#millennium war

[kazsartcorner]

"Those people of Drome who cheered and howled in bloodthirsty jubilation as their god twisted then into myriad forms, each fuel driven heart venerating the saints of pasts slaughters. As their bodies replaced flesh with pulsing war metal, as their teeth sharpened into carbide points and as divine parasitic weapons erupted from their bodies."

[kazsartcorner]

"Sing! Oh children of our cold airless womb! The time is now to reclaim our birthright from the savages of the planet below! With needle and bomb, let us bring true justice!"

- Lunar Expansion Organisation propaganda broadcast.

[kazsartcorner]

With much of it's military originating from police and anti insurgency organisations, many of the weaponry used by the Twenty Counties is outdated or cumbersome compared to many contemporary militaries. And while thee heavy, noisy weapons are far from cutting edge they have proven reliable.

[kazsartcorner]

Born from a newborn god, playing the game of the nations around it, what fun to be had in war! So many shrieks of jubilation and screams of laughter as bombs and bullets choke the sky.

[dreamlessashe-s]

The Damned Gods

Records of a Forgetful Deity: Millennium War

The Damned Gods is the modern day myth title of the Heretics.

During the Millennium War itself, “The Heretics” only referred to the accursed twin immortals that opposed Leia, the Mother Goddess. After the Fall of Leia, they were recognized as actual deities, specifically war gods.

The concept of war gods wasn't a unique concept, so the twins were distinguished by their divine titles "Sanctuary" and "Forsaken." They were two sides of the same coin: life and death, mercy and cruelty, innocence and guilt.

The actual title of "Damned God" only referred to Forsaken up until her execution. Afterwards, the title was attributed to Silence, the Cursed God. Forsaken was the Damned God of War, and Silence was the Damned God of Peace. Forsaken executed the guilty, but Silence was the crimes that went unnoticed, the lies that perpetuate tyranny, the screams that went ignored. Silence was "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" personified. No one could even do anything because the whole essence of Silence's divinity was "inaction."

However, post-Silence's Language Curse, it was difficult for archivists and historians to accurately distinguish the two Damned Gods in texts, so they got mixed together. At some point, curses were relabeled from "evil magic" to "heretical magic," and Silence was further mixed into the wishy-washy mythology of The Heretics. Strangely, putting Sanctuary into the same group as Forsaken and Silence just broadened the term Damned God away from their initial meaning of death and despair.

[fato-profugus]

Millennium War

Cringing by the haunted mangrove

Of a torrid and sleazy quagmire

A phantom despondently probe

For that disrupting familiar fire

That ruptured his scarce hearth

Stalled in this lazy flailing marsh

Gnawing at the chambers of his heart

Perverted by a war of a farce-

Comedy, and he kneads his head to reckon

What struck the igniting mayhem

That left him forever cringing on

And contemplating with a requiem

Gnarled in an infinite knot

Of bereavement and defeat

Left squandered to erupt

In a concealed war with no fleet;

In a poem cycling with semantics

A narrative exploitation in bleared-

Millennia; a struggle for romantics

 Fastened and taut with profound fear.