Post by mneumos on Jun 16, 2009 4:48:56 GMT -5
For those of you who know me, it's taken some time to get this up, but here it is, my back story.
Of Time and Consequence
Not of importance is an adequate phrase to describe the birth of Mneumos. Born of a water nymph, Nephenee and a merchant, Xanthilos, Mneumos grew as a half nymph in the city of Thebes in 473 B.C. For the first five years of his life, he didn’t live in Thebes, rather he travelled around the various city states with his father and adopted mother, a former fieldworker turned accountant, Penelope. Mneumos knew Penelope wasn’t his real mother, but it never bothered him; he just continued to travel and learn the ways of the world. In 467, He returned to Thebes at the age of 6. Sadly, the once prosperous city was in turmoil. Oedipus had fled in terror after learning the truth of his parentage, and his sons were fighting for control of the city. The family failed to retreat, and his father was forced to fight under the Polyniece’s army. Xanthilos was captured by enemy solders, and Penelope was killed by a rioting mob.
Mneumos knew of nothing else, with his family dead, he wandered the streets for days until coming upon an old man. The old man did not reveal his identity, but he did tell Mneumos of the location of his birth mother. The man departed, giving the young Mneumos a map through the forests surrounding Thebes. He spent a year moving through the forest looking for his mother, but he inevitably found her. She invited him to live with him and his half brother, Pantheos, a full blooded nymph. Patheos appeared to be a young man, but with his extended life, one could never tell. Nephenee had Patheos instruct Mneumos in the arts, music, literature, and philosophy until he was a learned man. Mneumos stayed with them until he was 23, leaving them to find the old man that helped him so many years ago.
He spent the next twenty years searching the Greek cities, occasionally visiting his family in the forest and mastering his skill of augury. When he was 42, he returned to an again prosperous Thebes. He searched the streets where the man found him, asked around the local people, and ending his search in a local restaurant. Another man approached him, completely distraught at the mere appearance of Mneumos. The man was a friend of his father’s, and he knew Mneumos when he was a young boy. The man’s name was Dionysus, the same namesake as the god himself. The two talked for hours, Dionysus was in the same prison camp as his father after the war, and he said the two spent 10 years paying for war crimes. His father was dead after his time in the camp, but Dionysus told him Penelope, was still alive and living in the Far East.
Mneumos shipped out for the Orient that next day. He spent another 15 years getting there and 5 scouring the local areas. Penelope was living in Shanghai, and had been since the incident in Thebes. She wasn’t able to reveal much, but he visitor was. His name was Teiresias, the seer of legend. He was able to see past Mneumos’ exterior and understand that he had a natural ability to see things unknown. Teiresias took him on as a student and took him to the city of Alexandria in Egypt. For hundreds of years, the two continued to study and learn the ways of science and philosophy, all the while Mneumos was able to retain his youth due to his Nymph parentage. In 13 B.C., the two moved to Rome with the hopes of aiding the Roman people in overthrowing Julius Caesar and keeping the hopes of Democracy alive. They failed, but they continued to move throughout the Roman Empire, preventing the vast conquest of their armies by aiding resistance groups with their powers of foresight. The two left the battlefield in 20 A.D., realizing their fight was futile.
Mneumos was continually cursed by his long life, seeing it as a hazard rather than a gift. Realizing that his life had roughly 400 more years to it, Mneumos sought out a way to shorten his life. When Teiresias learned of this, he left Mneumos, opting to stay in Rome. Distraught and without a single person in the world, Mneumos went searching for a way to gain mortality. He returned to Alexandria in 37 A.D. and began t osearch of a tome that could aid him. Hidden in a wall of the Library, he found an ancient enchantment book that was rumored to have taken away the immortality of many former Greek Gods. He found such a spell that would be able to return him to mortal status, and he began to gather the ingredients.
