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It's been a while, and Canon plus Word of God has revealed some new details. It's time I update this journal with new lies about Amascut.

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Powers and Immortality

Amascut is most definitely a goddess. What this means is not exactly known, though. Gods, according to canon, are immortal, yet they can be killed using one of the Elder Artifacts, tools used by the Elder Gods to create and shape the multiverse. The local neighborhood of the universes, anyhow. Amascut and her brother Icthlarin are unique among the Young Gods, however, as they did not attain godhood by killing another god or by prolonged exposure to the power of the Elder Artifacts. The twin aspects of death were born gods (if the canon if the Kharidian religion is reliable). Their adopted siblings, Het, Crondis, Apmeken, and Scabaras are also unique, as they were granted godhood by their and Amascut's father Tumeken. But, it probably doesn't effect their immortality or lack of it. Even then, death via an Elder Artifact is not a sure thing, as at least one god has escaped such a death by giving up his physical form and going incorporeal.

Still, I have written Amascut as possesing a human body that is not extraordinarily invulnerable, at least not anymore invulnerable than a human. But, since she is/once was a goddess of rebirth she has divine regenerative abilities. She has so far come back from an atomic explosion at close range and self-immolation using her own very destructive powers. So what are her godly domains? It used to be Death, Physical Rebirth, guiding the body into the afterlife, and bringing death through life where her brother's were Death, Spiritual Rebirth, guiding the soul into the afterlife, and bringing life through death. Amascut has renounced her role as Goddess of Rebirth, through, and is now goddess of Death, Destruction, and Slaying/Exterminating.

In relation to the other gods in her canon, Amascut and Icthlarin, godly children of the gods, lie on the second lowest power tier, above the tier where godly creations of the gods, such as Het, Crondis, Apmeken, and Scabaras or Avatars of the gods rest. Where this puts Amascut in relation to other gods and anthropomorphic representations at milliways_bar is unknown, of course.

Being at such a low power tier still means she can wield immense power, which has mostly manifested itself as fire based magic, intense searing columns of light from the sky, and mind control/body control/memory alteration psychic-like powers. It's odd that stories about the actual god of power and control never say he wielded such powers.

Appearance

Amascut has been described on separate occasions as handsome and statuesque. Amascut is most likely vain about her appearance as she has never disguised as someone not young and not beautiful. She is around 5'11" tall with a very athletic build. However, there are some jarring details to her appearance that can be noticed from afar but are less noticeable from up close due to some perception/attention alteration hoodoo she has got going on at close ranges. She is dark skinned, and how dark can depend on her disguise, but has red hair. She has red irises which usually go unnoticed (and unmentioned by me) because of the perception/attention alteration hoodoo usually effects all the people close enough to see the color of her eyes anyhow.

She usually wears dresses, and they tend to be of the ankle length, free flowing and light type. She also prefers sandals but because of the Milliways clime, she keeps boots in her room upstairs for the colder months. She also keeps (and sells) boots at home, but those are for different purposes.

As for her smell... she may have a slight odor of a dead cat about her which she tries to hide. Aura wise, she is a divine being connected to death, but she tries to tone that down to a nondescript feeling of unnatural power for those sensitive to auras and such.

LIES

Amascut introduces herself as Sarah Black in milliways_bar (if she ever gets around to it), an odds and ends merchant who teaches various arts of combat on the side. It might be harder to get her to admit that some of those odds and ends are weapons and ammunition. Well, most.

As for the goddess Amascut herself, she is supposed to be cursed. No one is supposed to be able to remember her name, although priests that tend to the worshipers of the Menaphite Pantheon seem to have no problem remembering her name. Neither does anyone important to plot. Names, memories, and attention are power for the gods, and its easy to see why Amascut's ex-followers would want to curse her so that the world would not remember her name. Yet, something must be perpetuating the myth that the curse stuck.

Amascut is not above erasing other people's memories, especially memories about herself. She is perpetuating the myth about the curse on her name by using memories of her name as inroads to other people's minds and devouring memories as she sees fit.

