"Ah, Ballos, the one who claims to be my mother and is the Pillar of Life. She might not be as powerful as her husband, UBiL, but her idea of compassion is vastly expanded in comparison to his own. Unlike UBiL who despises to be worshipped, it is perfectly alright to worship the ideals of Ballos. What Ballos wishes is for a fantastic life, partying, and the acceptance of yourself and others. That you will not discriminate anyone from their gender, who they love or even what alien species they may be. However, there are a few things she outright hates. Such as stepping over one's boundaries or overindulgence as everything must be in moderation and within the realm of safety. The worst thing of all however is anything that may spawn from the dreaded and nicknamed, "Ebony District" of towns and cities which is always removed and burned out by her personal elite known as, "The Forbidden Troopers". Ballos is also highly renown and responsible for the dimension known as "The Gulch" which is a realm that connects to our multiverse that is created entirely out of organic matter.

The Gulch is the realm where those who worshipped her ideals go to rest and may join her army and ranks in pure celebration. It is defined as a paradise of meat and bone with friendly faces around every corner. Those who worship Ballos outside The Gulch as her crusaders may find themselves becoming a Butcher or a Fleshwelder. A Butcher is a heavy infantry soldier who carries around a big war cleaver as they drain the very life force of their opponents. While a Fleshwelder works with changing and transforming the body in many different ways, making weapons and armor out of flesh, and as well as being able to enchant effigies to grant many of her blessings. Many of these said blessings include never being able to starve, regenerating flesh, skin made of metal, and night vision are a few examples. With this in mind it is no surprise that many of the Fruit Kobolds were found worshipping her and spreading her teachings. (Outside of the heavy influence of course of Ayvil introducing the Pillars teachings and them clinging onto Ballos.)

It is to note that Ballos absolutely despises mechanical augmentation but is purely fine with biological augmentation. However, she hates Angel-Tech subhumans and demihumans as most of it is forced upon them, but she does not blame them, and instead their scientist who do grotesque experiments on their people. She outright loathes Angel-Tech as they continue to strip people's identities away and remove what makes them unique. Another thing is that Ballos demands all "body modifications" to be free of charge where her dominion reaches. Love-Bots are also purely organic machines, and she does not hate robots either, but you probably will not find any in the gulch.

...Also, if I ever say I have a biological mother she will become angry and refuse to take that for an answer. As my "adoptive" mother, she claims to have higher authority." ~Thomza Materia


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Technically! This is a sequel post to: Pillars of Creation: UBiL AND it's a remake of: Deities and Gods of Skin to Scales: Ballos

What is said is... What is said, I don't really need to elaborate here, until next time everyone!

Thanks for reading!

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