Equis

## Powers

Equis is a progenitor god of balance, and has a great deal of powers that rely on removing imbalances. Equis can protect armies and raise their dead, fill granaries with crops created from nothing, mint coin for the poor, and so on, theoretically eliminating inequity. These all take time and effort, however, and as a result Equis’ solution to inequity is simply to take from those who have. Destroying or disappearing food stores, coin coffer contents, and entire warring armies, are all far easier for Equis and still accomplish the same purpose of balance. In general, Equis’ power set is broad and quite powerful.

## Personality/Appearance

Though Equis originally appeared as a single figure, his modern incarnation takes the appearance of two people working in harmony together, representing both cooperation between opposite viewpoints and the reconnection of Equis’ own two halves.

Equis’ primary goal is to achieve balance in the most efficient way possible, and they view this purpose and any actions they take toward that end as inherently good and just. Though Equis is not wholly without logic, once his mind is set to a task he cannot be convinced to change course. When Equis was last seen, he appeared to exhibit violent and potentially irrational tendencies, seeking to bring a metaphor for the duel between positive and negative to life by literally cutting off peoples’ heads and legs.

## Relations

Equis has a strong resentment of Polaris, who imprisoned him in a Binturian ruin millennia ago.

## History

### Origin

Equis’ origin is not known. Presumably some culture’s worship in him led to his incarnation, but the specific details have been lost to history.

Equis roamed Orelisle, seeking to fulfill his mission of bringing balance. His original approach to any conflict he came upon was to offset any imbalance present at its root, such as providing more food to a starving slum of a city or bringing those in power to see the unjust ruling of their people. However, as the imbalances amongst the continent grew, he was forced to find more efficient and radical ways to quell the imbalances. Villages suffering from famine would see their granaries and farms empty. Cities with the poor would find no gold in their vaults. Any battle between two nations that Equis happened upon would have no survivors. Instead of fixing the problem at the source, he eliminated any surface imbalance he could find as swiftly as possible.

### Imprisonment (?,??? A.B.)

Polaris took note of the rampant fear amongst the mortals and decided to seal Equis away in hopes that his power would no longer be used to force the rule of perfect balance on Orelisle. He sealed Equis away in the Binturian Forest and cleaved his form in two. One form (Luce) saw that the only way to bring about balance was to empower others until they were all equal, representing Equis’ original manner of righting imbalances. The other form (Caligus) believed that the only way to bring balance was to empower oneself and exact punishment until everyone was equally low, representing Equis’ abhorrently efficient imbalance solutions. The forms could be brought back together, but Luce and Caligus were so far removed from each other that only external influence could achieve such a feat. The power from the split burst through the halls of Equis’ chambers, building and sustaining trials so only those who are strong enough to handle Luce and Caligus’s power end up facing them at the ruin’s lowest level. Additionally, a forge and its materials on the grounds where Equis was split became imbued with the powers held within him, letting who had the means to awaken their latent potential wield a portion of it for themselves.

### Release (10,019 A.B.)

Equis’ halves were accidentally reunited and released by the Binturian Party in an attempt to escape the same trap that contained him.

### Current Residence

Equis is still somewhere on the Material Plane.

## Further Information

* Axe of Doom
* Binturia
* The Binturian Party
* Incarnation
* Polaris