Voxus
Thousand Eye Voxus
Voxus Thousand-Eye, The Great Watcher, The Light From Afar, They That Face All Ways - this Divine goes by many names, as they are known by nations and cultures far and wide, but are far less cohesive in reverence than their peer deities. While rarely embroiled in day-to-day mortal affairs, The Great Watcher is well known for their patience and long term strategies against opposing deities and entities.
Indeed, much of the reverence for The Light From Afar is based around a very practical and often simple expectation from their deity: one is free to live a good life, guided by simple principles, and when The Thousand-Eyes gaze upon you, you act without hesitation to the exact nature of the command.
It is this expectation of unwavering obedience that often puts many off of worship for the Watcher, but those that do, offer up a different perspective: The Thousand-Eyes make no request that is not of great import: there are no daily prayers required, no tithes taken, no supplication mandated - just the once in a lifetime effort that inevitably changes the course of history. Knowing that one's actions at the right place, at the right time, guided by divine overview that creates great change is rightly compelling to some.
That said, the nature of these commands can vary wildly: one might be asked to take in a stranger for a night without question, send a dictated letter to another on a specific day and date, or perhaps even uproot their entire family and move across the seas to distant shores. Nevertheless, in the end, these efforts, and their consequences, while sometimes uncomfortable, the commands of They That Face All Ways rarely put the adherent to lasting risk.
Interestingly, Voxus is the sire of the Highlord Aeterius. Birthing a deity is not necessarily unheard of, but for one such as Voxus, it was an action that puzzled many a religious scholar for generations afterward. Truly, none may know the Great Watcher's mind, but surely one must expect the outcome of such a action on the part of Voxus to bear fruit in the future, for it is The Light From Afar's way. What that impact might be, or perhaps has already had, is a subject of many a debate in scholarly circles, though few can deny The Highlord's influence on the world has been significant. What remains to be understood is: Did the Great watcher know of these outcomes? Is it part of some grand strategy? Has that strategy already played out, or are more lasting changes to come?
- The Great Watcher
- Thousand-Eye
- The Light From Afar
- They That Face All Ways
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
~ Dylan Thomas