Another aspect of the curses upon her is that she is not supposed to be able to posses a body for any useful length of time. Neite, her ex-High Priestess, assures the player that Amascut will be forced out of her current body any day now. Or any year now. The curse worked, and it still works, Amascut didn't break it. However, if Amascut is pressed for information on the curses, she will say that she is trapped in her present body by the curse. It is a more believable lie.

So, there is a canonical Runescape AU that comes to light in the quest Dimension of Disaster, and while the scope of Dimension of Disaster is limited to the city of Varrock, there are some things that can be inferred about the rest of the world, especially given that the quest is a It's a Wonderful Life like story in that [player character] never went adventuring and some odd things about New Varrock.

Somehow, without [player character]'s interference, Amascut is neither phobic toward cat's or opposed to the undead. Are there more time travel shenanigans in store for [player character]? Is [player character] responsible for Amascut's phobia? Maybe, but it is hard to imagine how the Dimension of Disaster AU could happen while Amascut was around to pwn zombies or how she wound up being cat-friendly without time-travel shenanigans.

So the evidence for Amascut's changed stance is the Necrofelinomicon, a book found in New Varrock which plays part in the tasks/achievements A Cat's Bane and The Mummy Returns, in which a purple cat, a hellcat, a clockwork cat, and a generic stray cat perform a ritual to Amascut to bring their friend Fluffs back to life as a mummified cat (which is punny since she is the mother of all kittens that [player character] may acquire)

So, maybe, Amascut is not opposed to serving as the goddess of rebirth, either? Well, goddess of undeath, at least. Or undead cats. *shrug*

An exerpt from the Necrofelinomicon:

That is not dead which can eternal meow.

And with strange aeons even death may die nine times.

Amascut, not being cat-phobic, would have been coming into Milliways as cat-like things regularly. It sounds like that in the AU that she may be a bit of an eldritch thing (though, not an elder goddess and a pretty low-tier goddess who can still get away with directly interacting with mortals). I think I will have her come in as a nebulous cat shaped dark cloud with predatory red eyes Dark grey fluffy kitty with bright red eyes. Tis the Amuskitty. Ha.

Fallen Goddess Amascut One Word by Conjure One feat. Poe Play ► Nature Boy by David Bowie & Massive Attack Play ► Center of the Sun by Conjure One feat. Poe Play ► The End is the Beginning is the End by Smashing Pumpkins Play ► Mother Mother by Tracy Bonham Play ► Extraordinary Way by Conjure One feat. Poe Play ► The Beginning is the End is the Beginning by The Smashing Pumpkins Play ► Can't Change Me by Chris Cornell Play ► Wild by Poe Play ► Judith by A Perfect Circle Play ► Better Living Though Chemistry by Queens of the Stone Age Play ► Arsenal by KidneyThieves Play ► Devour by Shinedown Play ► Fall Into Sleep by Mudvayne Play ► Do The Evolution by Pearl Jam Play ► Miss Murder by AFI Play ► 1imb0 by The Stray Vocaloids Play ► Never Be Free by Garbage Play ► Proud Like a God by Guano Apes Play ► Temptation Waits by Garbage Play ► When Animals Attack by Institute Play ► Hypnotized by Ian Taylor and The Runescape Audio Team Play ► Ænema by Tool Play ► Tikal by E.S. Posthumus Play ► Battle Without Honor or Humanity by Tomoyasu Hotei Play ► Cat People(Putting Out The Fire) by David Bowie Play ► World Painted Blood by Slayer Play ► Final Showdown by Stephen Lord and The Runescape Audio Team Play ► Wake Up by Rage Against the Machine Play ► Dead is the New Alive by Emilie Autumn Play ►

Playlist format by wastintime and posted in rp_tutorials

***### SPOILERS ###***

For a long while now, lore-hounds have been searching for the wandering ga'al, an abnormally born member of the TzHaar race. The TzHaar are basically a race of what can best be described as lava monsters, but to be more spoilery, the TzHaar are offshoots of the TokHaar, another race of lava monsters, or more appropriately, highly intelligent lava automatons/golems. The TzHaar probably count as automatons as well but they are far more independent than the TokHaar.

Anyhow, the reason players were searching for the wandering ga'al is because it promised to translate some books but then it got lost doing some adventuring.

