Ko was the Greater God of Improvement from a world called Crosstime.

Ko came to Worlorn nearly simultaneously with the first outworlder, an incarnation of Troy Ounces now known as Dworkin Barimen. Together they explored all of Worlorn, discovering only Dominions of Slaver Races such as Dactyloids, Hee-Chee, Hruun, Mara, Mind Flayers, Slaad, Sleeth, Thrint, and Titans.

Dismayed by the world-wide slavery, Ko joined Dworkin and three subsequent arrivals on Worlorn: Knock, Llewellyn ap-Owen, and Yama Dharma. We set aside all personal goals to free the slaves. These were gruelling decades of guerrilla action, testing inadequate hypothesis, failures and retreats, decades that became centuries.

It was only Ko who refused to accept the Muses as Troy threatened to leave Worlorn. After some tense hours in private discussion, Troy agreed to remain as Oberon, and they returned to us laughing. Like Troy, all of us, Yama, Knock, Llewellyn, every one remembers reaching our limits, moments when we would have packed it in and gone home, were it not for Ko’s encouragement and unflagging devotion to the oppressed.

After 4444 years we had finally developed sufficient Mastery of Wild Magic to make weapons by which we carved Earthsea, a set of free wastelands, separate and unassailable, where the former slaves could Dominate their own fates.

Ko and six others eventually become known as the Seven Elder Protogods by the races we freed.

Ko established Roke Island as First Archmage, and then dropped from human ken. For eighteen millenia thereafter, Ko fell into obscurity on Worlorn. Apparently uninspired for the first four Cycles, Ko’s personal ambitions were Revealed only by Klinure, the Muse of Dreams. Despite being er-per’henne in the Cycle of Dreams, we believe Ko aspired to be Poet of Dreams and attempted to earn Klinure’s Laureate Wreath. However, whether from pride or humility, Ko never spoke of his candidacy to anyone.

Whatever Inspired him, Ko Revealed himself and became deity for all sorts of Iahklu in that Cycle. The priests Karlon Krons and Serge Gorodish are perhaps the most well-known Dreamers to worshop Ko.

All Poets of earlier Cycles believe that Ko had a successful candidacy, and was rewarded with Klinure’s Wreath. Whether from pride or humility, Ko never spoke of this to anyone.

Also at the conclusion of the Cycle of Dreams, Erin the Copper Ko Mori No Te, sent the Named Wrathman Crotoan to slay Yama Dharma. We do not have the exact Words of Erin’s Quest of Crotoan, but we believe that Ko heard those Words and lay down Klinure’s wreath to—in some unknown manner—assume the role of Worlorn’s Deathgod before, during, or after Yama’s Passing, or perhaps to sacrifice himself to the Wrathman in Yama’s place as some sort of regent Deathgod.

Having seen all magic leave one world upon the defeat of its Lord of Death, Ko must have realized the repercussions of Erin’s irrevocable action, and did Whatever It Takes to ensure magic remained on Worlorn.

One story persists regarding these times, but neither Wedge nor any of us have the complete telling, for Yama and Threnody claim amnesia from these times.

There was a replicant of Hallenrakenthaller who puzzled things together, but it deciphered the clues too late to save Ko. We believe that that Sethra Lavode went to Musquel-by-the-Sea and Destroyed Ko’s last avatar Piscator while Ko was detained elsewhere as the Deathgod. The disposition of Ko’s focus, the Golden Bowl of the Buddha, has never been Revealed. Ko’s familiar, a giant beaver, has never been seen in Worlorn.

We Poets of earlier cycles, Troy, Shelgrim, and Tiresias, have come to believe that Ko earned and set aside Klinure’s Wreath the same year. No previous cycle has terminated without loss of Key, Compact, or one of the other sublime Matters of Consequence. We have never lost a Poet; however, the Cycle of Dance is well underway and we have not yet observed a Poet to wield the Dreaming Laureate’s Wreath.

Ko remains known to Worlorn each time we Improve ourselves or our circumstances.