#Tenthaians

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Finally got around to properly designing Sol Avaya, the first Tenthaian. Despite being Lokii's son, he carries more features of his grandfather instead, what with having four arms.

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There's the potential for power, then there is power itself. What would you use it for, if not to fight for tomorrow? Saiki, fueled with the power of creation and destruction itself.

Do I need a reason?

A blast of wild arcane energy ripped through a revenant. A fist burst through the torso of another.

In this brief respite, Saiki wipes her hands clean of black blood, but to no avail. Her hands continue to be stained black. and so does the void she feels inside herself.

What she draws power from rests behind her, its dead form laying still, but even so, Saiki felt it watching her. Felt HIM watching her.

"I know you are aware of my awakening, why do you ignore me still?"

Ignore him she did, her attention turning instead to yet another revenant, its form disintegrating with a surge of storm mana.

"Why are you doing this?"

She ignored his question again, her fist crackling with power as it ripped another revenant asunder.

"Who are you doing this for?"

Once more, she remained silent as her kick cleaved through several more revenants.

"Why do you fight?"

Another brief respite, and finally the dead Tenthaian turns around to face him with a solemn expression.

"Because it's all I can do."

The eye watching her turned its gaze away. "You remind me of somethi-, no. Someone."

"And who might that be?"

"I am certain you are familiar with him."

"Him? I know no men, whom do you mean?"

"Your language...is so limited. Yet it was I who installed those very limits, so perhaps I am to blame. His name is Lokii."

Her break in focus costed her, as a blade found itself impaled through her belly, but she simply pulled it out, and destroyed her assailant. Saiki felt no pain, but she felt...loss.

"You both have no need to fight, yet you choose to pick up arms against fate. Why?"

In the darkness and suffocating cold of this dead universe, in the ever ensuing onslaught from life long past, Saiki continues to defend herself again and again, continuing to fight and continue her mission.

"Because it's all I can do."

The dead being behind her watched as she gracefully brought down adversary after adversary, and he was reminded again of Lokii.

"Lokii was meant to be an observer, much like what I am forced to do now. I can no longer access the strength needed to do anything else, but you, perhaps you can."

Another brief respite, a moment to think in the eternal battlefield.

"What do you mean, All-Father?"

"You lack what makes you whole, I shall fill in the cracks, and perhaps we can fight as one. I refuse to accept not understanding why it is you continue your futile battle. I will aid you, and I will learn. That will be our transaction."

"I- I would be honoured..."

"Words are worthless without action, your "god" proved that to me long ago. So now, go on. Take my strength, and fight."

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“When Takatora failed us, Saiki stepped up and made the ultimate sacrifice. In a dead world, she continues to fight for us.” - Hikari Akizuki Tenthaians are a species that live off of sunlight, the raw, untamed power of their parent god, Lokii. But what happens to one forced to live off of sheer nothingness?

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Wanted to modernise one of my oldest OCs designs, my beloved Patch, the wife of the late Sol, the mortal precursors to the Tenthaian race.

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Been a while since I’ve made a design that I just vibe with and Ko my beloved, do I vibe with your design. Bio for her under the thingy.

Name: Ko Takatora

Race: Dragonkin (Harpy) (Blue Core Consumed)

Gender: Female

Height: 7'5

Age: +23,000

Profession: Lokkite Grand Priestess

Cores: Fatum / Weather

Bio

Lokii, the God of Light, had long chosen to operate on his own. However, even gods can be worn down, and as his eternal partner noticed Lokii's growing exhaustion, she pleaded with him to take on assistants. The first of those assistants would be Ko, a dragonkin who had given up her hands during the Scaled War in an act of pacifism, so that she may never hold a weapon again. After many rigorous trials to gauge her capabilities, she was chosen alongside her partner. Blessed by Lokii and with Phoebe's intervention, she was given exclusive access to a core that nobody else besides Phoebe at the time possessed, Fatum. With this, she could weave fate to perform her duty, to ensure that nobody would ever access the slumbering Lugiel's divine body. A day came where the temple she ran was overrun by outworlders who came seeking to take Lugiel's power, and in a last ditch effort, her partner sacrificed herself and offered her blue Tenthaian core for Ko to consume, giving her just enough mana to rewrite fate so that this attack never happened, and that Lugiel's body remained untouched. However, as a result of this, any memory of her beloved faded from history, the only reminder being the new blue markings decorating Ko's body. She continues to perform her duty to this day, allowing only three individuals to ever visit the tomb should the situation call for it, Cygnia, the last pure Tenthaian, Lokii himself, and the reincarnated Lugiel. Fun Facts - Despite being a pacifist, Ko is a practitioner of kickboxing should the situation ever deem it necessary. Even with her slim build, her kicks still pack bone-shattering power. - She uses her tail for most activities that require hands, the two fins protruding from the end of her tail being prehensile and extremely dextrous. - She likes to draw in her free time, and has a soft spot for drawing anything related to fish. Might have to do with fish-related dishes being her favourite. - Despite being a stupidly powerful being in Zenithea, only those in higher positions in society have even heard of someone like her. Only a few know her true name, and even less have even graced her affections. - Despite her position and duties, she's super shy and hates any and all forms of confrontation, preferring instead to just back out of any situations that cause her even the slightest discomfort.