Makeyosin

Goddess of Benevolence, Charity, Selflessness, Agápē, and the World As It Should Be

Forgiven thou shalt be, as thou hast forgiven others; Love too shalt thou have, as thou hast loved others.

Light-Bearer, Giver of Gifts, the Woman-Clothed-in-Sun, the Salvation-Clothed-in-Sin, the Servant of All, the Ideal Unwanted, Least-and-Greatest, the Highest of the Angels, the Archangel of Love, First of the Seraphim, the Better Half

Makeyosin the fallen Archangel is consort to Pantokra. It is a manifestation of raw benevolence, of a truly pure and selfless wish for others to find joy. But Makeyosin does not feel what mortals call love, and it is not what mortals call good: the Good of the first of the Seraphim cannot be achieved by mortals and cannot be understood by mortals, for even the best mortal is mere good, and Makeyosin is Good. For Makeyosin, Archangel of Love, does not love in the narrow and prejudiced way a mother loves her children or a husband loves his wife. It loves everything — the lovingly carved statue of a child, the smiling child himself, the man who kills the child in cold blood, the child’s rotting corpse: they are all the same in its eyes, and all deserving of Love.

Makeyosin’s powers are vast and mighty, and by most neutral estimates they are significantly greater than Pantokra’s. It has the power to grant life to those fated to die, no matter how dire their situation; Makeyosin is the Giver of Gifts, and no gift can be greater than a future. It is even able to reverse deaths that have already happened, though only temporarily: Epaeives must be bought off soon after or severe and unpleasant consequences will befall the reborn soul. But the reason Makeyosin does not enjoy the worship that Pantokra does is simple, and unrelated to its distaste for being worshipped: it is unpopular simply because the ideals it holds are beautiful only to those who do not need to live it.

Clerics

Makeyosin has no clerics, but it does have divine servants, and there are many priests who subscribe to its ideology in some fashion or another. These priests spread Makeyosin’s beliefs in its name, although Makeyosin itself has no particular special interest in or approval of these itinerant preachers. Being a fallen Archangel, it does not recognize any legitimacy in the practice of worshipping it as a god. It may have fallen from grace, but it still believes and will ever believe that there is but one God, who rules over all.