The focus of this civic cult is a deity called Mboloké, with a much reduced focus on his many children. Mboloké is depicted as a sphinx made out of stone and iron and is said to stalk through the city and eat the brains of those citizens who catch his fancy. His portfolio includes solitude, filth, ugliness, midden heaps, prisons, armies, labor, alienation, fog, ghost rock, poverty, love, money, pavement, trees, visions, omens, hallucinations, miracles, ecstacies, dreams, adorations, illuminations, religions, breakthroughs, crucifixions, epiphanies, despairs, minds, new loves, suicide, and (most importantly) the Free City itself, and it is whispered that his voice can be heard in the sounds of screaming children, boy-soldiers sobbing, and the weeping of old men in the plazas. He lives under stairways.
Roads of Mboloké include:
- The Nightmare of Himself
- Mboloké Swecra: Mboloké Original One
- The Loveless
- Mboloké t'Aigul: Mboloké of the Brass Tower
- Mental Mboloké
- The Heavy Judger of Men
- The Congress of Sorrows
- Mboloké Ho'oh ???: Whose Buildings Are Judgments
- The Vast Stone of War
- The Stunned Colonizers
- The Clockwork Mind
- Whose Blood is Running Money
- Whose Fingers Are Ten Armies
- Whose Breast is a Cannibal Dynamo
- Whose Ear is a Smoking Tomb
- Whose Eyes Are a Thousand Blind Windows
- Whose Towers Stand in the Long Streets Like Endless Gods
- Whose Labor Dreams and Chokes in the Fog
- Crowned With Chimneys and Antennae
- Whose Love is Endless Ghost Rock and Stone
- Usurious Lightning Soul
- Whose Poverty is the Specter of Genius
- Whose Fate is a Sexless Cloud
- The Mind
- In Whom I Sit Lonely
- In Whom I Dream Angels
- Who Entered My Soul Early
- Bodiless Consciousness
- Who Frightened Me Out of My Natural Ecstasy
- Whom I Abandon
- Light Streaming Out of the Sky
- Skeleton Treasury
- Blind Lord
- Demonic Overseer
- Spectral Nation
- Invincible Madhouse
- Granite Cock
- Monstrous Bomb
- Gone Down the River
- The Whole Boatload of Sensitive Bullshit
- Ten Years' Animal Screams and Suicides
- Mad Generation
- Down on the Rocks of Time
- Real Holy Laughter in the River
- Of the Wild Eyes
- Of the Holy Yells
- Bidding Farewell
- Waving
- Carrying Flowers
- Into the Street
According to one Free City Vanmi legend, the Brass Tower once stood as a home for Mboloké t'Aigul back in Ndata-mbanye. At one point, the Brass Tower was struck by lightning and burned to the ground, only to be quenched by the rains that followed soon after. Three nameless small monster gods were said to have died with the tower’s destruction but were resurrected by Mboloké Ho'oh as Wokiar, Yetné, and Enucius—the roaming legendary dogs who are said to have taken on the three characteristics of the tower’s destruction (electric, fire, water), as well as the legendary birds Onucitra, Sertlom, and Sodpaz. It is said that upon the Brass Tower’s destruction, Mboloké t'Aigul left to find a new home, eventually finding the land that would one day be the Free City, while Mboloké Ho'oh flew off in search of someone pure-hearted enough to be taught how to capture and train the small monster gods.
A fifth trinity of Mboloké's children (it's a bit of a theme) that are very famous and powerful are often referred to as the “weather trio” due to their weather-affecting abilities. After the world was created, it is said, the weather trio was responsible for its composition and shape. Nodourg was responsible for the matters of the land while Ergoyk was responsible for the matters of the sea. Azaqyar, said to reside in the highest air, maintains its role by making sure Nodworg and Ergoyk don’t quarrel with one another.
According to other lore, Sagigiger was responsible for pulling the continents of the world in place by using ropes, working for his siblings the weather trio. After it was done, it created the first three golems in its image from clay, ice and magma. These not-quite-small gods were known as Coriger, Eciger, and Leetsiger respectively. However, other small gods who witnessed Sagigiger’s power decided that it was too strong and sealed it away inside of a temple underneath the Free City. The three golems were separated from their creator and taken to what is now the Burnt-Out Coast where they were sealed away in separate chambers guarded by intricate puzzles in hopes that one day a trainer may be able to tame them and tame Sagigiger in turn.
Still other tales tell of an ancient civilization that lived around the Free City, the same civilization, the tales say, that built the mysterious mounds that dot the continent of Pesh. Two brothers are said to have founded this civilization with the help of a mighty draconic small god. However, the two brothers became divided upon how the land should be ruled and the dragon, unable to choose one side or the other, split itself in two and became Marisher and Morkez.
Marisher and Morkez are the representations of civic order and emptiness as well as truth and ideals in the Free City. Supposedly, after a great and evenly-matched battle between the two, the brothers set aside their differences and claimed that there was no right side to their arguments. However, their sons resumed the conflict later on and Marisher and Morkez allegedly destroyed the region with their fire and lightning abilities, disappearing thereafter.
Three small gods represent how the sky helps nourish the earth. These small gods are Sudanort of wind, Surudnuth of thunder, and Surodnal of rice.
Many other small gods are famous, for a wide variety of time. Wem is speculated to be the true first child of Mboloké. It remains elusive by having the ability to change its shape. Ibelec is said to be able to travel through time. Iarkrad and Ailleserc represent the phases of the moon and are said to be responsible for nightmares and good dreams.
A fifth trinity of Mboloké's children (it's a bit of a theme) that are very famous and powerful are often referred to as the “weather trio” due to their weather-affecting abilities. After the world was created, it is said, the weather trio was responsible for its composition and shape. Nodourg was responsible for the matters of the land while Ergoyk was responsible for the matters of the sea. Azaqyar, said to reside in the highest air, maintains its role by making sure Nodworg and Ergoyk don’t quarrel with one another.
According to other lore, Sagigiger was responsible for pulling the continents of the world in place by using ropes, working for his siblings the weather trio. After it was done, it created the first three golems in its image from clay, ice and magma. These not-quite-small gods were known as Coriger, Eciger, and Leetsiger respectively. However, other small gods who witnessed Sagigiger’s power decided that it was too strong and sealed it away inside of a temple underneath the Free City. The three golems were separated from their creator and taken to what is now the Burnt-Out Coast where they were sealed away in separate chambers guarded by intricate puzzles in hopes that one day a trainer may be able to tame them and tame Sagigiger in turn.
Still other tales tell of an ancient civilization that lived around the Free City, the same civilization, the tales say, that built the mysterious mounds that dot the continent of Pesh. Two brothers are said to have founded this civilization with the help of a mighty draconic small god. However, the two brothers became divided upon how the land should be ruled and the dragon, unable to choose one side or the other, split itself in two and became Marisher and Morkez.
Marisher and Morkez are the representations of civic order and emptiness as well as truth and ideals in the Free City. Supposedly, after a great and evenly-matched battle between the two, the brothers set aside their differences and claimed that there was no right side to their arguments. However, their sons resumed the conflict later on and Marisher and Morkez allegedly destroyed the region with their fire and lightning abilities, disappearing thereafter.
Three small gods represent how the sky helps nourish the earth. These small gods are Sudanort of wind, Surudnuth of thunder, and Surodnal of rice.
Many other small gods are famous, for a wide variety of time. Wem is speculated to be the true first child of Mboloké. It remains elusive by having the ability to change its shape. Ibelec is said to be able to travel through time. Iarkrad and Ailleserc represent the phases of the moon and are said to be responsible for nightmares and good dreams.
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