#gods and kings

The Jeager is the god of vengeance, vendettas, and the endless cycle of retaliation. The Jeager most frequently takes the form of a skull-faced giant with bloodied hands, and the form of the boy in the cloak with the lip-less smile. Yet he may take any form from animal to object, man to woman, or anything in between. In the lesson that vengeance itself takes many forms. His symbols are the twin serpents devouring their each other whole, the one-eyed twins, and the chasing-axes.

The Jeager is justice in its most primal form. The desire to see those who have wronged you to suffer similarly, and that pain must be paid back in kind. Therefore he is also the god of poetic justice and all those who seek an eye for an eye lost.

Above all however, he is the god of endless vendettas, and the cyclic nature of revenge. He is both the one who seeks vengeance and the one who is revenged upon. It is the very nature of retaliation that for every grudge satisfied, another seeks reparations. Violence begets more violence, and revenge births revenge. The Jeager is not a banker however, and he does not collect interest on debts. Vengeance must be paid back in kind, and not a drop of blood more or less. It most be so, for if less was taken with each blow, than the debt should eventually vanish. And if more is taken, than the debt should grow so huge it would collapse under its own weight.

As one of the old gods, the Jeager is indifferent to the authority of the King and his pantheon. Never conquered or coerced, the Jeager values all the lives the same. Slave or king, they are all alike to him. He has killed emperors on behalf of peasants, and peasants on behalf of emperors.

King Hakim III was struck down by the Jeager in front of his whole court, to fulfill the vengeance of the peasant Armar; and Armar was in turn slain by the Jeager on behalf of King Hakim’s brother.

The Jeager cannot be killed by swords. Every blow just serves to make him stronger. Forgiveness is his bane. Every sin that is forgiven, and every blood debt that is never collected is as lethal as any blow.

Break the cycle of vengeance, and you break the Jeager.