The Gods of Everything

We are afraid of things that we don't understand, preferring things that are certain. But progress can only be achieved by exploring outside our safe zone. Follow the path of the Enchantress and the journey to the unknown.

The Challenge

The Enchantress set her path toward Mount Aasveig. White tundra and many obstacles stood in her way and the other Six Gods. Countless hurdles lay ahead, she would have to endure the most excruciating pain before facing the Six Gods.

For thousands of millennia, Mount Aasveig had become a sacred place of the Gods. Not one soul other than the Gods could reach it. Death and wailing souls stood at the foot of the mountain, ensuring woe to whoever dared to trespass.

The Oracle resided at the shoulder of the mountain. The Oracles were those who sacrificed their eyes, ears, and mouth, pledging their soul to the Universe, acquiring the ability to know and write each soul's destiny in the living world.

Treading the icy-sharp terrain through the dry and amid terrain, the Enchantress walked bravely. She slowly turned into a mortal, capable of wounds. Her feet bled from the rough terrain, but not a slightest dimmed the fiery fire in her soul.

The Limbo

Right before reaching the shoulder of the mountain, The Enchantress took a rest beneath the great white tree. A sparrow perched on its branch.

The sparrow spoke of a land far away, full of treasures and fortunes. Before the underworld, the sparrow had been part of an important journey in search of those treasures. To see the end of the rainbow, which no man had ever seen before.

The Enchantress admired the sparrow. How the sparrow appeared small and yet possessed great courage inside. To embark on such a journey as a sparrow.

The story helped the Enchantress gather power to summit the Aasveig. It's halfway to the summit,the air grew thin, and the terrain rougher on the way up. The Enchantress prepared herself to face even deadlier obstacles.

The Plague

As the Enchantress continues her journey, she slowly loses part of herself. This time, her mind. The Gods are ripping apart the Enchantress's mind. She begins to see things that are not there, and hears unfriendly voices discouraging her from climbing to the top of the mountain.

Sometimes, the Enchantress forgets things or becomes confused by the direction to the top. The ground shifts as if the land is made of quicksand. The fog slowly enshrouds the Enchantress, creeping from her feet to her ankles, and eventually choking her chest. She hyperventilates, gasping for air.

The Enchantress reaches the limit of her own body. She wonders if she will ever get to the top, and face the Six Gods. Perhaps the universe is as it is, and nothing can be done. Perhaps destiny is not something one can alter .

The old world and all its immutable, unspoken rules.

But the Enchantress's soul remains firm, and her body is only her vessel. Not strong enough to keep the Enchantress's soul submissive.

The Seven Gods

For every life that is taken, one must give back one life. That's the rule that has ever been and will ever be.

As one of the Seven Gods that keep the balance of the world and the afterlife, The Enchantress's task is as simple as that, but not as simple as the reality.

For every soul that travels to the underworld, the Enchantress must test them. One test to determine their destiny. Should the soul be deemed worthy, the soul will part away to Valhalla. For the unworthy, will be sent to Hel.

The Enchantress guards the river Styx, swift and merciless, waiting for the Charon to deliver each soul.

The Old Soul

On one cloudy evening, the Charon slowly paddles its boat over the river Styx. An Old Soul comes with the Charon. One with a grey, sakura, and shellfish pattern shirt. The Old Soul is fearless, the Enchantress can tell. As if the old soul welcomes death as a friend.

Standing in front of the Enchantress, the old soul looks small and helpless. As with any soul, the Enchantress asks the old soul "Tell me, mortal, what have you done with your life?"

The Old Soul tells the story of a garden in the middle of the forest, one that the Old Soul built. A mere nothing compared to what others have done with their lives. Some build a megastructure, some achieve success, and some pass down many kin.

The old soul tells that the garden was a crystallization of an idea. An idea so powerful it reverberates throughout time and space. The idea of altering one's destiny.

Looking into the fiery eyes of the old soul, the Enchantress is convinced that the old soul is worthy of being rewarded. The Enchantress sends the old soul to Valhalla

The Destiny

The sky is shattered when the decision to send the Old Soul to Valhalla. A sign of a dire mistake by the Enchantress. To deliver the Old Soul to Valhalla means to accept that a mortal can change Destiny.

The enchantress stands mightily, defending her decision to the very core of her soul. A life spent altering one's destiny should be rewarded as such. A soul is given to each creature in the living world, and it's up to these souls what they want to do with the time given to them. Some use it like there's no time, some use it like they would be reborn again. Each is unique.

The Enchantress is aware of the rule that governs the Universe, that everything has its place and is under the bind of Destiny. To slip from Destiny's grasp is not a small task. But still, one can use one's soul however they want.

