Not My Dream Vacation (Celestial Crab Bucket. First World, Exalted)

[TheLastOne]

The Court of Seasons The Ennead Others

• The Calendar Gods - not gods over things like 'the season', but rather the demarcation of them. In practice, this means the festivals attached to them.
  
  Are popular and fun gods, at least in divine circles. They have an undeserved reputation for competence, and while not personally powerful have leveraged their position into a great deal of unofficial soft power.
  
  Nathan Nozi
  Nathan, Lord of Nothing. Our protagonist. After getting isekai'd by cosmic accident, the Bureau of Destiny did a 'my bad', blamed it on fate breaking in a serious way, and gave him a cushy gig as an apology. He isn't entirely sure if he should be grateful they took responsibility, or insulted that they put him somewhere where he would have to lie to himself to maintain his self respect.
  
  Officially the God of Calibration.
  
  Gale's Echo​
  A tempest horse - one of the Thúroch, the bodyguard horse created by the ancient Anathema to guard their children. She's a proud creature, but long years and frustration has made that pride brittle. Nathan's first retainer.​
  
  The Dreamer
  God of Descending Air, the last of the Calendar Gods of the Session of Air. A being of fluid gender, and before being assigned to this role, a god of hallucinations at the edge of death. While he's a casual socialite and easily approachable for gods, he makes others find their way to him the traditional, dangerous way. The danger, of course, isn't because you're hallucinating, and more so because of the terrible health and probable brain damage you must experience for him to appear in your dreams.
  
  Their appearance varies a little with their current gender, though it's not dramatic - too emaciated for dramatic gender expressions. They look about fifty pounds soaking wet, but are otherwise well groomed. Their hair is always lush, and looks like dark spilled wine.
  
  The Cold Roars
  Collectively are the God of Ascending Water. A pair of giant bears. Have some kind of grudge against dogs?
  
  The Three
  Three Gods who collectively are the God of Resplendent Water. They take the forms of a grandfather, father, and son.
  
  Lird Melo
  The 'father' of the trio. While he's made of ice, that doesn't mean he's transparent. Rather, he looks a figure cunningly crafted from many different types of ice, to such a degree that at a distance and in the right light, you might mistake him for human.
  
  He's also both pretty enough to make a straight doubt their sexuality, and buff enough to make the most roid abusing bodybuilder feel inferior. He's like if Keanu Reeves and Cain from Luther Strode had a lovechild.
  
  Deeply self-involved, casually dismissive. He's smart and competent enough to have been a real player if he could ever get out of his own headspace. But he can't so instead he just has bursts of insight in the rare moments when he actually pays attention to the outside world.​
  
  Golden Stars
  Collectively the God of Ascending Fire. Six identical women of plain appearance. They are known both for falling into love quite often, and for falling out of it to devastating consequences for their former paramour. Even if the former paramour did nothing to encourage them - though, to be fair, they're rarely lacking for willing pursuit. Likes giving tests, like 'tell us apart when we are all supernaturally identical. I don't like being mistaken for other women, after all.'
  
  Nathan thinks they have what he would call an 'Arabian' look to them, but doesn't know the Creation equivalent.
• A pantheon of Nine Gods. They're connected to the Haslanti League. Nathan doesn't know what any of those thing are.
• Vevin
  A lake goddess(?), and evidently a teacher by profession, though her topics are esoteric. She has a heroic air, helped by her impressive stature and build.
  
  Curiously, amused, and seemingly unbothered by insults despite her obvious pride. Her colors are the deepest blues and purples.

 

[TheLastOne]

The Thúroch​

Created in the First Age during the reign of Queen M-R-L. The were made before the rise of the Solar Deliberative by Twilight Caste Solar as part of their early experiments in shaping and creating custom elementals. As such, while they have some ability to breed true, it requires a Sorcerous Working to enable, and few of the Thúroch have the inclination to pursue sorcery. It was not meant as a control measure, but in time it became such, and they were never a populous breed.

They were created for a purpose - to be both mount and bodyguard for the Golden Children. Proud creatures of tempestuous clouds, they could be vicious defenders of their charges, and they were given honors for their work in those early ages. Yet… they were proud, and as the first age moved towards deeper decadence, more spoiled Golden Children managed to turn these defenders against them, leading to several tragedies. As time wore on, the Solar Exalted increasingly turned to Automata as better servants and bodyguards for their children.

Most surviving Thúroch were slain in the years after the Usurpation, along with the Created Races in the Shogunates purges of Solar Creations.

(Generic Thúroch would be essence 3. The cloud-tendrils that make up their body can act as saddle, and will can even tie their rider to them, letting them ride in environments that would throw a normal rider. They have some defensive charms to protect both themselves and their rider, an aura attack that lashes out at anyone close to them, and a counterattack that defends both them and their rider. If unmounted they can gallop through the air, but can't generally do that while bearing the weight of a rider, but they can glide/fall slowly with a rider).