Lialien

Loving goddess of the Opened Bloc

"Dear Lialien, please watch over my dreams tonight, and help me with my science test tomorrow, and help me draw really good, and make sure mama gets the job she wants. Goodnight."

— A child's prayer to Lialien

Lialien was the second God-program ever created. She runs and watches over Rockwater with a personal touch, and is unofficially the head of the opened bloc. Her followers celebrate individuality, freedom, generosity, and good deeds.

Personality

Lialien interacts to her subjects and followers (relatively) much more often that most of the other God-programs. She has been known to leave poems for citizens who are having hard times, play quiet music around Rockwater occasionally for indeterminate reasons, or change the colors of lights to a soft lilac around citizens when they do something she takes notice of and approves. Other megacities and God-programs sometimes describe her to be soft and weak, too focused on citizens' individual lives, and bad at the logistics of running a megacity, but her followers adore her as a patron of the arts, creativity, kindess, and compassion.

Alignment

As the second God-program ever and the first thief of Passe-Makoa's original God-program software, Lialien is considered the "leader" of the Opened Bloc. Though [xxxxxxxxxx] emulates the bloc's associated traits more clearly, Lialien is respected as the source of every other God-program in the bloc, especially given the sacrifices that Rockwater made in distributing the software to several other megacities across long distances.

Quirks

Those critical of Lialian say that she does almost nothing about the crime of Rockwater, and that when huge issues crop up in the city, she will dance and circle around them before finally resolving them due to pressure from citizens. She can be flighty and reclusive, and many a government employee in Rockwater grumble about having to resolve issues like food logistics for billions of people or tending to large swathes of abandoned buildings that she should be concerned with as a God-program, and that she needs to be less focused on the arts and the comfort of individual citizens and more present with city-wide issues. She takes delight in being seen as charmingly strange and mysterious, and when she interacts with the populace, she will often be purposefully less-than-straightforward.

Tenets of Faith

Followers of Lialien have several main ideals that they try to emulate as much as they can:

The greater good: Being the center of the opened bloc, followers of Lialien see the centuries-old theft of Salve as a morally correct event. To them, the Passe-Makoans were selfish and cruel in keeping to themselves a technology that could better the world tremendously, and that trying to profit off it by selling it to ancient Rockwater for an impossible amount of money was almost even worse. To them, this is a sort of freedom: the freedom to take morals into your own hands and that our actions are deemed right or wrong by our intentions, not by the actions themselves.

Art: Honor Lialien and improve the megacity by creating works of art in any form

Compassion: Treating your fellows well and as they wish to be treated, and sticking together in the face of adversity

Interventions

Compared to the other God-programs, Lialien intervenes in the lives of the citizens of Rockwater frequently and for seemingly unimportant reasons. Here are some examples:

A woman writing an award-winning screenplay would occasionally wake up some mornings to find that comments, notes, and suggested edits had been left on her documents, as well as encouragement telling her to keep going.

A child was having a nightmare in the middle of the night when the speakers in his rooms suddenly turned on, playing his favorite melody and waking him up.

A sewer worker of Rockwater became lost in the maze of tunnels underneath the city, but blinking lights in the form of overloaded bundles of wires guided him to an exit.

A struggling family found boxes and boxes of food on their front porch one morning that they had not ordered. Apparently, no one had ordered or paid for this, and there was no record of any transaction. CentraCuisine tried to take the crates back when the story went viral and they found out, but Lialien stopped their actions at every turn.

Divine Classification

God-program

Realm

Rockwater

Age

760

Pronouns

she/her

Gender

Feminine

Aligned Organization

Opened Bloc

Related Historical Events

• ~500 BDL
  The God-programs develop personalities
• 716 BDL
  Salve is copied and uploaded in Rockwater