Here is a list of characters from the Talon Bàis Pantheon, a group of Celestial Griffon deities that once watched over its namesake kingdom, but was destroyed in a divine sanction for breaking Primeval Laws.
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Talon Bàis Pantheon
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General
- Dragged Off to Hell: The ultimate fate of many of its racist, hateful, unrepentant members, dragged to Nekelmu's Hell-Realms and tormented eternally for their transgressions against Primeval law.
- Fantastic Racism: Deconstructed. Many members were so racist against Dragons that they included genuinely innocent Dragons who did nothing wrong. They rewarded wicked Dragonslayers like Gael with a place in their Heaven-Realms for massacring entire Dragonflights, and encouraged their mortal followers' worst atrocities, like the creation of Draco-Balut and the dehumanization of any young Dragons they caught. Eventually, the pantheon is destroyed by Deireadh and her army of deities in a divine sanction ordered by the Grand Primevals, with the wicked members being dragged off to eternal damnation in Nekelmu's Hell-Realms while the genuinely innocent/repentant few were spared.
- Feathered Fiend: Many members of the pantheon were Celestial Griffons (i.e. Griffon deities), but they were just as racist and corrupt as the first Gael, whom they rewarded with a place in their Heaven-Realms for demonizing and massacring an innocent Dragonflight. Both they and their namesake mortal kingdom ended up becoming a cautionary tale on Fantastic Racism is a very bad thing.
- Götterdämmerung: The pantheon was destroyed in an event called the 'Twilight of the Talon Bàis Pantheon'
, in which a huge army of angry deities, led by Deireadh, the Princess of Feliaves Reapers, massacred all the wicked members and destroyed their divine realm. - Hated by All: Both mortals and benevolent deities hated them for encouraging their namesake kingdom's atrocities against mortal Dragonkind, including making Draco-Balut, and for allowing a racist mass-murderer to enter the Heaven-Realms where the innocent and righteous dead resided. When Deireadh was sent by Mortem, the Death Primeval to deliver a divine sanction against them, she was joined by a huge army of angry deities who helped her massacre all the genuinely wicked and racist members of the pantheon.
- Have You Seen My God?: The kingdom of Talon Bàis lost a huge advantage against its many enemies when their pantheon (and their stream of blessings) suddenly went silent. It's revealed that they were destroyed in the 'Twilight of the Talon Bàis Pantheon' by Deireadh and her army of benevolent deities on behalf of the Grand Primevals for breaking Primeval Law regarding the dead.
- He Who Fights Monsters: As noted by Grand Priemvals like Nekelmu and Lhaine, the Talon Bàis Pantheon hated Dragonkind so much that they became as monstrous as their targets, doing horrible things like rewarding genocidal mass-murderers like Gael with a place in the local Heaven-Realms while sending the souls of innocent Dragons to their Hell-Realms to suffer just for existing. As punishment, they were completely obliterated by Deireadh, the Reaper of Griffon deities and one of Mortem's agents, and then were dragged to Nekelmu's Hell-Realms to suffer for their crimes.
- I Let You Win: Same with Gael, the Grand Primevals and their agents knew of their horrible actions, but let them go unpunished for a time so their eventual punishment would have more of an impact. It works, as the wicked Talon Bàisian deities sink into pure, unadulterated terror once their species' Princess of Reapers suddenly arrives to deliver their divine sanction while the 'Talon Bàis War' is underway, depriving their mortal followers of an assured victory.
- Irrational Hatred: Deconstructed and played for horror. While many were understandably angry with Dragonkind for burning, tormenting, and pillaging civilizations with impunity, the Talon Bàis Pantheon took that hatred to new levels by becoming as depraved as the hated Reichists of the Second Age. They deemed all of Dragonkind, even its young and innocent members, to be nothing more than savage beasts and encouraged their mortal worshipers to commit horrible acts of genocide as a form of "punishment". They rewarded wicked souls like Gael for their actions by giving them a place in the local Heaven-Realms, while sending the souls of murdered Dragons to the Hell-Realms to be tormented just for existing (and to keep them from exposing their crimes). They allowed Talon Bàis to devolve into a fascist police-state, and when the "Talon Bàis War" broke out, they supported the attacks on all 'Free Dragon' nations and anyone who sided with them. Eventually, the Talon Bàis Pantheon is destroyed by Deireadh and her army of benevolent deities as part of the Grand Primevals' divine sanction, and save for those who were deemed genuinely innocent/repentant, they would be globally reviled by everyone who rightfully saw their actions as for what they were.
