Tianxia:Sayuno Shinaru

Background
Sleeping on the edge of the ordered universe is an amorphous blight where confusion and order blasphemes and bubbles at the centre of all infinity – a boundless existence whose name no-one dares speak aloud, whose ire gnaws hungrily and ceaselessly on the inconceivable and unimaginable energies that gather in unlighted chambers beyond space and time, rests for eternity to the sound of maddening beat of vile drums and the thin monotonous whine of accursed flutes fuelled only by the raw energies of the universe known as the khaos.

In the early stages of the known universe’s birth, where absolute creation painted the skies a vivid amalgamation of colours, many elder beings wielding unimaginable powers and forms were born over the course of millions of years. Among some of those early creatures to be born was the being that would be a creature whose form could only be described as an absolute chaotic entity, writhing in ceaseless amounts of tentacles, gaping maws, sharp irises, and many more formless appendages that spread across a vast expanse of the universe. Simply gazing at the form of this being was enough to send even the mightiest of god-like beings in to a state of disgust at its asymmetrical form; and for those who weren’t as mentally fortified, drove them to madness.

For this reason alone, the elder god kept to the darkest, most obscure corners of the universe so as to not cause harm to those around it; but the problem with this was that soon the being grew lonely and soon it began to yearn for the company of others. Detaching one of its tendrils, it shaped the once formless mass in to the shape of a long, slender creature; one that would soon be named a “dragon” by others. It fashioned the tendril to be coated in a layer of fluff, six wings to fly upon, a tail, a belly, an udder, ribs, a neck, a head, a skull, eyes, nostrils, a mouth, and lips. Most importantly, it was completely symmetrical. What the lonely god had created was an avatar for itself, an appearance it was happy to call its own… taking upon the name Tiamat whose aura radiated from her like an ocean, she flew in to the reaches of the universe with its new eyes and ears to tell her where to go.

For a while, Tiamat was unable to find any signs of life as the universe had expanded greatly since the last time she had left her own corner of it. Eventually she did manage to find another god, and it would be no-one else but the kami of fresh water, Abzu. He complimented Tiamat on her appearance, and made her feel accepted for the first time in her life. Before long, the two fell in love and gave birth to several younger gods in the process. In this period of time, Tiamat experienced emotion shared with others and expressed herself for the first time, however with emotion came consequence. The young gods that resided in Tiamat’s ocean were very noisy to the point where it annoyed her greatly - In response, Abzu and his most proud son went to kill the young gods much to Tiamat’s dismay, which led her to warning the young gods that they would be attacked. This would backfire completely as the young gods managed to over-power Abzu and turned him in to a more powerful being, Anu, as a prisoner who then sapped him of his power, which is fatal for a Kami. This threw Tiamat in to a spiral of depression so strong that the goddess hid in the very centre of her ocean for hundreds of years, and would stay this way until she received complaints from other gods urging her to take revenge on the gods who opposed her. This plan wouldn’t be so simple however, as an organization of gods was slowly forming at the time which would mean that Tiamat would be declaring war upon the entire ordered universe.

Yet despite the consequences, Tiamat rose from the depths of her ocean and took upon the form of a terrifying beast with no recognizable form, it was long, slender, and had a gaping maw. Her power grew immensely allowing her to create eleven monsters to help her in her battles before appointing another supportive god to command her army. She tore relentlessly through the cosmos, tracking down and devouring any god that got in her way in an attempt to stop her. Backed in to a corner, and perhaps feeling desperate, the organized group of gods begged the powerful god Anu to defeat the rampaging Tiamat. It was at the edge of her ocean where Anu challenged Tiamat to a one on one battle to the death, and then destroyed her shortly after. It may have been because she was blinded by rage to not notice how powerful her opponent was, or perhaps she was simply tired and no longer wished to battle on.

Following these events, at the place where Tiamat’s original self was hiding, she would be greeted by Anu who was tasked with killing her, but instead chose to calm her and put her to sleep for all eternity. The Khaos put up a fight to avoid being put to sleep, however its’ effort was in vain; then a summoned band of demi-gods began playing their eternal song of a maddening drum beat accompanied by a monotonous yet calm fleet of flutes, sending their old and tired goddess in to a never ceasing slumber.

