>>5559398You look to the Heretic, who hesitates, but eventually continues:
“I have… Theories, borne out by study, about the nature of the Dark Gods. I am a Demonologist by specialty, you see… But the same principles which apply to denizens of the Hells can, broadly, be applied to… To the Dark Gods. Though their power is far greater, their True Names unknown… With sufficient knowledge and power, I suspect that even THEY can be summoned… Bound… Banished.”
“I see now why they call you ‘Heretic’,” you reply in low tone. “I will remind you, fi you do not know: I am a Knight Ascendant of the God of Glorious War. The Dark Gods are no lesser shade like a demon or devil. They are SUPREME.”
The Heretic shrinks back from this response, nodding rapidly.
“Y-yes, Superior One,” he quickly sputters. “It is just… The demigod is not even fully-formed, and its True Name is unspoken. It would be… If my theories were… I mean…”
You raise a hand to hush the strange, sacrilegious hybrid before you, and consider carefully the disturbing revelations and dubious resolutions before you. This is a difficulty of your own making, you know—but also a boon, possibly. You sense danger, yes, but also opportunity.
What will you do?
>Live with the condition, for now—you are worthy, made mighty by your efforts and by the borrowed powers of your God and ancestor, and surely can endure this ‘gestation’>You must find a female to breed with—a worthy one, apparently?—and thus dispose of this affliction by implanting the embryonic entity in another>You would hear more of this Heretic’s theories on the Dark Gods… And how to extract this demigod by occult means, if indeed it is possible>This Degenerate is a faithless charlatan and a crackpot-you will detain him, and drag him back before the Priesthood for trial and likely execution>Write-in 