The Umbral-Liminal-Luminant distinctionsThe Void Beings have divided themselves into three factions based on which Hadal-tier they favor. The Umbrals favor Shturrthafusnghepiisnsitlygh, the Liminals Mgaareecaalwahiisnshyzhrshui, and the Luminants S'agroh'ebih'ui. The Luminants are typically the most interested in Bubble-dwellers and are drawn to their creations. The Liminals are willing to work with Bubble-dwellers and often do but are not actively interested in them. The Umbrals are typically apathetic about Bubble-dwellers and see them as helping the other two factions further demonize Shturrthafusnghepiisnsitlygh, who escaped just before the Cyclization Period and whom most of the Beings are attempting to capture now.
The Creative-Destructive axis
The Static-Dynamic axisThe five castesVoid society, such as it is with its limited population, contains five distinct castes we have found to occur in roughly equal numbers. The highest caste consists of the Coronals, who have significant social standing almost regardless of their actions and their effects. They are often somewhat aloof and to date, only two, Bechu and Mgaareecaalwahiisnshyzhrshui, have made contact independently. The next caste is the Ocular caste, which is somewhat less detached than the Coronal caste but somewhat in better standing than the Capital caste. The Oculars typically do not worry much of their own status. The next caste, the Capital caste, is seen as a slight social bonus but not nearly as much as being a member of the Ocular or the vaunted Coronal caste. They tend to interact more frequently with the Corporal caste, which is one step below. The final caste is the Cuttleran caste, which most pretend to dislike and despise. This causes numerous tensions between the Cuttlerans and the higher castes.
The five tiersThe Void Beings can be further divided into five tiers, mostly based on age and caste. The highest (and lowest, for the Void Beings' cultural understanding of height) tier is Hadal, and only three examples of Hadal tiers exist. It consists of Beings of primordial age and Coronal caste. As the most powerful beings, they also happen to be the leaders of the Luminant, Liminal, and Umbral factions. The Umbral Hadal-tier seems to have disappeared after helping the other two Hadal-tiers lock the surviving Beings into an actively stabilized orbit. The next tier, Abyssal, also has only two examples at present, and there are no Luminant Abyssal-tier Beings. They serve primarily as emissaries to the Hadals and mediators for the lower tiers. Bathyal-tier is the next tier and somewhat underrepresented despite their numbers. They serve no particular function to the greater society but do advance their agendas. Finally, the lowest tiers, Mesal and Epial, are the most likely to make contact with Bubble dwellers. They are the ones most gods learn from and in general, they do not care much about the Alightment feuds.
The functions/classes of BeingsOur Luminant sources indicate that there are 16 possible classes and 36 possible spheres for Void Beings. The classes and their proposed features are, in alphabetical order, the following:
Classes and proposed features
Destroyer: Destroys sphere or uses sphere to destroy?
Emissary: Can contact bubble-dwellers with less garbling if there are no Void temples yet
Killer: Kills sphere or uses sphere to kill?
Knight: Uses sphere to kill
Lord: Commands control over sphere
Lurker: Unknown
Mage: Warps sphere for others in conflict
Master: Unknown
Prophet: Makes accessible predictions about or using sphere, unknown causality
Sage: Knows much about sphere, helps others using said knowledge
Scout: Makes first contact with viable-looking bubbles
Seer: Predicts about or using sphere, uses for own advantage
Smith: Creates artifacts
Spy: Infiltrates bubbles? Unknown
Thief: Unknown
Watcher: Watches bubbles, does not do much
There is typically not much conflict between classes or spheres. The following is a list of the spheres and their proposed coverages:
Spheres and their proposed scope
Air: Change, modification
Apathy: Lack of care, disregard
Balance: Evenly matched conflict
Bundle: Unknown
Calm: Peace, lack of conflict
Chaos: Discord, disorganization, complexity
Creation: Intuitive creation, invention
Death: Acceptance of inevitablity, passiveness
Destruction: Destruction
Earth: Stasis, immutability
Energy: Creation, work, heat
Entropy: Destruction, decay, uniformity
Ephemerality: Brevity, mortality, suicide
Eternity: Immortality, stasis
Fate: Determinism, planning, control
Fire: Fire, heat, creation
Dishonor: Dishonorable behavior
Honor: Honorable behavior
Ignorance: Not holding information, blocking it
Imbalance: Unevenly matched conflict
Jelly Roll: Unknown
Joy: Happiness
Knowledge: Holding information, distributing it
Liberty: Freedom, lack of control
Life: Living creatures, consumption
Light: Light, transmission of information, exposure
Order: Organization, simplicity
Passion: Striving, strong desire
Satiation: Fullness, completeness, complacence
Shadow: Darkness, concealment of information, concealment
Sorrow: Sadness
Space: Space in bubbles, motion
Time: Time in bubbles, some fate, causality
Violence: Conflict
Want: Hunger, need, desire
Water: Calmness, renewal, decomposition
As can be noted, there are far more possible combinations of class and sphere than there exist Void Beings within contactable range. This hints at a larger society of Beings existing elsewhere whether now or at some point in the future past.
Fifth, you must always avoid Things of Honor. They seem to have a tendency toward being more untrustworthy than Things of Dishonor. No one knows why this is, but our Altros speculates that this is because honor to a Void Thing is vastly different than honor to us Clac.
From reading through multiple studies on Void cultists, it seems that the benefits are very much sphere-aligned. Records exist of followers of Ringaphluizhru gaining fire immunity, followers of Tukuko'iegh gaining extended lives, and followers of Y'yfhthyghuceetl becoming aware of imminent deaths. Not all of the abilities actually help those who gain them.
There seems not to be an opposite to the null. The null just is, it seems.
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