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Ludicia

Goddess of Punishment, Judgement and Scales

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a character in “The Pantheon: Renewal”, originally authored by Crichton, as played by RolePlayGateway

So begins...

Ludicia's Story

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It was a dangerous thing to sin on the day the gods were born. The unfairness, the devastation– the cries of the victims, gave birth to something far more dangerous than simple evil. In the blood of the criminal and the tear of the sufferer, Ludicia was born. When the accused lay dead, she awoke.

The giant materialised, some feet in the air above the dead bodies of the ruby-thieves. Eyes still closed, Ludicia drew breath for the first time– existing in a place that was at once the mortal world and not, where she was invisible to all who were not deceased or divine. As the dust settled, she opened her eyes, flooding the room with a blinding light that emitted from her eyes.

"SINNERS," she said. Her voice was a booming, authoritative thing. It echoed through the ruins, shaking pieces of rocks down from the unused buildings around them. "I HAVE BEEN CREATED FOR YOUR PUNISHMENT. ALLOW YOUR SINS TO BE WEIGHED."

The criminals looked up into the light, and in accordance with the god's creation, felt compelled to confess their sins. There were many to take from, and Ludicia waited patiently until they were done. Only after the judgement did she notice the ruins within which she was floating. The giant's head reared towards the altar steps, and for a moment the air grew colder.

"LET US ADD BLASPHEMY TO THAT LIST," she said.

The sentence was clear. There was only one punishment befitting souls as tarnished as these. Ludicia's face grew a wide grin, as her giant form lurched forward and ripped the souls from their mortal forms. Her own body seemed to coil and change as the front of her chest opened. Within, a world of darkness and pain could only barely be glimpsed before the souls were delivered, and her chest became transparent again.

With her business concluded, Ludicia paused mid-air to observe the altar closer. Though she was not a goddess of pain, she knew to recognise it and felt that there was much of it in this room. Quite possibly there was more to be done before she drew back into– wherever she had come from. The room– no– the land itself seemed to quiver with sorrow, all emitting from behind her. Ludicia turned, and saw a form within the room that she had not noticed before. Someone powerful– more like her.

"APOLOGIES FOR THE INTRUSION," she said. "I DID NOT REALISE I WAS ENTERING ON SOMEONE ELSE'S DOMAIN."

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Alteez stayed on her knees and watched as the gathered ages ran what remained of her once powerful champion through her clambering fingers, doing their best to hold him close as her cries grew ever softer.
She sat there with her eyes firmly fixed on what remained of her creations, her legacy. A city brimming with the stench of deceit, and lawlessness. With the remnants of such a great civilization still steal from, and bleeding one another in the off chance that such an act would bring them riches or glory. Even then at this point she believed that the idea of glory would be beyond the very aspect of their morality.

Up ahead the room began to flood with a pale light, and this commotion caused several shadowy forms to flee from their own cover.

She however did not pay it no mind as her grief was holding her in the moment, solidifying the feelings of apprehension she was already experiencing for her creation. Only for her to look up as the being began to, for lack of a better word "take" the very essence of their souls. In one measure Alteez could easily recognize this one entity as another god, though in memory it was rare for her to see another, seeing as she was always so removed from the rest of the world. Standing as the god floated its way towards her, and she arose to meet it with the grim bearing of her champions skull in hand.

The god spoke with a loud continuance, as her voice began to pulse through what little remained of the once great throne room, and though this was happening she could barely find the will to face her. So as she raised her eyes to the near empty face of her new acquaintance, and sighed calmly as she rubbed a finger across the cracked brow of the ghastly reminder she now held.

"As it stands now, there is barely any reason to call this a domain at all. Though I command here, it is not my rule that is followed, as it once was." She turned away slowly, and strode out towards the back of the room, setting herself down on the once claimed throne. Still bearing her champions skull firmly in hand, as if to guard it in some form of perpetual care. "Just like the day I left them all those long centuries ago... so long now that I can barely remember it myself. But I find the refreshed memories.. painful." She continued as she kept cradling the aged, sand stripped object in her hands.

It became quiet for some time after as the two goddesses traded a solemn glance, and the silence was so prophetic that they could hear long unkempt sections of the city, crumble under the weight of ages upon them.

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Lucidia looked down upon the goddess before her, her brow raised at the skull cradled in their hands. It was an unusual sight– an unusual display of affection but then, who was Ludicia to decide? A goddess of judgement she might be, she thought, but one born only moments ago. She didn't have the necessary tools yet to judge it all. They would have to be acquired.

