Aegis- n. 1. The god of war. 2. sponsorship (often divine). A sign esp. a favorable one; promising success

Phobus. Sounds like phobia, a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation. Also sounds like focus, a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity.

Demius. Derived perhaps from demi-, a combining form meaning half or lesser (demigod). Demigod- n. 1. A lesser or minor god. 2. a deified mortal. Also sounds like Demon, an evil spirit; fiend. A wicked or cruel person. One with great energy.

Aegis, God of War has returned to our lands. What does this mean for us? What does Aegis have to gain by traversing throughout all the worlds, all of the different dimensions and planes spreading conflict? What does he expect to gain? What is the Aegis' motivation?

A candle flickers violently just before it goes out. In a state of war, all of the emotions that color the memories which make up our souls are at their peak. Courage and fear, cowardace and honour, love and hate- all reach their peak during a war. And in the center of this fire, would be the Aegis, warmed by the destruction.

if this is true, then I envy him, both for his power and for having reached the sort of moral nirvana necessary to justify such things in one's own mind. For I do not believe that so great a being would act without feelings of justification.

And what of Phobus? Child of the Aegis, perhaps the first child. I would, judging solely by his given name, think him to be the scout and perhaps even the very first child. He searches for the right grounds, and he is both a mind and a force of nature- the phobia, the irrational fear of the situation. Perhaps that phobia is the fear of war. Or the reverse, the fear of emptiness. He is the focus, the attraction for machines of war that will make the shrines of the Church of Shallam seem like things not even worth taking note of.
And last, Demius. Not too long ago, an Occultist was transported to the climax of some strange battle. There, all manner of atrocities imaginable were commited. Out of both sides of the war, perhaps out of the entire planet/plane of existance, only a single being survived. And this Occultist, though hardened by their often blunt research often found himself hiding his eyes, watched this final being set upon my some terrible force that had been waiting the whole time, and transform him. That terrible force was some kind of Demon, and perhaps Demius was created in such a way, the second child.

And now the Aegis has returned to us. And perhaps there can only be one.

Zero

Penned by my hand on the 19th of Scarlatan, in the year 257 AF.