As with anything in life, there is a price for anything. The price for this mistake, in the eyes of the Gods, is the soul of the Enchantress herself. Her soul would be banished from the underworld, cursed to live among the living. She will neither be alive nor dead. Forever tormented in the living world.

The Unwritten

The Gods first strip away the Enchantress's power. The ability to decide a soul's destiny in the underworld. The Enchantress understands this is just the beginning. Soon, her soul will be torn apart from her body and sent to the living world by the other Six Gods.

As the Enchantress waits for her destiny, the words of the Old Souls reverberate through the Enchantress's soul. To challenge fate and Destiny. Those words seem to disturb the Enchantress.

Because if those words are true, then any soul can decide upon their own destiny. The universe would no longer be as is, and Chaos would engulf the Universe. A tiny ripple in the pond with consequences spanning across the Cosmos.

Powered by the Old Soul's words, The Enchantress makes her heart firm. She will go to Mount Aasveig to challenge the Oracles and the Six Gods themselves. The Enchantress's soul is plagued by the idea of challenging Destiny.

The Oracle

At long last, the Enchantress reaches the shoulder of the mountain. Her feet are bleeding from the icy terrain, her arms are cut and torn from the thorns, and her mind turns against her. But still, the Enchantress's eyes burn with fury and resolution to change Destiny.

The Oracles sit at the shoulder of the mountain. Together, they maintain the balance of the Universe. They have foreseen the Enchantress actions, and warn her of the great consequences. The Oracle tells her that the Universe is now at stake. One event has the capability of a ripple effect at the time continuum, messing up each Universe.

The Oracle tells that the sparrow the Enchantress encountered was no longer in the underworld. A forbidden trinket of Gods has been used in the living world to give life back to the sparrow, disrupting Destiny. The Universe can only take so many events it might be shattered soon. The Oracle begs the Enchantress to stop, as everything would be in chaos should the Enchantress continue.

The Enchantress, knowing that the Sparrow was called back to the living world, was convinced that she too can change her destiny.

Anyone could change their destiny.

The Victory

With a heart full of hope and the last power that the Enchantress had, she beheaded one of the Oracles and took the head as a trophy. The body rots and turns to ashes in a blink of an eye. The Sky turns dark and the cataclysmic storm brews over the mountain. The lightning strikes the mountain, setting fire to the trees. What was once a barren land is now an inferno.

The enchantress has done the highest act of blasphemy against the Six Gods. The Oracle's head is the key to changing her own destiny, a symbol of her defiance against the Six Gods and the Universe.

The Enchantress continues her journey through the fire, refusing to kneel to Destiny itself. She would change her own destiny and once again become the guardian of the river Styx.

The Cost of Destiny

The Enchantress reached the summit of Mount Aasveig and faced the Six Gods. She claims her right to Destiny with the proof of the Oracle’s head.

The Six Gods are enraged by her action. They tell that she does not realize what she has done. That her drive to change Destiny has ruptured time and space. They explain that Destiny always balances itself in the end, as it ever has.

The Six Gods explain the consequences of her action. The Enchantress can change her Destiny, but time will be reversed, and her decision of the Old Soul will also be undone. The Old Soul will not go to Valhalla. What is done cannot be changed without great consequences.

The Sacrifice

To fight the other Six Gods is something that Enchantress could face. To behead the Oracle and challenge Destiny is something she is fully prepared for. But to change the Destiny of the Old Soul is not something the Enchantress can do.

It was the Old Soul's words that had reverberated through Enchantress's soul in the first place. The Enchantress realizes that if she chooses her own Destiny, the Old Soul will lose everything. The garden would have been withered.

The Enchantress throws the head of the Oracle and falls on her knees. Everything that she has gone through has now vanished into thin air. The Enchantress would need to give up on herself, so that the Old Soul may receive the place in Valhalla.

The Enchantress opens her arms wide and stares at the shattered sky, ready to receive the Destiny she was meant to have.

The Eternal

The Six Gods rip the Enchantress's soul apart from her body. They torment her body with endless torture and curse her soul to roam the living world for eternity. Neither dead nor alive, the Enchantress becomes a silent observer in the living world.

For hundreds of years, she witnessed the change of the world, the war waged by those who want power, and all the calamities caused by the living world itself. She witnessed the history being written by the winner, drowning the truest truths about the history itself.

Until one day, she hears the cry of one kid's soul. A cry so loud and desperate, a wish to alter one's Destiny. In that soul, the Enchantress finds her purpose. To accompany the soul until the end of the soul's life, becoming inseparable from the Kid's soul itself.