Anyhow, a transcript of the translation courtesy of player Delta 206 plus some additional analysis by Amascut (the player, not me or the character/pup. Just another RPer. Well, sometimes she does RP but she mostly is a gatherer of lore and she's awesome), and put here to save the information from the page 50 monster. This has also been added to the runescape wikia as part of the NPC Dialogue project (without commentary). But, the intellectual property bugaboo might visit them again, so, having it in multiple places is good.

( Chapter 1: Preface )
( Chapter 2: The Masters )
( Chapter 3: The Great Labour )
( Chapter 4 - The Hallow Victory )
( Chapter 5: The Enduring Vigil )

I disagree with Amascut's speculations on the present whereabouts of the Elder Gods. She is probably overreaching there. Still, neat stuff.

Amy Samir Ghanem???

Fallen Goddess Amascut Never Be Free by Garbage Play ► Do The Evolution by Pearl Jam Play ► Proud Like a God by Guano Apes Play ► Fall Into Sleep by Mudvayne Play ► Temptation Waits by Garbage Play ► Nature Boy by David Bowie & Massive Attack Play ► Can't Change Me by Chris Cornell Play ► The End is the Beginning is the End by Smashing Pumpkins Play ► The Beginning is the End is the Beginning by The Smashing Pumpkins Play ► Judith by A Perfect Circle Play ► When Animals Attack by Institute Play ► Hypnotized by Runescape Audio Team Play ► Ænema by Tool Play ► Tikal by E.S. Posthumus Play ► Battle Without Honor or Humanity by Tomoyasu Hotei Play ► Cat People(Putting Out The Fire) by David Bowie Play ► Arsenal by KidneyThieves Play ► Wild by Poe Play ►

Playlist format by wastintime and posted in rp_tutorials

I am really tempted to to use this (nsfw surrealism) as the eldritch-ish decoration to some grand, black door deep in the tunnel networks below the ruins of Ullek. I know its supposed to be Kali, but a lot of Kali imagery fits Amascut well, especially this particular despoiled maiden, birth and death stuff.

I can really get a lot of mileage out of Ullek if I wish to add Lovecraftian-ish horror to Amascut's backstory. Ullek was a major metropolis during the Second Age, and it was in reaction to Ullek's gluttony, wastefulness, and hedonism that Tumeken, Amascut's father (and by this time Amascut's madness was nearly at it's worst), created Crondis, the goddess of temperance and resourcefulness, from a crocodile that inhabited the swamps near Ullek. So, things were pretty bad. Well, not as bad as to cause the birth of Slaneesh or something, but then again, Ullek was just a city, not an interstellar empire. From Ullek could have come the modern cult of Amascut (which is very problematic, since Amascut is supposed to have no followers) which is focused on her destructive side and not on the whole death and rebirth mystery she was supposed to embody.

But if I ever do that, what would I put on the other side of that door?

Fallen Goddess Amascut Never Be Free by Garbage Play ► Do The Evolution by Pearl Jam Play ► Proud Like a God by Guano Apes Play ► Fall Into Sleep by Mudvayne Play ► Temptation Waits by Garbage Play ► Nature Boy by David Bowie & Massive Attack Play ► Can't Change Me by Chris Cornell Play ► The End is the Beginning is the End by Smashing Pumpkins Play ► The Beginning is the End is the Beginning by The Smashing Pumpkins Play ► Judith by A Perfect Circle Play ► When Animals Attack by Institute Play ► Hypnotized by Runescape Audio Team Play ► Ænema by Tool Play ► Tikal by E.S. Posthumus Play ► Battle Without Honor or Humanity by Tomoyasu Hotei Play ► Cat People(Putting Out The Fire) by David Bowie Play ►

Playlist format by wastintime and posted in rp_tutorials

Also, I was thinking of Judith by A Perfect Circle when Ænema was suggested to me, but that might not be totally appropriate. Maybe for the story of how Char defeated Death (and consequently Amascut) and the betrayal of Zaros by Zamorak.

Oh what the hell, I'll throw it in, I have plot specific songs in there anyhow. When those plots will materialize? Who knows?