- Jerkass Gods: Many of them (as well as their servants and Angels) shared Gael's racism for dragons and morally bankrupt character — so much they rewarded him for massacring an innocent Dragonflight by ushering his soul into the Heaven-Realms at the expense of the genuinely innocent and righteous souls there, and covering up Gael's crimes. They also welcomed wicked Griffon Dragonslayers for their 'heroism' while damning the souls of innocent Dragons (including infant Dragons) to suffer in their Hell-Realms. Karma eventually caught up with them in the form of the Grand Primevals, who knew what they did but let them savor their supposed victories so the coming divine sanction they would suffer would have more impact, and sent Deireadh to deal with them.
- Karma Houdini Warranty: They helped covered up the truth behind Gael's "heroism" and rewarded both him and other wicked Dragonslayers with a place in the Heaven-Realms, while the innocent souls of slain Dragons were condemned to the Hell-Realms to silence them. They also encouraged anti-Dragon racism among the mortal Talon Bàisian Griffons, leading to them committing horrible crimes against mortal Dragonkind, including the making of Draco-Balut and other dishes. Karma eventually catches up to them during their "Twilight" when the Grand Primevals send in Deireadh to punish them for breaking Primeval Law regarding proper treatment of the dead. Even more unfortunate is that Deireadh is accompanied by a huge army of enraged deities, who proceed to massacre them all for their atrocities (save for those who were found genuinely innocent/repentant and spared). It turns out to be justified as the Grand Primevals let the Talon Bàis deities think they were being successful in spreading their racism and eradicating the Dragons, all so the coming divine sanction they would suffer for breaking Primeval Law would have more psychological impact once it did happen.
- Karmic Death: The Talon Bàis Pantheon was so corrupt and racist that they, among other things, broke Primeval Laws regarding proper treatment of the dead by welcoming wicked souls like Gael into their Heaven-Realms as a "reward" for their genocidal actions, while silencing the souls of innocent Dragons by sending them to their Hell-Realms. This leads to the Talon Bàis Pantheon experiencing their own "Twilight" when, during the "Talon Bàis War", they are massacred by Deireadh and her army of benevolent deities on the Grand Primevals' behalf; save for the genuinely innocent and repentant who were spared, those who died were dragged away to Nekelmu's Hell-Realms to be eternally tormented for their crimes. Not only that, but upon arriving in the Hell-Realms meant for wicked deities, Nekelmu himself would confront their damned souls in the form a multi-headed Ryujin, each head bearing one eye.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Nekelmu would lambast the souls of wicked Talon Bàis deities for being little different from the brutish Dragons they hated, as they themselves were willing to make innocent Dragons suffer even in the afterlife just for being "savage beasts".
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: The souls of wicked Talon Bàis deities would be lambasted by Nekelmu, who not only laughed at their claims of being heroes, but also pointed out they had no right to call themselves that when they were actually genocidal mass-murderers who targeted innocent Dragons for the crime of being "savage beasts".Nekelmu: Thee bethink thou art heroes just for killing some 'savage beasts'? HAHAHAHAHA! Behold at thee! So deep is thy envy, thy bigotry, yond mine own scions and I seeth dram difference between thee and thy self-proclaim'd adversaries! and I knoweth mine own valorous twin shall concur with me, because we both did see how far thee were willing to wend to proveth yourselves right!
- Would Hurt a Child: Many wicked and/or corrupt Talon Bàis Pantheon members were all too happy to encourage and condone their mortal followers' actions in eating their unhatched babies and performing horrific experiments on young whelps. This enrages a lot of deities, including non-Dragon ones, and they take Deireadh's arrival as a chance to go punish the wicked Talon Bàis deities themselves for their crimes.
Brama
Classification: [TBA]
Portfolio: Death, [TBA]
Rank: [TBA]
- Dragged Off to Hell: For breaking Primeval Law in rewarding wicked Dragonslayers in Heaven while condemning the souls of innocent Dragons to suffer in Hell, he himself would be chained and dragged off to suffer eternal torment in Nekelmu's Hell-Realms.
- God of the Dead: He's the Talon Bàis Pantheon's local Death god, and his job was to oversee the local dead. Unfortunately, he breaks the sacred laws all Death deities must follow by allowing a racist mass-murderer into the Heaven-Realms for killing off an innocent Dragonflight, while condemning innocent Dragons to suffer in the Hell-Realms. These actions gets both him and his pantheon marked for eternal damnation by the Grand Primevals themselves.
- Jerkass Gods: As his pantheon's local God of the Dead, it was his job to make sure the dead gets their rightful afterlife for the good or evil they committed, and he is bound by Primeval Law to ensure that death is fair for all. He proceeded to break said rules by ushering Gael and other wicked Dragonslayers into his pantheon's Heaven-Realms at the expense of the innocent souls living there, while condemning the innocent souls of slain Dragons to his pantheon's Hell-Realms out of sheer racism. For breaking Primeval Law, he would be Dragged Off to Hell by the Grand Primevals to suffer the consequences, while his pantheon (save for the innocent and repentant) would be massacred by Deireadh and her army of enraged deities.
