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The firstborn appears as an almost irritatingly beautiful That of a human man dressed in greek armora fine vest, but he his head is also known to appear as that of a firefly when termite, and in his hands he brings holds a hammer and chisel made of bone. Another depiction by the mad and deceased painter Tiaja has him with 6 outstretched termite arms, a silver needle grasped in each and appearing to thrust out towards the new dayviewer.
Grail Forge for pleasure and selfhis construction of his under-indulgencerealm, edge for a hot temper and fighting prowessMoth to hide it, and both for vanity. He is known Edge for his pride, and the wrath that follows the injury of his prideits protection.
The Firstborn is said to have originated from a small village in PhrygiaIn his dreams, albeit it’s name has been forgotten by he dreamed of the historiesMansus, of this vast unknowable prison, as was his original namethis secret knowledge. Beloved by allHis story is almost a classic occult one, men, women of an adept learning more and even more about the creatures secret world and attempting to make his way there. He stumbles upon a fragment of a God-from-Stone, the MansusAvulsed, he rapidly developed a highly narcissistic and dismissive personality, which ultimately proved begins to be his undoing: after being harshly turned downcraft and shape with it, a forest-seer laid a curse on him, that he „never shall leave making it into the foundation of his house, lest he diehome.“ InfuriatedPerfect, he ran after the seerbeautiful, but as soon as he set foot on the doorstepscomfortable, he felt himself weakeninga place for him and him alone.Using He works and works and works on it all his beauty as a bargaining chiplife, until one day it is finished, he slowly built up a cultand it is gone, seeking ascension into the for two Mansus, because if he at once can't leave his house, he shall move to a bigger onenot be tolerated. As He was taken into the years passed byMansus proper, he built up a cult, amassed a great hoard of treasures, incited strife between but the hours, shape and directed his cultists in the flaying power of Marsyas, the forest-seer who had cursed him. As the time had come and the hours were infighting more than ever, what he seized his window of opportunity built still remains for adepts and ascended through the Sea Gateacolytes to pursue, in an monumental orgy in which he ultimately betrayed all his lovers, reciting the Formulae Excessive over and overform of the Long Hallway.
He is a hot-headed hour, easily tricked into a fight, which he however will probably win. He both fights and loves with great passion, but most of all he loves himself. Sometimes, he is known to act erratically, but no affiliation with moth was ever proven.== Worship ==
== Worship ==He Who Crawls in the Shapes Below does not demand your worship, oh no no no, all he demands is your service. No veneration, only dedication! His Ideals? To carve out a world, a new world, beneath this one. To shape and mold according to his whims, a place for all the under-things to dwell.
The Firstborn is worshipped by He does not open the beautiful way, but once you make it here, he may have a place for you, far beneath. He does not share his knowledge, for he desireth none, he desireth nothing but your aid. Help him carve, dear one, be carved in turn, and witness the ugly alike, to preserve or improve rise and by those who wish descent. He wishes only to fight with forge a brutal place for himself, a place where he comfortable, and unrelenting strenghtmaybe if you are like him, you will be comfortable as opposed to The Abbess Sunsets worshipperswell.
Strangely, Do you feel dissatisfied with your normal life? Are things difficult? Imagine if they were easier. Imagine that your life is pleasant. It does not have to just be a dream. The World-Carver can help you make it so. All he asks is also worshipped by the betrayedsome help from you, and those who fear to you will be betrayedhelped in turn. Just take that hammer, but it is not known whytake that chisel, maybe take that knife, and start carving. He will guide the shapes and structure. Just cede your will to him.
There are two known ways “Give your ambition to gain his attentionme. You don’t need it, but both involve a sacrifice, which has to be given freely and I will do the work for the sake of admiration: either you scar yourself, appealing to his aspect of edgeso you may be comfortable. Just give your will, or you offer of your bloodbody, for his aspect of grailyour mind. You won’t need it.”
