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Teaser Text: The Ur-Kali
Aug. 22nd, 2007 | 08:40 am
Most creatures travel the void between worlds out of necessity, for it is the only way one can travel from one reality to another. The Ur-Kali are truely dwellers in the Greater Abyss. They do not make their way across it, but dwell within it. It is unknown what their true origin is, but their ceaseless hatred for all that is suggests to many that they are a natural expression of entropy. These theorists among the eidolons suggest they are formed as a result of the sorcery and energy bound up in the creation and maintenance of worlds, not unlike the nikisi of the Tel Chesed. It is certain these beings have no fear of death -- perhaps they cannot truly die, or perhaps they simply do not care if they do.
But if they are like the nikisi in origin, then the Ur-Kali are greater than the earth-sprung as the universe is greater than the City of Mercy. Vast sleek avatars of destruction, the Ur-Kali are as feared as the svartalfar. Those among them that are truly great are vast beyond confrontation. Those that are lesser are merely mammoth.
The Ur-Kali have two primary modus operandi. The first is the rampage -- the Ur-Kali enters the Sea of Time and simply destroys everything it can before the Executors can mount a response. Sometimes the beast then departs our world when the Executors’ response arrives, others stand their ground and dispute the matter with arriving eumenides until they are destroyed.
Other Ur-Kali plots are more subtle. These creatures lurk just beyond the fencelines of our world, always listening for prayers that invite them in -- a practice not unlike that of the Executors. These Ur-Kali are the archeypal corrupting devils; they appear to the their supplicants in pleasing shapes, offering aid and power, their love or their divine conversation if only the supplicant will perform for them the tiniest of tasks. Place a cup of coffee on a certain wall and walk away. Break a crock in a certain place and leave the shards. Give the next man who asks you for money ten dinars, no matter how little he asks for.
These tiny gestures are never devoid of meaning, but are the key components of vast entropic rituals that these dragons perform primarily in the privacy of the Greater Abyss. Little is known of this in the specific, save that those involved with blood and breaking things serve to help open the way for rampaging Ur-Kali. Acts that seem more constructive serve as parts of long-term destructive rituals that, gaining power over time, can destroy nations and entire narrative arcs. It is unknown if the Ur-Kali serve some purpose other than vexing the All-Lords, but it is assumed they are somehow ultimately seeking to destroy our world in its entirety in a ritual-of-rituals.
The dragons of the Greater Void are as large as city blocks, ocean liners, centers of government and even geographic features. Those who travel the Greater Abyss hint that these are merely the largest of the Ur-Kali that can wedge their way into our world, and that the Abyss contains far larger specimens.
But if they are like the nikisi in origin, then the Ur-Kali are greater than the earth-sprung as the universe is greater than the City of Mercy. Vast sleek avatars of destruction, the Ur-Kali are as feared as the svartalfar. Those among them that are truly great are vast beyond confrontation. Those that are lesser are merely mammoth.
The Ur-Kali have two primary modus operandi. The first is the rampage -- the Ur-Kali enters the Sea of Time and simply destroys everything it can before the Executors can mount a response. Sometimes the beast then departs our world when the Executors’ response arrives, others stand their ground and dispute the matter with arriving eumenides until they are destroyed.
Other Ur-Kali plots are more subtle. These creatures lurk just beyond the fencelines of our world, always listening for prayers that invite them in -- a practice not unlike that of the Executors. These Ur-Kali are the archeypal corrupting devils; they appear to the their supplicants in pleasing shapes, offering aid and power, their love or their divine conversation if only the supplicant will perform for them the tiniest of tasks. Place a cup of coffee on a certain wall and walk away. Break a crock in a certain place and leave the shards. Give the next man who asks you for money ten dinars, no matter how little he asks for.
These tiny gestures are never devoid of meaning, but are the key components of vast entropic rituals that these dragons perform primarily in the privacy of the Greater Abyss. Little is known of this in the specific, save that those involved with blood and breaking things serve to help open the way for rampaging Ur-Kali. Acts that seem more constructive serve as parts of long-term destructive rituals that, gaining power over time, can destroy nations and entire narrative arcs. It is unknown if the Ur-Kali serve some purpose other than vexing the All-Lords, but it is assumed they are somehow ultimately seeking to destroy our world in its entirety in a ritual-of-rituals.
The dragons of the Greater Void are as large as city blocks, ocean liners, centers of government and even geographic features. Those who travel the Greater Abyss hint that these are merely the largest of the Ur-Kali that can wedge their way into our world, and that the Abyss contains far larger specimens.