On the Origins of Conflict(OOC) Cycle 1, Apex Phase: First Acts of the Gods
------First were the Realms, abodes of the Original Gods------
In the Source of Chaos, appears the Realm of Azeri' kith. A twisting world of ice and fire, of life and death. By the will of Azeri' kith, a mockery of life takes root in this impossible place. These crude beings, actors of an eternal tragedy, can never leave. They are but projections of Azeri' kith's Realm, and cannot exist beyond it.The realm of chaos takes form, a twisted world ever in motion, where Islands of liquid fire burn darkly under clouds of vaporized ice as the seas of earth flow ever on. within this realm strange life holds sway, rotting plants that consume sound, and chittering creatures that feed on color stalk the lands above, and Deep in the skies below massive Things exist, not living, but never thinking- watching waiting to consume those that wander to far from them. In the center of this realm a great storm brews from it this whole world grows forth, while at the edges of this realm all things turn to blackened light and return to the source.
In the Source of Violence, appears the Realm of Motion of Violence. Similarly to the Realm of the Original God of Chaos, a scape imitating a world appeared in the plane of pure Violence. A sky, an earth. Raging elements, life. All of these sustained by the Will of Motion of Violence, all to play a violent game for all eternity.Through the wild thrashing and clawing of miles long coils of violence made flesh, the realm of violence begins to solidify into something comprehensible. Hundred mouthed creatures of all sorts and types crawl and fly and swim, warring against each other, with weapons, fists and teeth, and with the sharpest and most biting of words. Above the sky constantly strikes at itself and the ground with heat lighting, the winds battle themselves in tornadoes and the oozing slimy ground and oceans of literal blood is pelted with rains of acid, fire and ice. The oozing, suppurating earth shakes and quakes, tearing itself apart. Where blades meet flesh, new life crawls out, where the speakers brutalize each other until they understand violence and join together into a new creature, where battles are fought for territory, for peace, for the attention of the most High, or for entertainment.
In the Source of Balance, appears the Realm of Goasis. Unlike the two others Original Gods, the Realm of the Original God of Balance is simple, and pure in its lack of features. Apart from the innumerable empty boards filling up this white and black space, there was nothing yet.Goasis's realm is giant white and black space with many boards that were also blank but would slowly fill up once land existed in the mortal plane and clay featureless figurines were on the shelves, these figurines would take the shape of mortals and servants, his realm was boring in general for now.
In the Source of Time, appears the Realm of Cirno Fate Trigger. It is a realm of far reaching possibilities, of the unconfirmed. Only a single hill atop which grows a lone tree has a confirmed existence there. Behind it, an uncertain place exists, but hasn't been defined. Spreading under and beyond the horizon, uncertain gears, uncertain stars. For now, there is nothing to be illuminated by the perpetual lunar light of this place. Certainty will be defined in time.A million vistas bloom amidst gears yet to be and stars yet to appear, cycling above the lunar light. In the middle of this impossible place, a single hill with a tree atop it. Looking down upon the endless vistas, to the back of the gently sloping hill, a forest/wasteland/city. Only time will tell who comes here, and only time determines what passes in front of the hill. An eternity passes in an eye blink, but the beings yet to be will see what they see in that time one vista appears beyond all. How will this world develop, and this one. And how will they handle the end of ages.
In the Source of Creation, appears the Realm of Sekur. Unlike all the others Original Gods, Sekur decides that his Realm appearance should be tied to the perception of what is ordinary. As such, its Realm appears different to its onlookers, taking the shape of what they consider is ordinary.Sekur's realm has no true appearance. It looks different for everyone who enters it, choosing what the individual thinks of as ordinary.
The Realms of the Original Gods have been formed.------Then the Mortal Plane was given shape: Worlds, and Astral Bodies------
At that time, the Mortal Plane and Astral Planes were one. As such there was no proper Mortal Plane, .
First with an Essence of Violence, Motion of Violence forged the Hydra-Sun. To that end, the God sought the center of existence, the only point satisfying this definition was the place where the clash of Origins took place. There, the Original God of Violence ceremoniously ripped themselves in half, caring not to spill her holy Ichor, and from the shining ball that resulted, created the Hydra-Sun.
Then with an Essence of Time, Cirno Fate Trigger created the Lunar Light, a star programmed such that it circled around the Hydra-Sun while avoiding Worlds and other Astral Bodies. It is imbued with great powers, causing it to spread the gravity and consequence of the past onto the Worlds, causing new ages to occur for civilizations.
