Katsyi

The Creature

A wounded and shaken Lha Ti by the name of Katsyi.

The Tale

Around the end of the War of Extinction and before the birth of the Amaian race, a wounded and shaken Lha Ti by the name of Katsyi fled everyone, and everything, to Delphi and secluded itself in its madness at the bottom of the Keter Ocean where it relived the horrors of a 1,500 year war in its mind alone. Unfortunately, the young Amaian race encountered Katsyi. Having no interest in this new race, Katsyi lashed out with void kith, ate the brave who got too close, or ignored the Amaians. This tempestuous nature of this god-like being encouraged the young Amaians to worship, or at the very least fear, the Lhai Ti as the god of the sea and named it, in their tongue, K’si. As thousands of years progressed and the Amaian set their gaze on the shores and the stars and began to strive for planetary dominance of Delphi, Katsyi stayed in the depths of the Keter and it’s own personal hell and languished. The name and nature of Katsyi was completely forgotten, and only the memory of K’si remained.

But not all forgot.

A few ambitious Amaian remembered Katsyi and sought to bargain for power before they made a bid for dominance of Delphi. This was a mistake. Most died, but Katsyi finally relented and mind-controlled the rest with overpowering void kith. Katsyi forced the remaining mind controlled Amaian to cull themselves and the survivors were left linked by Katsyi. Thus, the Cabal was born. The mental grasp the troubled Katsyi had over the Cabal was flawed, a result of indifference in the affairs of the Amaian race and the madness it suffered. The link also allowed the Cabal to influence Katsyi to a certain degree, though with varying results. See, Katsyi was twisted and mad, capricious, and violent, in its suffering and isolation. Katsyi often compelled these Cabal to undertake impossible quests simply to be rid of them, which often led to their deaths or, if successful, greater fortune, fame, and influence among the Amaian people. It was through this link that the Cabal gained insight into spaceflight, the art of war which lead to the extermination of the Evux, and mastery of the seas. Is it no surprise the Amaians were among the first in the Younger Era to achieve spaceflight? All that it cost were live Amaian sacrifices…Katsyi needed to eat after all.

The Amaian people already had the Last Inundation as a tradition. A small thing indeed it was for the Cabal of the time to suggest a specific place in the Keter Ocean to be the most significant for their people. The early Cabal found they could pass the link on to their heirs, so the power stays within the dynasty. It is said that Katsyi remains Lost to the Depths of the Keter languishing in solitude when not roaming the seas as a violent force of nature.