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=="Deities"Cosmology==Various powerful beings play games with the lives of mortals.

===Cosmic Powers===Various powerful beings play games with the lives of mortals. None have a true character alignment, being unspeakable and unknowable horrors that warp space and time to their ends. :The King in Yellow: Ruler A patron of Lost Carcosadespair, decline, and decadence, but also known as the Unspeakable Onecreativity, whose name drives its victims insane. Like its ilkcompassion, the King is a being of paradox and contradictionscuriosity. It embodies despair and decayrules over the perpetually lost city of Carcosa, but cannot die and has a twisted affection for its minions and vassals. Its cultists include gateway into the greatest artistsknown afterlife, scientistswhich it also rules, magiciansto which all mortals travel after death. :The Starry Messenger: A dread trickster, performers, musicians, writersfully versed in mortal virtues and foibles, and philosophersalso quite possibly the cruelest being in the entire cosmos. Known for its Esca Stones, as well as glowing crystals that lure mortals into sadistic monsterssport. Its artifacts are twisted musical instruments wrought :The Heart of Darkness: A dread being contained at the core of pain and sorrowthe world, able believed to play unearthly music be the progenitor of monsters and drain vitality mortals alike. All life stems from victims. Easily one of the most powerful beings in the settingits blood, and opposed will, according to the Herald of Oblivionmyth, warring over eternal decadence vone day be returned to it. Similar beings are believed to dwell within other life-bearing worlds. utter annihilation:The Fateweaver: Mysterious entities that order and manipulate the cosmos according to some grand design. Its minions include :The Howling Maw: A terrible extradimensional predator that feeds on the Triumvirate very essence of Masks (Pallidtime and space, Raveneventually bring an end to whatever world it invades. Contained for now, and Crimson) and the Worms it sends aspects of Conquest itself (some of the most powerful beings players can actually fight in the settingWendigo-like Husks)to establish footholds for future feedings. Think Brilliant in spite of Edgar Allan Poe, Lovecraft and Chambers, and a bit of Nurgleits deranged predatory mindset.

Herald ==Gothic Powers==:The Worms of OblivionConquest: Ogdru Jahad-like worm/The Void/Infinite: Also known as the Faceless Messenger and the Midnight Kingwyrm beasts, this sinister being delights in rampant destruction and pointless conflict. Ostensibly serving the whims of the Devouring Void, the Herald prefers nearest equivalent to torment mortalkind for the sheer amusement. Possessing powers of destruction and shapeshifting, the Herald turns mortals against one another, arming them against old and new foes, only to betray everyone. Its artifact of choice is the Escatite Stone, a tempting trapazoidal solid that glows brighter in darkness, and telepathically lures mortals to try and possess it. This draws prey to the Herald and provides a beacon for the Herald to manifest in the physical dragons possessed by this world. :Echidna: The primeval mother Mother of monstersMonsters, Echidna is a gelatinous being result of First One experimentation that wiped out their civilization. Feared by its victims and children alike, and corrupted by the primal source Heart of organic lifeDarkness. It was born as a result of bioartificing by :"The Red Death": An insidious escapee from the First RaceFateweavers, and was used who seeks to breed servitor creaturesconceal itself from their everpresent judgment. Over timeTo this end, it gained sapience and free willhas corrupted every civilization it encountered, and unleashed its children on seeking to hide within the First Ones, nearly exterminating them alldarkness of mortal evil.