"As it stands now, there is barely any reason to call this a domain at all. Though I command here, it is not my rule that is followed, as it once was."

"YET DOES NOT THIS SYMBOL OF YOUR EMPIRE STILL STAND? Ludicia mused. "EVEN IF YOUR RULE IS FORGOTTEN, YOUR IMPRINT REMAINS. THE ALTAR WAS WORSHIPPED ONCE– IT MAY BE AGAIN."

She turned slowly as the goddess passed her on the way to her throne.

"Just like the day I left them all those long centuries ago... so long now that I can barely remember it myself. But I find the refreshed memories.. painful."

The two exchanged looks, allowing the silence to fall over the room momentarily. "I WAS BORN TODAY. JUST NOW, IN FACT. SO I AM STILL GETTING USED TO THE WORLD– THIS, AND THE ONE BEYOND. AS SUCH I FEAR I CANNOT BE OF COMFORT TO YOU, UNLESS YOU WISH FOR ME TO PUNISH THOSE WHO HAVE WRONGED YOU, AS I PUNISHED THE BLASPHEMERS BEFORE." She looked at the skull in Alteez's hands. "IT IS MY PURPOSE TO BE THE BEARER OF SUCH BURDENS, AS IT IS YOUR PURPOSE TO RULE."

With this she fell silent again, listening to the echo of her own words. She felt too large for this place now that the silence had fallen and the criminals were dealt with– like a horse stomping through glass, though she wasn't sure how she knew that. Bashfulness was a difficult expression to pull off when one looked like Ludicia, but she somehow managed.

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#, as written by folclor
Cela leaned her head to the side and looked at the strange creature. She could see its path but it wasn't so much of a strain that it hurt to see. "Hmm..." Strange. Indelibly strange. Could she do the like? In her attempts to match this Alo's movements, she found herself unsuccessful. "Hmm." The second intonation was not a happy one and Fate frowned slightly.

Oh well, perhaps it was not hers to create. That or she could not create in that same way. Maybe, one day, she would figure it out. Day? She hadn't heard that word before but, somehow, she knew it referred to the current state of the skies. So she, instead, chose to fall back onto the grass and stare upward.

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Alteez sits there on the throne, and a look of realization dons over her face as Lucidia speaks. It had been some many long years that she only remembered being a small part of her subject lives, not really speaking to them, but using her chosen as a go to messenger in the later years. A fact she kept recalled as she arched a finger across the vacant brow of his head, as it sat in her palm.

"Than you have much to learn if you are truly born for the first time, though it is easy for a god to sleep again several centuries and forget that which they sought rest from in the beginning." The skull was placed on the arm of the throne, and Alteez stood once again as she looked out from its high position among the whole of the temples hall. "That ideal does not strike me as unwanted.. taking hold of this land once again may be the way to save it from certain annihilation. If not from the outside, than at least from themselves." She returns her eyes to Lucidia as the goddess stayed hovering several feet in the air in front of her, and directly addressed her.

"When I was first pulled from the void by the lone voice of a soul in need, I had only the need to serve him, and help make his dream a reality. Now as I stand here on this desecrated mound, mourning his past trials, and the betrayal of his very blood for a simple crown. I know now what must be done for my children to survive the coming hardships." She proclaimed this statement as she turned around to walk past the throne, and took up the fallen kings head once more. Allowing the newly born goddess to follow at her leisure, Alteez ascended the stairs that lead back up to her alter. The focal point at which she returned to the world once more, and soon to be the beginning of her new rule over this land. She had only just returned after over a thousand years in the void, and the feeling of weakness was still in her after all that time. Her strength would be slow to return to her while she remained on this plain. So she would need someone to act out her will for her, and she knew just one being that would be unable to decline such a offer.

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Ludicia pulled back to let Alteez pass her more easily. She wasn't quite sure what she meant by her first comment– though she supposed it had something to do with the skull in her hands. Possibly Alteez had been gone far longer than she expected. She thought about her next comment, brow furrowing momentarily before she replied.

"IT IS MY OPINION THAT WITHOUT A GOVERNING POWER, PEOPLE WILL TOO EASILY TURN TO THE DESPICABLE ACTS WHICH WE HAVE ALREADY OBSERVED." She looked at the bodies of the ruby-thieves.

