Revanta

A mighty hero to the Vadaya, a would-be conqueror to Romagon and the rest of the Prime. The Sky-King Revanta was once a mortal adventurer in the Age of Gods, performing many great Good deeds across the Altarian Continent, his chief enemy being the Dragon-Tyrant Ferinox. After the Betrayal, he fought along with a number of other heroes of both of Romagon's peoples to drive the Orcish Hordes from the island. For his victory, the Vadayan people crowned him King, but his ambition was unsatisfied. Seeing that the world had two fewer Elder Gods, Revanta believed there was a power vacuum he could fill. He would sweep across the Prime, creating a great Celestial Empire and driving the Orcs and Fiends from the plane entirely, and use the power that granted him to become a new deity. To this end, he assembled a set of artifacts: the Sky-King's Regalia, the literal crowning jewel of which was the Symarmanta, a wish-granting pearl formed from the binding of the kami Nyoruhoju. When the Romagoni heroes he had fought alongside discovered his plan and, what they viewed as the blasphemy of imprisoning Nyoruhoju, they formed a coalition to defeat the would-be Emperor. However, they could not truly vanquish him, for though they had enlisted the mortal Chiyori to steal the Symarmanta from him, he had already used its power to become immortal. Having no other option, the heroes turned the captive Sky-King over to the designs of Ferinox himself, who imprisoned his rival in the volcanic depths of the Ashen Throne, where he presumably suffers to this day. Revanta's actions led to a widespread rejection of Vadayan culture, which would eventually be all but subsumed by larger Romagoni culture. Those who defeated the Sky-King would go on to become the original Sages of the Sublime Mind. Despite Revanta's apparent greed, many surviving cultural Vadaya maintain that his rule and apotheosis would have been best for the Prime, especially in light of the Cataclysm and Imperial conquest of Romagon.
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