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Many of the myths surrounding Kilva describe his various deaths and resurrections. He was killed on at least three occasions, coming back each time. | Many of the myths surrounding Kilva describe his various deaths and resurrections. He was killed on at least three occasions, coming back each time. | ||
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Kilva is often accused of being [[Lawful Evil]]. | Kilva is often accused of being [[Lawful Evil]]. | ||
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After Kilva had ruled in Ur for several years, he began to obsess over his own mortality. He journeyed to the west and sought out a magician of the old world named [[Zulaban]]. The magician did indeed know of a path to immortality: eating the fruits of the garden of Aishadal would do it, but the trick was finding the garden. Zulaban would tell him its location, but only if Kilva passed a challenge: he would have to stay awake for nine days straight. | |||
Kilva accepted. After hours of meditation, Kilva climbed a mountain and hung off of a cliff face by his fingertips, reasoning that staying in that position would keep him awake. Drinking only rain water and occasionally baiting birds to kill and eat, he hung there for nine days and nine nights, hardly even blinking. | |||
At the end of it, Zulaban conceded defeat and gave him the location of the garden. | |||
== As a patron == | == As a patron == | ||
Kilva could serve as an Undying [[otherworldly patron]]. | Kilva could serve as an Undying [[otherworldly patron]]. | ||
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It happened during one of Kilva's military campaigns, when he conquered the then-city-state of [[Jardin]] (modern-day capital of [[Phoena]]). After the city's armies surrendered and the enemy king was beheaded, Kilva walked the halls of the king's palace, finding rows of great marble statues of the city's past kings. One of the city's ministers, presumably trying to get on Kilva's good side, declared that the palace artisans would immediately begin sculpting a statue of Kilva and placing it alongside the great kings of the past. | |||
However, rather than being impressed, Kilva was furious, angrily proclaiming that indeed these were great kings and conquerors, but "still their fate was stone." He then declared his legacy would never be stone or mortar, and stormed out of the palace. | |||
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Revision as of 21:15, 7 January 2022
| Kilva | |
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| Alignment | Lawful Evil |
| Divine Rank | 1-5 (demigod) |
In Saphorism, Kilva ("KIL-vuh") is a war god and god of battle, cities, law, and kinghood. He is known for his jealous, proud, lustful, and indomitable personality.
According to myth, Kilva was originally a mortal man born of the barbarian tribes of the south, who, through conquest, rose to become the king of Ur. Later in life, he became obsessed with his own mortality, and embarked on a quest for immortality—he attained it, and ascended to godhood.
Many of the myths surrounding Kilva describe his various deaths and resurrections. He was killed on at least three occasions, coming back each time.
Immortality
Insomnia trial
After Kilva had ruled in Ur for several years, he began to obsess over his own mortality. He journeyed to the west and sought out a magician of the old world named Zulaban. The magician did indeed know of a path to immortality: eating the fruits of the garden of Aishadal would do it, but the trick was finding the garden. Zulaban would tell him its location, but only if Kilva passed a challenge: he would have to stay awake for nine days straight.
Kilva accepted. After hours of meditation, Kilva climbed a mountain and hung off of a cliff face by his fingertips, reasoning that staying in that position would keep him awake. Drinking only rain water and occasionally baiting birds to kill and eat, he hung there for nine days and nine nights, hardly even blinking.
At the end of it, Zulaban conceded defeat and gave him the location of the garden.
As a patron
Kilva could serve as an Undying otherworldly patron.
