Resting Room Location: While Akua fell asleep in her home, her Walin-Falme panicked when she did so, and retrieved her retainer Astou to help. Astou helped move Akua to the foyer of her home, where she rests to be publically viewed by the populace, wreathed in warm sunlight that keeps the viewing room
Description: When the Uplifting happened, Akua's home ended up on the island of Heliopolis only by chance, so her home is truly within the center of power upon Meridian's island, and draws the powerful and elite to her home. Though Akua's involvement in The Weapon is well-known, because of her connection via her retainer, Akua's visitors began for another purpose, but like many, they became corrupted over time. Venerated as the patron of those whom need guidance, many of Heliopolis's powerful used to pray in her resting room, and bring gifts of dresses, baubles, trinkets, and other such treats. However, the accompaniment by Akua's Walin-Falme and incarnate both certainly color the type of nobles that frequent her room.
It is time that it takes, but Akua's sun-soaked foyer is not so much a place of guidance, but instead a place of ritual and divination. Blood sacrifice is not uncommon, and while it started out...smaller, it comes to pass that they indulge frequently in human sacrifice as well. The cult-like adulation begins to drift into depravity and it is not an uncommon site for a variety of deprave rituals looking for guidance or paths to either the future or for actions. The richly decorated space features Akua on a throne of rich construction, with a pillow that holds her head up high, so it looks like she is indulging in the ritual, and enjoying it, rather than an inactive sleeper nearby. Her hair continues to grow, of course, but her keepers have taken to keeping it neat and braided, though the complicated knots and braids have eventually been tailored and adorned to it looks like devilish horns spread from within her dark curls.
Purpose: While she had once been seen as a lucky charm, the highborn of Heliopolis certainly has taken things too far, and there is a rather strong Cult of Calamity that has cropped up amongst those that follow her. They believe that the events that led to the destruction of worlds was Divine Retribution for their weakness and that there is a path through sacrifice and cutthroat dedication that will reveal the path toward reviving worlds, and they have begun to fashion themselves after what records they can find of Akua's actions, meaning that there is a rather strong contingent of... what can only be called "evil" actors within the Heliopolis government. (Like all government workers amirite?) They hope to spread their word to the varied worlds that Meridian saves and become Villains themselves in the new worlds to come.
Caretaker(s): It is Akua's Walin-Falme, a square little devil that looks like a monkeybat who maintains her day-to-day. The descendants of her retainer's family have continued to maintain Calamity's resting room, and see it as quite the honor. As they have always been among the high-class of Highstorm, and the political elite, they use it as an honor to remind others of their commitment and devotion to seeing Meridian's cause through.
Akua Sahelian | Meridian
Description: When the Uplifting happened, Akua's home ended up on the island of Heliopolis only by chance, so her home is truly within the center of power upon Meridian's island, and draws the powerful and elite to her home. Though Akua's involvement in The Weapon is well-known, because of her connection via her retainer, Akua's visitors began for another purpose, but like many, they became corrupted over time. Venerated as the patron of those whom need guidance, many of Heliopolis's powerful used to pray in her resting room, and bring gifts of dresses, baubles, trinkets, and other such treats. However, the accompaniment by Akua's Walin-Falme and incarnate both certainly color the type of nobles that frequent her room.
It is time that it takes, but Akua's sun-soaked foyer is not so much a place of guidance, but instead a place of ritual and divination. Blood sacrifice is not uncommon, and while it started out...smaller, it comes to pass that they indulge frequently in human sacrifice as well. The cult-like adulation begins to drift into depravity and it is not an uncommon site for a variety of deprave rituals looking for guidance or paths to either the future or for actions. The richly decorated space features Akua on a throne of rich construction, with a pillow that holds her head up high, so it looks like she is indulging in the ritual, and enjoying it, rather than an inactive sleeper nearby. Her hair continues to grow, of course, but her keepers have taken to keeping it neat and braided, though the complicated knots and braids have eventually been tailored and adorned to it looks like devilish horns spread from within her dark curls.
Purpose: While she had once been seen as a lucky charm, the highborn of Heliopolis certainly has taken things too far, and there is a rather strong Cult of Calamity that has cropped up amongst those that follow her. They believe that the events that led to the destruction of worlds was Divine Retribution for their weakness and that there is a path through sacrifice and cutthroat dedication that will reveal the path toward reviving worlds, and they have begun to fashion themselves after what records they can find of Akua's actions, meaning that there is a rather strong contingent of... what can only be called "evil" actors within the Heliopolis government. (Like all government workers amirite?) They hope to spread their word to the varied worlds that Meridian saves and become Villains themselves in the new worlds to come.
Caretaker(s): It is Akua's Walin-Falme, a square little devil that looks like a monkeybat who maintains her day-to-day. The descendants of her retainer's family have continued to maintain Calamity's resting room, and see it as quite the honor. As they have always been among the high-class of Highstorm, and the political elite, they use it as an honor to remind others of their commitment and devotion to seeing Meridian's cause through.