The Three Minoses
- As being told by Prophet Lor'Hux: [1]
Our story begins upon a time when Los, God of Justice, and Sakat, God of Time, came together at Mount Fabon. This meeting between those two Gods had been an ancient ritual since the beginning of life on Micras which repeated itself each year again. This ritual didn’t immediately affect the daily life of the simple mortals, but it certainly did affect their lives after death had come.
Sakat has, since the beginning of time, been responsible for bringing the dead to the Scale of Justice. On this Scale, the heart of the dead person was weighed. Los was responsible for the weighing of the heart. He chopped it in two pieces: the Bad and the Good part. When the Good part weighed more or equal as the Bad part, the dead man or woman got approved to go further to the the Realm of the Divine. In case the Bad part weighed more, the person got the choice: or he chose to immediately go to Balgurd or he could try to follow the Path of Quintessence’s. This Path lead to the Realm of the Divine but counted so many different and difficult challenges which could lead to terrible pain and suffering that even the Gods tried to avoid it when possible. It was the home of nobody less than the brother of the Dæmon Fish of Balgurd: the fish Griffuc, a creature who was neither death, nor living. Griffuc was doomed to live between the world of the living and, needless to say that, because his soul could never get any rest he had become extremely cantankerous and waited with pleasure for new victims to fall in his traps. His victims had to suffer before they could be brought to the realm of the Demons: they had to suffer, like he suffered day after day. He was… not such a friendly guy, if you know what I mean.
While I want to tell you more about Griffuc, that will be for another day, as this is not his story, but the story of Los, Sakat and the Three Minoses. To proceed our tale: it’s pretty clear by now that Sakat and Los depended on each other for the treatment of the deaths. They were colleagues and that’s why those two came together every year. You could see it as a new year’s reception. After a while, those two developed a strong friendship. However, both were quite combative and so they always ended up playing games during their meetings to see who was the strongest, the wisest, the coolest. It always ended up in a tie, which made the two friends return home satisfied. But one time, there happened what no God could have predicted and which even Sakat, God of Time, hadn’t foreseen: Loki, God of Chaos, would interfere and mess things up rather good.
That year that Loki interfered, Sakat and Los were going to cloud dive. The rules were as follows: both Gods took some clouds, which would be used as a kind of snowboard. With this ‘cloud board’ they flew from the mountain top to the finish at the first tree, below Mount Fabon. The one who finished first was the winner. For all Gods who had come to watch, the result wasn’t a surprise: it would be a tie, like usual. But the game itself was always nice to watch. This year however, Loki was going to make it a bit spicier… (without the help of B'Caw, God of Spicy Chicken)
The start shot was given and both Gods were flying down towards the finish line. Loki, however, had sabotaged the cloud of Sakat by adding some acid rain to it. The result was a slower cloud because it was filled with this heavy liquid. Los ended first and the discovery of both his loss as the sabotage enraged Sakat. Angry about what had happened, he proclaimed that Los didn’t deserve victory, neither did he deserve his title of God of ‘Justice’. What did justice mean if its God was a cheater? Of course, Los became angry at Sakat for what he saw as an unfair and jealous reaction.
So, both Gods were angry on each other: Sakat refused to lead the dead to the Scale and if other Gods temporarily took over His task and succeeded in bringing the dead towards the Scale, it was Los who refused to weigh them as long as Sakat was spreading lies about Him sabotaging the game.
It didn’t take long before both worlds, living and dead, got disturbed and stability got threatened. It even got that worse that even Clistiro, God of Knowledge and Order, who rarely interfered in problems of others decided to solve this problem. He invited both Sakat and Los at Mount Fabon and did a proposal: He, Clistiro, would create a council of three advisors who would decide whose fault it was that Sakat had lost. Those advisors were called the Three Minoses and they would act as judges. The Minos Yaye agreed with Sakat from the beginning about the sabotage by Los. The Minos Naye said the contrary: not only was Los innocent, but he also proclaimed that there never had been any sabotage. The discussion seemed to end up in an even fiercer struggle now even those two Minoses couldn’t agree. But luckily there was the third Minos, Maye, who doubted about both the things which Yaye and Naye proclaimed. He announced that he needed some time to investigate the matter.
Eight days and nights long, He and the other Minoses were fiercely debating the matter. On the eight day, they came to Clistiro and told Him that they knew how to solve the matter. Both Gods had to use their powers to know the truth. Los should have to weigh his own heart to show that he wasn’t lying, while Sakat had to go back in time and find out who was the perpetrator. Surprised about how easy they could solve this discussion, but still distrusting towards each other, they did what the Minoses had asked from them.
Los showed that the Good overcame the Bad and that he couldn’t be blamed for the sabotage. After seeing this, Sakat looked back in time and found out that it was nobody less than a servant of Loki who was guilty. The two Gods apologized for their behavior to each other and went back to work. But before doing so, they went to Micras and appeared in the bedroom of Kaiser Raynor XI. They told the Kaiser that he had to create an Imperial Advisory Council who would lead him and his successors through dark times. The Council with its advisors, a copy of the Three Minoses (an aye-man, a maybe-man and a nay-man), would avoid that chaos would ever get to freely interfere at the Imperial Court again. Loki, of course, didn’t sleep well that night.
