Yet a single breach of secrecy in the temple by one of the missionaries revealed the terrible truth to her. When missionaries arrived at her village, their words gave her hope that she would bring to others. Iovara ix Ensios was just one of many converts to the "true" faith offered by Thaos. Yet they had little need for atrocity in that time, as the kith readily accepted true gods and the miracles they offered. After all, the kith needed help in overcoming their instincts, that only gods could provide the spark needed to overcome the base instincts and give hope in a world that would otherwise lack purpose, answers, and ending, a world where there was only the Wheel, grinding without end and without mercy, slowly turning souls to dust. He was the guardian of the gods' terrible secret and to guard it, he quickly learned to justify any atrocity. He founded the Leaden Key to proselytize the new faith and ensure that nothing could threaten the grand social experiment through any means necessary. Thaos was the only one to walk away from the ash-filled chamber. As their bodies crumbled to ash, their souls coalesced into a single whole, melting into the adra and merging with it, birthing the gods into Eora. It was Thaos who activated the machine, sacrificing thousands of Engwithans - men and women, young and old, great and small - in an instant, to imbue the machine with their souls. The Engwithans constructed a vast network of adra-powered soul machinery connected to Sun in Shadow, where one of the greatest adra pillars in existence could be found. There were no gods and it was necessary to create them.Ĭenturies of animancy research left Engwith with a mastery of the science. In a world filled with thousands of false gods, gods that told kith to take slaves, to make war upon their neighbors and devour the slain, to burn their children alive and cover themselves in the ashes as a sign of their faith, that was unacceptable. They found the answer, except it was no answer at all: There were no gods or, if there ever were, they were gone. It was the end result of generations of research into the divine and souls, trying to find the true Creators and put an end to the religious wars that ravaged Engwith. However, anyone seeking to confront him would have to remember that he is not merely a driven, single-minded man with not the slightest concern for anyone below, but also an incredibly powerful cipher and a man of great cunning.Ĭenturies ago, when the Engwithan civilization was at its peak, Thaos was one of the architects of a grand social engineering experiment meant to give meaning to the world and through it, peace. He is not one to show himself in any but the most critical matters, which means that if he has directly involved himself in whatever the Leaden Key plots, it is a major endeavor indeed. Two millennia of life and accumulated experience left him with an overabundance of talent. Often it is for elaborate deceptions, but sometimes he simply forces them to kill themselves. The boons bestowed by the goddess also ensure that his body is no boundary to his soul, and he is known to take possession of others, if their souls are weak enough. This unnatural lifespan is said to be the result of his status as one of Woedica's Favored, who never let rules get in the way of her favoritism. The plots he orchestrates sometimes take hundreds of years to bear fruit. What scraps of evidence exist suggest that he has died many times, only to be reborn each time, exactly the same man, Awakened during adolescence with all the knowledge and experience of his lifetimes. A legendary figure across Eora, at least to those who are even aware of his existence, Thaos is as mysterious as he is powerful.
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