Artoxares
was born to a commoner family somewhere in rural areas of Greater
Mesopotamia. At birth, he was found to be of great affinity to the
Light, and was sought after by the Ahura Mazda clan after he turned 5
years old. His parents sent him to the clan, partly in exchange for
financial support, and partly because at that time it was a high honour
to have an offsping being trained to become a Magus, especially in the
Ahura Mazda clan which have very high social standing.
Since at a young age of 10, Artoxares's Light affinity was peerless, even rivalling the existing Mazda High priests. His strong magical talent and capacity turned him into a very strong Magus at that age. In addition, he was extremely handsome and got in the good books of most the Ahura Mazda priestess. Although the High Priests are jealous of his innate abilities and looks and tried to ostracise him, he was heavily favoured and protected by the incoming Ahura Mazda High Priestess, who was around the age of 20 at that time. The High Priestess candidate doted on him and made him his personal attendant, and gave him access to the innermost knowledge vault of the Ahura Mazda clan. There, Artoxares continues to hone his skills and learn high level magic. Due to his great intellect, he began to understand some of the forbidden secrets and techniques that are normally unrecognizable by the other Priests.
The special relationship between Artoxares and the High Priestess candidate slowly evolve into a one-sided love on Artoxares. Although the High priestess loved him too, due to her training and indoctrination of the clan, she does not see Artoxares as a potential partner, rather a very close brother. However, Atoxares has gotten the wrong signal and tried to pursue this forbidden love.
When Artoxares turned 15, the High priestess candidate turned 25 and became fully mature, and thus took over the position as the High Priestess. Like all Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu Priestess, she was visited by the spirit sage Zarathustra, who brought the Ahura Mazda seeds and impregnate her. When the baby was born, Artoxares was extremely mad to think that the High Priestess rejected his advances to bear a child with another lover. He knows that it is the tradition of the clan, but in his heart he was yearning to change the tradition to pursue his selfish love.
Driven by this jealousy, Artoxares locked himself in the vault of knowledge and collected all the forbidden knowledge. He even sourced some of the forbidden knowledge that were held outside the clan. From there he understood the nature of the vessel of Ahura Mazda, and how the power must be passed from mother to daughter that are all born from virgin births. However, during the long research and keeping himself secluded, his love for the High priestess waned, and jealousy has turned into hatred and desires instead. Artoxares delved into the possibility of seizing the Godly powers to himself, which has no precedent in history.
He has tried all sorts of methods to prevent the gradual transmission of Ahura Mazda's power from the High priestess to her daughter. He had tried to siphon off the power for himself through forbidden techniques, however, the High Priestess's daughter's affinity to the power is too strong that it eventually flows back to her. At one point, Artoxares became intoxicated with crazy ideas: one of them in which he castrated himself, thinking that it now makes him a "woman" that is suitable to be a vessel. In the end it didn't work out as well. He also looked into the possibility of killing the daughter, but eventually learnt that the power will be transmitted elsewhere to another vessel not of the current bloodline. Artoxares eventually knew what must be done: he has to imprison the daughter in a very intricate prison where the Ahura Mazda spirit cannot find her, yet cannot acknowledge that she is dead. Stuck in the limbo, Artoxares can use this confusion to offer himself as a "temporary" vessel for the God.
He began to put his plans to action. To build the magical prison, he has to sacrifice the lives of a few hundred thousand men, and use that as an energy base to activate his magical incantations. For that purpose, he approached Darius, and helped him with his rebellion to overthrow the warring princes. After Darius was installed king, he continued to brainwash and convince him of the greatness of Ahura Mazda and suggest him to form a religion. After King Darius was madly devoted to the religion, Artoxares instructed him to built a giant monument at Mount Behistun that chronicles how Ahura Mazda has chosen Darius to be the King of the Greater Persia empire. Unknown to King Darius, the inscriptions on the Behistun monuments actually contained the forbidden incantation of Artoxares. During the construction of the monument, Artoxares orchestrated a lot of accidents that resulted in the deaths of a hundred thousand workers.
When the Behistun inscription was completed, the High Priestess daughter is now 10 years old. Artoxares hatched a plan and abducted her daughter and imprisoned her daughter in the Behistun Inscription. The High Priestess, learning of her daughter's disappearance, had gone into depression and became very weak. Artoxares kept her by his side and slowly poisons her, planning he death in 5 years when the Ahura Mazda powers fully leaves her body. When the 5 years was up, the High Priestess died and Artoxares gained full control of Ahura Mazda.
Artoxares is still not satisfied with this outcome, and wanted to be the one and only God of the world. He knew that an opposing force equivalent to him was the Ahriman God. Hence, he started to hatch another plan to try to steal the power of Ahriman as well. That led to the final great battle between King Darius Persian army and the Babylon empire supported by the Angra Mainyu clan. His plans partially failed, however, when Houri was transported to the future. However, since Ahriman disappeared from the world for 5000 years, Ahura Mazda is only God left, and thus Artoxares became the sole supreme power.
Artoxares, not satisfied yet, seized the throne by killing King Darius. From then onwards he waged war against Babylon and swallowed the whole empire, uniting it into an empire called Greater Asura. The empire expanded during the thousand year period and Artoxares nearly united the whole world under his command. As long as the High priestess's daughter is kept in stasis in the Behistun Inscription (where 1 year in the stasis is equivalent to 1000 years on normal time), Artoxares's soul is immortal and has lived throughout the century, and he will live for another 4000 years and beyond by changing bodies. This also caused Artoxares to become bored, and as such he left the empire to the rule of someone else. In the shadows, he orchestrated enemies powerful enough to counter the forces of Greater Asura and caused the empire to shrink. And on some occasion he did the reverse, as he watched from afar to his amusement. These types of conflicts, some small and some huge, goes on for 5000 years to entertain Artoxares.