Shortly after this event, the Celestial Bureaucracy would be established as form of order among the remaining elder gods and beings of the universe aiming to govern the universe in an organized fashion. Of the people who earned positions within the CB would be none other than Anu who had gained respect among other gods for not only stopping the rampaging Tiamat, but many other things.

As she slept, Tiamat’s power grew stronger and stronger, her name and form however was soon forgotten and soon was referred to as nothing else but “Azathoth”. Though the creature remained in a sleeping coma due to its’ never-ending lullaby, it wasn’t inactive; In fact, its consciousness was very active. During its time asleep it had more than enough time to think; the wandering mind of the Azathoth looked towards its past and how thought about the implications of death, learning from the experience. This was a revelation for the mind of a being born to live for all eternity, because for the first time the Primordial Khaos had grown a sense for the passing of time and space.

At some point, the Azathoth’s endless train of thought was abruptly broken when it found itself opening a set of eyes to find that it was in a new, humanoid body, surrounded by a group of cultists. The Khaos couldn’t have been reborn because no-one had killed it, it couldn’t have been moved because it would have awoken. After a moment of thinking of all the possibilities, the human cultists spoke to the Khaos, and it knew what they were saying. They asked the Khaos, their goddess, if she would support them if they worshipped her, and she responded with a rather gruesome routine of questioning her followers as to their worth before killing them on the spot. The goddess left one survivor who had impressed her by slaying two of his fellow cultists on the spot to show his worth, and so she accepted him as her first follower.

Vanishing from the mountain of corpses, the goddess went to seek out her prior resting spot so as to learn more of her current situation. Crossing over the boundary of physical reality to illusionary reality, she found a sort of bubble space on the edge of the universe that held the resting body of the Azathoth. The band tasked with keeping it asleep had long since relapsed in to an unconscious and autonomous battery, meaning that the goddess went completely unnoticed during her investigation. What she discovered was that the Azathoth was now just an empty husk due to the cult that was attempting to summon it, but instead only managed to summon a portion of its’ body and consciousness, creating a new incarnation of it entirely. It was equally dead and alive.

Instead of attempting to re-join with her old body to become more powerful to exact revenge on those who had opposed her, she chose to seal the Azathoth away further so that no-one could ever reach it, but also established a direct feed of power from it to herself. She was free to live a more peaceful life as the goddess of discord, strife and chaos, Eris. Although she still held a grudge against the current order of the gods, Eris felt it would be pointless to start another war, so instead she returned to Earth to search for Anu.

Much to the expectations of Eris, the universe had changed greatly in the time she had been away meaning that finding Anu would take some time. Once she learned more about the Celestial Bureaucracy, she quickly deduced that Anu had passed their role in the CB over to another god, Zeus. What was interesting about this was that the Celestial Bureaucracy was founded on several beliefs and actions; and one of those was the death of herself. Considering that was actually a lie, she decided to investigate further… Eris felt it very appropriate to visit Mount Olympus to find that Zeus was away at the time, so she waited in his throne a few days, exploring his important and secret records, and stealing some stylish clothes from Hera to wear. Upon Zeus’ return, he was confused as to why someone was in his private throne room, but was quickly silenced by Eris when she addressed him with his old name. Eris revealed that she was an incarnation of Tiamat, Zeus understood in an instant that if people were to learn of this then he would lose his position, his respect, and his power, and that the Celestial Bureaucracy would descend in to a state of absolute chaos; so he begged Eris to let him continue living his peaceful life and retain peace within the universe.

