ÖDE

The first pop of the world had drawn him this way, pulling him from his physical training he'd been working on. By the time he made it to the scene, the second pop had snarled its way in, and with it something else.

Öde stood, slack jawed, as he came into view. So uncertain of what he was experiencing the young stallion slowed and mostly stared, red eyes adrift on the red horizon as the monument of a bear begged for his attention. He marveled at the alien creature, drawn to the chaotic magic that seemed to exist within and around it. The pustules that oozed from it, the impressive spires of crystal, and the fluids that dribbled from its gruesome maw entranced the child born of corruption. His bones buzzed, enamored. Though the bear did not sing, he was a siren to Öde, and stumbling the dark disciple moved closer, catching the terse conversation the two gods tossed to each other. Adoration continued to swell in his breast as he listened to the bear god, its wisdom spearing Öde and causing him to salivate with greedy need. Could he sell his soul for a place among the stars? He wondered...

Fighting broke out abruptly. At least, so it seemed to he who had been too caught up in wonderment. Like slow motion the battle unfolded, shouts beating out the rhythm of the war while the bodies of the nearby soldiers descended like a pack of rabid dogs. Whatever color, whatever region, they all seemed to descend upon the bear, guided by the supposedly righteous hoofsteps of their time lord.
Öde remained rooted, torn.

After a moment longer of hesitation the boy shook his head, then joined the fray with a bugle of fury that betrayed the gusto of his rising blood beat. War sang to him, because amid it existed power, and that was his fuel - greater than water, than air, than grass or blood. It was power that made him indecisive, but despite his personal wantons, the bear was on a losing side, and Öde could not afford to turn coat when his very patron was present. So he would help slaughter this magnificent denizen, for the north. Along the way perhaps his abilities would interfere, serving as always like a double sided blade.

Öde burst forward, joining alongside Roskuld to aim his tri-horns into the same limb that she was stabbing her own blade.

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fighting for: TIME GOD
Attack: plunged horns towards bear's left foreleg with Roskuld.
Those near him will have difficulty with their magic due to his magic!