He spent the next few years scouring the Far and Middle East for the ingredients, keeping the tome in the Library as to not arouse suspicion. He returned to the Library with all the necessary ingredients in 43 A.D., only to find the Library in vast disrepair. Caesar had sent a raiding group to take control of Egypt, and in the process, they burned down the Library. Mneumos went into a blinding rage, and lost control of himself in the local bazaar. After paying for the damages, he searched the wreckage for the tome that would end his life. For 3 months, he searched, until he was able to find in, slightly intact. The edges were burned, but the text itself was still legible. He returned to his home in Thebes, and began to prepare the spell, in 44 A.D., he tried to become a mortal, but he was taken aback. The spell misfired, if you will, and the resulting explosion destroyed his house. It seemed to him that he missed a part of the incantation in the burned part of the book. Sadly, he wasn’t able to become mortal, and he actually felt even more viable than before. He tried to see himself in the future with his powers of foresight, and he was able to see over 1000 years in the future. He had cursed himself with even more life. Without home and mortality, he left Thebes that year, in search of nothing in particular.
He wandered for 10 years in Eastern Europe until he made his way into Northern Germany. He was confused by this culture, which seemed to love depravity and war, but he was slightly amused and willing to live there. Within five years, he was accepted as a member of the clan, with a home and mastery of the language. There he lived, near modern day Berlin, for ten years, eventually having a family, marrying a local woman named Blanca and having two sons, Rolf and Oscar. Rolf was blessed with the power of sight and long life, where was Oscar opted to be a warrior rather than a seer like his father. Rolf trained with Mneumos, (who lived under the name Freidrick while he was there) honing the skills of a seer. In 71 AD, Rome was conquering all of the southern parts of Germany and they had their eyes on Mneumos and his clan. Mneumos had built a destructive hate for Rome and everything Roman, so he, with the aid of Rolf, were the main tacticians for the German army, using their powers of foresight to predict their troop movements, and, eventually lead the German people to victory.
Mneumos was heralded as the hero of the clan, and he was appointed was chieftain of the clan. His family lived as royalty and his son Oscar eventually grew and left on an adventure to the Middle East. The members of the clan aged, but Mneumos and Rolf miraculously didn’t. Suspicions grew, but were never said, considering that Mneumos and Rolf continually lead them to victory. Sadly, in 97 A.D., Blanca died of Tuberculosis, and Mneumos and Rolf left shortly after that. The Clan begged them to stay, but they both knew they couldn’t stay for much longer before people really started to wonder why they didn’t age. The pair left, going to the Far East.
In 136, they arrived in Korea, and there they stayed for quite some time. The locals had never seen a white person before, but there was no animosity or fear, they seemed to understand the overall benevolent nature of the two. They lived there for 60 years as Shaman and learned the interesting rituals of the local medicine men. Rolf loved the area, and opted to stay there. Mneumos, was heartbroken, but he knew he couldn’t stay with his son forever, and he also knew they would meet again later. Mneumos did see Rolf again, about 500 years after he left Korea, Rolf had a family by that time, and he did end up leaving Korea after a deadly blunder had him forced out. Mneumos knew it was a good idea to leave him at that time, Rolf was really happy. Rolf died shortly after that encounter.
Mneumos travelled across the Far East for the next 400 years. He studied at Angkor Wat, and cities like Beijing, Kyoto, and Pyongyang. Around 543 A.D., he met a young seer in India named Pental. Pental knew Mneumos as a seer, considering the tomes he wrote during his time at Alexandria were hot topic amongst intellectuals in India. Pental wanted him to come and study at the temple he lived out, but Mneumos had a better idea. They would both would go to Tibet and live with the Dalai Lama and his disciples. They lived for 20 years and learned the ways of Buddhism. Pental was Mneumos’ best student, and he soon became an amazing seer in his own right. The two lived there, and that’s where Pental stayed for many years until his death in 613 A.D. After Pental died, Mneumos made it his mission to find more people like Pental, seers that needed to be taught. Without Teiresias, Mneumos wouldn’t have learned how to see, and there were others like him that needed help. He started in Eastern Europe at the height of the Dark Ages. Distraught with the disgusting way humanity had decided to live, he left Europe quickly and took refuge in Asia. For the next 100 years he lived in China and prevented them from gaining control of his beloved Tibet. The leaders of China stopped listening to him of course, but the damage was done and Tibet would not fall.
