Myjongtzyengkhi

Goddess of Art, Song, Dance, the Stage, Culture, Artists, and Memes

Music when the Singer Dies, lives within the memory; Dreams that outgrow the Dreamer can outlast eternity.

The Great-and-Smiling Wraith, Singer of the Endless Song, Patron of Demagogues, Enemy and Friend of Kings, the Bane of Princes, Maker of Truths, Bard of the Sun and Moon, Empress of the Second World

Supposedly, Myjongtzyengkhi was the first undead creature to ever exist in the Second World. The legendary founder of Kansu, the Eternal Empire, lay dying, and had resolved to pass on in peace. But then she heard a song — the Song. A song so sublime and transcendent that it must have been an echo of a world yet uncreated. She strained to hear it more fully, to catch even the slightest note, but it was beyond the understanding of a mortal mind. Only after the Song had faded did she realise that her body had long since rotted to bones, and she herself was nothing more than a black shadow cast by nothing - the first wraith, doomed to forever search for the notes to the tune she heard while she lay dying.

But she did find it: the Song of Creation, the tune hummed by the Creator as the foundations of the world were laid. Upon the Great Organ she played, an organ so vast that the entire capital of Kansu was no more than its top half. The Song of Creation sounded once more in a world which had forgotten its making. As she played, she achieved a feat many had attempted but none had yet achieved — the creation of an entirely new Throne, the Throne of Songs: ascension to godhood without ever fighting in the Ascension War. The Song of Creation, sung by Hausōs as she worked, is the foundation of conscious thought, and therefore, the blueprint for all culture; whosoever holds it could change, or indeed create and destroy, any culture they so please. In playing it, she stole it from Hausōs; in stealing it, she became its rightful master.

Myjongtzyengkhi is patron of artists in general and musicians especially. The attractions of the stage is where she is most present, whether that be a display of paintings, a circus show, or of course a musical performance. Her portfolio is narrow but focused, and she has much in common with Leidenschaft, for few great works of art can be produced by one without Passion. Unlike Leidenschaft, it is not passion that she can bless artists with. Nor does she provide an increase in skill or knowledge of advanced techniques. Those who offer her sacrifices instead gain the greatest blessing an artist can receive, inspiration, the idea of what to do next — the very thing she had constantly wished for, and so often did not receive, during her own search for the Song. Myjongtzyengkhi is unique among the gods in one more way, however: she is an artist to the bone, and having completed her great work, sees no reason she should hold it herself. She favours neither king nor peasant nor aspiring artist; art is born from the soul and inspiration, even granted, is not necessarily correct.