His church is the Order They never last long, he always finds some way to trick them into letting him take control of them. Many of them tend to be individual opportunists heeding his lures of His Majesty the Firstborncomfort, pleasure, as one would have expectedand a better life.
To this day, he still resides at He is both within and presides over without the Sea GateMansus. He rarely traverses there fully, where he built due to his many enemies. He prefers mainly to use his fortress Avulsed-Fragment, a potent remnant of unchartered pleasuresthe God-From-Stone that once governed the powers of Knock, as an (mostly) inaccessible (to those those who aren't Him) base in which he lives and constructs his new home. This has sometimes been termed as 'the Red KeepUnder-Places' or 'The Space Below'.
His earliest notable involvement in The Long Hallway: A location that transcends limitation of space, a twisting hellscape of labyrinthine architecture. As a mortal, the World-Carver practiced the matters arts of the hours many aspects, and while Knock was core in his meddeling construction of the Long hallway, he only now possesses that power in their affairs to worsen their conflicts for a whilehis Avulsed-Fragment, to create an window of opportunity for his ascension.He and has been known abandoned any attempts to have played a part in control the ExtirpationLong Hallway, although no one really knows what exactly he did. The Weft might suspect somethingat least for now.
A piece of Marsyas Skin (6 Grail, 6 Edge)
Something that was taken forcefully, but with acceptance.
A pebble of his doorsteps (6 Grail)
You desire to step on it, but something tells you that you shouldn’t.
A particular knive (2 Edge)
Legend has it that knives like this one slit the throats of the betrayed.
A furious red (2 Grail, 2 Edge) (paints)
It is really livid.
A vial of indefined proportions (8 Grail) (poison 2)
Drink it! Drink it! Don’t.
(Wouldn’t those be generic grail/ edge influences?)
The flaying of Marsyas
Before the translation: An ecstatic poem, written in greek, supposedly translated from phrygian.
After the translation: An ecstatic poem, re-telling the flaying of Marsyas from an unusual perspective.
Before the study: This poem, allegedly written by an unnamed exalted of the firstborn, describes the flaying from Marsyas perspective, which he claims to have taken in his dreams.
After the Study: So I take your skin, and with it your power, to avenge our lord. (Expand?)
Yields: Grail 4 lore, Edge 4 lore, fascination=== Rites === == About the World-Carver ==
The Betrayal of the hundredBefore the translation: Copied from a stele in the Artemision by Maxim Gladwell. Ciphered in Vak.After the translation: This is a copy from a much older inscription, allegedly an account of the legendary Betrayal of the hundred.=== How They Feel ===
Before the study: The donor who paid for the stele claims to have seen "Apollon's ascent", and pleads for Artemis to protect him from "the hundred-winged."
After the Study: The description itself is not much more than a traumatized man's stuttering, but he seems to remember the words that were spoken quite well.
Yields: Formulae Excessive (Grail 10 lore), the Rite of betrayal, dread
On the FirstbornBefore the translation: Maxim Gladwell research notes on the Firstborn. Ciphered in Vak. After the translation: The longer you work, the more scared you get. So did Gladwell. You don't dare to read the last page yet.=== Who They Blame ===
Before the Study: You are not sure if you should read this. Gladwell, whilst increasingly incoherent throughout the book, seems to have been on some kind of lead.
After the Study: Oh, the Glory! You don't know what you did after you read the last sentence. It must have been a horrible thing, since there is a lot of Blood on your clothes. But you remember you did well, and you remember a syllable of what you've read before you burned the book in horror.
Yields: A syllable === What They Hide === == Relationships == He is less than fond of the Firstborns name (Grail 12 lore)Lantern principle, Edge 12 loredue to his secretive and hidden nature. * [[The Piper]]: "A kind old man, Moth 4 lorein a world that is not kind to old men. Could stand to cheer up a little." Neutral.* [[The Firstborn]]: "Betrayal=good. Fighting Abbess=also good. Could be an ally if that stick could be dislodged from his ass." Neutral. * [[The Weft]]: "Tweedle-dee..." Dislikes* [[The Warp]]: "...and Tweedle-dum." Dislikes.* [[The Mechanism]]: "Oh, one passionso the furniture can be an Hour, two fascinationbut not me, on dread, one notorietyhuh?!" Dislikes. * [[The Hill-Queen]]: "I use my servants far better than you could use your own kin." Dislikes.
