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General fluff added. Specifics will likely change, but should provide a better (and readily located) understanding of the Maw Consuming.
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| title = The Maw Consuming| card = File:Stolentemplate| quote = ''"First to the hunt, last to the spit."''
| origin = God-from-Blood
| titles = ''The Temple Enduring'', ''The Bachanal''
| names = ''The Maw Consuming''
| aspects ={{Aspect|Heart}} {{Aspect|Edge}} {{Aspect|Grail}}
== History ==
While the Maw Consuming itself was born from bloodshed, the matter of who's blood was shed and 'when' is something that only the Maw could know for certain. Even its arrival to the forest is a mystery, having seemingly been there since (perhaps even before?) the forest's unsubmerged existence at the current mansus.
Of course, not even the Maw Consuming might know. Such days are long since past, and were hazily recalled even when fresh. One theory on the matter suggests The Maw Consuming was "born" between the old and new mansus, dormant and growing on strife/bloodshed all the while. Further, it proposes that the Maw Consuming awoke with the sinking tide, and achieved its limited cognitive coherence shortly after.
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== Description ==
A runt among its fellow hours, and semi-living proof that age does not always beget wisdom. Before "The Pact" was brokered (and enforced) by the hours of the mansus proper; the Maw was a violent, gluttonous hour single-mindedly dedicated to the continued procession of Hunter-and-Prey. The Maw Consuming would cultivate murderers, rogues, hunters, ''killers'', and sett them upon one another, granting the greatest of their number the title of Maw, and claiming them as its host.
Following the creation of the pact, it's single-minded dedication was derailed, and perhaps for the first time in its existence; The Maw Consuming was aware. Not just of its current circumstance, but the events leading to that point. (For the mortals, this would be shortly before the "Bachanal" ceased being the dominant aspect, and its lighter aspect would begin to exist.)
=== Appearance ===
The Maw Consuming has no physical appearance of its own, but is commonly portrayed as a vine-snared temple deep within a jungle, or as one of the many hosts the Maw Consuming has resided in. The closest to a factual portrayal would be either the artists rendition of the event leading to the Maw's creation, or whatever the artist believes the Maw Consuming's original host to be.
=== Principles ===
Heart and Edge for the Maw Consuming's dedication to the survival of the fittest, the urge to climb to the top without equal, (for what is an equal if not a stepping stone to climb ever higher?), the stubborn refusal to surrender.Grail for the decay, the fall to decadence faced by all those who remain unchallenged. It ensures that the throne remains in flux, that each Maw must continually prove their right to be the Maw Consuming's host. (And, to a lesser, extent, the cannibalism. The feasts are quite raucous, but not enough for Grail to be the dominant aspect.)
== Worship ==
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== See Also ==
<small> see [[User:Arcanuse]] for in-progress/where all the infos currently at edition</small>
[[Category:Hours (Vol. II)]]
[[Category:Gods-From-Blood (Vol. II)]]