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antreegonist) wrote2011-06-06 02:06 am
antreegonist) wrote2011-06-06 02:06 am
[MEMORY # 11 (SIGNIFICANT NEUTRAL)]
* Sealing Origin with Kratos's life, then cutting the world in half and breaking his pacts.
Earned in Game 40: Desert and water for the Netted Lion.
This is a memory of Mithos being at the height of his power! He was a summoner who had pacts with every Summon Spirit in the world--they're personifications of the elemental forces of it; the closest thing Aselia has to gods. Very similar to Personae, in a lot of ways. The strongest of them, Origin, gave him the Eternal Sword which could fuck with time and space! He literally possessed the power to reshape reality as he wished it, and he had relationships with all the Summon Spirits personally. They were good friends! Probably his only friends besides the rest of the tiny original party.
His pacts were contigent upon a vow to revive the Great Tree and bring peace back to the world. That is not included here! He also forgot all about that vow when Martel died and he went mad; he preserved her soul in the Seed of the Tree, so he couldn't fix the dying world without destroying any chance of bringing her back to life. That is not included here either.
What is included: an absolutely massive dose of fresh and recent rage and grief and pain and insanity! The knowledge that he wielded phenomenal cosmic power and he could have done anything with it if he was imaginative enough and wanted badly enough. And how he abused it, and the trust all these forces placed in him: he sealed Origin away so that the power of the Sword couldn't be withdrawn, tied the seal to Kratos's life, then used the Sword to split Aselia into two worlds--Sylvarant and Tethe'alla.
Instead of reviving the Great Seed and causing a renewal of mana and life to the world, he began having the two worlds vie for the remaining mana in a horrible, centuries-long cycle of prosperity and dearth, while he hunted for a way to bring Martel back. He broke every vow he made, but kept the power they'd given him, and threw the goal he'd fought for--and could have achieved if not for his own personal weakness--away.
+ This memory is an infodump and a massively traumatic sensory/magical/mental overload. He will take it and it will knock him out and even when he wakes up he will be in a horrified out-of-it daze while he wrestles it down.
+ Aather's situation and the Personae and how they work now strike awful sympathetic chords in his head.
+ That solves the issue of the three worlds he and Lloyd and Zelos were puzzling over! THEY WERE ALL ACTUALLY JUST ONE WORLD LOL.
+ This was a long time ago.
+ Oh god everything is my fault.
+ Oh god I guess there are like, fourteen Personaesque beings at home and they're all my angry betrayed exes.
+ Oh god I was a hero.
+ Oh god why did I do that why did I break the world instead of fixing it OH GOD!
+ PLUS FIVE HUNDRED CRAZYGRIEFCRAZYRAGECRAZYPAINCRAZY.
+ He IS COPING but he will also be PRETTY WRECKED IN THE HEAD for a while. The stuff in his previous memories was already unforgivable; the stuff he did in this one is on a whole new level of horrific, especially because he did it on purpose.
Earned in Game 40: Desert and water for the Netted Lion.
This is a memory of Mithos being at the height of his power! He was a summoner who had pacts with every Summon Spirit in the world--they're personifications of the elemental forces of it; the closest thing Aselia has to gods. Very similar to Personae, in a lot of ways. The strongest of them, Origin, gave him the Eternal Sword which could fuck with time and space! He literally possessed the power to reshape reality as he wished it, and he had relationships with all the Summon Spirits personally. They were good friends! Probably his only friends besides the rest of the tiny original party.
His pacts were contigent upon a vow to revive the Great Tree and bring peace back to the world. That is not included here! He also forgot all about that vow when Martel died and he went mad; he preserved her soul in the Seed of the Tree, so he couldn't fix the dying world without destroying any chance of bringing her back to life. That is not included here either.
What is included: an absolutely massive dose of fresh and recent rage and grief and pain and insanity! The knowledge that he wielded phenomenal cosmic power and he could have done anything with it if he was imaginative enough and wanted badly enough. And how he abused it, and the trust all these forces placed in him: he sealed Origin away so that the power of the Sword couldn't be withdrawn, tied the seal to Kratos's life, then used the Sword to split Aselia into two worlds--Sylvarant and Tethe'alla.
Instead of reviving the Great Seed and causing a renewal of mana and life to the world, he began having the two worlds vie for the remaining mana in a horrible, centuries-long cycle of prosperity and dearth, while he hunted for a way to bring Martel back. He broke every vow he made, but kept the power they'd given him, and threw the goal he'd fought for--and could have achieved if not for his own personal weakness--away.
+ This memory is an infodump and a massively traumatic sensory/magical/mental overload. He will take it and it will knock him out and even when he wakes up he will be in a horrified out-of-it daze while he wrestles it down.
+ Aather's situation and the Personae and how they work now strike awful sympathetic chords in his head.
+ That solves the issue of the three worlds he and Lloyd and Zelos were puzzling over! THEY WERE ALL ACTUALLY JUST ONE WORLD LOL.
+ This was a long time ago.
+ Oh god everything is my fault.
+ Oh god I guess there are like, fourteen Personaesque beings at home and they're all my angry betrayed exes.
+ Oh god I was a hero.
+ Oh god why did I do that why did I break the world instead of fixing it OH GOD!
+ PLUS FIVE HUNDRED CRAZYGRIEFCRAZYRAGECRAZYPAINCRAZY.
+ He IS COPING but he will also be PRETTY WRECKED IN THE HEAD for a while. The stuff in his previous memories was already unforgivable; the stuff he did in this one is on a whole new level of horrific, especially because he did it on purpose.