She then listened to the story of Alteez's birth, hearing some parallels to her own. Though Ludicia seemed to have been pulled from nothingness by an ideal, she had been pulled by a person. Ludicia's gaze turned to the skull as Alteez picked it back up. Then the two moved across the room until they came to the stairs of the altar. Ludicia unwrapped her legs which had until then been bent up under her floating body. As they touched the floor, her very form seemed to twitch and re-shape. The goddess shrank until she was the size of Alteez, a black cloak forming around her body. In place of a head, there was an antilope skull which turned slowly to where Alteez was standing.

A moment of silence passed as she waited to see what Alteez would do next.

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After a short climb back up the stairs, heading towards the final height of the temple sat her alter. The place she returned to after all these years, and the location that served to be her catalyst into this world. She moved quietly, her body moving across the stonework floor as easily as water would glide across riverbed rock. Approaching the recently deceased man with the skull clenched in her left hand, and the newly born goddess behind her, she looked back. "You saw first hand how frail these young beings can be, not a single one of them is to ever compare to ones like us. However.. they are capable of great things in their short, infinitesimal lives." She held grabbed his body, moving him oh so slightly as to sit him up against the base of the alter. Streaks of red nearly dried on his features as his life had poured forth from him not long ago, and she moved his head with a slight hand grasping his chin.

"They are however.. vastly receptive to what we have to offer them, and being my creations my power clings to them in the simplest of ways. Even on this day I can see my essence still permeating his being, while death grips at his soul." She lits the skull as she maintains a tight hold on his chin and presses it against the spinning flames of the gate floating behind her. Its ivory shine began to gleam more brilliantly as she held it there, and only once the heat became too much did its form completely break in her palm. The flames reducing it to the barest of dust in her hand, though the dust stayed where it was, not running or sifting through her fingers. She lifted his chin and tilted the head to open his mouth, only just enough.

"I am in need of a new champion, and though I am unsure of his qualities, I am sure of a way to help guide him." Alteez began to pour the remains into his open mouth, and with that his body began to pour a dim light from within, helping to illuminate the alter along with the two gods in attendance. Only when the last of the dust was gone, and she moved the hand down to his chest, did something appear to happen. The wounds that shed his life upon the alter were breathing a soft light on the stones below, and slowly stitching closed as they did. But when they were done in their healing, she knelt down against his cheek, and spoke into his ear. "What once was two, shall now be one... this I command as you're god." As she pulled away a semblance of life began to return to the man before her, and his eyes flew open with a lazy urgency as it was obvious that his body was extremely groggy from his recent trip.

He tries to stand and produces a slim dagger from below his now stained waistband, weakly swinging it as he begins to try, and stand. Only for his legs to serve him little, and his body to fall to his knees as he finally pushes from the alters base stone. Shortly falling flat on the floor before Alteez, and Ludicia.

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Alteez looked down at the man, as he fell about trying to gain his bearings like a new born foal. His eyes hardly able to settle with the surge of life blowing through his veins, and the weight of new breath in his lungs. She was quick to follow with him, and take hold of him by the arm. This caused him to lash out with the blade in hand, only for the tip of the metal to pass through the fabric of starlight, and emerge on the other side of his swing after striking nothing.

But he still looked at her with little knowledge of what he was doing in his eyes, onLY for some strange, foreign realization to don on him in the moment. Like a distant star brushing against the edge of the sky, and he exclaimed with a brightened exhilaration. "My queen.. wait.. what?" His hand gripped the edge of his head as he began to wrestle with the information running rampant in his mind. She pressed a hand against his sweating brow as she began to cradle him slightly, in that moment the pain of his predicament could be seen behind the lids of his eyes. As what looked to be the knowledge imparted upon him, running through the vault of his mind like that of a dam broken loose.

His eyes cleared for a second as he spoke. "How... do I know you?"
She smiled in short order for him and ran a few OF her fingers through his hair as she laughed. "I am you're god, and you are my new champion." He could see the gaze coming from her distant starlight eyes, and felt she was speaking the truth. Only for him to pull away, falling back once again as he could not truly come to terms with what she had said. Gripping his head tightly as if that would help the tide rushing through. Only for her to stand, and gesture to calm his pain.

"When I pulled you back from the brink, I gave you something.. the memories of you're long, dead king. In fact a fragment of his being now sits withing you as we speak."