And finally with an Essence of Balance, Goasis created the World Scale Star in the proclaimed center of the Mortal Plane. The scale shaped star emitted a heat beneficial for the growth of life. The God mumbled something about an affliction he called skin cancer, casting a dark shadow on the future growth of life.Name: Hydra-Sun
Origin/Element: Violence
Type: Astral Body
Description: A giant hydra-sun made of blinding light, radiating the scent of blood and violence to every corner, the din of distant battle always barely perceptible. A shining ball of a hundred times a hundred heads constantly battling against themselves, ripping off and consuming. Those who gaze directly upon the Hydra-Sun finds their eyes stabbed by it's aggressive light, and their minds slowly becoming filled with Violence.
Name: Lunar Light
Origin: Time
Element: Control, Era
Type: Astral Body
Description: A Silver Light coming from an orbiting star, it ever circles the other star. In it's time it waxes and wanes,
with one of it's times coming close to the sun, and on the other end, it's farthest, for a given value given how far off it is. It's orbit is always off the line of orbit of other planets. When it passes close, it brings upheavel, it's gravity shaking the very presence and gravity, the seas and stone, upheavel of the previous age. And as it travels away, the new age begins. Though this takes a long time...(Every 11th cycle, The 6th cycle is it's farthest point, and past the 9th it's presence will begin to be known.)
Those who are in it's presence, it's sight, shall find in themselves control of will, to better overcome their base desires and work together. Though where this leads is unknown to most.(Typically half of every day)
Effects:
Upheaval of the Previous Age: As the Lunar Light wanes, so too does the end come for what has been built. The Planets face the gravity of what is to happen. Have the mortals built something which can withstand it? Or will it all crumble to dust.
Ages Pass: As the Lunar Light waxes, so too does the New Age to come begin. Can they build a society to survive the end of those ages though, remains the question.
Control of Impulse's Light: Those who are in it's lights reach, even if it is only a pinprick most of the time, shall find in themselves the ability to control their impulses. This leads to focus, and progress, in war with others, or peace.
Name: World Scale Star
Origin: Balance
Description: This star rests in near the center of the mortal plane and is close to the hydra sun, its shaped like a scale and its ends shift up and down based on which side the planets are on, others wise it provides heat to the planets allowing life to grow...
Next three Original Gods joined their Power to forge Three Worlds. They were Motion of Violence, Sekur and Goasis.
Power was infused into the bowels of Motion of Violence, causing great distress to its holy transit. Thus Three Worlds were expelled from the mouth of the Original God of Violence. These massive, planet-sized mass of solid and molten rock in the shape of sharks were not alive, yet were animated by primitive directives. Crudely emulating the game of life, the three sharks swam in the nether regions of the Mortal Plane, chasing each others and biting off one another perpetually.
A crude, fragile equilibrium was formed in that manner. One could only hope it would last.
The Worldsharks Jigsaw and Bitey were identical in appearance, differing only in Origin. But Multitude was different, having been implanted with subworlds in its innards, for a total of five. For now, they were only referenced as the spleen world, the pocket tree-world, the spatial coffer-world, the extradimensional egg-world, and the microcosm needle-world.Name(s): The Worldsharks Jigsaw, Bitey and Multitude
Origin/Element: Violence + Balance + 0.33 Creation
Type: World
Description: Three giant shark worlds made of earth and stone and water and ice and all the other things of interest, swimming in the void that is not, constantly hunting and biting off pieces from the other two, maintaining a rough equilibrium between all three.
The third shark contains within its spleen analogue a pocket world, bigger on the inside than the outside, and truly world sized, though still smaller than the actual world-shark. There are several further nested worlds within the spleen-world, each somewhat smaller, but still very very big.
------Finally was Life to animate them. The First Beast, and Mortals------
Azeri' kith brought the First Beast into existence, the Original Beast of Chaos: Chaos Born. A shifting amalgamate of tentacles and eyes in the shape of a massive somewhat whale like creature, its form shifted both physically and mentally, causing its form to be ungraspable to weaker minds.
Chaos Born was unleashed in the void of the Mortal Place, and roamed. In time, it would give birth to offspring.Species Name: Chaos Born
Origin/Element: Chaos
Tier: Original Beast (Tier 4)
Description: A massive indistinctly whale like creature formed of tentacles and eyes, its form subtlety shifting at all times, its form is subtly unthinkable.
Traits:
-Adaptive form: Its body adapts and twists, evolving over time to better survive.
