Editing Khonsu (section)

==History==
===Background===
Birthed in a place of temporal anomalies.<ref name="28.I e1" />

===Post-[[Echidna]]===
Some months after the death of [[Behemoth]], Khonsu appeared from a dust cloud in plain sight on January 20, 2012<ref name="25.6 e13" /> to attack [[Japan]].<ref name="25.4 e1">There were tall buildings, neon signs glowing in the late evening.  Somewhere in Asia.<br><br>“Japan,” Wanton said.<br><br>The camera was shaking, and the view on the screen reacted in kind.<br><br>Dust rose in clouds, billowing, until they obscured the camera’s view.<br><br>The audience was reacting.  Moans, cries of alarm and despair.  They knew what was going on.<br>[...]<br>The fourth, it seemed, was appearing in plain sight.<br><br>The dust took forever to clear.  But for a few mutters here and there, small animal sounds of despair from the audience and studio employees who were watching, the studio had plunged into quiet horror. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/09/scarab-25-4/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.4]]</ref> He [[Battle against Khonsu|battled]] the assembled heroes of the world for three days before [[Cauldron]] [[Khonsu Meeting|negotiated with]] the major powers, persuading powerful cape groups and warlords such as the [[Thanda]] and [[Moord Nag]] to help battle him.<ref name="25.5">[https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/11/scarab-25-5/ Scarab 25.5]</ref> Credit for his initial defeat went to [[Moord Nag]] and [[Scion]].<ref name="25.6 e13">
'''Indiscriminate''', January 20th, 2012 // Khonsu<br/>Notes: First appearance.  Scion/Moord Nag victory.  List of all one hundred and sixty three targets and casualty numbers '''here'''. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref>

===[[Timeskip]]===
Khonsu showed up again and was driven away much more easily.<ref name="25.6 e14">
'''Indiscriminate''', February 5th, 2013 // Khonsu<br/>Notes:  Victory by Eidolon/The Guild.  List of the twenty-nine targets '''here'''. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/scarab-25-6/ Excerpt] from [[Scarab 25.6]]</ref>

===[[Gold Morning]]===
After [[Eidolon]]'s death, Khonsu imprinted on one of [[Teacher]]'s minions, who sold his services to [[Cauldron]].<ref name="28.5 e1">“Quite.  It was Khonsu.  The Endbringer has imprinted on Teacher’s group, and he has offered to sell that squad, along with the Endbringer, to a sufficiently wealthy buyer.  We agreed, if only to keep this from becoming a ''monopoly'' on Endbringers.” - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/09/10/cockroaches-28-5/ Excerpt] from [[Cockroaches 28.5]]</ref>

In [[Earth Gimel]], Khonsu teamed up with the remaining [[Endbringers]] against [[Scion|Eidolon's murderer]].<ref>For the time being, we were holding fast.  Scion was still engaged with the Endbringers in Gimel.  We had seconds, a minute or two if we were lucky, to catch our breath, to think, plan and communicate. - [[Speck 30.6]]</ref><ref name="30.6" /><ref>I could remember the files, the information only for team leaders and Wardens.  Information on the Endbringers, provided in retrospect, only after Gold Morning when the Endbringers cooperated against Scion and the attacks stopped. - [[From Within 16.9]]</ref> However, Scion eventually forced him to retreat for recovery; Khonsu's body injuries left him too broken to fight.<ref name="30.6" />

===Post-[[Gold Morning]]===
Following [[Scion]]'s defeat, he went dormant.<ref>The Endbringers are, we're praying, dormant.  The major players are busy recovering and rebuilding, giving us six straight months of peace for the first time in twenty years. - [[Teneral e.1]]</ref><ref>One window showed the various Endbringers, all of them motionless, but for the Simurgh, who was airborne. - [[Interlude: End]]</ref><ref>“Things are better this time,” Sveta said.  “We’ve learned from mistakes.  It’s a fresh start.  The Endbringers are dormant, we’re finally building things without them being torn down all the time.” - [[Flare 2.6]]</ref>

===[[The Ice Breaks]]===
In [[shardspace]], [[Titan Fortuna]] shows a vision of a victorious [[Simurgh]] to [[Breakthrough]], [[Cryptid]], [[Chicken Little]], and [[Limerick|Five]].<ref>Capes, people, animals, all cringing in pain.  Where able, hands went to heads.  Knees buckled, and those fighting stopped.  ''Everywhere''.<br><br>“We lost,” I breathed the words.<br><br>“We’re about to lose,” Rain said.  “It’s a vision of what’s about to happen.  We figured out we could ask about the future.  This is-”<br><br>“Soon,” Sveta said.<br><br>“It might be her, Fortuna, trying to communicate with us,” Byron said. - [[Infrared 19.9]]</ref> According to Fortuna, the Simurgh can only command Khonsu, [[Bohu]], and [[Tohu]] by successfully merging with her and then using an [[Eidolon]] shade via [[Valkyrie|Titan Valkyrie]];<ref>A great, long-fingered hand of silver with bone-white nails reached out.  The shadow of Eidolon stepped down onto the fingertip.<br><br>Titans appeared from clouds of darkness, arranging themselves in a formation around their new center and commander.<br><br>''Other'' things stepped out of clouds of darkness.<br><br>Not Titans, but scary enough in their own way.  Especially considering what all of this ''meant''.<br><br>Endbringers.  One tall and narrow, of a size to rival any Titan.  One small, a knot of formlessness, with faces periodically flashing out.  One with a great chrome orb for a midsection, a black, whiskered head, arms, and feet mounted at different positions around that orb.  There were other shapes that stood in the dark clouds, but they didn’t emerge or seem consistent.  Still taking shape. - [[Infrared 19.9]]</ref> the Simurgh-Fortuna amalgamation would then use her living siblings as bodyguards.<ref name="II19.10 e1">“Let’s assume they have clear goals.  The Simurgh wants… ''that''.  Whatever that was.  Humanity under her sway, her with Titans, Endbringers, and an army of capes brought back from the dead to protect her.  Titan Fortuna wants to bring about the end of our world so their species can try their hand at replicating.  Both have similar endpoints.  But those are just that.  Endpoints.  What happens after the end?”<br><br>“The world is enslaved, or the world blows up,” Byron said.<br><br>“Immediately?”<br><br>“The slavery, it seems like.  The world blowing up… don’t know.” - [[Infrared 19.10]]</ref>