Since at a young age of 10, Artoxares's Light affinity was peerless, even rivalling the existing Mazda High priests. His strong magical talent and capacity turned him into a very strong Magus at that age. In addition, he was extremely handsome and got in the good books of most the Ahura Mazda priestess. Although the High Priests are jealous of his innate abilities and looks and tried to ostracise him, he was heavily favoured and protected by the incoming Ahura Mazda High Priestess, who was around the age of 20 at that time. The High Priestess candidate doted on him and made him his personal attendant, and gave him access to the innermost knowledge vault of the Ahura Mazda clan. There, Artoxares continues to hone his skills and learn high level magic. Due to his great intellect, he began to understand some of the forbidden secrets and techniques that are normally unrecognizable by the other Priests.
The special relationship between Artoxares and the High Priestess candidate slowly evolve into a one-sided love on Artoxares. Although the High priestess loved him too, due to her training and indoctrination of the clan, she does not see Artoxares as a potential partner, rather a very close brother. However, Atoxares has gotten the wrong signal and tried to pursue this forbidden love.
When Artoxares turned 15, the High priestess candidate turned 25 and became fully mature, and thus took over the position as the High Priestess. Like all Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu Priestess, she was visited by the spirit sage Zarathustra, who brought the Ahura Mazda seeds and impregnate her. When the baby was born, Artoxares was extremely mad to think that the High Priestess rejected his advances to bear a child with another lover. He knows that it is the tradition of the clan, but in his heart he was yearning to change the tradition to pursue his selfish love.
Driven by this jealousy, Artoxares locked himself in the vault of knowledge and collected all the forbidden knowledge. He even sourced some of the forbidden knowledge that were held outside the clan. From there he understood the nature of the vessel of Ahura Mazda, and how the power must be passed from mother to daughter that are all born from virgin births. However, during the long research and keeping himself secluded, his love for the High priestess waned, and jealousy has turned into hatred and desires instead. Artoxares delved into the possibility of seizing the Godly powers to himself, which has no precedent in history.
He has tried all sorts of methods to prevent the gradual transmission of Ahura Mazda's power from the High priestess to her daughter. He had tried to siphon off the power for himself through forbidden techniques, however, the High Priestess's daughter's affinity to the power is too strong that it eventually flows back to her. At one point, Artoxares became intoxicated with crazy ideas: one of them in which he castrated himself, thinking that it now makes him a "woman" that is suitable to be a vessel. In the end it didn't work out as well. He also looked into the possibility of killing the daughter, but eventually learnt that the power will be transmitted elsewhere to another vessel not of the current bloodline. Artoxares eventually knew what must be done: he has to imprison the daughter in a very intricate prison where the Ahura Mazda spirit cannot find her, yet cannot acknowledge that she is dead. Stuck in the limbo, Artoxares can use this confusion to offer himself as a "temporary" vessel for the God.
He began to put his plans to action. To build the magical prison, he has to sacrifice the lives of a few hundred thousand men, and use that as an energy base to activate his magical incantations. For that purpose, he approached Darius, and helped him with his rebellion to overthrow the warring princes. After Darius was installed king, he continued to brainwash and convince him of the greatness of Ahura Mazda and suggest him to form a religion. After King Darius was madly devoted to the religion, Artoxares instructed him to built a giant monument at Mount Behistun that chronicles how Ahura Mazda has chosen Darius to be the King of the Greater Persia empire. Unknown to King Darius, the inscriptions on the Behistun monuments actually contained the forbidden incantation of Artoxares. During the construction of the monument, Artoxares orchestrated a lot of accidents that resulted in the deaths of a hundred thousand workers.
When the Behistun inscription was completed, the High Priestess daughter is now 10 years old. Artoxares hatched a plan and abducted her daughter and imprisoned her daughter in the Behistun Inscription. The High Priestess, learning of her daughter's disappearance, had gone into depression and became very weak. Artoxares kept her by his side and slowly poisons her, planning he death in 5 years when the Ahura Mazda powers fully leaves her body. When the 5 years was up, the High Priestess died and Artoxares gained full control of Ahura Mazda.
Artoxares is still not satisfied with this outcome, and wanted to be the one and only God of the world. He knew that an opposing force equivalent to him was the Ahriman God. Hence, he started to hatch another plan to try to steal the power of Ahriman as well. That led to the final great battle between King Darius Persian army and the Babylon empire supported by the Angra Mainyu clan. His plans partially failed, however, when Houri was transported to the future. However, since Ahriman disappeared from the world for 5000 years, Ahura Mazda is only God left, and thus Artoxares became the sole supreme power.
Artoxares, not satisfied yet, seized the throne by killing King Darius. From then onwards he waged war against Babylon and swallowed the whole empire, uniting it into an empire called Greater Asura. The empire expanded during the thousand year period and Artoxares nearly united the whole world under his command. As long as the High priestess's daughter is kept in stasis in the Behistun Inscription (where 1 year in the stasis is equivalent to 1000 years on normal time), Artoxares's soul is immortal and has lived throughout the century, and he will live for another 4000 years and beyond by changing bodies. This also caused Artoxares to become bored, and as such he left the empire to the rule of someone else. In the shadows, he orchestrated enemies powerful enough to counter the forces of Greater Asura and caused the empire to shrink. And on some occasion he did the reverse, as he watched from afar to his amusement. These types of conflicts, some small and some huge, goes on for 5000 years to entertain Artoxares.
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