RH's Hircine
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Name: Hircine, the Beastly one Nickname: Hircine the Eternal Hunter, Hircine of the Wildhunt, Mother of All beasts, Father of all Savages, Hatcher of all Letuma,Etcetera... Age: As long as beasts have existed Gender: Hermaphrodite Height: 6'0 feet in Human form Species: Deity-Aspect-Constellation
Summary Description: Personality: Hircine is known throughout the realm as the untameable god, due to her wild rapacious nature that has lead numerous paths of destruction against those who've commited acts against her. She's also famous for her animalistic libido, not mentioning making love with a number of her creations, acting out her Aspect's primal urges. Aside from her reputation amongst other gods, to most mortals she is known for her fairness, providing to those as long as they don't rile her anger. Likes/dislikes: As her one of her many titles suggest, Hircine is God of all beasts as well as all Hunters, considering her domain is the Great Wildlands, a realm that is the afterlife for all animals and her worshippers where they can Hunt, Eat, and Breed for eternity where death is never permanent. She frequently hunts her lands though occasionally when her constellation is clear in the night sky and the harvest moon is full above realm, She'll gather her followers and lead a Wildhunt across the land in the forms of celestial spirits, blessing the land with plentiful game for years to come. While most realms have moved beyond the primitive practice of worshipping her, some hunters will silently thank her.
One of Hircine's major taboos is wasting any part of the kill, primarily since she dawned a human visage, she's used every part of the animal. She absolutely hates trophy hunting for this reason, and will often smite any hunter doing so with an unlucky hunt, or send a large predator to attack, though the first is preferred over the second. She is forgiving of those who don't use the bones as long as they pick them clean and place them in any body of water.
Bio: Hircine is the embodiment of the Beast aspect, one of the many aspects that comprise the universe and allows the creation of its essence as well as others, and is what allows all creatures in the universe to exist, even all the sentient races. She was born upon the combination of the Motion and Life aspect, her constellation of seven stars that form a stag's head came into existence, as well as the first animals. Of course her first form was that of a stag itself, wandering the floating islands and bringing beasts into creation.
During the Dawn of the Lekova, the Greater Dragons, Hircine took form of one and in her libidnousness, laid with six dragons of the primal aspect, siring what is known as the Letuma, the dragons, albeit lesser, that had the mind of beasts. The discovery of this by the others, who explicitly made it taboo to lay with her in the first place, cursed the Six to a horrid fate by conjoining them together to form the Realm Hydra known as Primogenitus. The Lekova took away Primogenitus's intellect, leaving them as dumb as beasts and condemning them to be Hircine's Servant for all eternity, despite her protests at the tragic fate of her lovers while they sent her eggs across the planes.
At Awakening of Worlds, Hircine created the Great Wildlands above the mortal plane and witnessed the dawn of Man as well as his peers. She envied that these creatures worshipped Mother nature amongst other gods so she took it upon herself to create her own sentient race from the smartest of her beasts. Her choice was well considered when she took Man's former predator, the Hyena, and turned it into what is now known as Gnolls, making them walk upright like man with five fingers and toes, taking packs of the many kinds across worlds to become her ideal.
They worshipped her exclusively until they encountered the other races who spoke of magic and other gods, some turning away from her to sate their curiousity about the world. Hircine found herself a little dissapointed but expected this, going onto create more sentient races over time despite their inherent savagery. Still, she took pride in them and their accomplishments by taking their form, reveling her own handiwork.
After a while as civilization grew across the realms and planes, a question spurred forth in her mind, "What was the greatest predator in all of Id?" that lead her to ask the other gods whom were wiser. Many of them had comparable answers but none satisfied her query, until the true Abyssal Lord Vetitium came to her, whom had heard the question. He found it akin to a riddle before providing the answer, "Man", speaking of how humans spread like wildfire across all the planes and becoming the ultimate apex predator.
She was leery of the demon, though his answer rang true as she took the visage of human, but the cost of his answer was hidden within it. Hircine took to fashioning tools to hunt her prey, traveling across the realms to hunt her deadliest creations, becoming the God of the Hunt as well as the God of Beasts. She knew she'd been tricked into becoming the Eternal Hunter, so she made up a riddle for him, one that he still hasn't figured out to this day.
What made most mortal races turn to her and other Deities was the age of Noxum, when a Great Darkness fell upon all the planes, even the Abyss itself, causing famine, plagues, pestilence, and undeath across countless worlds, forcing many races to resort to desperate measures to survive. She managed peer through the darkness to see mortals fallen back to days of stone and sticks, witnessing a band of tribals fighting against hordes of undead, demons, and vampires, so she took form as Stag then told them how to become stronger by donning the hides of beasts. She created the "Blessing" of Lycanthropy, allow them to shift between forms of man and beast along with in between, creating the first generation of werebeasts.
