Finally have a design for the sigils that I actually like. Like actually LIKE like. Only took me yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaars. They look random but believe it or not the designs have meaning behind them. I’d be here all afternoon but basically they kinda tell the story of them as Makers. There was a 4th Maker but they’re dead and their role isn’t as grandiose as the rest but I might get to it one of these days.

The sigils can be used as a way to buff spells and incantations making them extremely powerful. They can also be used as protection or to ward off enemies.

The thing is it's 50/50 on whether it'll work in your favor or against you. The use of them without permission is what can be considered "sacrilegious". Tattooing them, burning then, scribbling them or scarring them into one's own skin is about the single worst thing you can do to yourself. You're opening yourself up to every kind of attack and the Maker that the sigil belongs to will feel some type of way and to say the least will fuck you up in ways you cannot even imagine.

So like I said on my previous post I wanted to info dump about my good boi in his not so good boi form.

BUT before that I do wanna apologize about sounding like a self-entitled asshole but I say this because I'm hyper protective of my stuff. I've been working with this for 21 years so to say I'm protective is an understatement.

So...

So with that bit outta the way...

Werewolves have a pretty bad rep but at the same time they are savage balls of uncontrollable rage that need to rip anything that moves into pieces so it's kinda well earned. But none of the five breeds have a worse rep than the Crossed Breed. Why? Rumors, misinformation and a lot of disinformation.

There was a lot of info about the Crossed Breed before the first Crossed Breed was ever even born. And yes, all that info was 100% wrong.

Why? Cuz whether they're werewolves or human people like to act as if they know everything and take everything they hear at face value. But in all seriousness for the longest time werewolves had been at each other's throats since their conception and at the beginning the four different breeds hated each other but the Howling Ghosts and Outsiders took it to a whole new level after the HGs drove out the Outsiders from their homes. Since then those two breeds have been out for blood with one another.

With time all four breeds mellowed out and began to heal as a community and extended their pack mentality beyond that of their breeds. Howling Ghosts mingled with Mist Walkers, Silver Sights lived with Howling Ghosts, Outsiders roamed with Mist Walkers, in short they all banded together as one big species instead of one big breed...except for Howling Ghosts and Outsiders! Those two breeds refused to get along.

But not everyone shared that same mentality and occasionally you'd find HG and Outsider couples meeting in secret or running away together. This obviously didn't sit well with a lot of the elders so couples were hunted down and killed.

Now, it's possible for werewolves of a different breed to have pups lol baby werewolves but this is super hard and takes a lot of trying which leads to a lot of financial strain and heartbreak. However, those lucky few who do have a pup will find that the breed the baby comes out as will be the breed of the person who birthed it. This is set in stone, it's been tested over and over again and the results are always and will always be the same.

Howling Ghosts and Outsiders though have an even lesser chance to produce a pup. Hate for each other has been so strong it probably wormed itself into their DNA or something. Who knows, I don't ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

As of this year 2024 (actually canon due to a story) the Crossed Breed was renamed to Moonborne.

Okay, so I'm gonna try and maybe clear up some questions that short I posted might've created. Hopefully I can cover everything but if not asking is totally fine, I have fun answering Oracle questions.

>>> Here's the short I mentioned <<<

1. What are slayers and knights? What's their issue?

Slayers formed around the late 200s C.E., back then they were small and mostly just pissed off humans who were sick of being fed on by vampires and werewolves. Around the height of the Constantinian dynasty they gained more members only this time it wasn't exactly full of people just mad that non-humans fed on humans. It was christian fanatics taking shit to the extreme. Any non-human wasn't safe around them because as soon as a slayer learned that someone was non-human they'd slaughter them regardless of age, gender, social standing, threat level or any reason really.

Basically they justified their ethnic cleansing (let's be honest, that's what it is) on their religion thinking every non-human was the spawn of the devil or some such shit.

Then around the late 800s they formed into this group calling themselves the Council of the Knights, this was formed and led by exceptional slayers. Those that were better at hunting down non-humans were promoted to knights.

Now, knights and slayers have the same goals but their methods differ. Knights will use SOME arcane artifacts and they are also responsible for the extinction of species such as the original wulver. The modern wulver is a mix of werewolf but specifically Silver Sights force bred with the last remaining wulvers. Knights are the reason there are so few Silver Sights. The breed never fully recovered their numbers after that mess. To be perfectly honest there's also a bit of jealousy that none of them ever will admit to. They also hunt down and kill humans who associate with non-humans claiming that they're tainted in the eyes of their lord or whatever nonsense they wanna use as an excuse.

They're not a great bunch. They recruit ONLY humans and basically among their ranks are some of the worst kind of humans you can think of. Use your imagination.

2. Why were there slayers and knights in Norway?

They're like cockroaches. They're everywhere. Everywhere they hear there's non-humans they go.

