Amsu

## Rituals Of Amsu's Followers

### Devoting yourself to Amsu.

According to the Story of a Crystal Gladiator, For A Mortal to follow the god of Amsu he must prove himself by completing in the Crystal Cave Challenge. He will fight multiple mobs to get to the bottom of the cave and if he reaches the bottom and rings the bell he will be initiated. How this plays out in game is 3 people with no Armor and stone swords must stop him from reaching the bottom of the cave, If he makes it then he wins. He bring anything he wishes that will not alter the structure of the cave to win.

### War Time Devotion

Before a war begins, The Followers of Amsu will blow Ritual Horns to alert the god that a fight will commence. This act is typically followed by a reading of part of the scriptures. When the battle commences, the Use of multiple weapons throughout the battle is seen as "Acting in Accordance to Amsu". The Usage of traps isn't considered bad however Amsu is not impressed if it is used.

### Peace Time Devotion

There is multiple forms of ways of showing worship and devotion to the god of Chaos and War. These are the following methods that the gods have shown favor towards are....

### Fighting In The Gladiator Games

Those who fight in the Gladiator games for Amsu are considered some of the best fighters who follower Amsu, They do not just fight for their own honor when they enter the Gladiator Arena but they fight to preserve the Honor of Amsu. While Victory can see you being rewarded, Losing can cost you a lot of Honor within the followers.

### Dueling Others

while not seen as important as the Gladiator games, Amsu does occasionally enjoy watching his followers fight. Those who duels are typically expected to get small payments from the government for victories

## History

### The Origins Of Amsu

Amsu was one of the two twin brothers who are the gods of war. Amsu was born as a sandstone cyclops that could shrink, multiply, or even remove his eye. Ever since Amsu and his brother Ana were born, they have constantly attempted to one-up or be better than the other. Their parents knew Amsu would be the god of chaos when the first-ever physical battle between him and Ana occurred. Amsu would never use the same fighting style and would employ abnormal fighting techniques. He would turn his sandstone form into a shadowy, unhittable dust, go into the ground, and pop up as a sandstone silverfish before transforming himself into a golem to punch. At the end of that fight, they left a village in ruins, and Amsu would reign victorious.

### **The Proto Mycosis Era**

#### How he helped build the caves of old mycellium

As it is said in the uncovered scriptures of the Proto Mycosis Period. During the creation of Old mycellium if the fists of the Gods of war collided the force of such a impact would cause so much hit that the sandstone fists of Amsu would literally melt from the heat of the pressure and drip lava throughout the cavern and caves. Tii would manipulate this and make semi endlessly dripping lava from its ceilings.

> "the brothers of war would fight, When their fists collided with each other, the force would drip lava. Tii would manipulate this lava to forever drip from the caves and caverns ceiling to light the caves" - Scriptures of the Proto Mycosis
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### **The Mycelithos Era**

#### The Clashes Continue in Old Mycellium and creation of the first Mycellium Fight Arena

During the Proto Mycosis period they would never have a known philosophy of how to fight and would fight for the sake of fighting. The God Methusuphis(God of Festivity and Drinking) and Mit-aten(Gambling and Currency) would find these fights to be amusing and Methusuphis would make a arena in the caverns so the gods could watch the two war gods fight it out while supplying Arak to the other gods while they watched.

### Start of the Gladiator games

As the rivalry between the gods of war continues, it starts to damage the arena and the cavern system. Eventually it causes a particle collapse of the cavern. Silsi and set-ap would come together with the two gods of war in an attempt to stop each other from fighting directly. The two gods then hatched the idea of “The Gladiator games”. The gods of war liked violence however neither wanted to lose the ability to fight in this world. So both gods would set up trials and traps to test the men of the surface and cave systems. They would use this as a way to find good fighters they could use to fight for them. The gods would then go to set up their courses across the world.

#### The Creation of the first Crystallites

The followers followers of Amsu came from the start of the Gladiator games. Now that he was forbidden to fight his brother, he had to get followers who would devote themselves typically for selfish reasons. The First followers Of Amsu would be tempted after fighting in Amsu's challengers and the people would ultimately join him. Those who devoted themselves to him would be removed of their humanity willingly for crystalized skin that would give them a advantage in war.

### The Exodus Mycea Period

#### The Gates Of Old Mycellium shall be defended

The fourth pillar collapsed and the gods were in full force at this point. The followers of the God of tactics had held the gates but were slowly being overwhelmed until Amsu lead his followers to reinforce the forces at the gate. After several hours of constant fighting, The Invaders began to flee and Amsu gave the order "Do not let a single one of them live, The vermin has invaded and destroyed our homes and people. For that we will kill them and destroy every town they have ever lived in." The gates of mycellium ran with blood and bodies by end of it with Amsu laughing at the slaughter. This success allowed Citizens to finally begin fleeing the city to the surface.

#### Freeing those enslaved after the collapse of Mycellium

When the people finally all got out of mycellium, their was a exodus across the continent. Alot got enslaved and shipped off to a unknown southern continent that was behind the attack, Those who did not go off to fight, would settle on the southern continent of the land Mycellium was beneath. Amsu had become extremely violent after the fall of mycellium and formed a army out of his followers to save "His People". They went town to town on foreign continents and raged violent and fierce battles with every tribe he took over, his followers would massacre. messages would occasionally come home bragging about the Pillages and massacres to restore Glory and prestige to the fallen. Amsu would also stage slave rebellions with people within some of the major tribes that caused Mycellium to die.

> "The God Of chaos listened to his follower when he cursed to his captures "Our god will see to it that your bloodline feels the punishment for what you did to us until your bloodline ends". The God Of Chaos Agreed" - Tales from the southern continent.
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