Cosine Mevura

[Stranger]

everyone's least favorite wizard

Cosine is a young refugee from the Wizard Warrens. He traces his descent to a group of Lantanna technomancers who awoke within the City of Rings many generations ago and founded the Vatic Order of Mathemagicians. Unfortunately for Cosine, it is a whimsical tradition within his family to name children after mathematic concepts, and he has been bullied relentlessly over this by other children.

As a child, he witnessed the coming and going of many luminaries in Wizard Warrens. But more importantly, he has also witnessed the unspeakable tragedies that continually brought about suffering and disaster in his homeland, brought about by egomaniacal, selfish archmages whose hubris wreaked havoc upon reality itself.

He has witnessed so much suffering, so much death. It haunts him every day. It gnaws at him. All he can want is for the world to be kinder and better, so that no one else will have to endure the horrors that he has survived.


Although their names are a matter of great discomfort and embarrassment to them all, Cosine, his sister Tangent, and his brother Sine, have all enrolled as Nadiri students in Eagle Mount. The two siblings will remain NPCs that my character refers to obliquely, to flavor and color his life off-screen.

Their father, Grandmaster Hypotenuse Mevura, and several of his apprentices, sacrificed themselves ten years ago to hold back the thirsting shadows of the apocalypse, so that his family might survive. Their mother, Kyllene Konphas, died sometime in the intervening years between surviving the cataclysm and the arrival at Ephia's Well.

In addition to a notion of maths-based wizardry, Cosine emphasizes themes of magical gadgetry and clockwork mechanisms, particularly as those devices might contribute to the manipulation of time; in his heart of hearts, Cosine dearly wants to travel back to that fateful moment in the past and rescue his father from the grasp of darkness.


Cosine has an unrealized potential for great eloquence and leadership, but is burdened by crippling, unresolved trauma that manifests in shyness, anxiety, lack of self-confidence, discomfort with speaking up or showing his face, etc.

Properly cultivated by a caring mentor, he could be eventually become an extraordinary force of personality among the Astronomers.

Regardless of how far his confidence has or has not developed, Cosine is righteous by nature and will always want to do the right thing. He will always suggest fighting evil, helping those in need, and respecting the rule of law.

if you know anything about cosine, you already know that these plans went off the rails



he would shift between lawful good and lawful neutral, pulled in both directions by either acts of daring heroism, or by being complicit in war crimes of the deep state



there was that balladeer who made art of him, i guess



this was pretty cool



he converted to izdu so the priest would bless his homework





cosine's first horror mystery



the early astronomers had a lot of great scenes



so did our friendly neighbors, the early banda rossa








we don't talk about the parrot



spoiler: he laughed



they didn't laugh, though, something far worse happened here



the greatest of all inventions...



...wielded with great purpose...


...

...


cosine's early career really didn't go well



but he did his best



i do need baublium. and licenses. wanna know why? i have a dream! that one day, every wizard in this desert will control their OWN destiny! a land of the TRULY free, damn it! a citadel of ACTION, not words! ruled by STRENGTH, not committee! where the law changes to suit the individual, not the other way around! where power and justice are back where they belong: in the hands of spellcasters! where every mage is free to think, to act, for himself! fuck all these limp-dick legates and chicken-shit scribes! fuck this 24/7 bellow spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit! fuck "cinquefoil pride!" fuck asterabadi! fuck all of it! the sultanate is diseased. rotten to the core. there's no saving it. we need to pull it out by the roots! wipe the slate clean! BURN IT DOWN! and from the ashes, a new caliphate will be born. evolved, but untamed! the weak will be purged, and the strongest will thrive! free to live as they see fit, they will make ephia's well GREAT AGAIN!

soundtrack not related to the rest of this obituary



some other stuff happened, i guess



velan forever



a lot of old faces





the shade is serious business



cosine having a bad time #23662856




the shade is very serious business




the shade is very, very serious business




vergal mendista had a lot of style but don't tell estellise i said that




we don't talk about the oration slab



bad time central



cool ghost stuff



we don't talk about the polycule



boutta turn in a quest to sergeant rennik for 30 silver



in retrospect it makes a lot of sense that necromancers and brookers would refuse our benevolent protection, given that we'd have killed them anyway for being necromancers and bnrookers



that was less fine.




perhaps my favorite faction base of all time



could cosine hate any two people in this world more than mari and qari? no. no he could not.



the krak was hopping, made me happy to see.



we do not talk about the polycule



the sisterhood of the dweeb, gathered together in russian nesting doll formation



wow sergeant kinney, lord velstra let you have two adrians?



eagle's mount is so stupidly pretty



weekly saturday night showdown



cosine the world-eater



the foe returns: condottiero azimi




oppenheimer didn't do it alone




this guy flexed on cosine so hard man you don't even know



long live the king





what's that, miss oppenheimer, we need more uranium?





seems fine




forget about blood aliens, watch out for mind chickens




war



peace




meetings



destiny



selsi you seem to have gained some weight



definitely wasn't




proof of concept



it wasn't serious actually



it was fine actually



warning: qa'im may have more giant robots than pictured in this dream quest



only top healthcare for our nadiri



some meeting about how much we hate elves












what a night




the fam






tuesday afternoon exorcism




some guy




you heard it here



damn it, feo



our boy oscar



it would be so sad if you destroyed the sand gate



black ops



spoiler: it was not fine












liberation day



popular tourist destination





xon... xon, please...



epitome of the class fantasy



our faith in ibn ghalish



revolutionary techniques being invented right now




justice never sleeps, never blinks



justice rides shiny and chrome into valhalla!!!



ffs xon




fire may not solve everything, but it solves a lot of things



let us take a moment to appreciate how much bigger lynneth's statue is



bottom, 7787, colorized



completely normal assembly





plati plix, hero




normal place everyone will go to



tulpa



majestic



paranoia




vacation



confronting evil



facing death



tasting defeat






gathering strength

[Moonlighter]

king cosine

[Sem]

king cosine

[Bearic]

No one is left to save us from piano djinn now.

[Phoebe]

legend tbh

[Ziya]

king cosine

[thegn]

king cosine

[IKeepForgettingMyUserName]

One of my favourite PCs. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but it was so much fun how his own paranoia would infect Lightdew's and lead to some very far out theories.

[Blue41]

The prologue has ended.

RIP to a real one. Our PC's had a constantly complicated relationship that made interactions always fun to play out.

Also. Hypotenuse?

[VanillaPudding]

Great job Stranger. Cosine was a real pillar of the setting for a very long time and truly set the tone for the entire faction of Astronomers!

[Pandip]

Epic, incredible, absolutely marvelous. A mainstay of the setting. A character to be remembered for decades. We'll be talking about his schemes and actions for ages.

I'm kind of heartbroken.

Great job.

[LoveLess]

killed the music

[Easy To Remember]

Didn't interact with Cosine much, but I think it's plenty clear from the reaction to the news - in this thread and otherwise - and the fact that you made an obituary when you rarely do, that he meant a lot and made an impact. Great work and I enjoyed the wild time capsule of screenshots a bunch.

[BigCook]

the eternal foe, gone so soon. rest in peace king cosine

[Zickery]

setting cornerstone
rip