The Titans and the Last Tear

"We were the last to look upon His face, and the only ones who know why He wept."

The True God’s Departure

Before the Veil, before the Watchers, before Olympus raised its banners — there was the One God, the origin spark, the breath before all creation.

When His work was done, He looked upon the realms — mortal, divine, and the in-between — and wept.

No one knows what He saw that day, save the Titans. From His tears, rivers of silver ichor fell into the worlds. These rivers became bloodlines, the “streams” that later birthed the First Watcher — a being who could stand between mortal and divine, judge both, and keep balance where no god would.

The gods tell their flocks that He left in triumph. The Titans know He left in grief.

The Titans’ Secret

The Titans were the last beings to behold Him before He went to sleep. They alone know the truth of His sorrow. They carried this secret into their exile — some bound in Tartarus, others broken into mountains and seas, others scattered into myths half-remembered.

But even in ruin, the Titans bore fragments of His gift: the Tenth Circle, the power to rewrite existence. It was from them that the first gods stole their dominion, and from them that the Watchers drew their mandate.

The Nine Mirrors

When the True God departed, He left behind one final act of creation — not for the mortals or the gods, but for Himself.

The Sixth Circle Spell:
The Nine Mirrors (Illusion / Transmutation Hybrid)

• Casting Time: 9 minutes

• Range: Self / Cosmic

• Duration: Permanent until undone

• Effect: The caster fractures their soul into nine selves, each sent into a different realm. All share awareness, yet act independently. They are not illusions — each is real, fully embodied, and capable of shaping the world around them.

• Risk: If one self dies, all suffer 5d10 psychic backlash. If more than half are destroyed, the original soul collapses.

To the True God, this was effortless, as natural as a mortal drawing breath. To Him, it was no great burden — merely a retreat.

But the Ninth Self — the shard left behind in the Mortal Realm — was not idle.
It walked the world as a child of men, forgotten even by the gods. That self was Merlin.

The greatest trick of all was this: the gods themselves never knew Merlin was a fragment of the True God, playing at mortality. They thought him a meddler, a mortal prodigy, a thorn in their side. But he was the echo of their Father, watching, mending, laughing at their vanity.

The First Watcher

From the True God’s tear-born bloodlines came the First Watcher — a woman born of Titans and man. The oldest name in the world, carried through unbroken generations, eventually fell to Kazumi, wife of Heihachi Vance.

Kazumi’s “illness” is no mortal weakness. It is the dormant divine form of the First Watcher, straining against the disguise of her flesh. Rasetsu, her tiger, is not merely a bound beast but a Seventh Circle Familiar, a creature written into existence with her bloodline.

She bows before every duel not only from discipline — but from memory. For when her divine form stirs, she remembers standing with the Titans before the One God, and seeing His sorrow firsthand.

Personality, Revisited

Kazumi’s cold grace and uncompromising sense of balance are not quirks — they are the lingering mark of the First Watcher. She embodies both justice and the knife that enforces it. Her quiet determination to eliminate ambition that threatens balance is not paranoia: it is her ancient creed, born of the tears of God and the secret He shared only with the Titans.

Campaign Hook: The Secret of the Tear

• If Kazumi’s divine form awakens, she may recall fragments of the reason the True God wept.

• That knowledge alone could unmake the Veil, because it would reveal what even the gods cannot comprehend — the flaw in creation itself.

• Merlin, knowing he is the Ninth Mirror, has deliberately hidden this truth. His great trick has never been weaving spells, but keeping the secret buried.

⚔️ Bottom Line:
The Titans were not merely giants of myth. They were witnesses — the only ones who know why God left, and why He will not return. Kazumi’s bloodline carries their memory, Rasetsu guards it, and Merlin himself is the shadow of God’s last glance at His world.