Re: OC. A Few Invitations to Sideways
Scord thinks carefully, "You know, that's a good question. I know Na is usually cast as the villian, but also that he is supposed to turn at some point. I'm just not sure when, because when I left my home universe, I hadn't decided when that would happen yet. Let's see what we can see."
He slows his perception of time to peer into the past and the present, opening a window as anyone familiar with the Sideways knows is easy to do. Through the window, everyone can see Pontorna in ancient times - but everyone somehow just knows that it was just Na at that time. She's in an old woman's body. Her own body, her own deathbed. Holding a twisted wand broken off of a branch that had been grafted onto its original tree's daughter. The grafted branch caused an infection above the grafting site that had killed all of its daughter's own branches. That wasn't an accident. Na was being tended to by her only daughter, whom she had taught everything she knew. Na poured poison into her own drink when her daughter turned her back. She drank her cup and stabbed her daughter with the wand, thinking, With this betrayal, I induct my whole self and my offspring into immortality.
She took her daughter's husband next, and then their only son.
Other than thousands of years of kicking spirits out of their bodies, often children, Na also obtained a Djin. When he summoned the Djin, knowing full well that the Djin's greatest desire was to be left alone, his first wish was that the Djin rule his kingdom well and wisely. He had no kingdom at the time, but as a well-ruling wise King of his Emporor's new kingdom, he immediately set to work expanding their borders from nothing through the ordinary means of kingdom building.
In truth, his Kingship wasn't truly wise - though it was cunning and intelligent, sreetwise, and diplomatically superior. But the citizens quickly grew in number as people flocked to the land of opportunity. Joe's was a benevolent dictatorship, after all, there was nothing Joe despised more than having to deal with disgruntled citizens. He was bound by the wish to rule wisely.
But the wealth of the kingdom was always at the disposal of Na. Na did his own things, always with an eye to gaining power. Were the happy, healthy and comfortable lives of billions of citizens justification for the hundreds of adults and children he killed for their bodies?
Wondering what he did with the power he was amassing, Scord pried further, revealing that Na was orchestrating the eventual mostly peaceful unification of every life into his empire, so that he would be able to direct the course of history, magic and technology with his will. His public manifesto declared the benefits of a united force of everyone alive toward the success of anything they set their mind to. In private it was clear that, though he listened to the wise counsel of his Stuart King and wish granting slave, Joe, Na lead for his long term personal benefit above all others.
Curious about the wishes, Scord looked closer and revealed that Na had been given 13 wishes, but he couldn't see how many had been used yet.
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