[The Iron Jaw]

"Your desire in humanity is... Beyond me, at times..."

"I have been tormented by them for over a century... And now? I am bound to them...
I can never be freed of them, thanks to Varrach... L'est I accept to betray my fate bestowed upon me by Mortyl when she spared me of his Wrath..."

"You suggest I... Take their image...?"

"..."

"I hate them..."

"Every... Last... One of them..."

"Liars... Hypocrites... Murderers... Thieves...."

"Hel, some even pledge their loyalties to the very Marqui of Hel... Then, turn around to use those power in the assumption that they can triumph over those same Marqui that bear their souls. They battle against their agents here on Meranthe... Across the world...
Even the witches of Marqui betray their purpose..."


"I was relinquished of my arms... Of my legs... Bound to a cavernous wall for over a hundred years, while they taunted me...
Day after day...
Month after month...
Year-... Decade, after decade...
I. Hate. Them."

"I would never desire to imitate one..."


"And in possessing one? My Hatred burns thorough... They inevitably peel over, and perish.
Such, is what they -all- deserve...
As they would not hesitate to do the same to you... And claim to play the 'hero'."

"I hate them all...
And should I have my way?
I will see a world, where they no longer exist..."

. . .

"But then, what would would persist afterwards..."
"No one knows... No...
No. One. Knows..."

[The Iron Jaw]

*Years prior - Incapacitated and writhing in relentless hatred within the depths of a vantablack abyss, an ancient's mind toils and wrestles with the tribulations of Meranthe, wrought upon it*

"How I try to justify the matters of Humanity deserving more..."

"Yet, trial after trial... They fail to prove redeemable."

"They decry monsters..."

"Yet lie before a mirror..."

"They praise their oppressors and call them heroes..."

"They step on the backs of the industrious and expect thanks in return."

"They boast their heroism as they dismember the innocent..."

"And I am supposed to wager myself as 'Evil' to this... 'Righteousness'?"

"They kill because they want to... Because they can..."

"I kill because I needed to... Because Fate dictated as such, in trade of my demise..."

"Yet, because such aggressor is Humanity... -I- am 'Evil'?"

"Am I truly charged with the mission to find this 'forgivable'?"

"Absolvable?"

"They are not mere sufferers of Sin..."

"They are the progenitors of it..."

"Of every Evil that exists..."

"Both Mortal and Beyond."

"They suffer only the consequences of their actions and dare to call the world cruel..."

"Yet, despite it all... Here I am, willing to save them..."

"One... At a time..."

"Their Gods must go..."

"Their ideologies must go..."

"Their world, their existence... Everything..."

"Must go..."

"But they always persist... Generation after generation..."

"It is for such reason the Cycle must End with me... By me... Through me..."

"I simply need to claim their power... To be such power..."

"...I Am Become God..."

"It was why I exist..."

"It is my sole purpose..."

"It is my Destiny..."

*The fluid stirs... What was that? Oh... It would seem as though one of the youth had snuck past some of the clergy and poured some lax essence into the alchemical preservative bath within one's shrine... It was doubtful it'd accomplish anything, but the gesture alone -- however, fruitless and hopeless an endeavor deserved something... Perhaps, a small blessing was in order.*

"Perhaps just a bit more time... Until The End..."