Oswald Mandus

Pet Name: Mandus
Owner: Amnesia
Theme / Type: Phantom emperon
Born: December 12, 2021
Gender: Male

Battle Portal Stats

Level: 1
Hit Points: 20 / 20
Strength: 18
Defense: 0
Speed: 12
Intellect: 10
Misticpower: 1

Books Read

Books Read: None

Exotic Foods Eaten

Foods Eaten: 0/1254 [ View Foods ]

Oswald Mandus - Saboteur and Engineer

Love is a powerful thing, it fills us, it overtakes us, it makes us desperately protect those we care about. Sometimes even making us monsters, sometimes even giving birth to hatred.

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"Mandus... do you know me?"

"Who are you? Where are my children?"

"Trapped, Mandus, far below us. The Machine is fouled, it is breached, it is flooded. The bulkheads are down, the children are encaged. If you help me, I can help you release them. Restore the power Mandus, drain the flooding and restart the great engines."

"How? Where should I go? Hello... hello?"

"I wake alone, to a house in silence. That missing sound of children playing is like a dark and fecund sepulcher, beckoning me to begin a descent to the loam where surely only bodies may be found. No matter - my children call and I shall answer. I will find them."

"I have stood knee deep in mud and bone and filled my lungs with mustard gas. I have seen two brothers fall. I have lain with holy wars and copulated with the autumnal fallout. I have dug trenches for the refugees; I have murdered dissidents where the ground never thaws and starved the masses into faith. A child's shadow burnt into the brickwork. A house of skulls in the jungle. The innocent, the innocent, Mandus, trod and bled and gassed and starved and beaten and murdered and enslaved. This is your coming century! They will eat them Mandus, they will make pigs of you all and they will bury their snouts into your ribs and they will eat your hearts!"

"I lay there, and watched the god I had created die. At the end when we were cold as the stone we had hewn his body from. When the lights were nearly all extinguished, we heard in the silent distance, the Manpigs singing to one another. Then, as the last lights were gone, and we lay together in the deep, they drifted away, and all was silent. Such a silence, I have never known. And as the dust settled on my open eyes and we lay together embraced forever, I heard miles above us, the sounds of the city turning over in its sleep. A church bell ringing out. And in that moment, the new century was born."