Mneumos took refuge in Calcutta in 712 A.D., and began to dive further into his seer abilities. He foresaw disasters, aided in military victories, spurred economic growth, and overall made the Far East bloom. There were many temples to his greatness, and he began to teach vast amounts of students. Most wouldn’t be able to cut it, but others became great seers. They scattered, and Mneumos relocated to Delhi in 1042 A.D. Mneumos then foresaw something terrible.
He saw the English getting defeated in 1066 by the Vikings, a cruel and ruthless people. He loves the English people, ever since he tried to prevent the Romans from taking control of their lands, so he decided to intervene. The arrived in 1065 A.D. and proceeded to lead the British to victory. Thoroughly pleased with himself, he made himself at home in London, where he made it the capital of the world’s culture. London produced science, art, literature, and music. They mastered technologies thought inhuman for the time, and began to conquer the world. They took over France in 1089, and Germany in 1099. Mneumos was disgusted by what he had done. He confronted the chancellor of England, and was subsequently thrown out for heresy.
Now he wanders the lands, searching for a force that he could united to overthrow the English and their vast armies, and, in the process, atone for his sins. His life has been of life and of consequence; he has roughly twenty years left before he runs out of life and goes to the underworld. His last goal, return the world to what it should be.
To meet this goal, he has scoured the world over for liked-minded individuals. He traveled soon there after to the new world with the help of the Vikings he had helped defeat years earlier. After a very slow start in Vineland, he traveled to the interior of the continent with the help of the indigenous peoples of the land. He traveled with a chieftain's son, Sleeping Wolf for five years, making it to the lands of the Miami tribe. Sleeping Wolf left him, not daring to travel any further. In hopes of finding more benevolent people, Mneumos traveled alone into a deep mist. For what seemed like days, the mist was unrelenting, but he continued to walk further in. As it cleared, the landscape that he previously knew was no longer recognizable. Alone, and severely confused, he meandered slowly into the lands.
Hope was fleeting, no longer were there the sounds of the native peoples or the thriving forests, only the bleak sounds of death were son the lands. Soon, he heard the sounds of clashing steel. Prepared for the worse, he approached the sounds as they became ever more frightening. A group of what appeared to be European-descended folk were sparring in a field. There was no malice, or hatred in the fighting, only mutual respect. Mneumos knew he had found the help he needed to fulfill his quest, in Mittlemarch.
Of Time and Consequence
Not of importance is an adequate phrase to describe the birth of Mneumos. Born of a water nymph, Nephenee and a merchant, Xanthilos, Mneumos grew as a half nymph in the city of Thebes in 473 B.C. For the first five years of his life, he didn’t live in Thebes, rather he travelled around the various city states with his father and adopted mother, a former fieldworker turned accountant, Penelope. Mneumos knew Penelope wasn’t his real mother, but it never bothered him; he just continued to travel and learn the ways of the world. In 467, He returned to Thebes at the age of 6. Sadly, the once prosperous city was in turmoil. Oedipus had fled in terror after learning the truth of his parentage, and his sons were fighting for control of the city. The family failed to retreat, and his father was forced to fight under the Polyniece’s army. Xanthilos was captured by enemy solders, and Penelope was killed by a rioting mob.
Mneumos knew of nothing else, with his family dead, he wandered the streets for days until coming upon an old man. The old man did not reveal his identity, but he did tell Mneumos of the location of his birth mother. The man departed, giving the young Mneumos a map through the forests surrounding Thebes. He spent a year moving through the forest looking for his mother, but he inevitably found her. She invited him to live with him and his half brother, Pantheos, a full blooded nymph. Patheos appeared to be a young man, but with his extended life, one could never tell. Nephenee had Patheos instruct Mneumos in the arts, music, literature, and philosophy until he was a learned man. Mneumos stayed with them until he was 23, leaving them to find the old man that helped him so many years ago.
He spent the next twenty years searching the Greek cities, occasionally visiting his family in the forest and mastering his skill of augury. When he was 42, he returned to an again prosperous Thebes. He searched the streets where the man found him, asked around the local people, and ending his search in a local restaurant. Another man approached him, completely distraught at the mere appearance of Mneumos. The man was a friend of his father’s, and he knew Mneumos when he was a young boy. The man’s name was Dionysus, the same namesake as the god himself. The two talked for hours, Dionysus was in the same prison camp as his father after the war, and he said the two spent 10 years paying for war crimes. His father was dead after his time in the camp, but Dionysus told him Penelope, was still alive and living in the Far East.
