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The Names of Gods

From their creation every being and thing has a True Name. A name which describes what that thing is, which makes it unique from all other things and beings in this vast universe. That knowledge is inherently powerful. To know the True Name of a rock allows you to command it. To know the True Name of a man allows you to influence him. But to know the True Name of a god... that is something different altogether.

Throughout the history of the world there have been many gods; those that are dreamt up, created, and those that are indeed true gods. These have all been known by a multitude of names through a multitude of forms. But each of these - both those that did and did not truly exist - had a True Name. A name known only to few, or perhaps only themselves. You see, to know the True Name of a god... it grants the god absolute power over the one who knows it. It changes and mutates the one who knows into ways resembling the nature of that god.

And when that god is a true god, one of true power, it also grants great power. To resemble the nature of that god is to be closer to it, making the act of calling upon that god a much simpler task, one as easy as breathing. But why would a god hide it's True Name from a mortal?

The first is that they are often misheard and deformed, leading to a name which represents that god but is not that god's True Name. That god may be called by that name, but it is not his name. The second is the power that a True Name gives one god over another. To know the True Name of another god is to have doomed him. Because of this, the gods are cautious in allowing others to discover their True Names, often maintaining guises for eons to ensure the name remains buried.

There are those few mortals that are granted with this knowledge, however. They are often the wisest of the follower's of their god, and as such are blessed with this knowledge. They are granted this knowledge when it is known they will never reveal it to another; when their faith has become something greater than their own life. These are the mortals who receive the highest of rewards when they join their god's side. The commander of Xertol's armies, the hand maidens of Itzpapalotl and Yohuatocatl, and the most favored of the other gods; many of these, but far from all, know the True Name of their god. For you see, in all the eons they have existed, the True Name of any of the gods have been revealed barely a dozen times. These few, these champions of the divine, have been forgotten; their True Names nearly as powerful as the True Name of a god.