Now, the village Loke and Jelani were born in was chuck full of Oracle familiars, Haakon and his father and his father's father had long been aware of Oracle and they helped in anyway possible and had become familiars. They were even approached to join but they preferred to stay as familiars.

*That's how you join Oracle. You're first made a familiar and after a while if Oracle sees potential in you they ask if you wanna join. There ARE exceptions to that rule like Angelus and Uthorim and others who skip the familiar stage and go straight to agents AFTER 2 years of training.

The village had become a sort of safe haven for non-humans and humans of all kinds. So naturally they set their sights on Norway. They didn't know which village was the one they were looking for so naturally they raided every village they could find. From 874 to about 890 it was a bloody time to be in that country but Oracle lent aid and Haakon, Ingvarr, Jørgen, Sanaa, and Loke as well as many others did what they could to drive them off as well as help each other and anyone that was affected. This was how Loke became a familiar.

3. Who was that woman that just suddenly appeared in the camp?

Short answer: slayers and knights hire women as scouts, they use them to sort of map out areas or get information from them. They cannot join but women who have the same mentality pretty much help out in other ways.

Long answer: that was Iain. No, she didn't know Jelani was even reborn to begin with or that he was even there, she knew he eventually would be. She just used slayers and knights to keep an eye on any potential sightings of him. She saw that slayers and knights had a huge interest in Norway at that time and proceeded to investigate.

4. Why did Haakon know about the feather? Aren't beserkers (excluding arcanist berserkers) not good at magic?

They are totally not magically inclined. Like, at all. Loke is a fluke. A once in a blue moon situation.

However, Haakon was a very sensitive man. He could feel things and even had a lot of dreams that most often either came true or warned him of things to come. The night before the boys took off he had weird dreams and he knew something bad was gonna happen to Loke but didn't know what and how.

5. Speaking of the feather. What happened to it afterwards?

Oh, Loke still has it. Like, now in 2023 he still has that feather. It hasn't broken or deteriorated at all. It is still in pristine condition and yes, it is still cold.

No, no one knows about that feather, not even Jelani. At least not yet. He keeps it safely hidden in a box in his closet.

Since that event he's been really fond of anything involving feathers and why I doodle him with something feather like on him or use anything that has feathers on him in games.

6. So Loke was resurrected?

Yes...plus something else. He won't age anymore. At all. He's kinda...stuck for lack of a better word. Yes, berserkers age but very slowly, in fact, they age slower than werewolves do and yes, they can be very, very long lived. Caveat is that they are a warrior species and most die by the blade. They can also die of diseases as well.

Now, Loke's not undead. He's very much alive and everything works as intended. It's just that he's...frozen in time?...holy shit, I don't really know how to explain this well. Point is he's not undead but he won't physically age.

He still has all of his conditions, you know, the allergies, hemophilia, asthma, then around the very early 1900s his eyesight was compromised and had to wear glasses, and whatever else happens to him. Then got hit with astigmatism in the early 2000s. So shit can still go wrong.

He can be injured, he's broken several bones, torn ligaments, muscle tissue, hammer to the right side of his face caused him to lose three lower molars and had to replace them. He's had plenty of asthma attacks and allergic reactions since then. But he won't grow old.

So what was that something else? Not only will he not grow old, he can't die. No matter what, he can't die. Well, not permanently at least. If mortally injured he'll die for a bit, how long depends on the severity of the injury and the damage done. He'll come back on his own. The only way he'll permanently die is if Jelani dies.

And no, no else knows that he can't die. Not even Jela. At least not until Jela gets his memories unlocked by Jericho and even then he won't reverse it.

Aside from not being able to die or physically age the only other change are his eyes in berserker mode. All berserkers tend to have their eyes faintly glow in whatever color their natural eye color is but from that point onward Loke's irises and sclera turn red. The same red that Jelani's eyes are in his form. If Lo only conjures a weapon his eyes only change color. If he goes full berserker his pupils change to look exactly like Jelani's in his other form.

Everyone questions it for a long ass time but eventually they chuck it up to an injury. Loke thinks it's a side effect of what Jelani did. He doesn't care, he's chill about it.

Technically Jelani did bring him back from the dead but it's more like he brought him back from the dead and now part of him is in him (yeah, I know how this sounds. Relax lol) and yes, because of the bloody shard. Also the crown is sort of part of Jela's physical form and once it was in Lo it dissolved into him.

7. Why was part of the crown broken?

Long ass story but it had to do with what Jelani did in his previous life. Concept of Existence broke it and embedded into the right side of his face.

8. Was Jelani allowed to do that?

Yeah.

But no but then again who cares? He doesn't. Thing is Makers are supposed to make sure existence continues and resurrection of a mortal is frowned upon. Why? If Jelani did it with one person then maybe another Maker will do it with another. Maybe a third Maker does it with several other people and before you know it shit's gone completely out of balance because then no one will die.