=== Rites ===
Rite * [[The Distinguished]]: "A woman of Betrayalambition and comfort. If only we had started off on better terms..." Conflicted. * [[The Captain]]: "A potential ally. If only he had picked better allegiances... " Conflicted. * [[The Gilded Insect]]: "Kindred spirits! :).......But I cannot stand competition >:(." Conflicted.
This rite is one of the hardest fullfill, due to the fact that it requires that the victim accepts it‘s death freely, re-enacting the Lovers betrayal. Other than that you requre a tool to slay them with, an influence to be consumed, and a piece of his lore.
== About * [[The Solemn]]: "If only he could tell me where he buried the Firstborn ==bodies, so many more fragments would be mine." Pities.
=== How They Feel ===
He doesn’t talk about it often* [[The Skinner Box]]: "Finally, but when he doessomeone who appreciates my work!" One of his few allies. Likes. * [[The Millions-Upon-Millions]]: "Friend? Perhaps. Tool? Most certainly." Likes. * [[The Dongolopticon]]: "Kindred spirits, he expresses a truly unique piety and humility towards the gods from stoneboth enjoy creature comforts, though Dongy could use more ambition." Likes.
=== Who They Blame ===
No one* [[Abbess Sunset]]: Has fought with her on equal footing on several occasions, matching her blow for blow, due to his consolidation of power and mastery of Edge and stealth. At least this is a bigger prison than beforeHates. But if he has to blame someone, he'll blame the Hill-Queen and * [[The Recollection]]: "In the Omnipede, just out words of spitea certain uncouth bastard: "Bite me." Hates.
=== What They Hide ===
He hides a trinity of secrets* [[The Blight-Abiding]]: his own name"Pls kill last?" Fears. * [[The Mare-Night]]: "Pwease no steppy!" Fears. * [[Brother Grimalkin]]: "Someone please get him away from me before he ruins everything!" Fears.* [[The Eye]]: "Gaze not on me, a grand secret of betrayalblinding light! Shadows take me, and what he did to the Weave before her body was wovenobscure me!" Fears.
== Relationships ==
Due to his origin he generally dislikes lantern.* [[The Tessellate]]: FNORD* [[The Stillwater]]: FNORD* [[The Heart-Felt Fantasy]]: FNORD* [[The Prince Consort]]: FNORD* [[The Cantharide]]: FNORD* [[The Fruitbat]]: FNORD* [[The Stillborn]]: FNORD
Positive:
The Gilded Insect: "A brother in heart and mind, and he has a very clear view of the things as they are."
(He is easily swayed by the golden words of The Gilded Insect, for he shares its principles.)
The Warp: "I’m pretty sure she likes me. Who doesn't, after all?
(He loves The Warp for the beauty of her histories, but also envies her for them.)
The Piper: “It's business."
(Weather it is some shared interest or genuine respect, he is often seen with him.)
The Names of the Gods from Stone: He has good relations to them, and can be considered their ally, albeit not a reliable one.
(They are a tool, that in time might be betrayed.)
The Stillwater: “It looks pretty.”
(He has no clue what it really is.)
The Cantharide: “That’s more like it.”
(He takes a certain interest in her, for similarities of alignment, theme, and “personal matters”.)
The Dongolopticon: “Been there, done that.”
(Obvious.)
