Thrice-Cursed

Thrice-Cursed. Chosen of Gaia. Cursed of body, cursed of mind, cursed of soul. A being forever bound to the whims of Mother Earth, chained even past the sweet release of death. One whose self is but a tortured state when not a puppet. A monster born of man.

It's a condition with a whole host of symptoms: Inability to manifest willpower; inability to connect to or enter other realms; a glaring physical deformity of a magical nature; mental instability usually expressed in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and/or the inability to think clearly and rationally; sterility; and physical and mental compulsions.

The condition first appeared 600 years ago.

## Known Thrice-Cursed

Mia Doeve

Glover (Kroll Academy)

## A Brief History

So, way back in Charley's day, there were a bunch of High Medieval Omnicidal Eco-terrorist Cult fighting in Gaia's name to cleanse the Earth of all life.

They got defeated, obviously, by Charley himself in what would culminate in him fucking/raping Gaia (depends on your interpretation of the events how consensual it was).

Anyway, remnants of the cult persisted as omnicidal cults are wont to do, and a couple decades later, they figured out a way to make Warriors of Gaia, natural born humans that were "hollow" on the inside, so Gaia could stick her tendrils in and puppet them around as she wished. They also tended to mutate, not unlike very unstable Aeromancy. They would be born to arbitrary individuals, and the cult could control them to some degree.

These "Warriors of Gaia" later became known as "Thrice-Cursed" by a rather poetically inclined enemy of theirs. They are "Cursed in Body" (referring to the almost universally ugly mutations), "Cursed in Mind" (referring to the general tendency to insanity, owing to an unchecked direct connection to Gaia), and "Cursed in Soul" (referring to Gaia's ability to meat puppet them around as she wills, and a bit of wonkiness with how they interact with the afterlife since Gaia still can "hold onto them" after death.

Well, the universal remote (more of a ritual than a device), was taken from the cult remnants after they were defeated once again, and ended up in the hands of the original, secretly corrupt Hydromancy Division, which in turn, allowed Phobos II to gain access to it.

Phobos II used the Thrice-Cursed in his reign of terror, improving on the general ritual design and greatly increasing their effectiveness and his ability to perfectly mind control them.

When Phobos II was defeated (in an event that brought down the original Hydromancy Division for their secretly siding with him), the universal remote was destroyed, but not before ensuring that all Thrice-Cursed would be completely infertile and lowering their spawn rate.

Effectively, they turned off the faucet, and welded it in place that way, but it still drips, which nobody can stop.

So, nowadays, Thrice-Cursed are still a thing, popping up sometimes when a person would be born, but they are extremely rare, especially compared to Phobos II's time.

And that's a brief history of Thrice-Cursed.

## References

1. ↑ https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/polyhistor-academy-original-setting-survival-quest.614/page-86#post-119460
2. ↑ https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/polyhistor-academy-original-setting-survival-quest.614/page-219#post-383340
3. ↑ https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/kroll-academy-vn-preview.5591/page-6#post-1244030