Tserinthhalo

**Tserinthhalo** or **The Smiling God** was a powerful psychic that ruled Chazdel in the 1st Century BY

He was one of the culmination of the Long Game, a strategy employed by the Mutant Teachings to covertly undermine the power of the Living Gods. For over a century, the valley was almost void of psychic activity, in an attempt to relax the All Seeing Eye to the point it could be untangled from hegemonic control. The suited agent of entanglement was also prepeared, but du to the low-information nature of psychic prophecies, the nature of Tserinthhalo's unique psycho-geometry was unknown to the teachings.

Although dissociation between intention and action was a well-established practice to circumvent the Eye, they usually employed some kind of psychic technique to do so. Tserinthhalo however was, in a way that was not previously thought possible, capable of acting without intention in a completely self-contained manner. This created a perplexing tendency to both incorporate the personality of those close to him, but also to preserve them on the long term. So while Tserinthalo would change many times over his long life, even within the same body, he would consciously maintain a set arrow on a long curve.

Tserinthalo was born in 153 BY to lesser Naxér nobility in Chadelith province. He would grow up to be an obidient and competent steward to the kings of Chazdel. He was remembered as incredibly orderly and polite. His psychic powers awakened when he came into contant with Luthrywam, the blue vampire. At this point he was seen as an eternally useful oracle, too obidient to pose a danger. They did not know that was one of the early imprintings in him, that did not constrain him on the long term, once someone established a greater hold on him.

He entered a partnership with an ambitious half-Cholan Oreythem leading the development of Chazdel's new goldmines. The ruling Chazdelite dinasty realised the danger too late, and most of the court quietly assisted in their coup in 117 BY. He married princess Belyue Uyou and fathered three children, but only one, Liyvivet the Jester developed psychic tendencies on account of being raised by Luthrywam. Luthrywam also gave birth to Emmurmyem, the mother of flies, who might be realted to Tserinthhalo, but definately recieved psychic talents from him.

Tserinthalo started showing his real powers from about 105, bestowed by ambition and awakening to the drive to overturn the Living Gods, he made a stand as the ruler of Chazdel. He usually appeared in an unphased, confident, irreverent mood, earning the moniker The Smiling God, equally denoting a magnetic and terrifying persona.

In 91 BY, the Mutant Teachings sent an envoy to Chadel to observe Tserinthhalo, as his psycho-geometry was puzziling for them, and thus an issue as to how they fit into their plan. It was clear that after a long period of waiting, now many contingencies must spring into action. Perhaps this vibe got the split in attitudes. They saw that the Teachigs got too trigger happy to squash any psychic pheonomena that didn't do magra *their* way. So was the case with Tserinthhalo - from there on, he was classified as a rouge agent.

In an act of spite, in 88BY, the Teachings would cash in all their other long-term processes to initiate a single psychic storm of madness and suffering known as the Balbarüm. It worked splendidly, showing that the Living Gods lost a firm hand over the All Seeing Eye, which soon vanished from people's mind's back. The valley was plunged into chaos, ready for a new psychic revolution.

Now Tserinthhalo embarked on a crusade against both the living gods and the teachings. Two spears where thrown, each to shatter the collective psychospace, crystalizing individuals from centuries of interdive. He hunted down every trace of the livign gods, one by one, with fanatical precision until their last trace was gone and assimilated. This act made him the undisputed master of the Valley. Chadel was once again, a great dinastic city.

While all this took place, Oreythem took charge of the empire's administrative matters. Under their rule, Chazdel's new gold mines brought great wealth to the suvereign's fortress, and in turn, he used this wealth to create the first bank.

By 70BY the Drán invasion reached the valley. The Mutant teachings were shattered into crystalized factions, some defecting to serve Tserinthhalo. This new psychic revolution was not a flowering of many schools - Tserinthalo shattered any framework that dares to threaten him - psychic frameworks now all flowed from him. Like to Oreythem, who inhabits a new body from here, or 7 drán horsemen serving Chazdel known as the Huntresses, as the main patrols and executioners of the lone splintering's of the Teachings.

This era of pacificated chaos took place in an era of general crisis, when no power could even react to Tseinthalo's rise. Yelona and Xerxus was both finding major civil wars, and the Aldéns were tied down by the intial Andron invasion. He very well could have conquered the world - but the whispering currents eventually got into his mind. Another humanisation of the magra-space would be bad, they agreed. The revolution must be wrapped up. A series of high psychis, rouge splinters from MT, worked with Tseritnthalo to create the veil, to hopefully ensure that plebians don't ever start a psychic movement.

Oreythem didn't realsie until too late the extent Tserithhalo became committed to this. But he did endorse another project, one that would change the face of magra forever. Oreythem concluded that psychic powers inevitably lead to ego death, and thus, uncontrollable madness. Instead, he would create the model of controled, specialised telepaths, and alongside them, Analytical Telepathy, a system that Chazdel III inherited and perpetuated wthout the interference of a high psychic.

But in 36 BY Tseritnthalo dsappears to live out a great but mortal life as his Yelonese alterego, he sees the island of Yelona burn, he fights against the Xeronist, until he retires into a plantation to grow fat, rich, and content. Oreythem, in his third body now, tries to use the new system of telepaths to perpetuate his reign, but he is assasinated. From now, Chazdel III begins proper operation