Book VIII: Ajax the Freemaker
Chapter 2: Rhokki Becomes a God
It was now time to install the next portion of my plan AND to get revenge on that ingrate lumenarc Rhokki who’d caused me so much trouble in the past.
Now you’ll recall that Rhokki was that fool of a lumenarc, who rebelled against Lucifer’s dominion and tried to use brute force to break through the Firmament to return to Illyria. His efforts triggered the Illuminati Gabriel to visit Earth and proclaim to Rhokki that if he or any of the fallen angels could rescue the tortured stellarone souls that were trapped in The Middle Plane, then the Great God A’H might allow them passage back to the heavens.
Since those souls were all secretly held by ME, there was no way I was going to allow Rhokki or anyone else to get at them. Since neither Rhokki nor anyone else among the lumenarcs knew my secret, for a short time after Gabriel’s visit, Rhokki and a few others searched for the lost souls – yet their efforts proved fruitless.
Forlorn with failure and perhaps resigning himself to fate, Rhokki gave up on Gabriel’s mission and returned to his other favorite pastime – for Rhokki was blinded by love – that same vice that has caused the downfall of so many humans too. You see, Rhokki had always loved the lumenarc Gaia – and when I say ‘always’ I mean it, for Rhokki loved Gaia when we were all back in Illyria in a time period that marked the very beginning of their own individual creations. And Gaia loved him back.
[In truth, Gaia was a bit of a goody two shoes – she never would have joined the rebellion against A’H if not for Rhokki. And Rhokki only joined because he was too stupid to think for himself. If you want to visualize Rhokki, picture the evil lumenarc Samyaza – only bigger…and dumber. Recruiting Rhokki to Lucifer’s rebellion back in Illyria eons ago was all too easy, and when he joined our cause, so did Gaia].
As you may recall, our rebellion against A’H didn’t quite work out – we got cast out of Illyria during The Fall, and while Rhokki initially remained loyal to Zebub, it was clear very early that Gaia might falter in her faith. That’s part of the reason why Lucifer and I duped her into joining us for a little experiment on Terra – little did Gaia know that SHE was the experiment and that we planned to use her essence to bring Terra to life.
(Things worked out well for Terra, if not for Gaia individually – but such is life, right?)
When Rhokki discovered that his eternal love had been taken from him back then, he wanted to destroy Lucifer. Never knowing that he’d one day become a thorn in my side, I talked him off the cliff (literally, he was standing on the side of a mountain on Terra and threatening to track down Lucifer to murder him) and I made him realize that so long as the Evil Spirit Zebub was protecting Lucifer, Rhokki would never get near enough to lay a finger on his enemy.
My counsel to Rhokki back then was to be patient – after all, I had a plan in mind that (I thought) would solve both our problems. As you know, I later duped Zebub and Lucifer into creating the hell-world Illusia – during which Zebub became trapped in that hell world – and I later got Lucifer imprisoned there as well, while eventually securing free reign for myself, Rhokki, and all the other lumenarcs to return back to The Middle Plane and do as we pleased. Things SHOULD have worked out swimmingly from then on.
So how was I to know that Rhokki would turn against me and outright rebel against Lucifer’s leadership with his little “Break The Dome” stunt?
As you know, the brute nearly cost me my life when The Dark Lord learned of his treachery and it was everything I could do to keep my head when I had to grovel at Lucifer’s feet with Lilith looking on in delight.
Oh the horrors of that memory!
I should have known that Rhokki had never forgotten about Gaia and that the dumb fool was stupid enough to still be in love with her, even though she was naught but a planet now.
Yet that’s exactly what happened, Rhokki became enamored with the planet Terra – convincing himself that ‘she’ loved him back and doing his best to take care of her.
Writing him off as a nitwit, I only casually paid attention to his actions – finding myself amused to see that he spent so much time in the bowels that supported the flat plane of earth, apparently believing that these locales kept him close to Gaia’s essence – particular in that locale that was Gaia’s prison – that area you call the North Pole, but which isn’t in the ‘north’ the way you think of it since it’s actually in the ‘polar center’ of the plane-t.
But Rhokki’s solitude also presented me with an opportunity – one too good to pass up.
Now whenever Rhokki appeared on Terra he preferred to use a form that showcased himself as a huge physical specimen: twenty-plus feet tall, broad-chested, with big muscles, a full beard, long wild black hair, heavy leather boots, and a leather wrap around his waist.
Quite frankly I thought he looked like a fool, but we gods like to experiment sometimes and who am I to question how another god identifies?
So when I chose to use Rhokki as my next alter ego persona, I bit the bullet and used his preferred form. For it was Rhokki who I planned to turn into Ajax’s new god…
The Apocrypha of Azazel 