#khalios khai

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I feel like it's very important to me to introduce this guy to y'all. More posts to come, once I get things organized. But for now. Him🖤

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And we all still die

Yeah we all still die

What will you leave behind?

Oh we all still die

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Something from a bit ago of the king himself

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Second artfight ever!!! Hella hyped! Will be posting attacks here!

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Something to be learned is I am a bitch easily manipulated by music. Especially if there's any connection to Greek mythology

So here's a little something from Khalios' journey inspired by this:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRWn4fXj/

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Proper references for Ithaca and Khalios :]

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And what of the fate of Icarus's mother?

For her son as flown too close to the heavens,

Lost about at sea.

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Oh, fly, Sweet Icarus.

For they come to take your wings away.

Fly, for the sea, Sweet Icarus.

For they come to strip you of your freedom.

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Just some general info about Khalios, Psyche, Arcadia, and general world things

Cw for cults and animal death.

-Khalios was raised by a cult, as a god, and therefore can be...more than a bit of an asshole all of the time.

- The cult was consisted primarily of Ai'valii which are an elf like race, adjacent to humans but with increased innate magic, cat-like pupils and, of course, pointed ears.

- Arcadia is an Ai'valii

-Arcadia, Psyche, and Khalios all have excess amounts of magic within them, moreso than what is the norm for this world but each centered around a specific element. Arcadia is life. Psyche is love. Khalios is death.

-To go along with each element, their is a god personifying it. Both the death and love gods are deer-like.

- The mortal name of the love goddess is I'ona, but she is also referred to as: the stag Queen and the matron of the heart. He personifes all love, not just romantic.

-Gods are made of pure magic and often, in cases when they are wounded, those remnants of them will form into "God Beasts". God Beasts can also be formed purely accidentally, like in cases when a gods presence lingers too long in one place.

- Another similar situation is The God Children, where a divine being will willingly remove a piece of their magic from themselves and form it into a sentient being, often sharing traits with both them and their divine animals.

- the act of killing a god beast, regardless of which god it belongs to, is seen as one of the most damning acts possible.

- That being said, Khalios has killed a god beast before. An emperor's Hound, the beast of death. The act was one commanded to him by the people who raised him, a sorts of ritual sacrifice to the true death god at the hands of his soon to be vessel.

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I haven't figured out what Psyche's magic looks like yet, but Arcadia and Khalios both have such pretty magic.

Despite having such strong death magic, Khalios's looks like space. And Arcadia is so very clearly life. Khalios, who strives to be literally anything else but what he is with magic masquerading as something that it's not. And Arcadia, who's always so solidly known who he is. Love them for that :)