After the Grand Archmage dispelled the shadow upon worlds, and the constellations become visible once again, her worship slowly declined when bronze was rediscovered, though still made her mark in the Modern Era's History. She's still the patron deity of werebeasts who passed on their blessings to their descendants and so forth, telling the tales of many wild hunts throughout the Centuries. Some of those that don't worship her still like to watch for the wild hunt, considering it the Greatest wonders of the world.
Family: While Hircine lacks any real parents, she does have quite a few cohorts in her Pantheon that considers her children
Epona, The Goddess of Centaurs, Hircine found the centaur maiden during the awakening of worlds, after an elven king laid with a mare to keep a demon away from his lands. Apparently the mare became pregnant then gave birth to Epona, the fey lord noticed this and attempted slay what he deemed an abomination until Hircine intervened, adopting the first Centaur in all Creation as her. She made the young maiden a goddess, and her father decreed that all his subjects must lay with a horse on the day, creating the first generation of Centaurs then later forgave him by turning him into one. Epona mostly considers Hircine her protector and mentor, despite the times she's tried to lay with her.
Minos, God of Minotaurs, the First minotaur who was the product of a ritual pairing between island kingdom's sacred bull and their queen who performed an annual ritual celebrating the annual harvest, much less to say that he was conceived then born the first of May. His mother once he could walk locked him away in maze she built to hide her supposed abomination of a child, but fortunately he had a ball of string he played with that helped him out of the maze. He found the exit and fled to the next island on a passing fishing boat, where he was adopted by farmer and his wife who simply thought him disfigured.
Over the next two decades, He matured into young man and heard tales of birth mother being slain by invaders who built a bull made of bronze then baked her alive in it. Minos may have not thought the best of her but in his heart, she didn't deserve a death like that so he set off for the kingdom of his birth. He found it without a ruler so he took the crown for himself then had many children, continuing the kingdom's sacred festivals where children of these beastly unions were considered blessed by the gods, spawning the first generation of minotuars as well as minosians, who were humans that had some bovine traits. This attracted Hircine's attention then upon his death, she whisked him away to Great Wildlands as a god.
Puck, God of Fauns and Satyrs, this feychild is the union between a Fairy and his Goat wife, Puck prefers to be known as the Beastly Bard for throughout much of his mortal life. He grew up on a ranch without much of care in the world, though his fairy heritage called out to him like Siren's song, finding that playing tricks on Humans was just as fun as playing his flute for them. When he was old enough, Puck set off on his adventures, blowing his flute for everyone to hear and letting the maidens blow his flute in the midst of the night.
His ascension into godhood was of his own making, for stole Pan's Flute, belonging to a Spirit serving Hircine that guided the souls of dead children into Everland where they could grow to chose their own afterlife. This caused chaos and strife across Id, forcing Hircine to hunt down Puck but before threatening to end him. The Feyspawn offered to guide the lost boys and girls into everland, playing songs for all of them to hear and drawing them to their temporary afterlife. For this labor, Hircine made him the god of Fauns and Satyrs, particularly since she loved to hear him play and seen how many children he made whom played.
Primogenitus, The Awakener of Worlds, originally known as the Dragons, Soloy, Diiv, Lurg, Moluv, Nev, and Nuk, They were cursed to become the Hydra known as Primogenitus for laying with the Mother of Beasts and had their voices along with their minds taken away. Hircine, in her anger, inspired man to do something awful and hunt down the great dragons to enact her vengeance but ended in disaster. The Dragon God Azarath in his wisdom, saw the traitors who turned primogenitus into the creature that he now is and to aide the grieving Hircine.
He forced the betrayors to grow extra heads, turning them into the first generation of Hydras to punish them according to their crime, stripping them of their own voices and minds, driving them to insanity. Primogenitus sadly was still cursed himself, with Azarath unable to break it, He did the next best act by restoring the Awakener's combined love for Hircine, restoring the balance amongst the heavens. She did her best to make amends for her own attrocities by manipulating mortals to do her bidding by sending her letuma offspring to terrorize the Voddirks, Dragon Hunters and nesting with Lekova. Its not wierd for a dragon to have a pet dragon? Body: Hircine is a shapeshifter and the first one at that, not to mention the fact she is Undying due to the fact she is the physical manifeststion of the Beast Aspect. Originally she took the form of a stag long ago but found herself fascinated with predators, taking the form of dragon, a Gnoll, and or a wolf throughout various periods of time. She likes Hunting as a human because of the nature of how humans hunt with tools, instead with tooth and nail. Type: Varies Hair Color: Brunette when in mortal form Eyes: Amber gold Fur/Scales: Spots as a Gnoll, Umber scales as a dragon, Brown as a stag, Gray as a wolf and Fair skinner as a Human.
Setting: Fantasy Wardrobe: Much of Hircine's wardrobe is made from Leather, Hides, and bone, though does have a fascination for silver rings. She is not known for her modest and wears what most Wildlands druids would wear or any barbarian would chose. Accessories: Sexuality: Pansexual, she loves all living animals and doesn't hesistate to Hump or be humped for fun. Reproduction: Hermaphrodite, has both sets of genitals