- Verbal Backspace: When Deireadh brings up his sins of rewarding a racist mass-murderer with a place in the Heaven-Realms, he tries denying it. Since he's a Death god in charge of overseeing the local dead, it just makes him even more guilty.Brama: H-How... I mean I-I don't know what you're t-talking about!
- Would Hurt a Child: Despite his duties as a Death god, he was so racist towards Dragons that he willingly condemned even Dragon babies and whelps to suffer in the Hell-Realms. This not only angered his pantheon's infernal deities who were in charge of said Hell-Realms, but also caught the attention of the Grand Primevals as his actions broke Primeval Law regarding proper treatment of the dead.
Cazadora, the Harrowing Huntress
Classification: [TBA]
Portfolio: [TBA]
Rank: [TBA]
Cazadora (first introduced here
) is a Celestial Griffon goddess of the- Alliterative Name: Her title, "the Harrowing Huntress".
- Master Archer: She uses a bow and arrow for her hunts and other duties.
- Birds of a Feather: Is friends with Knechten and Forfølger due to sharing similar characters.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Cazadora is a God of Evil, but even she is disgusted by the atrocities her peers and their mortal worshippers conduct against dragons, to the point of secretly working with other like-minded deities (like her brother) and Deireadh the Feliaves Reaper to protect the souls unjustly condemned to hell-realms. The moment most of her peers are destroyed and said dragon-hating racists are themselves dead, she wastes no time participating in the torment of the latter group, even going out 'hunting' those whom they deliberately allowed to escape as part of the damned's punishment and for their own amusement.
- God of Evil: Likely of the 'Constructive Evil' variety, since she works with good pantheons (at least before they turned bad) and tempts and punishes the wicked.
- The Magnificent: Known as "the Harrowing Huntress".
- Meaningful Name: Cazadora means "huntress" in Spanish.
- Token Good Teammate: Ironically, despite being a God of Evil, she was among the few Talon Bàis deities who were genuinely good and refused to take part in her peers' worst atrocities out of disgust. When the Talon Bàis Pantheon was marked for damnation by the Grand Primevals, she was spared and magically whisked away from the coming destruction, along with others who were innocent and/or repentant.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Implied with her twin brother Betrug, the Cunning Betrayer, as shown in one Drabble when they bicker over who got the kill of one of their former peers in the Talon Bais Pantheon, before continuing to work together to help bring down their own rotten pantheon in their 'Twilight'.
Betrug, the Cunning Betrayer
Classification: [TBA]
Portfolio: Cunning, Deceit, Treachery
Rank: [TBA]
- Anthropomorphic Personification: He's a Celestial Griffon god who embodies Cunning, Deceit, and Treachery.
- Evil Is Hammy: Is a Constructive God of Evil embodying Cunning, Deceit and Treachery and is rather theatrical about it.
- Even Evil Has Standards: Despite being a constructive evil god of Cunning, Deceit and Treachery, even he is apalled by how his fellows conducted themselves over Gael and Talon Bais and decided to secretly help bring about their downfall.
- Kill Steal: He kills an evil Talon Bàis god by literally stabbing them In the Back... while Cazadora was talking to and planned to kill said god herself. An annoyed Cazadora accused him of stealing her intended kill, but he replies that the guy said too good of a set-up line for him to pass up.
- Large Ham: He's noted as being a very hammy, theatrical god.
- The Mole: For the Feliaves Reaper and other gods furious at the actions of the Talon Bais Pantheon. As he himself explained during the 'Twilight' of the pantheon, he was never really on their side.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: In the LITERAL sense, as one of his jobs actually involves punishing treacherous mortals in the afterlife for their traitorous actions in life, and pursues his domain of Treachery constructively.
- Token Good Teammate: Ironically, despite being a God of Evil, even he is disgusted by the rest of his pantheon's actions over Gael and Talon Bais, and secretly worked with Deireadh the Feliaves Reaper and other likeminded deities (like Cazadora) to protect the souls unjustly condemned to hell-realms, and eventually give them their rightful comeuppance.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Implied with his twin sister Cazadora, the Harrowing Huntress, as shown in one Drabble when they bicker over who got the kill of one of their former peers in the Talon Bais Pantheon, before continuing to work together to help bring down their own rotten pantheon in their 'Twilight'.
- Villain Song: He makes a habit of singing theatrical songs about how he's duped or is about to torment someone.
Tyric, the Host of Honor
Classification: [TBA]
Portfolio: Honor, Valor, [WIP]
Rank: [TBA]
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Tried to bargain for his life and bribe Gabriel with godhood if he would spare him and renounce his vows. Gabriel kills him for it.
- Attack on the Heart: How Gabriel D. Griffon killed him, stabbing him through the heart with the Reaper’s Talon.
