Microscope RPG--The Mural of Lu the Fatherless: Event: The Reincarnation and Conversion of Lu the Fatherless

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Event: The Reincarnation and Conversion of Lu the Fatherless

Timeline Location: During the Period "The Karmic Wheel: An Age of Rebirth," after "The Argi Reborn"

Tone: Light

Focus: The City of Mazad

The era of the Pure Thought Crusade was long past, many humans had drifted away from the worship of the Jade Court Gods and those that remaining were complacent. They did not seek to make war on their non-human neighbors and enslave or exterminate them. Even within the borders of their nations, though non-humans were legally slaves, some rose to important positions as advisers to the human rulers.

To rectify this, the Jade Court Gods turned to their prophet Lu the Fatherless. At the time of his death, they had raised up his soul, removing it from the cycle of rebirth and given him a home in the Heaven of the Jade Court. Now, they sent him back to the mortal realm to be reborn and, when he had grown, to revive the worship of the Jade Court Gods and lead a new crusade. As a statement, they sent him to be reborn in Mazad, a city they saw as particularly sinful and offensive, given that humans lived as equals and friends with other races. This plan did not work quite as well as the Jade Court Gods had hoped.

Lu's reincarnation, now known as Walud, grew up in Mazad, making friends from many races. As one might expect, he was drawn to the religious life--but chose to become a monk in one of the orders following the path to virtue and enlightenment as set down by the Transcendent Sages of old. In the course of his practice, he recalled the memories of his past lives--and was quite shocked and horrified at who he had been, what had been done in his name, and the mission the Jade Court Gods had charged him with. He set out on a campaign of preaching, especially in those realms that still worshiped the Jade Court Gods. He told them who he had been and that the Reign of Virtue had grown corrupt when the Jade Court Gods had decided that the non-human races must be enslaved or destroyed, rather than won over to the path of virtue. He won many converts and the worshipers of the Jade Court Gods grew ever fewer, even as the original ideals of the Reign of Virtue were reinvigorated and stripped of their racism.