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 ===== History =====
-Originally given the task of governing the oceans, Neptune quickly became the champion of all seaborne life. Unlike his companion gods, he cared little for the intrigue, strife, and emotion that seemed to drive their every move.
+Originally given the task of governing the oceans on Torandor, Neptune quickly became the champion of all upon the sea. Unlike his companion gods, he cared little for the intrigue, strife, and emotion that seemed to drive their every move. As the events of the centuries unfolded about him, he stood steady, an anchor in the water.
-As the events of the centuries unfolded about him, he stood steady, an anchor in the seas.
-Escaping from Torandor when it was destroyed, Neptune took the emerging oceans of Jaern for his domain, nurturing the transplanted life. Unaffected by the crises of the mortals and gods above, Neptune provides a viable alternative to the confusion of land-based life.
+Escaping from Torandor when it was destroyed, Neptune took the emerging oceans of Jaern for his domain, nurturing the transplanted life. Neptune's arrival and conquest lead to centuries of hidden command over the abyssal empire of Lizantis and a suppression of their native worship and language, to the extent that Neptune took a hand in wiping out the heretical Trigona clan for their efforts to reinstate the old gods and usurp him. Only recently was this wrong rectified and the god of Lizantis, Terrama, reinstated as an aspect of Neptune himself.
+Neptune as a god cannot permit or accommodate commerce with the gods' hated enemies, but Terrama represents an exception to form and enjoys limited exclusions which he uses to engage in trade with extraplanar powers such as [[lore:creatures:demons|demons]].
 ===== Aspects =====
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 Vahrun takes a variety of forms, most often as a nondescript man or androgynous individual found wandering the wilds or floating nonchalantly along on driftwood at sea. A smile usually sits on his face, and he wears a pack filled with various bits and bobs that he may gift to mortals as boons. He is most often smoking a pipe of some unknown substance. From time to time, he may journey with those who find him, then vanish once more once they have found the way... even though that way may not always be the shortest path forward.
+==== Terrama, The Returned ====
+With the destruction of [[settings:torandor|Torandor]] and the arrival of its gods on Jaern, the gods before were relegated to historical footnotes at best - Terrama was an unfortunate casualty of this. This same heretical magic was eventually used and supported by Neptune to bring Terrama back to life at the cost of Demon Prince Mammons', leading the two to agree to a form of forgiveness and reparations for the Ocalla of Lizantis.
+The oceans above the Black Belt, the line which divides the waters habitable and survivable by most, remain the domain of Neptune and the waters of the abyss below belong to Terrama. Further, all previous restrictions of old knowledge have been rescinded and while the power of a god cannot be restored, Terrama was brought into Neptune's own godhead as an aspect of himself. This has actually made the god more powerful than it even was in antiquity owing to the scale of divine power the Godpact has accumulated in its short time and been accepted as part of the deal; with this new power, Terrama intends to accelerate his people into an empire spanning the entire abyss.
+Still, Terrama keenly remembers the pain of being erased by another and takes steps to ensure that he never takes anything of excessive cultural or historical value from another place (even from demons.) He does not believe in making museums by pilfering everything of value, killing the people to display the corpse of their being, and even in war takes precautions to ensure his enemies retain something of themselves.
 ===== Priesthood =====