Badarus

Far-ranging Badarus plies the World’s seas in a great vessel of orichalcum, rarely returning home to Atlantis. He is Amnis’ husband and father of the Teros, but claims he has never had any desire to rule them — though certain myths speak of a time in the past when he sought to lead, and the disastrous consequences. He takes the form of a horned man with the lower body of a fish or serpent, and always sports a bushy beard.

Badarus used Aeva and Ytar’s God-technology to create the mighty ships of Atlantis, ranging from ocean-going vessels to the transcendent voidbirds that traverse the winds of space. He is the divine patron of all such vessels and of transportation technology more generally, worshipped by pilots, mechanics, and urban planners. Before Atlantis fell, he was its envoy to other pantheons, and he’s enthusiastic about the prospect of reemerging into the World so he can once again take up that role. His Incarnations include sea captains, flight attendants, food critics, mountain climbers, taxi drivers, ambassadors — anyone whose life revolves around travel.

Most of Badarus’ Scions are fathered outside Atlantis, though he usually marks his rare visits to the island by siring a child with Amnis. He also Creates Scions by uplifting sea life with his divine blessing. These Heroes are never content to stay still, always crossing the boundaries demarcating their experience of the World. Some take this literally, adventurers who explore the most extreme challenges nature has to offer or plumb mysterious Terra Incognitae for the sheer thrill of it. Others seek new horizons as diplomats or anthropologists to expand their knowledge of the World’s cultures.