Matithitis

The Ashbringer, the darkest and most sinister of all Ax Mystia's spawn.

Matithitis is an Íshnubar of Pyropheastus, created by the Erraté Ax Mystia, and rules over the aspects of politics and meteors. Matithitis is a member of The Emperors of Flame, the strict coalition of gods that rule within the courts of Ax Mystia. Third among the Emperors, Matithitis represents all that is cold and dark within Ax Mystia. The Ashbringer is a cunning and ruthless leader, who covets knowledge above all else, for he believes in knowledge lies true power. Despite his sinister nature and approach to rule, he does have a positive relationship with Kyvernos and holds respect for Gergonos, the two emperors who sit above him in the hierarchy of the emperors.

## Description

The Ashbringer is a cunning, ruthless, cruel and genius being that sits amongst the highest echelons of Pyropheastus. He is a covetous seeker of knowledge, and represents unyielding ambition and perpetual forward movement. Often idolized by wizards and other academic industries, Matithitis perpetuates mortal learning in order to siphon the knowledge gained, increasing his vast library of sacred texts. His ultimate aspiration is to hold all knowledge that exists within the Realmsphere, and he will do anything to achieve it.

Despite his potentially cutthroat nature, Matithitis does have alliances. He is closes allies with Kyvernos, and regularly relies on his fellow emperor to gain further knowledge. He is also close comrades with Gergonos, and will invite the Charred Prince into his personal Domain Ashurbani to convene and discuss their antithetical approaches to divinity.

Matithitis is not fond of the politics that occur in the Outer Realms, but happily engages in warfare between realms when the opportunity to steal their knowledge and history arises.

## Origin

Like all of the Emperors of Flame, Matithitis was once a Primordial, born from the mortal world of Terra Aletheia. Matithitis was born a pariah, the child of outcasts and criminals who were exiled from their nation. Forced to live in the wild, cut off from society, the infant Matithitis grew quickly. A precocious boy, he soaked up all the knowledge he was exposed to, learning everything his parents could teach in a short amount of time. When they proved too frail and uneducated to further his education, he left them, and continued his tutelage in nature.

The boy spent years wandering the world, discovering things no Primordial had ever seen before. Each experience was meticulously chronicled in the boys mind, and he grew an insatiable hunger for learning that the natural world soon could not sate. He journeyed to the closest city, and found the limitless possibility within its walls enticing. For the next few years Matithitis hungrily devoured all the knowledge he could find, which at last led him to the secret location of a Realmgate.

The Realmgate smoldered like an inferno, and something within Matithitis knew he would not survive crossing its threshold, but he had to know what was on the other side. Unflinching, he crossed into another realm, and burned. Amidst blistering pain, he saw the kaleidoscopic flames of Pyropheastus, and felt the presence of Ax Mystia curiously watching this interloper who had entered his realm without consent. Sensing within him a hunger that burned in a fashion similar to his own, Ax Mystia elevated this being into one of his Emperors of Flame.