Mneumos shipped out for the Orient that next day. He spent another 15 years getting there and 5 scouring the local areas. Penelope was living in Shanghai, and had been since the incident in Thebes. She wasn’t able to reveal much, but he visitor was. His name was Teiresias, the seer of legend. He was able to see past Mneumos’ exterior and understand that he had a natural ability to see things unknown. Teiresias took him on as a student and took him to the city of Alexandria in Egypt. For hundreds of years, the two continued to study and learn the ways of science and philosophy, all the while Mneumos was able to retain his youth due to his Nymph parentage. In 13 B.C., the two moved to Rome with the hopes of aiding the Roman people in overthrowing Julius Caesar and keeping the hopes of Democracy alive. They failed, but they continued to move throughout the Roman Empire, preventing the vast conquest of their armies by aiding resistance groups with their powers of foresight. The two left the battlefield in 20 A.D., realizing their fight was futile.
Mneumos was continually cursed by his long life, seeing it as a hazard rather than a gift. Realizing that his life had roughly 400 more years to it, Mneumos sought out a way to shorten his life. When Teiresias learned of this, he left Mneumos, opting to stay in Rome. Distraught and without a single person in the world, Mneumos went searching for a way to gain mortality. He returned to Alexandria in 37 A.D. and began t osearch of a tome that could aid him. Hidden in a wall of the Library, he found an ancient enchantment book that was rumored to have taken away the immortality of many former Greek Gods. He found such a spell that would be able to return him to mortal status, and he began to gather the ingredients.
He spent the next few years scouring the Far and Middle East for the ingredients, keeping the tome in the Library as to not arouse suspicion. He returned to the Library with all the necessary ingredients in 43 A.D., only to find the Library in vast disrepair. Caesar had sent a raiding group to take control of Egypt, and in the process, they burned down the Library. Mneumos went into a blinding rage, and lost control of himself in the local bazaar. After paying for the damages, he searched the wreckage for the tome that would end his life. For 3 months, he searched, until he was able to find in, slightly intact. The edges were burned, but the text itself was still legible. He returned to his home in Thebes, and began to prepare the spell, in 44 A.D., he tried to become a mortal, but he was taken aback. The spell misfired, if you will, and the resulting explosion destroyed his house. It seemed to him that he missed a part of the incantation in the burned part of the book. Sadly, he wasn’t able to become mortal, and he actually felt even more viable than before. He tried to see himself in the future with his powers of foresight, and he was able to see over 1000 years in the future. He had cursed himself with even more life. Without home and mortality, he left Thebes that year, in search of nothing in particular.
He wandered for 10 years in Eastern Europe until he made his way into Northern Germany. He was confused by this culture, which seemed to love depravity and war, but he was slightly amused and willing to live there. Within five years, he was accepted as a member of the clan, with a home and mastery of the language. There he lived, near modern day Berlin, for ten years, eventually having a family, marrying a local woman named Blanca and having two sons, Rolf and Oscar. Rolf was blessed with the power of sight and long life, where was Oscar opted to be a warrior rather than a seer like his father. Rolf trained with Mneumos, (who lived under the name Freidrick while he was there) honing the skills of a seer. In 71 AD, Rome was conquering all of the southern parts of Germany and they had their eyes on Mneumos and his clan. Mneumos had built a destructive hate for Rome and everything Roman, so he, with the aid of Rolf, were the main tacticians for the German army, using their powers of foresight to predict their troop movements, and, eventually lead the German people to victory.
Mneumos was heralded as the hero of the clan, and he was appointed was chieftain of the clan. His family lived as royalty and his son Oscar eventually grew and left on an adventure to the Middle East. The members of the clan aged, but Mneumos and Rolf miraculously didn’t. Suspicions grew, but were never said, considering that Mneumos and Rolf continually lead them to victory. Sadly, in 97 A.D., Blanca died of Tuberculosis, and Mneumos and Rolf left shortly after that. The Clan begged them to stay, but they both knew they couldn’t stay for much longer before people really started to wonder why they didn’t age. The pair left, going to the Far East.
