Editing Euthanatos (section)

== History ==
The Euthenatos believe in a great amalgamation of stories about who they are; that they are the successors of the first beings to interact with the great wheel of life and death, who made the Great Sacrifice to get the wheel turning in the first place, taking the painful but bold step to introduce this cycle into life on earth. These Death Mages then trace their history back to the priests Indus River Valley, and followed the natural flow of humanity throughout the world; settling in places like India, helping form major elements of understanding and accepting death and it's consequences. Then they met the [[Akashic Brotherhood]] on the other side of the Ganges River, when things got '''hairy.'''

The Akashi and the Proto-Euthanotoi initially had quite a lot in common; a belief in cyclical life, a strong belief in justice being cosmically ordained...but that's pretty quickly where things came to a stop. The Akashi could appreciate things for as they were in nature/society as a beautiful harmony, but the Euthanatoi would only see things from the perspective of how it impacted the wheel. Further, the Euthanatoic cults were deeply concerned with how the Akashi used Life magic and how it could give people the wrong impression of how things were supposed to work. The Akashi meanwhile saw what some of these cults were doing and were ''deeply'' disturbed by their supposed "duty" involving purposeful murder. Those arguments went from misunderstandings, to misgivings, to active war, centered primarily in Nepal and spanning nearly 600 years. It's within these Himalayan Wars that the Euthanatoi truly form, first as the ''Chakravanti''. The word ''Chakravanti'' means "''People of the Wheel''", as in the cyclic ''Wheel of Ages'' fueled by [[Dynamicism]], [[Stasis]], and [[Entropy]].  The Chakravanti then adopted like-minded [[Mage:_The_Ascension|mages]] from around the world under their banner, and this collective adopted the name ''Euthanatos'', meaning "''Good Death''". Oh and they won the Himalayan Wars, more or less, forcing the Akashi into seclusion.

By the time the Grand Convocation happened, the Euthanatoi were already a powerful and long-lived tradition that basically just needed the sign-off from everyone else, though understandably the Akashics and the Choir weren't super cool with the whole "I decide when people die" thing, but the Great Betrayal ended up allowing them an opportunity to prove their worth, and they've been there ever since, fighting the Technocracy's machinations to sever the Sleeping world from the Wheel as much as they can.