Also to other Makers attachment is fucking weird and the fact that Jelani gave part of himself to Loke is weird as fuck so when a Maker learns of what he did they're seriously weirded out.

9. Why did Jela bring back Lo but not Haakon?

Jelani can't just bring back people unless he switches to his other form or until he gets his memory unlocked. Even then he did it once and he can't risk doing it again. Would he do it again though? Yeah, he doesn't care.

Also Loke is Loke.

10. Why did he switch into his other form?

Being able to switch to his other form before he unlocks his memories is involuntary. It's sort of a last line of defense thing put in place to protect him. What activates it? Fear but off the charts levels of fear and anxiety. Like almost to the levels of a heart attack.

So yeah, 10-year-old Jelani seeing his older brother covered in his own blood telling him to leave him behind, run and not look back no matter what he hears freaked him the fuck out thus it counted as an emergency.

11. So what happened after they got back home?

Loke sat down with Haakon and asked him about the frozen feather and after a while of both kind of testing each other to see what the other knew Loke told him a little. He didn't say he had died as that would freak Haakon out, he just said he had been injured. Both kept what they knew to themselves to protect Jelani though Haakon always knew Jelani was something else, something otherworldly but he didn't care, he still loved him all the same and was always so proud of him. Throughout his life Haakon saw little clues and each one brought him lots of joy.

12. Why couldn't Jelani remember switching forms, fighting off the slayers and resurrecting Loke?

'Cause his memories weren't unlocked yet and he only switched to that form as an emergency.

Oracle Number Stations:

Messages are transmitted through existing stations. However, Oracle uses magic to transmit messages at the same time the original message is being played. It works by playing the message through another plane of existence (using the Pauli exclusion principle to justify this) and a translater is needed to translate the sounds that ONLY werewolves can hear.

Oracle number stations are referred to as "k9 clickers", some have taken to calling it "k9 radio" and they relay agent positions, enemy movements, information acquired at the last minute, safe house locations, abnormal occurrences, portal activity, deity anomalies, and so on.

The messages are played alongside a strange cacophany of static noises that are set in place as a type of security measurement. Anyone that is not meant to hear the message will fall victim to arcane attacks that target the mind. Symptoms include distortion, visual and auditory hallucinations, flashing lights and finally the victim blacks out for a period between 24 to 28 hours with no memory of what happened.

The messages are coded using a language that was discovered in a book belonging to an explorer back in the mid 300s CE. Supposedly the explorer had gained entry to the fabled land of Kironia (a land supposedly under Antarctica and reaching as far as Point Nemo) and the runes and language is Kironian. After 800 years the language was translated and Oracle was given the book and the translations as Scholars thought it was too dangerous to have it made public (most likely misplaced paranoia). Since the rise of radio communications Oracle has used the runes and language as a way to spread information among themselves.

Saw a post and was instantly inspired to do the same.

Little Oracle details:

>> Nyota People:

The Nyota are a unique group of berserkers initially made up of different ethnicities, which include but are not limited to Kikuyu, Maasai, Turkana, Somali, and Bantu people. There are also people of present day Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania that inhabit the Kakamega forest in Kenya. They’ve made their home in front of and inside a massive cave system unlike any found in all of Africa, though in truth only a portion of the population lives in that area as their real home is actually in what they call Star Rift (categorized by Oracle as EXO-R 6102)  which is only accessible through a stable portal that is highly guarded by the Nyota themselves. The Nyota speak the official languages of Kenya, Swahili and English.

Made some changes to some details that made a giant plot hole and so changes to the realm's name. Everything should be fine now.

I don't think I've ever spoken of this and I'm bored but don't know what to do to keep myself busy so I'm just gonna talk to myself.

Werewolf transformations!

(Which by the by, my werewolves are quad not bipedal. I don't like or care for the bipedal forms. Think of them as massive four legged canine things that resemble wolves but when you look at them they don't look right and looking at them and making eye contact with them sets off every alarm at the same time.)

In Oracle werewolves are cursed beings that have to hunt down humans and consume them, specifically their hearts, to keep their life essence intact. They'll consume flesh, bone, bone marrow and even blood but what they're really after is the heart, everything else is just some type of bonus.

Werewolf transformations are brutal and extremely painful. So painful that some werewolves black out during the transformation and regain consciousness as soon as it's over. They'll remain in pain for a few minutes and even while in pain they'll take off in search of prey.

The body is essentially destroying and repairing itself in the span of a few seconds, bones are breaking, skin is stretching beyond the limit and being torn off, fur is growing, fangs are forming (a far more intense form of teething) and on top of that the werewolf is bleeding. At the same time that all of that is happening bones are stretching and mending, skin is repairing itself, the heart and circulatory system is working overtime to replace the lost blood. Blood pressure is fluctuating at abnormal speeds and the werewolf's internal temperature can reach about 118 to 120 degrees due to the events and the rapid healing the body is going through in a matter of seconds which also means the body is also working on making sure the brain doesn't boil itself.