- Dirty Coward: When faced with a supremely pissed off Gabriel D. Griffon during the Sundering of Talon Bais, he tries to bribe the latter into going back on his vow to care for his niece Numidium, and to spare him. He gets stabbed through the heart for this.
- Hypocrite: Despite being a god of honour and valour (among other things), he not only shows no valour when defeated by Gabriel D. Griffon (Who is a mortal, by the way) by bargaining and begging for his life, but tried persuading Gabriel to revoke his vows to protect Numidium while at it, a dishonorable plea that nets him death.
- It Is Dehumanising: Refers to Numidium as an "it".
- Moral Myopia: He calls Gabriel D. Griffon a beast for killing the Gaelist forces who attacked Dragontown - never mind that Gabriel did so to expel their remnants from Dragontown, or that he himself encouraged his mortal worshippers to commit genocide at a scale on par with the Reichists of the second age. He also labels Gabriel as being undeserving of honor, only hell - while ignoring that he himself fits the bill far better than his killer ever would. For added irony, Tyric winds up being dragged down to Nekelmu's Hell-Realms, while Gabriel is welcomed into Audens Manes' Heaven-Realms.
- Kill the God: Courtesy of Gabriel D. Griffon, a Badass Normal mortal Griffon.
- Too Dumb to Live: Go on, Tyric - demean and threaten the beloved niece of an infamous Anti-Hero known to be a Papa Wolf. That'll end well for you.
Hrottí, the Unfettered Warrioress
Classification: [TBA]
Portfolio: Battle, Excess, [WIP]
Rank: [TBA]
First introduced in a Drabble, Hrottí is among the worser members of the Talon Bais Pantheon (which is saying something in itself) who like her peers enabled their mortal followers' worst excesses and crimes and ultimately died a Karmic Death for it.- And I Must Scream: Played For Black Comedy. For trying to rape and kill Taran, Gabriel D. Griffin would cut off her head and stuff the still living and conscious cranium into a fridge, where she is fed a 'strict diet of watered down prune juice and cold fish cuts' for as long as Gabriel intends to keep her alive.
- Attempted Rape: Attempted to force herself on Taran Stormwing, but was prevented from doing so by Taran's father Gabriel D. Griffin, who killed her for it.
- Irony: Despite being a goddess of Battle, Hrotti was literally ripped apart by a mortal griffon.
- Kill the God: Courtesy of Gabriel D. Griffin, a Badass Normal mortal Griffon.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: On the receiving end courtesy of Gabriel D. Griffin.
- Too Dumb to Live: Attempted to harm the son of the already infamous Griffon Anti-Hero Gabriel D. Griffin, who reacted as any protective father would and tore her to shreds.
- Would Hurt a Child: Attempted to force herself on Taran Stormwing. Fortunately, his father intervened before she could do more than pin him down.
Krieg, the Banner of War
Classification: Ethereal
Portfolio: War, Strength, Patriotism
Rank: [TBA]
Krieg (first introduced here
) is the Celestial Griffon god of War, Strength, and Patriotism, and was a wicked member of the Talon Bàis Pantheon who encouraged his mortal subjects' hatred against Dragonkind, leading to the outbreak of the "Talon Bàis War".- Anthropomorphic Personification: He was a Celestial Griffon god who embodied War, Strength, and Patriotism.
- Karmic Death: As a War God, he enabled the Talon Bàis Griffons' hatred of Dragons and military culture to toxic degrees. He also helped cause the outbreak of the "Talon Bàis War" with his encouragement to war with "the enemy", and as a wicked member of the Talon Bàis Pantheon, he was complicit in his peers' other crimes, such as letting the first King Gael into their Heaven-Realms while condemning innocent Dragons to suffer in the Heaven-Realms. He eventually meets his end at the hooves of twin Kings Caerulus Melodia Equestria-Corporatum and Rubeus Stella Equestria-Corporatum, who killed him by fighting as one being while manifesting Mana Equus' part of their souls, which drastically boosted their arcane power.
- The Magnificent: Known as "the Banner of War".
- War God: In life, he was a god of War, Strength, and Patriotism, except he took his domains in a negative direction by enabling the Talon Bàis Griffons' hatred of Dragons, reverence of the first King Gael, and their military culture to toxic degrees. He also encouraged his mortal subjects to war with "the enemy", leading to the outbreak of the "Talon Bàis War".
- What the Hell Are You?: After he is defeated by the twin Kings Caerulus Melodia Equestria-Corporatum and Rubeus Stella Equestria-Corporatum, he demands the identities of his foes, clearly terrified by their superior power and skill.Krieg: Who ARE you guys?!
Kings Caerulus Melodia and Rubeus Stella: (together) We're the twins o' Death n' Music, the 'Lords o' War' even War gods feared. An' now, we're the harbingers o' yer doom.
