Sun God: Setting

If you feel the sun begin to burn, your time has come. Don't try to run. The sun god stretches everywhere, in time, and he will reach you if he has to scorch and entire village to get them to drag you out, or if he has to bake you alive in the hut you fled into. After you are dead, they will put your body on a platform in the desert to allow it to desiccate and feed the vultures, as is right and proper, and the sun god will eat your withered essence. If you do not run, he might not eat you. He might only kill you if you did something that caused the sun god's justice to be called down upon you. He might just give you a vision. He might drive you mad and make your brain boil with visions that will never end while you live, but which might serve others. He might make you a priest. I don't recommend walking into the desert with no water to seek the sun god. Many do, every year, but he tends to scorn sacrifices he did not want. Some few become priests, but once they do, they realize the sun would have shone on them no matter where they were.


Inspiration: "Narayan" - The Prodigy
Story potential: Low.
Notes: Eh. Setting.