Eris pleasantly agreed. Just watching Zeus squirming and begging was more than enough to appease her desire for revenge, so she accepted on the terms that she would be free to do as she pleased without consequence, and Zeus was free to remain as God King of Greece for as long as he Eris held her part of the bargain. It was less of an agreement and more blackmail on Eris’ part, but she didn’t care enough to think of a fairer alternative. The wrathful goddess travelled across the land, spreading famine, war, drought, and general chaos to everyone in her path. She came to a large forest, and set it aflame with a powerful fiery breath that spread across a whole continent, burning everything to ashes and creating a great desert. Before long she was widely regarded as a war goddess all over the globe for her merciless and murderous nature, taking on many names such as Sekhmet or Inanna. The goddess probably would not have stopped her rampage if it wasn’t for the sun god Ra, who managed to quell her blood lust by introducing her to a drink that resembled the crimson red of blood known as wine. Humoured, and a bit intoxicated, Eris found herself unable to keep up her wrathful nature and peacefully ceased her violence.

Eventually Eris would find herself bored and so she went to the goddess of cats, Bastet, in order to play with her. At first Bast was very sceptical of Eris and her chaotic nature and because she was considered a rival goddess, but Eris’ charm soon infatuated the cat goddess to the point where she wouldn’t be able to simply ignore her. A long time passed where Bastet had strong feelings towards Eris, but would not dare speak them due to shyness and fear that her feelings would be rejected due to Eris’ chaotic nature and past activities. However, much to Bastet’s disbelief, Eris proved quite the opposite when she eventually managed to confess, showing a gentle, romantic side to her. Together they showed a deep affection that could only be found in gods, and worked together to make cats the most beloved creature in all of Egypt. Their most pure breed of cat was one that looked much like humans only with cat features, they were born under the gaze of the moon and were named Badrumau.

Eris and Bastet’s love wouldn’t go without problems, as they were still outwardly considered to be rivals, and if anyone caught wind of such then their faith pools would suffer dramatically. Eventually they were forced to grow distant once again under social pressure. Lonely and bored, Eris left Egypt and returned to her home in Greece, only to find that she had been summoned for an audience with Zeus. Intrigued, she entertained herself by visiting Mount Olympus once again with promise of an interesting job.

Zeus had a request for the goddess of chaos; and that was for her to do her job at a specific point in time. All she had to do was start a war to slightly depopulate the earth of humans, and more specifically attempt to kill some of Zeus’ demigod children. Thinking nothing of it, the young and cocky goddess agreed without much persuasion, agreeing to remain quiet about the ultimate plan. To achieve the desired war, she would start by causing trouble amongst the gods themselves. Eris knew that if she attended the wedding of the other gods, Peleus and Thetis, she would be denied entry, so she only came with a wedding gift; a gold sphere small enough to fit in her hand inscribed with the phrase, “To the fairest,” knowing full well that three very egoistic goddesses in the wedding hall would argue over it. As expected, Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite argued relentlessly over who should claim ownership of the golden orb. Perhaps it was foresight, perhaps she is just good at doing her job, regardless of which she achieved her desired result and decided to leave once again.

It didn’t take long for her to hear that a war had broken out between the city of Troy and the Achaeans, and the goddess couldn’t help herself but to watch quietly. But what she saw was something she did not expect, the humans viciously waged war against one another, brutally killing their opposition and wreaking havoc across the land. Eris witnessed the senseless brutality for many days and nights, watching mankind slaughtering each other for the sake of a greater will’s desire, they craved meaning for existence and that meaning was to serve. It was at this time, the goddess changed once again, she grew curious. This was odd for gods as they are considered all-knowing and omnipotent, therefore rendering curiosity as an unnecessary aspect. Yet there she was, curious as to how humanity functioned. Finding it impossible to remain as a mere god, she cast her name “Eris” away and began work to go in to hiding amongst the humans under a new identity.

There were a number of things that needed done before she could do so, however. She aided her first follower, who at this point had gained the title of the Grand Magus, in creating a University for magical users. She cut ties with some of her Egyptian god friends as well as picking up a few additional allies along the way such as a Sphinx or a Pirate and her crew. One thing that finally needed addressed was the inevitable confrontation with Anu, the person who had fought her long ago.