In 136, they arrived in Korea, and there they stayed for quite some time. The locals had never seen a white person before, but there was no animosity or fear, they seemed to understand the overall benevolent nature of the two. They lived there for 60 years as Shaman and learned the interesting rituals of the local medicine men. Rolf loved the area, and opted to stay there. Mneumos, was heartbroken, but he knew he couldn’t stay with his son forever, and he also knew they would meet again later. Mneumos did see Rolf again, about 500 years after he left Korea, Rolf had a family by that time, and he did end up leaving Korea after a deadly blunder had him forced out. Mneumos knew it was a good idea to leave him at that time, Rolf was really happy. Rolf died shortly after that encounter.
Mneumos travelled across the Far East for the next 400 years. He studied at Angkor Wat, and cities like Beijing, Kyoto, and Pyongyang. Around 543 A.D., he met a young seer in India named Pental. Pental knew Mneumos as a seer, considering the tomes he wrote during his time at Alexandria were hot topic amongst intellectuals in India. Pental wanted him to come and study at the temple he lived out, but Mneumos had a better idea. They would both would go to Tibet and live with the Dalai Lama and his disciples. They lived for 20 years and learned the ways of Buddhism. Pental was Mneumos’ best student, and he soon became an amazing seer in his own right. The two lived there, and that’s where Pental stayed for many years until his death in 613 A.D. After Pental died, Mneumos made it his mission to find more people like Pental, seers that needed to be taught. Without Teiresias, Mneumos wouldn’t have learned how to see, and there were others like him that needed help. He started in Eastern Europe at the height of the Dark Ages. Distraught with the disgusting way humanity had decided to live, he left Europe quickly and took refuge in Asia. For the next 100 years he lived in China and prevented them from gaining control of his beloved Tibet. The leaders of China stopped listening to him of course, but the damage was done and Tibet would not fall.
Mneumos took refuge in Calcutta in 712 A.D., and began to dive further into his seer abilities. He foresaw disasters, aided in military victories, spurred economic growth, and overall made the Far East bloom. There were many temples to his greatness, and he began to teach vast amounts of students. Most wouldn’t be able to cut it, but others became great seers. They scattered, and Mneumos relocated to Delhi in 1042 A.D. Mneumos then foresaw something terrible.
He saw the English getting defeated in 1066 by the Vikings, a cruel and ruthless people. He loves the English people, ever since he tried to prevent the Romans from taking control of their lands, so he decided to intervene. The arrived in 1065 A.D. and proceeded to lead the British to victory. Thoroughly pleased with himself, he made himself at home in London, where he made it the capital of the world’s culture. London produced science, art, literature, and music. They mastered technologies thought inhuman for the time, and began to conquer the world. They took over France in 1089, and Germany in 1099. Mneumos was disgusted by what he had done. He confronted the chancellor of England, and was subsequently thrown out for heresy.
Now he wanders the lands, searching for a force that he could united to overthrow the English and their vast armies, and, in the process, atone for his sins. His life has been of life and of consequence; he has roughly twenty years left before he runs out of life and goes to the underworld. His last goal, return the world to what it should be.
To meet this goal, he has scoured the world over for liked-minded individuals. He traveled soon there after to the new world with the help of the Vikings he had helped defeat years earlier. After a very slow start in Vineland, he traveled to the interior of the continent with the help of the indigenous peoples of the land. He traveled with a chieftain's son, Sleeping Wolf for five years, making it to the lands of the Miami tribe. Sleeping Wolf left him, not daring to travel any further. In hopes of finding more benevolent people, Mneumos traveled alone into a deep mist. For what seemed like days, the mist was unrelenting, but he continued to walk further in. As it cleared, the landscape that he previously knew was no longer recognizable. Alone, and severely confused, he meandered slowly into the lands.
Hope was fleeting, no longer were there the sounds of the native peoples or the thriving forests, only the bleak sounds of death were son the lands. Soon, he heard the sounds of clashing steel. Prepared for the worse, he approached the sounds as they became ever more frightening. A group of what appeared to be European-descended folk were sparring in a field. There was no malice, or hatred in the fighting, only mutual respect. Mneumos knew he had found the help he needed to fulfill his quest, in Mittlemarch.