The goddess Amascut, who was the aspect of life which caused death, became broken, became The Devourer, The Wanderer, Goddess of Destruction.
I have found two sources that split Icthlarin and Amascut's responsibility over the cycle of rebirth in different ways
You seem to have one of them. Icthlarin being responsible for the aspects of death which encourage new life/Amascut being responsible for the aspects of life which necessitate death. The other I found was Icthlarin being in charge of the rebirth of the soul/Amascut being in charge of the rebirth of the body. The same sources state something about Amascut having a Devourer/Wyrm form (or a worm form, particularly a soul-sucking type worm/wyrm [sea slug/mind slug? Oh gods, Mother Mallum?]) or some dubious claims that she commanded wyrms in opposition to her brother's mahjarrat army. Also in those sources are claims that Zaros betrayed The Devourer before she became The Devourer. Claims that she turned the mahjarrat into cats are also in there, and that makes the source very dubious. The Mahjarrat still walk about and they are not confined to cat forms. It could be that she decimated the Mahjarrat population in this act. There are very few active Mahjarrat still around.
I don't know, could be an interesting plot direction. After all, how were her human followers able to pull off a trick like binding her to the world of the living and putting a curse on her? Insane as she might have been, she was still a goddess.
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Date: 2010-03-06 06:48 am (UTC)I have found two sources that split Icthlarin and Amascut's responsibility over the cycle of rebirth in different ways
You seem to have one of them. Icthlarin being responsible for the aspects of death which encourage new life/Amascut being responsible for the aspects of life which necessitate death. The other I found was Icthlarin being in charge of the rebirth of the soul/Amascut being in charge of the rebirth of the body. The same sources state something about Amascut having a Devourer/Wyrm form (or a worm form, particularly a soul-sucking type worm/wyrm [sea slug/mind slug? Oh gods, Mother Mallum?]) or some dubious claims that she commanded wyrms in opposition to her brother's mahjarrat army. Also in those sources are claims that Zaros betrayed The Devourer before she became The Devourer. Claims that she turned the mahjarrat into cats are also in there, and that makes the source very dubious. The Mahjarrat still walk about and they are not confined to cat forms. It could be that she decimated the Mahjarrat population in this act. There are very few active Mahjarrat still around.
I don't know, could be an interesting plot direction. After all, how were her human followers able to pull off a trick like binding her to the world of the living and putting a curse on her? Insane as she might have been, she was still a goddess.