So. My father's a King, my mother a Witch and my step-mother a Hero. And no, I didn't get those last two mixed up. It's a long story with much angst but mortal life is just too short. End result: it worked out. Sort of. You know, aside from my eons old soul now being housed in this body. Yeah, this body. Although the Hero still makes me a little nervous. Call it a grudge but she did essentially kill me. Sort of. It's all very meta-philosophical. I think. Anyway, the whole situation would make for a good family anecdote. If it wasn't for all the secrecy. And my daddy issues. And the lack of family. Wars have been waged over less, I'm sure.
Still, it would seem that we Gods do have a sense of humour and I'm the living embodiment of it. You have to laugh. Well, you have to, don't you? Maker knows I try to.
Damn, now I'm even using that bloody upstart's name in my curses. Next thing you'll know, I'll be joining the Chantry and taking my Templar vows. Ha, that'd really upset them. Don't think King, Witch and Hero would be particularly thrilled either.
Maybe I should.
Oh, they've got big plans for me. I know. I'm supposed to herald change. Whatever that means. They're all a bit sketchy on the details. It's coming, that's all I know. Truly insightful, that. Why prophecy must be written in obscure riddles, I do not know. It would seem to me, old God trapped in puny body, that it would be more useful if earthly servants actually knew what they were talking about. Why the mystery? Why the suspense? Smacks to me that someone has messed up. And that's never reassuring in a God. I should know. I'm the one heralding the big change.
I say screw them. I have other things to worry about. I often wonder if every small decision I make actually changes the world. I like to think so. Makes me feel more important. Besides it can't be healthy for an old God with infinitesimal power to feel insignificant. I hear we can get a complex about things like that.
Explains the Chantry, anyway.
Big on the preordained, the Chantry is. Destiny and fate shaping the paths of every life. Interesting considering that no one seems to know what my destiny and fate is. Yet they're all convinced that I've definitely got one. That's just as screwed up. You can't wander through life, get something right and then chalk it up to fate. At best, it's coincidence.
But coincidence or not, the Hero's missing, King's upset and Witch has some unresolved issue with them both. Always reassuring when your own mother is suspicious that you have something to do with the abduction of her oldest friend. Not that I had anything to do with it. Not directly, anyway.
Still, one thing's for sure: I really am going to change the world. Whether it fits in with their plans or not is an entirely different story.