User:Corumm

Mysterious deity, has a celestial host formed by millions of his own deformed sons and a belt that turns into a magic spear, his goblet holds the water of immortality

• 1-army of common men- armed wing of CPC-wip Army of Common Men
• 2-Big Twinkie - conglomerate that produces ixnay's twinkie-requires expanded lore Big Twinkie
• 4-pacification/compliance via opium distribution xisheng/varshan- requires further input Xisheng Office of Contentment un mundo feliz por aldous huxley Linge Chen's Private Reserve
• 5-Harmonious Flotilla Invincible/Unconditional Divisions-wip Harmonious Flotilla Invincible
• 7- plateau of leng-done? create a kingom of leng historical entity Plateau of Leng
• 8- defense companies paramilitary orgs-pending
• 9- the Shining Path, a PCD ideology/manual for power consolidation-pending
• 10- Palace of the Purple Emperor-pending possibly replace with Daskara Palace
• 11- Cheese reserve-requires more input Mirzak Cheese Vaults
• 14- Abominable AI's made to "win using the coldest logic and computational power-pending
• 15- Chen's menagerie- needs more animals Chen's Menagerie
• 21- Plascrete/hypersteel-pending
• 25- Corummese Car and Automata Manufactory-COCAM-needs more lore Standard People's Compact Vehicle
• 27- corummese MULTIPASS-pending
• 28- mirzak monorail run by artificial intelligence aka roborail-Mirzak Automated Monorail System incomplete
• 30- corummese nuclear program- link with Lixin Ji
• 31- Democratic Christian Church of Corumm and the East-incomplete
• 33- corummese captagon to undermine rivals-Drug trade in Corumm-done ish Opodo Corporation
• 39- Virtuous Worms - Virtuous Worms wip
• 43- South Seas Development Company - A colonial conglomerate developing industries in Zhijun and colonial Stenza, possibly Rusana too under a subsidiary. wip 30%
• 44- add green crab and asian carp to fauna/food
• 45- corumm-rusana-canpei economic corridor
• 49- rich people donate dna to create sacks of flesh with organs to replace their aging organs and live longer
• 51- imperial trinket/Amiable Ecumene/Zone of Absolute Fortune
• 53-dry counties
• 54-Daxian monarchs giving patents of authority to vassals- tie into Tributary system of Imperial Daxia
• 55-some sort of grandiose defensive line
• 56-GW2 Daxian mini front in Caldera in support of Faneria
• 57-daxian colonization of peratra/australis article
• 58-palace school for dwarfs to become generals and shit
• 59-early daxian computers based on the zhivkov balgarsko model
• 60-substitute kingship ritual/occultation of the emperor
• 61-the scream box

I was a beast upon the earth, a salamander or an eel. Water passed through that earth as streams pass through a garden. Beside each stream grew sweet grass. Not much of it, but enough to feed little aphids, who lived mean and starving lives.

Now there came an upwelling of water from the earth, so that the streams ran fat and slow. The grass grew thick. The aphids mated and multiplied. Ants came to enslave the aphids, and the aphids joined together to oppose them. And in victory they returned to tend their grass, to aerate its roots and spread its seeds. So they did thrive.

Now it occurred to me that I might join two streams by crawling between them on my belly. Having done so, I saw that I might dam one stream to divert its water into the other. The aphids of the first stream came to me in protest, but I said to them, "Go to the new pond I have made, and join the aphids there in cultivation, and I will send more water unto you."

And they were greatened by the joining.

Thus, I proceeded to join all the streams together into one pond. And whenever the aphids of a small stream might protest, I said to them, "Go, look at my pond, and see the plenitude I have provided to my people there." When it became necessary to stop those upstream from polluting the water, I offered them the bounty of our pond, the grass and the watercress. And if they did not yield, I sent the ant-fighters against them, because their petty good injured the good of the all.

I appointed ministers of water and soil and seed and war, and to the most loyal, I gave these posts as reward; but ultimately their power depended on me, for they were aphid and I was Leviathan.

