Path to Godhood Session 19: The Dwindling God

Characters:

Ajax Karo   -   Gregarious Hunter and Aspiring Kostis, God of Death and Plagues
Neilos   -   Aspiring God of The Sun and Plants
Steidis   -   Aspiring God of Fire and Smiths

Ashes

After bringing Steidis up to speed, Ajax got him to reforge his dagger into a metal stylus, which he was now more comfortable with, and then the gods walked back to the remains of Metros.  Despite all of them having now forgotten their time there, the other gods had told Neilos of the philosopher in Susae before losing their memories, and he told them that they should seek him out for help with their prophecies, as there was now no reason for them to stay here.

On the second day of the journey, Steidis realized that his internal flame was burning out.  Luckily, he had a way to keep it going: lighting himself on fire.  This would keep him going a bit longer, but wasn't sustainable (he would eventually die from burn wounds), so the gods changed their objective to finding a Doros to heal him.  At the outskirts of Metros, they came across the philosopher Kotum, badly burned and covered in soot, who prostrated himself in front of Steidis and blubbered out his thanks for listening to his prayers.

Kotum asked what he could do to repay Steidis' favour, and was told to build statues in his honour, and to "rebuild Metros as the town you'd like to see".  He bowed as he walked away, then the gods continued on into what was left of the city.  Large crowds of refugees crowded the docks, looking for a way out, while most ships had already left when the fire started.  After yelling at one of the soot-covered survivors, Steidis tracked down Noble Doros, who was resting on a pile of blankets after spending the last few days treating the (many, many, many) wounded, with powers and without.

Path to Godhood Session 18: Metros Ablaze

Characters:

Ajax Karo   -   Gregarious Hunter and Aspiring Kostis, God of Death and Plagues
Neilos   -   Aspiring God of The Sun and Plants
Steidis   -   Aspiring God of Fire and Smiths

Metros

The gods arrived in the early morning to find the city covered by a light mist.  As they walked up from the docks, they overheard a nobleman, still drunk from the night before, complaining to his companion about a woman who had called him a drunkard.  Figuring they didn't have enough knowledge to work towards any prophecy at the moment, the gods split up and asked questions around town.  Neilos learned that no new gods had arrived in Metros recently, while Ajax discovered that "The Razored Tongue" in one of his prophecies was likely Melite Floros, a noblewoman who had apparently been (accurately) insulting other nobility at gatherings.

Steidis, meanwhile, went to his home to burn the bodies which Ajax assured him belonged to his family (for a prophecy, not out of sentiment), but they weren't there.  He decided to just burn the building down in case that would work, but wasn't able to get it to catch.  In an attempt to track down the bodies, Steidis then yelled at a random child in the street until he told him where the city burial sites were.  Later, Ajax hunted a deer to Life Drain, while Neilos shut himself in a room in his family's home (not that he remembers them as such) when the sun set due to his fear of darkness.

The next morning, they tracked down the overseer of the burial sites, a wizened old crone with bedraggled, hip-length white hair named Athania.  Neilos lied, claiming that Steidis had been out of town and wanted to visit his family's gravesites to pray to the god of death for them, and they were led to the site where the bodies had been buried.  Athania started to scuttle off, but Steidis interrupted her to ask how they had died; she hadn't seen any wounds or signs of disease, and figured they were cursed.