[Beta spoiler] Kitava lore (including data-mined act 8 lore)

So poedb has updated their datamined lore section with what appears to be act 8+ stuff regarding Kitava, and it paints him in an entirely different picture...

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#Kitavas Hunger I

Arohongui, Daughter of the Moon, was preparing for a feast to celebrate Tukohama's return from his war on the First Ones of the Ezomytes. Tawhoa, Son of the Forest, asked each of the birds to sacrifice one of their kind for the feast. He gave these offerings to Arohongui who cooked them in a great fire-stone pit.

Seeing all of those plump, cooking birds made Kitava very hungry, and he offered to watch them, to make sure they didn't burn while Arohongui rested during the heat of the day. Arohongui thanked Kitava for his kindness, but while she slept, Kitava ate the cooking birds, flesh, bones, gizzards and all.

Upon waking, Arohongui was furious that Kitava had lied to her, for saying that he would watch the birds when he actually intended to eat them all up. When Tukohama arrived home in his mighty canoe, Aohongui asked him to punish Kitava for his selfish gluttony.

Tukohama, our Father of War, agreed and pulled his sharpest tooth from his own mouth. He then asked Arohogui and Tawhoa to hold Kitava fast while he cut Kitava's face with the tooth. Two diagonal slashes that blinded Kitava and formed a bleeding X on his face.

From that day forth, Kitava would never be able to promise to watch that which he truly intended to consume.

Narrated by Slave Utula

Transcribed by Irwen of Theopolis

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#Kitavas Hunger II

To replace the feast of birds that Kitava had greedily consumed, Tukohama, our Father of War, and Valako, Father of Storm, went fishing. Although Kitava was blind, he could still cast his line and feel when a fish took his bait. So Tukohama and Valako took him with them on Tukohama's mighty canoe.

But while they fished, Kitava grew hungry and secretly ate all of their bait of grubs and worms. Disgusted and angry, Tukohama and Valako decided to use Kitava entrails as bait instead. Valako used his own jawbone as a hook, impaled Kitava's guts on it, and cast it into the sea. Kitava sank to the bottom of the sea, but instead of the fish eating Kitava, it was Kitava who ate all of the fish that nibbled at him, flesh, scales, guts and all.

When Tukohama and Valako hauled a fat-bellied Kitava back up from the sea, they were even more furious, and knew that Kitava must be punished one final time.

Narrated by Slave Utula

Transcribed by Irwen of Theopolis

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#Kitavas Hunger III

Tukohama, our Father of War, and Valako, Father of Storm, took Kitava to Hinekora, Mother of Death.

They asked Hinekora to kill the greedy Kitava, for surely their tribe would starve if Kitava continued to live among them. Hinekora refused, for death would not teach Kitava the lesson he needed to learn.

Instead, Hinekora beat Kitava with a whip woven of her own hair. To Kitava, each strand of hair felt like a searing lash, and so Kitava wore thousands of lashes across his back as Hinekora drove him into the darkest corner of the underworld. There she left him to suffer, without water or food, for the rest of eternity.

Kitava remained in the darkness of Hinekora's night-clad island for thousands of years. He suffered and waited, for the day that he could return to the world of light and slake his scorching thirst and satiate his ravening hunger.

Narrated by Slave Utula

Transcribed by Irwen of Theopolis

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tl;dr Kitava got bullied by all the cool gods, now he's back for revenge!