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[sythyry]

God Poll 1+0: Accanax

It is clear, from the comments, that some of you are ambivalent or downright displeased with the World Tree gods. Well, those of us who are their creations, clients, and playthings sometimes feel the same way. So I will ask a poll about each one. The results, perhaps alas, are not binding.

Accanax

Status:	Creator God, or, equivalently, Verb God
Domain:	Destroc, the Verb "destroy"
Prime Species:	Accanax alone created the Khtsoyis. It seems that this creation was not wholly satisfactory, and so, later, he and Reluu jointly created the Gormoror a few years later.
Appearance:	He sits in the high sky, appearing as a clot of darkness. When he is in a good mood, it is shot through with silver filigree.
Creations:	Accanax is the author of a great many monsters. Now and then, he creates a hundred new species in an afternoon. His creations are generally hasty, awkward, and ill-conceived. They are often stupid, barely fit for life, quite violent, and suffer greatly (e.g., venom bears, whose cheeks are perpetually wounded, meaning that the bears live a life of constant pain.) But they are no less dangerous for all that.
Benefices:	There are plenty of things that ought to be destroyed, and Accanax is just as happy to sponsor their destruction as the destruction of anything else. In my own skyboat, we have a vast source of curses and magical troubles; Accanax has given me a great blessing for breaking curses, or will have given once I get the several weeks to make it.
Commandments:	I've been given as direct a commandment from Accanax as anyone has, namely, "I like what you're doing; keep it up." He is hardly a domineering, all-controlling god.
Job:	Accanax, like the other creator gods, simply maintains his Verb and creates things. The Noun Gods actually keep the universe running.
Dark Trinity?	He's certainly qualified to be in the Dark Trinity.

[Poll #1404897]

Comments

[winterbeast.livejournal.com]

so, is there a God of Death per se? or does Accanax just stand in for it?

I've started to wonder. is breaking wind the destroc of food or the creoc of gas?

[sythyry.livejournal.com]

There is not a god of death. (It would make a perfectly sensible Verb -- an antonym of Healoc I suppose -- but it isn't one of the ones we have around.)


Accanax isn't particularly a stand-in, either. Destroc is a fine Verb for killing; Creoc, Ruloc, and Mutoc are equally fine. (Kennoc, Healoc, and Sustenoc are all possible approaches, but harder.)

Or, after death: all the creator gods are gods of death. They take care of the spirits of their creations, storing them until reincarnation.

For your other question: I imagine it could be arranged in a variety of ways, but best if it were not.