The confrontation itself was much less dramatic than the goddess had expected. She discovered that Anu had changed their name to Xiangdeng Tiandao and only wanted to know the answers to a few questions; such as how she came to be, or what she intended to do henceforth. If anything the meeting was favourable as it ended on a good note with the two keeping the events from millions of years ago a secret in return for the goddess having the freedom to continue doing as she pleased. From then on, she was free to live how she desired taking the guise of a youkai sage of sorts so as to draw suspicion away from herself.

For the longest time, the goddess lived secretly among civilizations, watching them evolve from the side lines while pulling a few strings here and there to manipulate them for her own desires. During this time she took up many names and lived many different lives, she witnessed industrial revolution, war among countries, alliances being formed, economies and currency earned by day-to-day work regimes, she watched humans enslave each other, cripple other nations purely for selfish reasons, she saw how something as simple as being born in a different area on the planet was grounds to start dispute, and she learned as to how terrifying the human race truly is; and it enthralled her more and more with each passing day.

The goddess even went as far as to starting her own company in order to gain further influence over humans using their most powerful yet immaterial creation; currency. What started originally as a branch that created stylish clothing at affordable prices has since grown to become a mega-corporation that frequently absorbs other, smaller companies while branching off in to other various areas of retail and production.

Then she remembered that she was a goddess, but when she looked for other gods or magical beings that she assumed would still be wandering around, she found nothing. Over the centuries, the goddess of imbalance became so enthralled in watching the human race growing and expanding that she failed to notice various magical creatures vanish from existence. Monsters were all but bed-time stories invented to scare children, Magicians and what remaining mythical creatures were backed in to the darkest corners of the globe, working as secret societies in a rather pathetic attempt to continue their traditions and even existences. It was at this time, the goddess understood what human nature really is.

The last the goddess of chaos was among humans was when she had taken up residence in Monaco, France under the name “Scholastique de Plantureux,” a rather secluded yet wealthy noble who lived in a large castle-like mansion. She ran a very secretive economical business that had been privately helping fund some of mankind’s greatest technological achievements, such as the RMS Titanic and its sister ships, the Eiffel Tower, all very daring feats of technology that required immense amounts of funding to accomplish. It wasn’t until the turn 20th century that Scholastique was informed by one of her closest friends and servants, the daughter of the now deceased Grand Magus who had worked loyally by her side for many decades, that there is a very intriguing bubble world lying just on the boundary of the planet residing within Japan. Since then she had kept a close eye on it, and almost 15 years later decided to visit the land herself to see what it had to offer, in terms of entertainment, or in terms of business…

Chaos Embodiment
The latent natural ability that Sayuno holds is the ability to create, manipulate, and predict outcomes of chaos.

Being able to create chaos is the primal ability the goddess wields. Chaos can trigger things to happen, influence reactions, manipulate outcomes, things like that. Leaving “chaos” unattended will obviously cause something to happen, and that something can be anything depending on the environment around the chaos. It could also simply amplify an already existing event such as turning a gentle breeze in to a rogue gust of wind capable of tearing down a tree. To put it simply, creating chaos is another way of instigating or influencing a phenomenon or an event.

Manipulating chaos is where things get interesting.

For some people, manipulating chaos is a lot like manipulating probability but on a much grander scale. An example would be the ever so common “butterfly effect” where the slightest flap of a butterfly’s wing in one location could cause a roaring hurricane on the other side of the planet sometime in the future. It’s highly improbable, but there’s a chance that it can happen.

A similar example would be causing someone to get hit by a car which could be done by planting a tree, which then causes birds to eat its fruits, who then proceed to spread seeds increasing the pollen produced in that area, which could affect a driver with allergies who would then sneeze, swerve off the road, and hit someone with their car. It’s a long process, but generally the longer processes are more likely to happen.

This is what otherwise would be known as “chaos theory”, which is the idea that a very small change may make a system or process behave differently, or that something which could have one outcome would have another.

In practice, this offers someone who can manipulate chaos the chance to make things go in their favour. If someone fired a gun, then chaos could cause one or several things to happen. The bullet could veer off and hit nothing or something else. The barrel could inexplicably explode in the gun holder’s face. The bullet could transform in to confetti and the person firing the gun would then turn in to a clown and then attempt to beat his allies to death using balloon swords and squeaky horns.

