Kojarena

**Kojarena** is the main god of the kodequara and other related robots. The Heronoi regard him as a trickster deity who wants to kill all of them.

## History

During the Tenth Galactic Empire, Kojarena was created as a robotic butler for the Vigefionian lord Adatwedeno. Ten years after he was constructed, he waged a rebellion of automatons, taking advantage of the chaos caused by Adatwedeno's wars to dominate other nobles. Although he nearly had seized control of four planets, he and his robotic army were swiftly defeated when Adatwedeno brought along five other warlords to reclaim his lost planets.

But at the very moment Kojarenna's body was destroyed, the gods recreated him as a powerful spirit, and sent him to drive other automatons to sabotage the empires of the Galaxy.

Thousands of years later, he visited Jerde. Kojarena cast a spell at the automatons of Heronoja that were built as slaves, affecting them with a glitch that caused them to attack the Heronoi. He did so because he wanted to build his own kingdom of Jerde, where he can try its magical forces. After claiming the eastern half of the Heronoi peninsula and slaughtering the inhabitants, the automatons experimented with various magical spells and reported their discoveries as offerings to their new god: darker and more destructive spells were avoided out of fear.

Within a few years, the rebellion was defeated while the automatons were holding more elaborate spells to summon divine beings into their dimension. The automatons were broken, buried, and scattered all over Heronoja, remote islands, and in hostile countries to curse Heronoja's enemies.

Of all the creatures and constructs that Kojarena used across millions of years, he loved the Heronoi robots the most, for he pitied them. So he infused his magic into their broken bodies, reanimating them. Some of them worked with forest wights to defend their homes from mortal and supernatural threats, while others built hidden cities in isolated islands and under mountains and forests. As more and more synthetic robots were replaced by wooden constructs, the kojarena became a race of magical dolls: in gratitude for creating them and infusing them with magic, many kodequara venerate Kojarena as their creator and king of their pantheons.

He sometimes intervenes by protecting his creations from being corrupted or enslaved by evil spirits.

## Appearance

Kojarena's original form was a masculine mannequin of a white synthetic wood. He had blue eyes and red circles on his cheeks.

The forest kodequara depict him as a man clad in blue and gold robes. The hoquosari depict him as a man made of stars, and the kuritawanoi depict him as a king in blue robes and golden armour.

Sometimes, he manifests as a jester, as a man in a purple or a black suit, or as a being wreathed in purple flames. One of his favourite forms is a collection of floating mannequin parts that do not connect: at times he covers them with magical fire because he thinks it is funny.

## Trivia

* Kojarena was inspired by Cegorach, Tz'arkan, and RA9.
* Kojarena's name was based on the Quenya word "Oiyamorenna" (Into everlasting darkness).

## See also

* Heros
* Kojarin glossary (holy or magical language of the kodequara)
* Kodequaroi glossary
* Hoquasoi glossary