The Rotted Ox

The Rotted Ox
""The end that will one day come.""
Origin	Stone
Titles	The Ragged Mass The Seer of Rags and Ruin
Names	Dust Singer
Aspects
Date of arrival	The Place Before
Owner(s)	beardedtree24

The Rotted Ox is the twenty-fourth hour and is written by BeardedTree. A god from stone with a sole winter aspect and is a god of inevitable endings and stagnation. It seeks to bring the ending that was denied the ending that will one day come.

History

The Rotted Ox is one of the first hours and was from the place and time that was before the Manus or perhaps something else. As part of the old powers of ending the Rotted Ox relished in the stasis of that places dying moments and sought to ensure its final end. When that place died its ending was only the beginning, not final end that the Rotted Ox sought, ruining stasis it brought. As when the The Mother Bear awoke the glory was rekindled and life began anew. This may have forestalled final end but not stopped it and the Rotted Ox now works to bring the end that will one day come.

Description

Appearance

The Rotted Ox appears as a large and aged minotaur skeleton with scraps of withered flesh still clinging to its bones. In one of his Bony hands aged and gnarled wooden staff from which an hourglass hangs is held in one hand.

Principles

Stagnation, stasis and the inevitable end. They say the Rotted Ox once gazed into the fabric of time and learned what it holds now as the first and only truth. Progression and change mean nothing if will be nought but dust in the end. Those who follow the Rotted Ox are often naysayers and doom seekers disillusioned with life and its ever-changing ways. Sometimes those who whatever reason who wish for a state of static balance or normality may seek the Rotted Ox. But those who beseech the Rotted Ox can be enthralled by his vision and so too believe in the inevitable end that will one day come.

Locations

In the depths of the wood, there is a dark fetid swamp. The swamp is filled with decrepit old ruins and lost mementoes, choked with slime and weeds, slowly sinking deeper into the swamp. This is the domain of the Rotted Ox, where he plots and spreads his influence working to bring the end that will one day come.

Relationships

• The Storm-Tossed: the Rotted Ox view the Storm-Tossed stuggle as pointless, you cannot fight fate for ever.
• The Spirarch:Aborrence. The Spirach goals are antithesis to the Rotted Ox and so stays far away.
• The Perennial:
• The Red Lady:
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• The Bright Tapestry:
• The Die Cutter: a god of chance and thus a fool, chance fails but endings are inevitable.
• The Mother Bear: the Mother bear is the only hour the Rotted Ox hates more than the Spirach. It Brought the light back and forestall the ending. But the ending will come and it's will be first.
• The Maw Consuming:
• The Succulent Glow: a pathetic devotee of change.
• The Shambling Dawn:
• The Warrior Maid: its dedication to death makes it a useful (tool/ally?)
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• The Ferric Band: Another devotee of change. No matter how much they change or improve everything end eventually
• The Monument: The Rotted Ox great rival. What it seeks to reclaim the ox seeks to destroy.
• The Cub: the cub is born from the mother bear and that alone earns the Rotted Ox ire.
• The Seraph:
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• The Worm Funktastic: Music is a foreign concept to the ox so it doesn't know what to think of this hour.
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• The More-Opened:
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• The Unending Worm: Confusion and pity. It strive for what it cannot reach but keep trying why?