#((just more the sort of god who perserveres through like. folk tales than grand myths

[lantern-lost]

💭 + the arts? (Music, visual arts, dance, whichever.)

send 💭 + a topic to receive a headcanon about said topic. Gods are often glorified through the works of their followers; they are made icons, through art, poetry and music. It is a shame, then, that Adaru does not engage in the arts as thoroughly as his heralds.

Over the millennia, there have been examples of his heralds work; especially those of Sacrifice and Legend. Fear, as a character, has endured through songs of fitful terror and gruesome murals; he has been the villain of countless folktales. But Adaru himself, as an artist, is... more understated. He sees no need in telling his own story, so long as his reputation arrives before him. And it usually does.

... Even so, it is invested in preserving those stories as much as he can. You'd be surprised at just how well a low, growling voice like that can sing. At how it conducts itself with such awful grace. At the fact a little part of him, even now, holds the stories of his past so close to his chest, and is eager to retell them.

Blood and teeth and terror can only convey so much for so long. People remember stories. And Fear has been the crux of many of them.

#rites and rituals [prompts] #v: a new era of gods and monsters #answered prayers [asks] #scribe and scholar [ooc] #((in like. less esoteric terms: adarus not exactly like. a very well venerated god. but he's still important #((just more the sort of god who perserveres through like. folk tales than grand myths #((and he does genuinely value the arts. not just as a vanity thing. he's like... deeply interested in Preservation #((if anything i'd argue it is one of his driving motivators. #((also a good singer. dancer. storyteller. there's a reason sacrifice is so vital to him