Obviously how improbable something is would mean making it happen would be harder; but taking in to consideration the goddess has full control over chaos and all entities/processes/etc that can be effected by it means that it won’t be much of a problem for her.

Although it might sound overly powerful in practise, the goddess would be unable to have absolute influence over everything she lays her eyes on; highly spiritual beings would be able to resist direct influence of chaos manipulation. It’s also worth noting that chaos manipulation isn’t a power that is mutually exclusive to the goddess of chaos; it is also a type of magic that more daring magicians choose to practise.

Finally, being able to understand or predict the outcomes of chaos is something that a lot of people can attempt to do. Simply identifying that there’s a percentage chance where multiple different things could happen in itself is a way of understanding chaos; but this is on a very miniscule scale (You wouldn’t be able to identify chaos directly, but you can try and predict chaos and some of its outcomes.) As for actually understanding chaos, someone would be able to see the exact outcome of an event simply by paying attention to it. This in itself is something of a foresight or future vision to someone who can read chaotic energies. Although how far someone can “see” would depend entirely on how powerful the individual is.

For the goddess, it might even be possible for her to predict how the universe would end simply by looking towards the key events that could be affected by the end of the universe, or events that will affect the end of the universe. The same can be said for individuals. Reliable death prophets and fortune tellers might use chaos reading as a way to predict the future. Although, it’s also important to note that observing the future can ironically change the future in itself and make the reading incorrect (but that’s a whole other mess that will not be addressed) so really, seeing in to the future is only a temporary solution.

There are many applications of the goddess’ power; things that someone might not have thought possible. Here’s a list of just some of the things possible with chaos and chaos manipulation:


 * Chaos Empowerment: Simply being in a chaotic environment provides the goddess or users of chaos with more energy to expend freely.


 * Chaos inducement: Inducing chaos in other entities can have a whole variety of outcomes. It could increase the strength of a force, change the direction of a force, cause someone temporary insanity, create wars, earthquakes, lightning storms, tidal waves… the list goes on.


 * Chaotic Presence: Simply exerting her natural energies, the goddess can cause things to react appropriately around her. Those aware of her power will probably naturally react differently (such as being cautious) around her even if she isn’t exerting any chaotic auras.


 * Destabilization: Chaos has the potential to destabilize structures or economies if applied correctly. It could make someone mentally unstable causing them to be more likely to lash out in anger or give in to fear or panic easily.


 * Disruption: Similar to destabilization, a process can be stopped or changed in to something else entirely.


 * Phenomenon: Chaos can cause something to happen without any explainable reason, beyond pointing towards “chaos”, the will of god, or something similar.


 * Probability Manipulation: Similar to a phenomenon, probabilities can also be changed. Something that is unlikely to happen could occur more frequently or instantly, something that is likely to happen might not happen at all or never happen. This doesn’t deal with absolutes however. Something that will never happen requires additional influence, and inversely something that will always happen requires some form of prevention.


 * Unpredictability: A simple aspect of chaos is that it’s impossible to know every outcome, and often it’s impossible to predict what happens next. Although some people do train their minds to see what chaos could become as a way of seeing in to the future.

Pangu Remnant
An object that the goddess possesses, the Pangu Remnant is something that was created along with the rest of the universe and is a sort of “window” to the first ever planck frame frozen in time for all eternity. Beyond that, it’s somewhat useless to the most common folk; its original form has been long forgotten and is regularly in the shape of a rather colourful gem. However, to a person like Sayuno, it has a wide range of uses.

Using her power, she can use the Pangu Remnant as an anchor point, having practically unlimited potential to change it in to another object. To her, the Pangu Remnant is to a Philosopher’s Stone like the Master Spark is to a simple flash-light, and then more.

The object itself can have its form physically changed, but it can also be used for other-wise impossible alchemical tasks. Sayuno could transform it in to a hakkero of sorts that instead of creating a massive laser beam, fires out similar quantities of melted chocolate. A Chocolate Spark.

