How They came to be : OOC Origins and concepts of Tejshar Arcanubis
I get asked questions about Tejshar ALOT and a great many people want to rp in the world he is creating, as well as find out all the little bits of information this asshole brings to the table. So I thought I’d give a little and go from there. Tejshar is over six years old and so this is long. TLDR? Tej is awesome and you should send me your asks if there is something specific you want to know.
Tejshar was created in 2013 for a story in another game. He was actually called Tejshar Me’aina. However, FFXIV had taken my focus and so I left that game completely. At the end of 2014 and early 2015, a group of rpers lead in part by an alt of @daughteroflyrre Reached out to me to create a villain and in fact a godmode villain to be at the heart of their FC story. I was gitty, for I already had the greatest Sin eating god of the stars they could ask for. Tejshar.
The original concept for Tejshar came from the sand covered and Egyptian inspired zone of … Uldum. Yep that’s right, I used to rp on Warcraft. Put the tomatoes down, everyone started somewhere :P, Of course, I was thrilled with the idea of a void god made from the creation of titans and invoked by a world-ending machine dormant in the sand. On top of that? I am a HUGE Stargate fan and so titans + tech+ Eygpt? So done. However, there was something missing from the equation. A mastermind of magic and manipulation. After all, the best kind of villains are the ones you hate to love and secretly want to win, right? Queue.. The Goblin King. It wasn’t quite right. A fallen angel with the knowledge of truth and the desire to push you just a little over the edge? Lucifer the angel of light. (pre-Lucifer show, though thank you to @shroudwayman for introducing me to it)
In FFXIV however, the Egyptian inspiration was missing from the game and I struggled at first to give life to him. How could I throw this creation of love that I really hadn’t been able to give a true chance to, in a game where he would be breaking all the rules and ruffling some ooc feathers of ooc rp lore? Well..
First I said fuck it. I wasn’t making Tejshar for the masses, I was making it for a small group of people who would kill him eventually, as was intended.
Second I started to do some research in lore to find all the lovely little grey zones to play in. The first one that came up? The Temple of Nald’thal, the Heavens and Hells they created, as well as the now very character famous, cowry. The Cowry, of course, is very much associated with Egyptian culture and so I found my first in. It wasn’t quite enough to bring in all that Tejshar is but it was a start. The next problem? What to make him? I mean.. Elezen are sexy but they don’t scream “MONSTER”.
Well Yoshi P had the answer for me. An Au Ra coming soon… and oh that benchmark. Needless to say, Tejshar became alive, simply biding his time to enter the world. As he waited and schemed, I played more of the game and started taking note of anything and everything I could that would give more credence to how and why someone like Tejshar would exist.
So now you have a Goblin King, Anubis looking, Monster covered in Gold, and the IC happens. People love him. So much so .. that they refuse to kill him. In fact, he outlived the FC he was made for. Didn’t stop people giving me crap for making him, let alone rping him. Lore was my friend though. LINK to the old post.
And so Tejshar walked the desert and entered the city. Always pushing the weak to be strong and the strong to be stronger still. Always speaking of free will, the sin of the soul and offering a gift of a favour to those that wished to take it. Speaking of the origins of things Link to that post
A primal to most, at least in the manner of his existence before you but something far more than such a simple concept. Could he even predate the allgans? Probably. Though if you were to ask him he would laugh and tell you that time is meaningless and in truth does not exist. So this is getting way long and I'm gonna cut it off. Feel free to send me asks. I am going to write up the IC information. Don’t read it if you don’t like spoilers or can’t keep OOC knowledge of IC information away from rp, aka Metagaming. <3
