Heikemaghen

Goddess of Madness, Orders, Fear, and Knowledge

The Mould of Mankind, the Ordered Madness, the Lord of Men, the Empty Magnificence, the Mirror of Mortality, the Prince of Order, the Killer of Gods

The Last of the Seventy, Andromalius, daughter of Mutsuki, is the one who invented the term “mortal”. Heikemaghen, her divine hypostasis, is the mould into which the essence of mortals is poured and out of which mortals arise. Yersinia has power over madness, but Heikemaghen embodies it; not the soft, kind madness of a man who is deluded in his understanding of the world, but rather a man who is deluded in the understanding of himself. Heikemaghen is the madness born of too much knowledge, and the hubris born of strength; the creeping dread that is called forth before battle, and the sudden panic that sets armies to flight; the fear of the unknown, and the awe felt towards knowledge. Heikemaghen is — infamously — willing to sell forbidden knowledge: the only catch is that she always sells only a little too much.

Unlike all other divine hypostases, which cannot be said to truly exist, Heikemaghen’s domain is such that she defies the law of identity itself. Heikemaghen is not Heikemaghen, but she is Andromalius; Andromalius is not Andromalius, but she is Heikemaghen. Therefore, along among the Seventy, Heikemaghen can, at any time, switch places with her ontic. Andromalius is infamously arbitrary and even silly, as if to represent the absurdity of the world which mortals have constructed for themselves. Heikemaghen is anything but; she is what happens when Andromalius takes off the mask, and one is made to remember that a god lives inside the clown.