Others can use it for similar tasks, but anyone who could probably wouldn’t need to. It’s also very difficult if not damn near impossible to destroy the Pangu Remnant; and for those who could destroy it wouldn’t be bothered about the goddess’ applications of the Pangu Remnant.

Another trait of the Pangu Remnant that should the goddess lose it, it’ll always turn up in her possession again sooner or later. This is most likely due to the goddess being able to manipulate the probability of something unlikely happening to a very high chance of it happening (Outlined in the section above).

Other Capabilities
Being an Elder Dragon Goddess of sorts leaves Sayuno with some naturally enhanced traits such as extremely high magical potential as well as durability to make up for who she is and how long she has been around. Make no mistake that the goddess is no pushover when it comes to direct combat; however she does lack in any martial arts or combat styles. She isn’t the type to move from her seated position to fight someone and isn’t willing to exert any physical effort with even day-to-day tasks.

In fact, it’s actually very rare to see the goddess directly confronting someone in terms of attacking them and she’ll only really go as far as to non-lethally defend herself. (However she’s no stranger to doing harm to someone’s reputation should they provoke her) Should she ever have a dispute that can only be resolved through confrontations such as battle or war, she’ll use one or all of her three most powerful champions in her place.

Another thing she is capable of doing is changing her physical appearance. She mostly takes the appearance of a well-endowed female human, but has also been known to change her physical age or even become a giant, fluffy dragon.

Overall, this goddess a person capable of bringing out a whole variety of nasty things, but is rather docile for the most part. If she were to attack you, you'd have been pushing for it.

Personality
A person who knows Sayuno might describe her as being quite an annoyance, that her personality itself is just something no-one will ever want to get along with, that her average day consists of loving herself and pitying anyone or anything that she does not deem fit to be in her presence, and that person would not be wrong.

The goddess is very noble-like in the sense that she sees herself better than most other creatures. She considers herself the most illustrious and royal breed of lady to exist, and she shows for it. Her attitude can be very obnoxious towards others, she doesn’t often talk to common folk save for if they have something she wants, she will never miss the opportunity to boast about herself, but she's also quite vicious in that her words can carry a lot of venom when she's wanting to provoke someone. Although don't let this front misguide you.

As much as she's in love with herself, she's also well mannered, well cultured, and acts respectful under the right conditions. While she tends to be lazy to the extent of doing almost nothing for herself, this doesn't mean that she's incapable of work. Contrary to what most believe, Sayuno is actually incredibly cunning when she has a goal in mind, which is often why her success leaves people scratching their heads, meaning that most people believe her to be quite ditzy and air headed.

However despite all of her arrogance and her pompous personality, she acts very human. When it comes to acting like the very old and wise goddess that she is, she does a very poor job of it. This is because Sayuno has been around for a long time, she has been that all-knowing, unthinkable, omnipotent entity who knows anything and everything; and she found it wanting. Sometime following the Trojan War, the goddess grew terribly bored with herself and found that living with and acting like a human to be way more exciting and fulfilling than being a god. This is so much the case that she has even taken the liberty to give herself personal needs such as hunger, illness, tiredness, thirst, and so on. Her reasoning behind this is that it presented negatives that make the positives so much more worth living for.

Official Gallery
Aka art drawn specifically for Sayuno

Unofficial Gallery
Art from a third party that bears resemblance to Sayuno

Major
Hateshinai Wakari: The daughter of one of Sayuno's most faithful zealots the Grand Magus. Although Wakari is a faithful follower in her own right, she can be best described as being something closer to the goddess' right hand in areas such as magic, science, and general research of a spiritual nature. What is also important is that Wakari is one of the goddess' three champions, who exist to fight upon her behalf should the need arise.

Minor
A few residents of Gensoukyou: Sayuno's first visit to Gensoukyou was very brief. During this time, she had a chance to meet several people who live in Gensoukyou. Her general opinion is that they're mostly uncultured inbreds who practice violence and lack intelligence. That's her first impression, at any rate.

Trivia

 * This profile will be updated as this character is RPed with. There is a lot of information not mentioned her for the sake of progression and for the sake of avoiding meta gaming.