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<blockquote data-quote="Rolzup" data-source="post: 2822998" data-attributes="member: 10105"><p><strong>Interlude: Mallus Offers Some Exposition</strong></p><p></p><p><Aboard the Wretched Excess, off St. Tarte's Island ></p><p></p><p>Mallus clears his throat, catching Burne’s eye. "Seeing as we might not get a chance to speak after we embark on our collective suicide, let's chat...." He turns to face away from the island. Instinctively Burne knows that the Lovesworn was facing some part of CITY. After a few moments of silent reverie, he continues.</p><p></p><p>"You should know a few things about Erebus. Not what everyone knows about him; that he hates cats. Loves shrimp scampi and anything made with gin. That he's immortal...."</p><p></p><p>He pauses, then starts over.</p><p></p><p>"I'm not a priest, nor a scholar. That means I'm less full of s--t. Despite what the academics say, the Erebus legends can be neatly divided into two categories; the stories of Erebus the Angel and Erebus the Employer.</p><p></p><p>"Erebus the Angel fell out of sky in the earliest days of CITY. Before the founding of Eris, if you believe The Legends of the Fall, but clearly that angst-ridden epic poem was written by a lovesick teenage girl zonked out her mind on absinthe, no more than two centuries ago, tops.</p><p></p><p>"Anyway, that version of Erebus fell, slammed into Mt. Kempkes on the way down, bounced off, wings dragging the earth, eventually burying himself in the Pit of Erebus, along the Southern edge of Eris. Some say his actual final rest is beneath the city, though no-one save the Pit Centurions know if that's true, and they're all insane....</p><p></p><p>"That Erebus is regarded as the Devil by the barbarous, cannibal monotheists of the Hannikum Church. Considering the source, I'd take it as a compliment.</p><p></p><p>"That Erebus is known chiefly for his seemingly infinite capacity for self-pity, wanderlust, and infidelity. There are endless stories of his ocean voyages, the strange creatures he battled, as if to do penance, his inevitable loving and leaving the classic beauties of antiquity.</p><p></p><p>"One of these was a Lassantes woman known originally as "The Way to Heaven". Erebus broke her heart. In return, she tried to commit suicide by making the city of Ur-Imbra more intimately acquainted with the sun. At the last moment she got cold feet. But it was too late to stop the ritual, and there was a hot time in the old city tonight.</p><p></p><p>"The Lassantesmen marked what was left of Ur-Imbra with a ring of a hundred thousand gravestones. That was really just a guess.</p><p></p><p>"Not much was written about that Erebus after that. Though the woman does resurface later on under a new name, 'The Smoldering Whore of Ur-Imbra'. Goddess of Abandoning and the Abandoned.</p><p></p><p>"I'm digressing, aren't I? It's the sound of my own voice... lovely, isn't it? Even I'm not immune.</p><p></p><p>"Then there's Erebus the Employer. His legends are somewhat newer, though there's a lot of confusion over dates. You should have to take a class on chronology before you get to write a legend.</p><p></p><p>"Where was I? Oh.... this Erebus is the head of a cabal of sorcerers called the Brotherhood, or sometimes, the Brotherhood of the Black Worm. The legends speak of Erebus 'owning' the Brotherhood, and paying them in secrets. All manner of secrets. Everything from court gossip to the more generic Things Mortals Weren't Meant to Know....</p><p></p><p>"These stories are a lot less uniform than the Angel stories. Here Erebus is less the melancholy romantic and more the trickster or manipulator. And the exploits of the Brotherhood vary wildly from the horrific to the heroic. Babies are murdered with alarming frequency. The only discernable common threads are a love of culture, and an interest in bringing the dead back to life, often en masse. Oh, and the baby-killing."</p><p></p><p>"Some pinheads want to add a third category; the so-called "Godfather" stories in which Erebus is the name of the force that elevated certain mortals to Godhood. These are popular amongst the mongrels of Narayan and the Hannikum Church, who view all CITY's gods as the false spawns of the Devil.</p><p></p><p>"But who heads the words of pinheads? Not exceptional men of Eternal Erisium. Clearly these tales are propaganda meant to valorize markedly inferior places, like that salt-ridden clap-trap town of Narayan. These stories are political fiction, meant to evoke the sense of fecundity and wonder of the Angel legends.