The Bloody Raven is interested in Skulls!
Lost in the mist of centuries in time, here are the unspoken and should you read further these unwritten legends perhaps it should have been a good thing that they stayed unwritten. But those bold let the quest began with an obscure story from an ancient manuscript not discovered by any archeologist, learned by any scholar, or known by any professor of higher learning. But because I was sent on a mission by the Heavenly Diva and she revealed to me a manuscript seen by only a few mortal eyes.
As Translated from Ancient Greek-ish:
Zeus overlooked Hephaestus' drunkenness once again having to deal with his lack of usefulness. The lack of war at the time was left more or less to the human race. At least Mars had a hobby steering the military fate of these petty mortal human empires and even Mars has been more a hands off good lately since man was coming into reasoning and philosophy at least until the next empire. Since leaving Cupid in charge his wife Aphrodite always seemed satisfied to the innumerable tea parties that filled her day timer for the rest of eternity. He found working part-time unfulfilling so Dionysus the Bartending god was apparently his favorite therapist of late. "Bring on the wine!” he demanded. Hephaestus was better than that and Dionysus hated to see him in this way.
After the 12th bottle, Dionysus' suggested that Hephaestus to get into pouring metal. At least the new avenue for his friend’s skill seemed like a novel idea. So Hephaestus spent more and more of his time working on exquisite pieces and was the god not only of blacksmith and metalworking but now became a god of art, sculpture, craftsmanship, and metallurgy. His work became not only popular among the Olympic gods but a number of other realms as well. From Delicate to epic each piece can have a delightful random charm, magic, or curse depending on the customer but they always had the big H clearly stamped on it. They were being cherished and talked about, collected and traded. He then worked with pouring gold, bronze, copper, and Zeus himself was quite pleased with his order of Silver lightning bolts such that he granted him the nickname of ‘Vulcan’, and when the Big Guy gives you a nickname others pay attention. Mercury wanted a pair of silver Nikes, Diana wanted a scaled miniature of her Silver bow, and more orders kept coming.
Even Mars dropped by and asked for a set of very special cast skulls, according to Mars’ specs the first one was Gold, then Bronze, Iron, Steel, Copper, and finally Silver. All enchanted with the Magic of Victory to the people that bore it forward in the field of battle. All dangerous to touch except by the most pious and pure of mortals, and when invoked the Skull’s power is spent and skull itself re-materializes back on ‘Mar’s Map of Conquests’ However the Copper Skull also has a mischievous magic along with it's power and while the Silver Skull being more powerful such that it may be use more times but with an unknown limit and a single grave consequence, for the gambling type.
Mars and Hephaestus took the Gold Skull and went to Dionysus’ Olympic Tavern to celebrate meanwhile the jealous Trolls broke into his workshop and spirited away the uniquely enchanted skulls and cast them into the vortex of the human world.
What Happened next?
Scant evidence inferred that there were five such Skulls of destiny were scattered throughout time. While the Gold remained with Mars. The second Skull was bronze, anyone handling the skull dies immediately so only a priestess of the Delphi we're able to Bear the skull and fastened it to the flagship in the Defense of Athens and Greece at onset of the Greco-Persian war, where King Leonidas' legendary last stand Battle of Thermophylae happened at 480BC but it was used at the Naval victory of the battle of Salamis under the command of Themistocles.
The third Skull was made of iron and appeared on the first Punic War, with it's last known public display was at the great Naval war of Roman Republic against the Carthaginian Navy, the battle of Cape Ecnomus in 256BC on the flagship trireme of Marcus Atilius Regulus and victory for the Roman Republic. The Forth steel skull have been seen used in the Battle of the Red Cliffs in China 208AD that prevented the superior Cao Cao North forces from conquering the southern Chinese kingdoms.
A Santa Maza monastic manuscript vaguely indicated that the fifth copper skull was last rumored to be on route in 1621 to Mexico and it's purpose was to protect the Atochia flotilla from English or Pirate attack. It was lost in the same storm that took down the Atochia hoard that therefore resulted in the loss of Louisiana from Spain. It was considered lost for good but the Aztecs Feathered Serpent still foretold the Copper Skull also leading the way to the very last skull. The Final Skull of lost Destiny, The Silver Skull!
Since 1589 I, the Bloody Raven alias, Claudia Auditore da Firenze, Cold moon, Teng Mzu, Tianna Mintauru, Tigress Makaara, The Red Dragon, Lady Tracy McMillan have acquired many Silver Skulls through the centuries as these but have yet to find the Skull of Lost Destiny. Many are made, only one is true.
They say the Copper Skull was lost forever…. But what’s that in your hand?
So may it be! The Copper Skull my young Captain may just be the ONE! You must have the pious blood of an innocent Preacher to hold it bare handed. Like Cotton Mather the Preacher Pirate. So what does the Skull tell you young Captain? Where will the Silver Skull of Destiny be found used to shape the great battle to come and the fate of the world's future?
“Et lux in tenebris to serve laboro, sum sicarius” “I work in the shadows to serve the Light, I am an Assassin”