-Single Gendered: It is capable of reproduction without mating.
-Weakened descendants: its Descendants will be one Tier weaker then its own, and lose one trait(from the bottom up)
-Space worthy: Capable of surviving indefinitely away from the worlds.
-Immortal: Can't die of old age
Species Name: Sluda
Origin/Element: Creation
Tier: 1
Description: The Sluda are a humanoid mortal race made in the likeness of a badger.
Traits:
- Creative
- Long-lived
------And inbetween these acts, Original Shards were forged------
That was not all, for two Gods decided to give shape and purpose to their Ichor.
Cirno Fate Trigger crafted the Trigger, an Original Shard of Time in all likelihood named after its creator. This ring of immense power granted dominion over the Origin of Time, and was able to exist in two separate locations simultaneously.Name: The Trigger
Origin/Element: Time
Class: Original Shard
Description: A ring decorated with an endless turning gear, turning upon itself with water flowing down between the gears the blue orichalcum band like the endless time, marching forward. Until it does not.
Qualities:
-Time Negation/Removal/Freezing
-Personal Movement allowed in this frozen time, all others are not unless allowed by Cirno Fate Trigger or hold the ring.
-Activated by Cirno Fate Trigger's will, or those she allows access to the ring.
-Can be in two places at once, one of which is always Cirno Fate Trigger's Possession.
[Extra Notes not added in the data sheet]
Name: Improvement
Origin/Element: Chaos
Class: Original Shard (Tier 4)
Description: A simple Sword of bone, Fairly plain with only a single edge, in its pommel a black gemstone resides, watching everything
Qualities:
-All cutting: This blade can cut all things, even the space between planes isn't immune to this.
-Ever changing: this blade has the capacity to grow stronger, and even gain its own mind.
-Ever Improving: This blade is not invulnerable, but so long as it isn't Truly broken it will always grow stronger from the damage done to it.
------With the stabilization of reality, Origins coalesced. And Elements were born------
The Universe stabilized. Astral Planes. Realms. Mortal Plane. Worlds. Astral Bodies. Life. Mortals. The Origins were given form, and as such, the Origins interacted. A myriad of interactions, at times opposing each others, at times ignoring one another, and at times combining together.
Thus Elements appeared. First were the Elements which were given a name.
Ether(True), Element of Time and Balance.
Hollow, Element of Time and Chaos.
Control, Element of Time and Violence.
Era, Element of Time and Creation.
Thought, Element of Chaos, Time, Creation and Balance.
An infinite number of Elements appeared, but the named ones were stronger. The strongest of them all was Thought. Such was its power that an Elemental God spontaneously appeared from it, and with its birth, a Subdomain was born.Parentless, self-born, the Nameless God, or Goddess of Faces, or "It" was born. Elemental God of Thought.
The Subdomain of Thought appeared.Thought. The quality of definition, of perception. What is can be defined.
Qualities:
-Sensation
-Perception
-Expression
-Intangible
-Communication
------Finally, the last guests made their arrival------
Five Corrupted Gods, for Five Original Gods.
The Fettered Raja, the Corrupted Hope.
Xanxerwild, the Corrupted Life.
Adam, the Corrupted Radiance.
Eris & Discordia, the Corrupted *Chaos*.
Moratus, the Corrupted Destiny .
As Corrupted Origins, they do not, and should not exist in this Universe. They are alone, incomplete. They are incompatible with one another, and disturb the balance of the Origins. As they haven't been directly encountered by the Origins, it is unknown how what kind of interaction they will have with the Origins, or even with the other Corrupted Origins.Life. The quality of consumption, of desire.
Qualities:
-Hunger
-Desire
-Taboo
-Consumption
-Relentless
Hope. The quality of liberation, of the quest for the better.
Qualities:
-Peace
-Liberation
-Silence
-Harmony
-Freedom
Radiance. The quality of lost power, and the quest to retrieve it.
Qualities:
-Destruction
-Single-Mindedness
-Revelation
-Yearning
-Incompletness
*Chaos*. The quality of confusion, of folly.
Qualities:
-Unpredictability
-Madness
-Contradiction
-Conflict
-Restlessness
Destiny. The quality of controlled choices, of inevitability.
Qualities:
-Emotionless
-Control
-Mortality
-Imposition
-Determinism
Corrupted Domain of Hope
Corrupted Domain of Radiance
Corrupted Domain of *Chaos*
Corrupted Domain of Destiny
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