</p><p></p><p>"Anyway, we're to meet our fates head-on soon, so I'll make this short. There's one other thing to now about Erebus: He can only hurt you if you accept his help. And he can offer you all the help in the world."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rolzup, post: 2822998, member: 10105"] [b]Interlude: Mallus Offers Some Exposition[/b] <Aboard the Wretched Excess, off St. Tarte's Island > Mallus clears his throat, catching Burne’s eye. "Seeing as we might not get a chance to speak after we embark on our collective suicide, let's chat...." He turns to face away from the island. Instinctively Burne knows that the Lovesworn was facing some part of CITY. After a few moments of silent reverie, he continues. "You should know a few things about Erebus. Not what everyone knows about him; that he hates cats. Loves shrimp scampi and anything made with gin. That he's immortal...." He pauses, then starts over. "I'm not a priest, nor a scholar. That means I'm less full of s--t. Despite what the academics say, the Erebus legends can be neatly divided into two categories; the stories of Erebus the Angel and Erebus the Employer. "Erebus the Angel fell out of sky in the earliest days of CITY. Before the founding of Eris, if you believe The Legends of the Fall, but clearly that angst-ridden epic poem was written by a lovesick teenage girl zonked out her mind on absinthe, no more than two centuries ago, tops. "Anyway, that version of Erebus fell, slammed into Mt. Kempkes on the way down, bounced off, wings dragging the earth, eventually burying himself in the Pit of Erebus, along the Southern edge of Eris. Some say his actual final rest is beneath the city, though no-one save the Pit Centurions know if that's true, and they're all insane.... "That Erebus is regarded as the Devil by the barbarous, cannibal monotheists of the Hannikum Church. Considering the source, I'd take it as a compliment. "That Erebus is known chiefly for his seemingly infinite capacity for self-pity, wanderlust, and infidelity. There are endless stories of his ocean voyages, the strange creatures he battled, as if to do penance, his inevitable loving and leaving the classic beauties of antiquity. "One of these was a Lassantes woman known originally as "The Way to Heaven". Erebus broke her heart. In return, she tried to commit suicide by making the city of Ur-Imbra more intimately acquainted with the sun. At the last moment she got cold feet. But it was too late to stop the ritual, and there was a hot time in the old city tonight. "The Lassantesmen marked what was left of Ur-Imbra with a ring of a hundred thousand gravestones. That was really just a guess. "Not much was written about that Erebus after that. Though the woman does resurface later on under a new name, 'The Smoldering Whore of Ur-Imbra'. Goddess of Abandoning and the Abandoned. "I'm digressing, aren't I? It's the sound of my own voice... lovely, isn't it? Even I'm not immune. "Then there's Erebus the Employer. His legends are somewhat newer, though there's a lot of confusion over dates. You should have to take a class on chronology before you get to write a legend. "Where was I? Oh.... this Erebus is the head of a cabal of sorcerers called the Brotherhood, or sometimes, the Brotherhood of the Black Worm. The legends speak of Erebus 'owning' the Brotherhood, and paying them in secrets. All manner of secrets. Everything from court gossip to the more generic Things Mortals Weren't Meant to Know.... "These stories are a lot less uniform than the Angel stories. Here Erebus is less the melancholy romantic and more the trickster or manipulator. And the exploits of the Brotherhood vary wildly from the horrific to the heroic. Babies are murdered with alarming frequency. The only discernable common threads are a love of culture, and an interest in bringing the dead back to life, often en masse. Oh, and the baby-killing." "Some pinheads want to add a third category; the so-called "Godfather" stories in which Erebus is the name of the force that elevated certain mortals to Godhood. These are popular amongst the mongrels of Narayan and the Hannikum Church, who view all CITY's gods as the false spawns of the Devil. "But who heads the words of pinheads? Not exceptional men of Eternal Erisium. Clearly these tales are propaganda meant to valorize markedly inferior places, like that salt-ridden clap-trap town of Narayan. These stories are political fiction, meant to evoke the sense of fecundity and wonder of the Angel legends. "Anyway, we're to meet our fates head-on soon, so I'll make this short. There's one other thing to now about Erebus: He can only hurt you if you accept his help. And he can offer you all the help in the world." [/QUOTE]
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