In time, I became the coordinator of all water and the dispensator of fertility. Then I became the coordinator of coordinators, and I gave up the control of thirst and life for control of those who had control. And all my craft became the pure and abstract management of power.

Then saw upon the horizon a wave, and the wave was God, and it approached me, saying, "We are as one, you and I. We are the gathering of the waters. Gather unto me as they have gathered unto you; we will be as one." The aphids screamed and begged me for salvation. But I was not of them. I was of the wave.

To them, there are no states, only zones and territories, Peeter explains. Russia sees itself as being surrounded by vassals and ancillaries – there is no third option. They’ll never come to terms with the breakup of the USSR,“ Mežviets says. As Russia’s leaders themselves have declared: Russia ends where it is stopped. It’s a conqueror’s mindset, Everyone around them are enemies.

Gilgeam the Horse-Eater

Ancient depiction of Gilgeam, he holds in his hands thunderbolts that he plucked from the heavens

Gilgeam the Horse-Eater also known as Gilgeam the Man-Shaped, Gilgeam the Hero, and First King, is a mythical figure, demigod and cultural hero of the ancient civilizations of Rusana. Gilgeam is said to have been created by the pantheon to guard their creation, the world and the creatures within. In turn Gilgeam asked for boons from the gods to better carry out his mission, the boons of Sapience, Strength and a heart. As the guardian of creation Gilgeam carried out many dangerous tasks and hunted different fell beasts. Eventually Gilgeam turns against the gods and is cursed to become a mortal man of flesh and blood. In ancient Nasrid mythology, Gilgeam is reputed to be the first man and the creator of the entire race and later its first king. In modern Rusana, Gilgeam remains a figure of local folklore. In Islam he is called Gilmesh and is considered to be an angel who helped mankind survive until the coming of the Prophet Muhammad.

Mythos

Ancient sources tell of how the gods shaped Gilgeam from the trunk of a tree and breathed the Light of Life into him, making him come alive. At this stage he comes to be known in the stories as Gilgeam Man-Shaped, for he has the form of a man but no flesh, true sentience or emotions of his own; he is more akin to a golem. The gods instruct Gilgeam that he is to watch over all that they have created for eternity. To better understand that which he must keep safe, Gilgeam asks the gods to grant him the boon of Sapience, which they agree to. With this boon Gilgeam comes to understand the workings of the world and its creatures. Gilgeam sets out to guard the lands when he is confronted by a great beast that is described as a great heap of oozing flesh, with as many clawed limbs as there are stars in the sky. Gilgeam fights the beast but loses and is wounded greatly, he flees from the beast to recuperate. In order to defeat the beast of limbs, Gilgeam asks the gods for the second boon, that of Strength. With this boon Gilgeam first constructs a new body for himself, made of polished stone. With his new boon and body, Gilgeam goes out again to fight the beast of limbs. This time Gilgeam tears out the limbs of the beast before plucking out its singular eye with a sharpened stake, killing the creature. Gilgeam piles up the torn limbs of the beast, in this manner creating Mount Urum.

As he wanders creation Gilgeam comes across a dying deer, a victim of the beast of limbs. As Gilgeam knows the workings of all things, he knows that the dying creature cannot be saved; Gilgeam gives it the gift of rest. Gilgeam feels since he has failed his duty to protect all things, he should weep both for failing his duty and the death of the deer. However Gilgeam has no heart and so he cannot cry, he asks the gods to give him a heart. The gods grant this third boon uneasily, unsure of what might happen. With a heart beating in his chest now, Gilgeam resumes his mission and moves across the world doing all he can. He is witness to wonders beyond counting, the gods erecting the Sun and the Moon, the calming of the tempestuous seas, the birth of new life and he knows joy and contentment. He is also witness to dark deeds, violence and the shedding of blood; for however powerful he is, Gilgeam is one being and cannot be in all places. Gilgeam knows sorrow, anger, fear and the blackest of rages for the creatures that do fell deeds are also creations of the gods. With his heart filled with rage and outrage, he screams to the heavens, calling to his creators to account for their actions, and for giving him an impossible task. This defiant action outrages the gods, who strip his immortality from him and give him the curse of flesh and place the shadow of death upon him.