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<blockquote data-quote="arkwright" data-source="post: 7795795" data-attributes="member: 6925177"><p>Well, let's see. I'll assume you've thoroughly read through Book 8; my plot links up a lot of small details (Ingatan being a knowledge-god, why the weretigers are hanging around her temple, etc).</p><p></p><p>Rewind to ancient times. Ingatan is a god devoted to accumulating knowledge. They use divination to get a rough idea of the Great Malice- or, that in the future the Eladrin race will be decimated. They come up with a plan: create a race of weretiger eladrin, who will be fast-breeding. Their problem is that they lack the necessary powers- Hewanharimau is the god of beasts.</p><p></p><p>So, Ingatan tracks down Hewanharimau, knocks them out and does a swap. Ingatan takes the Beasts portfolio and Hewanharimau's identity. They also hypnotize Hewanharimau into thinking that they are Ingatan.</p><p></p><p>Initially, all goes well. Ingatan-Hewanharimau uses their new powers to create a weretiger race. They're a bit too bestial, but that's what beta-testing is for. Then it suddenly goes wrong: Ingatan-Hewanharimau dies.</p><p></p><p>(In my game, I added further specifics that Ingatan-Hewanharimau created the weretiger race by inventing a variant on Triegenes' Sacrament, which they also roughly divined. This created a 'Prince', who then reproduced creating the race. But, the Voice of Rot found out and thought it would be a laugh to poison the Prince and thus wipe out the weretigers. Ingatan-Hewanharimau takes the blast from the Prince dying and sacrifices themselves rather than the weretigers dying.)</p><p></p><p>Suddenly, Ingatan is reborn as a maddened rakshasa. This is because of their deceptive conduct: stealing a <em>god's</em> identity and pretending to be them. They set about going on a rampage, and generally confirming a lot of eladrin negative stereotypes about weretigers.</p><p></p><p>Dhebisu eventually tracks down Ingatan-Rakshasa and deafeats them; with a little help from Hewanharimau-Ingatan who has some confused suspicions. Dhebisu pokes around the temples and learns enough to know that <em>something</em> went on, but she's not sure what.</p><p></p><p>She keeps Ingatan-Rakshasa alive, and gifts them to the weretigers, sticking them inside a weretiger-vessel (very, very, very much like Naruto and the tailed beasts). Dhebisu also tells them that 'hey Ingatan might be involved, maybe keep an eye on their temples.'</p><p></p><p>So, that's about it for my backstory on Hewanharimau and Ingatan. There's some further complexity what with my declaring that all the Elfaivaran gods were actually rebellious gidim Godminds, but that doesn't have anything really to do with the backstory.</p><p></p><p>If you think some version of this would help sell Stanfield's rakshasa transformation, more power to you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="arkwright, post: 7795795, member: 6925177"] Well, let's see. I'll assume you've thoroughly read through Book 8; my plot links up a lot of small details (Ingatan being a knowledge-god, why the weretigers are hanging around her temple, etc). Rewind to ancient times. Ingatan is a god devoted to accumulating knowledge. They use divination to get a rough idea of the Great Malice- or, that in the future the Eladrin race will be decimated. They come up with a plan: create a race of weretiger eladrin, who will be fast-breeding. Their problem is that they lack the necessary powers- Hewanharimau is the god of beasts. So, Ingatan tracks down Hewanharimau, knocks them out and does a swap. Ingatan takes the Beasts portfolio and Hewanharimau's identity. They also hypnotize Hewanharimau into thinking that they are Ingatan. Initially, all goes well. Ingatan-Hewanharimau uses their new powers to create a weretiger race. They're a bit too bestial, but that's what beta-testing is for. Then it suddenly goes wrong: Ingatan-Hewanharimau dies. (In my game, I added further specifics that Ingatan-Hewanharimau created the weretiger race by inventing a variant on Triegenes' Sacrament, which they also roughly divined. This created a 'Prince', who then reproduced creating the race. But, the Voice of Rot found out and thought it would be a laugh to poison the Prince and thus wipe out the weretigers. Ingatan-Hewanharimau takes the blast from the Prince dying and sacrifices themselves rather than the weretigers dying.) Suddenly, Ingatan is reborn as a maddened rakshasa. This is because of their deceptive conduct: stealing a [I]god's[/I] identity and pretending to be them. They set about going on a rampage, and generally confirming a lot of eladrin negative stereotypes about weretigers. Dhebisu eventually tracks down Ingatan-Rakshasa and deafeats them; with a little help from Hewanharimau-Ingatan who has some confused suspicions. Dhebisu pokes around the temples and learns enough to know that [I]something[/I] went on, but she's not sure what. She keeps Ingatan-Rakshasa alive, and gifts them to the weretigers, sticking them inside a weretiger-vessel (very, very, very much like Naruto and the tailed beasts). Dhebisu also tells them that 'hey Ingatan might be involved, maybe keep an eye on their temples.' So, that's about it for my backstory on Hewanharimau and Ingatan. There's some further complexity what with my declaring that all the Elfaivaran gods were actually rebellious gidim Godminds, but that doesn't have anything really to do with the backstory. If you think some version of this would help sell Stanfield's rakshasa transformation, more power to you. [/QUOTE]
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