Godenzonen - sons of the gods

Godenzonen- sons of the gods (Episode 9)

Dike on his part was exasperated beyond measure. The margins of what he viewed as a defeat had been critically thin. That he did not see through Menkos’ trap in time to warn Pado riled him to no end. He had been too focused on Pado getting into close proximity with Menkos once again, in order to dish out another humiliating round of beating via hand to hand combat between them at close quarters.

Dike now felt humiliated as he had been outwitted by the half-human Menkos, robbing him simultaneously, of his trusted friend and companion. He could have expressed his rage immediately but he thought to himself that it would only make him more an object of mockery amongst Na’ari. He rose from his seat trying to feign a semblance of equanimity but he was burning with intense rage inside of him.

Suddenly,  the earth before the Pavilion moved and a figure rose majestically out of the earth. It was Pado... the real Pado. He had sensed Menkos’ trap would lie above him following the choice of the King’s Alaye to bury him underground during their battle.

Using Ala authority, which no other Alaye could even exercise much less doing so while buried hundred of feet under the earth, Pado had created a believable body double that charged out from under the earth ahead of him, receiving the impact of the blast which also killed Menkos, the King’s Alaye.

Dike’s scream was one of unrestrained joy as he eulogised Pado’s praises by screaming his name in doubles: Pado Pado! Pado Pado! The supreme king was too shocked by the turn of events to utter a word. He simply stood up from his throne and walked away angrily even though his countenance struggled not to betray his true emotions. Yichu couldn’t hide his however, as he slapped his childhood friend lovingly on the cheek with a wide grin on his face, the grin of victory over yet another well-placed bet.

In the audience of ordinary humans present there that day, those who witnessed the epic fight between Pado and Menkos, there was a man that was neither Godenzonen nor was he one of the immortal Na’ari; nonetheless, he was as a god amongst other men. According to the Red book, this man, a black man, was one of the rarest kind of humans existing upon the face of the earth, he was what was designated by the Scribes of Heaven as an exemplar.

Exemplars are unique personas in the story of humanity, deliberately introduced into humanity's story by the Scribes as potent reminders of what great power human beings could have wielded  upon the earth but for their catastrophic fall from Grace. Exemplars are meant to reflect to humanity by their extraordinary powers, the godhood inherent in our being.

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Exemplars have a diverse range of powers they may be imbued with at the pleasure of the Scribes who themselves serve under the authority of the Most High. For this particular exemplar, his power lay in an uncanny ability to read clearly the thoughts of other human beings and to impose, even decisively, his own thoughts upon another's mind.

This exemplar had watched ‘the Pado and Menkos fight’ with an admirable degree of self-control whereby he did not display any emotion throughout the fight neither did he take any sides whatsoever even in the privacy of his mind. His neutrality, though influenced by his genuine indifference to the outcome of the fight, was also indicative of where his priorities lay. He was not concerned at all with the Alayes, his focus was entirely upon Godenzonen.

Viewing these events through the Red book as I was, I could see that the exemplar was the only person in the entire audience who stood to benefit from the fight between Pado and Menkos,  regardless of which Alaye triumphed. I could also see that this exemplar was secretly the true reason why the fight ever occurred in the first place!

When Pado was showing off his prowess in the control of elements using Isi authority, the mistake he made which led to the stampede of sheep was truly not of his own making, it was a forced error subtly imposed on his mind by the exemplar who for the stealth of his powers could disrupt Pado’s thought process even in public without anyone knowing he was responsible for this even amongst Godenzonen.

Pado’s failure to control the sheep once they broke into a stampede was what led to Menkos’ unsolicited intervention, an intervention which in turn infuriated Dike so much that Pado sensing his friend’s rage (Alayes though without emotion themselves can sense the emotions of their creators), turned upon Menkos’ with a violent attack.

In all of this, the exemplar was unmoved by the resultant effect of his secret actions. He had lived a long time upon the earth being almost eight hundred years old and for most of this time he had used his unique powers to cause great confusion in the minds of other humans. It was what he did and he held no qualms whatsoever about doing it, as being able to read the minds of human beings had taught him at least one thing over the years: human thought is evil beyond repair.

There was hardly any manipulation he had carried out in any part of the vastness of Omira that he had been to; any manipulation he had created, however terrible,  that was not bested in its degree of evil by the wicked thoughts that lay resident in the minds of other humans existing around the same situation. Many of whom put up a facade of goodness, pretending to be harmless, yet they were as the darkness of the earth in their hearts. Perverse, rotten, despicable were the thoughts of humanity as the exemplar had found.

The exemplar’s real name was Amaghi which in Adamian the first language of the earth means that: ‘death is no respecter of the powerful’. He had tried to live a life befitting of his unique name by being a terror to the powerful of the earth, magnifying in their minds their greatest fears so that they pushed themselves into making deadly errors or perished trying to avoid them.

For kings and their ilk, he made it his life’s concern to terrorize them even while observing their misery up close usually under the cover of a false identity which no one could decipher as he manipulated all surrounding minds. This misery of kings was Amaghi’s peculiar joy. He did not see himself however as a master of illusion even though illusions were his greatest weapon rather he adjudged himself a master of contexts.

Amaghi as master of context, created diverse contexts- frames of perception, through which he forced his victims’ minds to view the world; taking actions thereby which to their minds mirrored a universal reality whereas all they were being allowed to see was a contextual reality. He created dungeons for the minds of his victims who were mostly kings but he made these dungeons magnificent, so that they believed them to be palaces.

Unlike Godenzonen and the great magicians, he did not have to strive to acquire his own powers, he was born with them. Hence his level of mastery was a touch higher than that of those who acquired their own powers along the course of life. His level of arrogance was also a notch higher than that of the great magicians... at least up until that day when he had the first chance to explore the minds of Godenzonen as they were gathered under the snail-shaped pavilion, heavily distracted by the pyrotechnics of Pado and Menkos’ great battle.

Amaghi was stunned at the dimensions of the minds of Godenzonen. Their possession of Isi-ala authority had opened up their minds to boundless possibilities so that their minds were astonishingly more expansive than the minds of the average human being. It was like comparing the breadth of a small village to that of a massive continent, Godenzonen were incomparable in this regard.

The reality of the challenge before him struck Amaghi  like a heavy blow to his heart. He had lived his life seeing himself as a god of deception, one who did as he pleased with the minds of lesser men who he saw as his puppets while he was the puppeteer. Realising that Godenzonen were perhaps too great to be controlled in this manner by him, shattered his normally rock-solid confidence to pieces. He was like an invading army defeated by the sight of its enemies’ borders... before ever they engaged the enemy in battle.

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