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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Endovior" data-source="post: 2370322" data-attributes="member: 33321">The chamber Endovior has taken Jemal to is brightly lit, and quite warm.  It is the center of Endovior's construct, and the heart of his power.  As he speaks, he takes a seat (made of the same brilliant light-substance as the rest of the construct), offering another to Jemal. "God of Undeath, then.  In my experience, the two tend to be the same, as one with such power finds that the most efficient way to increase it is to cause death, then reverse it... but I suppose I should give you a chance, first.  But where I come from is not a simple question.  Easiest to answer is where I last came from.  In that place, Godhood was a matter of power, which is calculated by a ridiculously complex mathematical formula involving number of worshippers, prevalence of portfolio, material works, and other such things.  Perhaps it would have made more sense if I had originated there, but it seemed to me that the whole mess was just a game to them, a game played with the very existence of uncountably large numbers of beings, all pawns before the manipulations of their unfeeling masters.  Life and Death were nothing but marks on a scoreboard to them.  So after I studied their system, I did the only sensible thing I could do: I flipped their game board over, metaphorically speaking.  I gave every person I could magic knowledge and power, and with it, a chance to forge their own destiny.  This changed everything, and the Gods were furious at my interruption.  They began destroying the worlds inhabited by the users of my magic.  I, naturally, retaliated, and began slaying their Avatars and destroying their works.  A war went on, that lasted hundreds of thousands of years... until just recently, when a critical point was reached, as my followers cast their ultimate spell, which would banish the Gods from the universe, leaving the people free to pursue their own destiny.  I'm not sure what went wrong... I suspect that the other Gods meddled with the spell somehow... but what happened was that the entire universe was destroyed.  I only just escaped... I gathered enough of the spell's essence to 'banish' myself to a new place.  And that place was here."</blockquote>

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