Negative:* [[The OmnipedeAvulsed]]: "Why does it always have to be bugs?"(He hates it for its appearanceThe dearest, delightful, and for it’s words.)The Hill-Queen: “You know what’s worse than bugs? Enigmatic bugsdelectable dead.”(He hates her for what she is.)The Distinguished: "Who rewards those Oh how you betray anyways? What an Idiot. Ehm... don't tell her I said that.”(He hates her for her power, which he fears, but also belittles her for her concept of betrayal.)The Abess Sunset: “Of all the people here, she is the one I’d not want fight in a one-on-one.”(He does not hate herve helped me so, but he is wary of her might.)The Weft: "oh how I don't like her. Way to strict and uptight.ve helped myself! To you!"(She distrusts him, and he does not trust her, and her insistence on the rules.)The Captain: “Who does he think he is, to talk to ME it his way?”(He dislikes his attitude towards himself.)The Skinner Box: “What is it? Don’t know, don’t care.”(More of an indifferent, but there is no such category.)Brother Grimalkin: “Only a weakling preys on the weak.”(Whilst he does like betrayal and mutilation, he does not like a kid ho rips out butterfly wings.)Loves!
{{InfoboxHour
| title = The FirstbornWorld-Carver| card origin = the Loversfrom-Flesh| quote card = The firstborn claims to be the first among hours, and whilst this is certainly not true,he has the power to wage war on those who contradict his vanity.| origin = from fleshMoon| titles = His majesty the Fistborn, first among He Who Crawls in the hoursShapes Below, the beautiful, Apollon, etcBiter| names = The hundred-winged, the SecondbornNONE| aspects = Grail Edge, Moth, and EdgeForge| owners = GwreetCyborg-Squid| date of arrival = classical eraModern Era
}}
== Appearance ==
== Principles ==
== History ==
=== Cults ===
=== Mark ===
# '''Temptation: Beauty: I have been informed that I hold the key to unearthly beauty.# '''Dedication: Beauty: I have decided to pursue unearthly beauty by all means.# '''Ascension: The skin‘s mark: I have scarred my skin with repetitions of the Formulae Excessive, to remember the Betrayed's sacrifice.# '''Ascension: The hairs‘s mark: I have shaven my hair and set it aflame, to remember the Betrayed's torment.# '''Ascension: The mouth‘s mark: I have sewn my lips together, to remember the Betrayed's acceptance.# '''Ascension: The eye‘s mark: I have gouged out my eyes, to remember the Betrayed's fascination. Now, the Firstborn will surely renew me, more beautiful then ever before.
=== Servants ===
He is served by lacks the souls of those killed without honor traditional servants most Hours have, forsaking the Betrayeduse of Long and Names altogether. He is a greedy Hour, which he sacrificedwith no desire to share, which are and this consolidation of his most fanatical power and feared essence helps keep him alive in a House very hostile towards him. He does number many mortals among his servants, however, they are more like slaves. He strips them of their will and personality and he gains power from all embeds commands within their minds, normally whatever construction function they are supposed to be preforming. The best workers are those who learn of give their minds willingly, and so the place behind desireWorld-Carver attempts to wheedle and trick them into Faustian bargains.Other than that, While he mainly seeks to corrupt other hours followers by offering them tokens of irresistible beautydoes make the typical 'soul upon death' bargains, in the endless game a corpse is of backstabbing no use to him and intrigue disruption in the house, building flow of souls can end up bringing unwanted attention on him. He does his best to obtain a network of informantsmortal while they are still alive and, hopefully, in their physical prime. Once obtained, spies they are put to work chiseling out new tunnels and traitorssimilar constructions, working ceaselessly until their bodies eventually fail and whilst he they perish. The World-Carver is not smart enough also able to play the great game to the fullesttake control of a mind directly and influence and manipulate them, but that ends up being more hands on then others, which he is clever enough to pose a threat to those who incur his wrathdoes not prefer.
== Locations ==
=== The Fansus ===
=== The Histories ===
== Items ==
=== Tools ===
=== Ingredients ===
=== Influences ===
=== Books ===
[[Category:Gods-From-Flesh (Vol. III)]]
[[Category:Edge (Vol. III)]]
[[Category:Grail Forge (Vol. III)]][[Category:Moth (Vol. III)]]
