Iggwilv
Atop a tall iron spire pointing out the dark blue ice, sits Iggwilv. Upon landing a shadowey demon - Landerbold- reaches out its hand, to ask what you want. Its voice is a female voice, as if it is being spoken through.
It will see Star (Kava) - and the demon will kneel. She runs out, skirt in hand, and drops to her knees and she hugs her child. Star will be confused, but eventually see that is her mom.
Walking up, every surface has creatures watching, following, shifting on the walls and furniture.
Iggwilv is impartial to their goal, but is part of the Circle Of Eight.
- It has been many years since I have had visitors. Who led you here?
- She will give it, to poor Sneedle. I am done with it, but nothing is ever free. She can sense you are have begun Apotheosis.
- She asks how.
- We began the research as we found a truth of them. The gods, Aine and Elatha, they are dying. Slowly. Not every soul is re-incarnated. They consume some to keep themselves alive. However, a finite amount of souls exist. It is only a matter of time before there are so few beings left in the universe.
- We were frightened initially. We began to research, everything.
- Renaxis, my dear husband, found a path. It drove him mad. Every day that passed, I recognized him less. He was on the verge of beginning the process before we had to intervene.
- He seemed to ignore the fact that ascension itself will cause a tear between realities. Where mind meets reality. Everything you think of, fear, imagine, technically exists. Every fragment of every thought is manifest in the astral plane. Of course, few are spiritually powerful enough to ever produce anything of substance there.
- However, the final step of ascension would in theory cause a complete shift. You would lose your body, an the entire astral realm, a culmination of every thought, fear, evil, would bleed over to reality as you bleed over into a being of pure spiritual power. Pure thought.
Your eyes will cease. Your body, vanish. You will no longer sense the world, for you will have become the world.
Such step is cataclysmic. We feared the gods dying - but then what, what would we rule over? A world in chaos.
And now, I don't even know. Will Aine and Elatha take to you. Will they understand? The entire thing is stupid, and I lost my love of my life over this pursuit of power.
And while this all happened, the rest of the 8 grew mad. There have been attempts, but they all kill whoever might have begun apotheosis. So it is possible... None of the others even resemble the pillars of knowledge and reason they once were. Mad, mad with power. Reckless, greedy. Mordenkeinan especially, who was a core part of the research, became outright evil in this pursuit. After sealing Renaxis, he instantly regret what he had done, and went missing soon after. The group has come across him multiple times since. She warns he has turned outright evil in his pursuit to gain that power again, and will not stop at anything to get it. He is a greatest deceiver, putting Devils to shame.