Transformations start as soon as the full moon starts rising and it lasts about 4 minutes. They turn back into their "human" form as soon as the sun starts rising and it's the same damn thing for the exact duration.

There is somewhat of a difference between a bitten werewolf and a werewolf that was born a werewolf.

Once a human has been bitten they're cursed to become a werewolf, the breed depends on the breed of the werewolf that bit the person (ie if a Howling Ghost bit a human then that human will become a Howling Ghost).

It's not a fun time though. You'll feel incredibly weak, you'll have a fever, body aches, you'll dehydrate, won't be able to keep anything you eat down and you'll mostly be bed ridden. On top of feeling all of that you'll get to experience your very first transformation while still feeling all of what comes with a transformation. You'll spend the first year in extreme agony as your body acclimates to the transformation and even after that year it'll be torment, it's just gonna be about 5% less intense.

Basically you'll feel like you wanna die if you don't pass out during the transformation.

Born werewolves's bodies are already acclimated to the transformation so they have that 5% from day one but it's just as agonizing.

All werewolves cry out in pain, some scream, some yell, most cry. It's agonizing and so much worse when you realize that not only can you see your skin stretch to the point of breaking or seeing your bones break under the skin, you'll actually hear it all.

In a more "biological" sense the werewolf's curse is actually a mutated form of rabies that only affect humans and is found in the saliva of the werewolf. There's a reason that I put the " " on the word biological, while yeah, it's actually a form of a disease it's far too steeped in the arcane to just dismiss it completely scientifically. There's a sort of ritual about it. Werewolves can only infect humans during full moons because that's when the bacteria activates and it's through a bite, a bite strong enough to break skin therefore causing the werewolf's saliva to mix with the human's blood infecting them and creating yet another werewolf.

And no, there is no cure. Once bitten there's no way to reverse it. No, it won't turn you into some sort of sex machine where everyone will be far too enamored and horny for you that they throw themselves at you. No, you won't suddenly turn hot. No, you won't lose that extra weight, your skin won't clear, your bald spot won't go away. No, you won't turn younger. Yes, life threatening diseases will go away. The body will try and repair itself though limbs lost before being bitten will not just magically grow back. You will get physically stronger and your senses will be 1,000 times better than they were before.

While a transformed werewolf is a powerhouse transforming as a way to defend themselves is downright stupid for all the reasons I mentioned above so they come equipped with ways to defend themselves in the form of physical strength, speed, boosted senses, they can grow out their teeth into their canine form, their claws too and yes, it hurts but not to the point of transforming. Come on, the teeth are basically growing and the nails are being pushed out of the fingers as the claws elongate, it's gonna hurt some. On top of that werewolves can manipulate their eyes to shine/glow which really helps to deter any would-be attacker and to add to that they very much can emit snarls and growls as well as howls that sound like a distorted version of a wolf's.

>> Nyota People:

The Nyota are a unique group of berserkers initially made up of different ethnicities, which include but are not limited to Kikuyu, Maasai, Turkana, Somali, and Bantu people. There are also people of present day Democratic Republic of Congo, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania that inhabit the Kakamega forest in Kenya. They’ve made their home in front of and inside a massive cave system unlike any found in all of Africa, though in truth only a portion of the population lives in that area as their real home is actually in what they call Star Rift (categorized by Oracle as EXO-R 6102)  which is only accessible through a stable portal that is highly guarded by the Nyota themselves. The Nyota speak the official languages of Kenya, Swahili and English.

Made some changes to some details that made a giant plot hole and so changes to the realm's name. Everything should be fine now.

slut hours

I missed drawing them so picked up an old wip, fixed it and sketched Jela. Yeah, right hand is a lil weird but didn’t feel like resizing it. I also adjusted some of the colors for them. Added more piercings, some others in other places.

They have three very specific scars from three separate injuries.

Oracle Uthorim is a bit more wild than his other counterparts. He is this ethereal godlike being who kept very much to himself. He has seen the way humanity deals with the unknown, the scary, the supernatural. He kept a small shop in a small town in Maine. Which is where he was captured in the first place. The day went on quietly as he tended to his customers, a cup of tea here, a small herbal remedy there. It was when a Stanger walked through his doors that his world flipped upside down. A man in plain winter clothing who asked one to many questions. Now Uthorim knew these government types most of them arnt as clever or covert as they'd like to think. In his mind he avoided suspicion. The front of his store becoming a fireball as he cleaned up showed how wrong he was. The element of surprise was the only way they could take Uthorim, although their losses were heavy.