Hausōs

Stare into the Abyss with me. Watch the Abyss blink.

The Fulfilment of All Creation, the Almighty, the Highest One, the Most High, Pivot of the Universe, the Omniscient and Omnipotent, the Maker of Mysteries, the All-Knowing, the Divider, the Creator of the Calendar, the Brilliant One in the Sky, Five-Fingered-Dawn, Rose-Cheeked Sunset, Who Shortens Our Days, the Bright-Lord, the Dawn Unending, Which Brings Forth Death, the Mover Unmoved, the Stars of Heaven, Crystallizer of Dreams, the Pillar-that-is-Order, That Which Was, She of the Seven-Colored Throne of All Creation, the Lady-Most-Mighty, the Brightness, Mother of Knowledge, the All-Watcher in the Sky, Illuminator of Heaven and Earth, the Giver of Names, the Brighter Half, etc. etc.

Also known as the Only God, especially in the context of her temples and altars. As a primordial god, she is not Enthroned and is not bound by the Codex. She is the Outer Order who distinguishes and divides, pushing outwards and towards eternity, until all things are known and differentiated utterly, and thus becomes complete by herself. Hausōs was, before any other: for she was first to name the idea of the other. Together with her other half, Mutsuki, she forms Sophia, the God Split Asunder.

Hausōs knows the names of all things, for she was the one who named them. She was Nothing, but in giving names she has made Something out of both herself and all the world, and thus became Everything. Before her was all laid bare: by her hands was everything formed. All creation is her creation; the infinite hierarchy of the unnumbered worlds ends with a single monarch, and the name of that monarch is Hausōs. Yet she is not Supreme, for supremacy implies that she exists with respect to that which is inferior to her. Many things exist with respect to her as inferiors, but Hausōs alone is absolute.

Hausōs is said to have hair of platinum blonde and a scarlet hooded dress. She normally keeps the hood on during dawn and dusk, hence the sun’s red hue. The horses of her chariot are red and orange and saffron yellow. Normally she does not show her eyes to the world, for there is nothing of interest to see. Her eyes are a terrible violent amethyst colour, and their ever shifting hues poison the very sky with their light, changing it from their normal cerulean to colours ranging from unbearable white to an angry maroon. Either her shoes or her skirt are a dark and dusky blue, normally visible behind her as the sun sets. But sometimes it is visible before the sun rises above the horizon, and this is dangerous, for it means that Hausōs is walking the skies with her own two feet and observing all the worlds. While Hausōs’ light sears the skies, all illusions under her light are suppressed, all languages written and spoken become understood by all creatures, the hidden becomes visible and the hiding are found. The clerics of other gods draw power from their patron only with difficulty, for no power survives contact with the Five Fingered Dawn for long.

Clerics

Hausōs rarely bothers to appoint clerics, though the few that are so blessed enjoy truly overwhelming power beyond their peers. It was said that in the very distant past, Hausōs freely granted her power to anyone who knew how to take it, simply showering it down on the world without caring what it was used for. After Pantokra turned Hausōs’ own discarded power against her she now is stingy with her gifts, granting her blessings only to those who are already great in some way.

While her clerics are rare, most priests of other gods are forced to know Hausōs’ logic, insofar as it exists. Although her power is rarely turned towards the world below, her mere gaze can shred magic and cut off the powers of the clergy of other gods. Unfortunately, even the most accomplished sages cannot reliably predict Hausōs’ movements and temper. Only one who is her equal could do that, and the only one who is equal with the All-Knowing is the Unknowable Unknown herself.

But the one thing that Hausōs does not abide in her servants is hubris, and the one thing they may never reach for is infinity — the only sin of serving the Almighty is to wish to hold her for longer. The Dawn is daily new; she meets the Sun and fades, she meets the Earth and passes; she touches mortal men and they wither while she returns unaged. Dawn comes to every morning young, and every morning leaves; and everything she loved yesterday is older. And so, Hausōs outlasts her servants, who must leave her eventually.