lytek certainly knows, and there are certainly documents that might speak of it in forgotten corners of Yu-Shan. The Yozi’s are sworn to not speak of it, but there may be dark God’s who have escaped the purge.
Obviously, in my game the calendar is mostly starmetal, with some soulsteel alloyed in. If a group were to manage to get a hold of them and through some epic (mumble-mumble) put her back together then the underworld would be completely part of the loom, as would its inhabitants.
Neptune: The Newest Maiden – The Maiden of the Depths that Rise – However she came by it, it is given to Luna to control the Wyld.  Her phases govern its ebb and flow, and unlike the tide there are no lesser gods to assist or countermand her in these duties. Certainly her chosen have some influence upon it, but they are generally more concerned with its creation side than the other. So it was that Luna gave birth to (or fathered upon someone, that is unclear) Neptune, who was to be to the wyld what Saturn is to Endings.
Born instead of made, she is by nature less than the other maiden’s (who are technically her aunts, not her sisters.) and has required training. In the First age she trailed Luna and some of its servants, picking up what she could. She followed solars as they made their way into and through the wyld and observed sidereal planning sessions to learn what destiny is and how it is made. That an incarna should need training was deemed sensitive, so she early on learned to disguise herself very well. Although all-encompassing sorcerer’s sight and essence-sight would reveal her as a tremendously powerful essence 8 goddess, anyone with such ability must spend 8 temporary willpower to not subconsciously skip past her with such sight, as a result of charms she uses.
In the shogunate she wandered through all the new wyld zones and areas that had fully fallen into the marches. She spent several mortal life spans watching various first age cities be devoured by the wyld. When the fae attacked after the contagion, she followed them in.
She did not save creation. One could ask why she didn’t; as she certainly was uniquely situated to have done so single handedly. But she was still training, and no one had told her to. So she watched, and learned more. Eventually she settled in the wyld zone in Firewander, and made it her own. She’s tinkering now, until someone tells her to do differently. Technically, she’s still training until one of the incarna tells her otherwise or until the age turns over. She acts as the emissary because it keeps the city from being run by anyone who would take away her wyld zone – It’s also good practice for co-locating. The Council of Entities doesn’t know what she is, but she has never let them down. Even they disappear if they investigate her too much, so they’ve stopped trying. At this point all of this training and being the emissary is mostly out of habit, and she is growing bored of it.
Neptune remains essence 8 until she takes up her duties in Yu-Shan, whereupon she will be even more powerful. Eventually she intends to completely divide the wyld from creation - which might make creation round and would certainly have unforeseen consequences.
Her problem is that she isn't sure if she has to wait until the next age to begin or if she starts it - and how does one know a new age has begun anyway?
ops: Â - I imagined her as pretty much forgotten or ignored by the incarna since around the usurpation. Before that she was told by Luna to work on her purview, and that's it. Since then she's been feeling out just how autonomously she can act, and the gradual answer she has built up to is completely. She claimed a wyld zone in creation, she essentially took over a city and she interacts with its inhabitants regularly. The nervousness she felt at acting outside of her purview, sort of indirectly disobeying an incarna, is very real, and has taken more than a millenium to begin to wane. Now that she realizes that she isn't going to be yelled at, (or told anything) she is bored at her laying low and hiding.
