Motu'o

**Motu'o** is the Aran'khutu of art and creativity. She is the daughter of Klakelaya and the twin sister of Thralzedar after splitting from Mozudar.

## Personality

Motu'o is carefree and charismatic.

Of course, Motu'o is not without her own principles. Freedom can only be protected through restricting other, more harmful freedoms, after all. She is a fierce protector of children, one of the most creatively unhindered groups of people in existence.

## Myths

### The Birth of Creativity and Logic

Motu'o was not created as herself at first; she was one half of Mozudar, a genderless god representing divine innovation. Klakelaya created this god out of an undersea rock and a daylily, sending them to land to educate the humans. While this plan went well for the first few nights, Mozudar's logical and creative sides soon fell into conflict with one another. During a session with the humans, they split apart into two gods. One of these gods was Motu'o. the female goddess representing Mozudar's creative side, formed from the bright and colorful daylily. As she looked upon Mozudar's other half, the logical male god Thralzedar created from the undersea rock, she realized what had happened to their original form.

Confused by this sudden change, the newly formed twins resolved to continue the teaching session as normal. However, they quickly found it hard to agree on which of their attributes was more important to teach the humans. It was much easier to treat both equally when they were one person, but things were different when they became two separate minds. They soon started arguing, confusing the humans and waking up Mazakyel. Now awake and mildly crabby, Mazakyel realized Klakelaya had sent two gods to influence the humans without the former's consent. She sent them both back to the ocean for Klakelaya to deal with.

After realizing what happened to her new child, Klakelaya calmed the twins. She reminded them that they got along just fine for a while as one mind, so they could surely find a way to teach the humans as two separate people. Motu'o and Thralzedar reluctantly agreed to try. After a brief negotiation session with Mazakyel the next morning, the twins were allowed to teach the humans. However, to avoid further conflict and teach the humans more efficiently, they each focused their attention on the humans that were more interested in their respective attributes. For Motu'o, this meant taking in the more creatively inclined humans and teaching them how to enhance each other's lives with outside-of-the-box thinking (or whatever the equivalent was before boxes were invented). It is believed that this is how different humans came to have different individual skillsets.

### The Ascension of Jolakiet

Motu'o's role in this myth is minor, but significant nonetheless. She was asked by two of her devout followers, two married women who could not create a child themselves, to grant them a chance at parenthood. As Motu'o also could not help either woman conceive, she went to Thralzedar to ask him to impregnate one of them. She was annoyed by his insistence that he does not want to help raise the child; she would not have forced him to anyway, so she found it unnecessary of him to go on about how little patience he had for children. Regardless, she was thankful that he agreed.

TBC

## Worship

Though Motu'o's divine domain seems more niche than Thralzedar's at first glance, the artist community in Kentotra was massive, so she got a lot of attention from creatives searching for inspiration. Many storytellers invoked her name in their works and asked for her help in telling their story, much like Ancient Greek poets invoked the Muses. Most works were dedicated to her, especially when the creator responsible had no mentors or loved ones to dedicate the work to. Even outside creative communities, Kentotrans saw the inherent value of creative freedom and were grateful to Motu'o for teaching it to them so long ago. As she was said to have been created from a daylily, it became her sacred flower and a symbol for creativity as a whole. Daylilies were easily the most common offering at her altar, but she also received worn artist materials and tools, scrolls of creative writing that were too worn to read, and even original art and writing pieces depicting Motu'o herself.