(The Bedtime Tale & the Hidden Truth)
“They say Uoku is the boy who never stayed dead.
Once, he was cut down by a giant. Once, he was burned to ash. Once, he drowned in a sea of spears. But each time, he came back — smaller, younger, hungrier.
When he returns, his eyes already know how to fight. His hands already remember every blade, every fist, every war.
Children in Pixikata sing:
‘Beat him once, and he comes back twice.
Beat him twice, and he comes back thrice.
But never beat him four times…
For then you’ll never beat him at all.’
Mothers hush their sons with the warning:
‘Don’t pick fights you can’t win, or Uoku will be waiting for you next time, stronger than before.’”
Uoku Daitabi was no ordinary warrior. He was the battlefield made flesh.
Born countless times across countless ages, he remembers every strike, every scar, every death. His body shatters, but his soul never fades. Instead, the cycle drags him back into flesh — a crying child upon the edge of war. By the time he can walk, he is already a weapon. By the time he can speak, he already knows a thousand ways to kill.
The Proven call him The Cycle of Steel. Mortals call him The Child Eternal. To the Death God, he is blasphemy: proof that death itself is not an end, only an interval.
Thus was born Uoku Daitabi, the Proven of War.
Form: Uoku wears many faces across his cycle. At times, a boy with eyes too old for his years; at others, a warlord of burning muscle, flesh cracked with glowing seams where death once tried to break him. No matter his shape, his shadow always fights beside him — replaying battles he already lived.
Domain: Conflict without end. He is not the cause of war, nor its resolution — he is its persistence. The proof that as long as mortals exist, they will fight, and as long as they fight, he will rise.
Touch: Every blow against him makes him stronger. Every death is a lesson his enemies cannot un-teach.
Voice: When he speaks, warriors hear their own drill-sergeants, their fathers, their rivals — every voice that ever taught them to fight.
Soldiers whisper his name before charging hopelessly, believing his cycle will carry them too. Mercenaries mark their blades with his rune — a broken sword reforged — to ward off cowardice.
Yet others dread him. To generals and kings, Uoku is a curse: proof that no victory is final. To mothers and widows, he is tragedy eternal — the boy who never grows old, because he always dies before he can.
Uoku is trapped. He cannot rest. He cannot end. Even gods who tire of their mantles can withdraw into the Diamond Heart — but Uoku is bound to his cycle. Death is denied him not as mercy, but as compulsion.
If ever there comes a war that cannot be fought with steel, strategy, or strength — a conflict he cannot adapt to — the cycle may collapse. And Uoku Daitabi will vanish, not into legend, but into nothing.
Among the Proven, Uoku is both respected and feared. He challenges them endlessly, testing their dominion in combat again and again, never content to let them grow idle. None can rest easy, for Uoku has died a thousand times — and so he knows a thousand ways to kill.
To speak his name in Heav is to invite rivalry. To speak it on Nova Prime is to invite war.
But the children still sing, for they know the truth:
“Beat him once, and he comes back twice.
Beat him twice, and he comes back thrice.
But never beat him four times…
For then you’ll never beat him at all.”
(Compiled by the Collegium of Arkos, sealed under the War Codex)
Unlike most ascended, Uoku has no single origin. He is born, dies, and is born again — a cycle unbroken since the First Wars of the Orion Rift. His earliest recorded manifestation appears in pre-dynastic records of Nova Prime, where a child of unknown parentage was found wandering a battlefield, already wielding a spear with practiced hands.
Subsequent appearances span galaxies and centuries. Each time he emerges as a child, growing into a warrior who surpasses his previous incarnation’s peak. Each time, he dies — slain in duels, massacres, or sieges — only to return again, carrying forward the sum of all martial memory.
Uoku’s ascension was not through worship, titan-blood, or philosophy, but through resurrection perfected into divinity. His cycle of death and rebirth eventually exceeded mortal law, carving him into Provenhood by sheer inevitability.
Where others proved their existence once, Uoku proved it endlessly.
Uoku Daitabi is the absolute master of war in all its forms.
Total Weapon Mastery: Across lifetimes, he has mastered every mundane weapon ever recorded prior to the late 21st century. From stone axes to plasma rifles, from longswords to siege cannons, nothing remains unfamiliar. What he has seen once, he can recall and wield flawlessly.
Form & Tactics: He has absorbed every martial art, formation, and combat doctrine witnessed across civilizations — infantry phalanxes, guerrilla ambushes, knightly jousts, trench warfare, orbital sieges. In battle he is both soldier and general, tactician and executioner.
Ki Mastery: Uoku manipulates kinetic energy (“Ki”), refining it into explosive strikes, speed beyond the eye, and resilience against mortal wounds. His control allows him to redirect blows, break stone with bare hands, or unleash bursts that scatter armies.
Magical Resistance: While Uoku rejects sorcery, he has learned to defend against it. Across cycles he studied spellcraft not to wield it, but to nullify it — sidestepping wards, breaking enchantments through sheer kinetic disruption, and adapting his body to resist elemental assaults.
Adaptive Reincarnation: Every death evolves him. If slain by fire, his next form grows resistant to flame. If crushed by brute strength, his next body bears greater force. This adaptation ensures he never loses the same way twice.
Aspect: Uoku shifts through three primary manifestations within Heav:
The Child of War — slight, watchful, with eyes carrying centuries of killing intent.
The Veteran — towering, scarred, clad in living iron, his frame glowing at the seams where death reforged him.
The General Eternal — armored regality, voice like drums, shadow replaying endless battles at his side.
Presence: His aura pounds like marching boots. Warriors find courage swelling near him, while the weak collapse in terror.
Soldiers pray to him before hopeless charges, believing they will “rise stronger” if they fall.
Mercenaries etch the rune of his broken-reforged sword onto blades, invoking his cycle for endurance.
Cultures that despise endless war curse his name, calling him “The Unfinished Battle.”
Uoku is imprisoned in his own immortality. He cannot rest in death, cannot withdraw into the Diamond Heart, cannot end his cycle. Where Julius Peppermint fears being replaced, Uoku fears never being released. His godhood is not chosen — it is compelled.
If there ever arises a conflict beyond combat, beyond weapons, beyond war itself, Uoku may be undone. His cycle cannot adapt to what it cannot fight.
Among Proven: He is both sparring partner and scourge. None can grow complacent, for Uoku will test them endlessly. Even death offers no reprieve from his challenges.
Among Mortals: He is myth made flesh — the boy who never dies, the soldier who never surrenders, the warlord who always returns.
Among Scholars: He is studied not for strategy, but for inevitability. Uoku proves that conflict itself is divine — not cause, not justice, but continuity.
Master of all mundane weapons & martial arts prior to 21st century.
Perfect retention & execution of combat techniques.
Ki (kinetic energy) mastery for strikes, speed, resilience.
Defensive mastery against magic (nullification/adaptation).
Resurrection cycle with memory retention.
Adaptive reincarnation (stronger after every death).
Presence/Aura that bolsters warriors and crushes cowards.