Confusing a Beast
The gods often have disputes, plots that go against one another, but it is easier to forgive when that is a means, not an end. Early in the world, when Jakular and Shaold were both starting to learn to work together to fill the seas with life, it was a difficult arrangement. Early on, Shaold was better at designing life for the water, causing no end of frustration for Jakular, whose specialty was making new life. He could make creatures that survived in the sea, but none that thrived. Most of his creations still needed air, such as whales and dolphins. Shaold's pets, on the other hand, delved the deepest depths of the seas.
Sensing Jakular's frustration, and more than that, an opportunity to make a story, Cheznerix set off to work, discussing things with Shaold, and Quetminook, learning the ins and outs of life, enough to understand the basics, and where Jakular's mistakes were. Then he crafted a blueprint of his own, a creature that looked as if it should survive any environment, and survive it well. In reality, the beast would die, quite horrifically in each instance. He left the blueprint in a place he knew Jakular would find it, and waited to see the hilarity ensue. When Jakular did find the blueprint he quickly created it, and without any testing went off to proudly show Shaold what he had made.
It died nearly instantly, and as he tried it in different places, he saw the same results in each place, growing thoroughly humiliated. When Shaold asked to look over the blueprint, unable to hide her amusement at Jakular's frustration, she found that he hadn't even created the thing, as Cheznerix had signed his work. When she confronted Jakular about attempting to take credit for another god's work, he was even more frustrated and angry. When he learned that he had been humiliated on purpose, Jakular found that his bestial rage went deeper than he had previously known. Despite this, he knew that Cheznerix was wilier than he, and the he would have to play the tricksters game if he was going to teach him a lesson.
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