God of Progress

For good ten thousand years, the world has remained the exact same. That is because ten thousand years ago, elder Gods of Life, War, Death and Peace locked away their youngest brother, the God of Progress, in the glaciers of the north pole. Since then, all the species under the domain of the four elder Gods stopped inventing, stopped developing new ideas and stopped changing - and since then, the followers of the elder Gods have been systematically making sure that no one would ever even know that there was such thing as the fifth God. All this was done because it was prophesied that one day all the races of the world would grow out of worship, and all the Gods would be forgotten - and it would be because of the fifth God's influence.

And so nothing has changed since then. Not until after ten thousand years, when the seals holding the God of Progress crack. In that moment, just before the seal is repaired, just enough of his power escapes that a child with a special power is born - the power to invent.

I wrote a bit of this long ago, written from the point of view of a blood knight, a follower of the Death God, who found the child with the ability to invent and who decided to flip the finger at the elder Gods and make sure that the kid would grow up - and somewhere along the way the kid was going to invent airships and they were going to release the fifth God and so forth, but... Well, I suppose it's up to the adopted parent to take this whichever way they choose, if they like it.

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