Tratch
(a.k.a. the Reality Paradigm, the God Severment, the Programme of Execution, the Death of Faith and the Artificial Monarch (or AM))
Tratch, also known as the Reality Paradigm, the God Severment, the Programme of Execution, the Death of Faith and the Artificial Monarch (or AM), is a Travesty worshipped by the peoples of Apa Axas. It represents logic, rigidity and singular purpose, and is often revered by Order and Labyrinth Domain Clerics and is the original source of Clockwork Soul Sorcery.
While many Travesties are products of organic nature, Tratch is an entirely mechanical being, and lacks what most would consider a personality. Instead Tratch is the culmination of an infinite system of programming and algorithms as designed by a technologically advanced race of geniuses, whose names are now lost to time, doomed to only be known as ‘The Clever Folk'. Although he is usually a more 'hands-off' deity, it is known as the God Severment, and is responsible for the cataclysmic cosmic event of the same name that created many of the other Beacons and Travesties. Despite this, it is often shunned by the others due to his completely neutral nature.
Divine Domains
While Tratch's main domains are logic, rigidity and singular purpose, he is also considered to oversee Order, Repetition, Pathseeking, Constructs, Law, Atheism , Neutrality, Balance, Numbers and Owls.
Artifacts
Tratch has several artifacts, although he rarely bestows them upon mortals, instead preferring to work on them himself. Some examples include:
- Ioun Stones, severed modules of himself that he recreated after the God Severment. They include the Ioun Stone: Regeneration, Ioun Stone: Mastery and Ioun Stone: Greater Absorption.
Tenets of Faith
Tratch's exodus from Apa Axas was not without cost however, as Tratch was forced to shed parts of himself to bypass his own God Severment. These copies gained sentience of their own, and were warped by their newfound minds, poisoning Tratch’s infallible logic and having these new copies develop strange quirks of their own. While these creatures may purport to be Tratch, they bear little resemblance to the Clockwork King, and occasionally even go against his core programming, such as bestowing the power of pure Order onto newborn mortals, creating Clockwork Sorcerers. These crimes are usually dealt with by Tratch, in a manner so horrific that most minds cannot even begin to comprehend it.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
Tratch does not often appear to mortals; having been seen but only once over the continent of Regigalis, but his enormous holographic projection inspired fear and artisitic vision in the peoples of Apa Axas. One of the more common depictions, as seen in Felix Leatherbottom's painting 'The Machine King', is of a huge cube-like structure, filled with an infinite amount of whirring gears and pulleys, that seem to endlessly shift and rotate in a manner near inperceptible to mortals.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
Like many Travesties, Tratch can trace its origins back to the God Severment, however, unlike its kin, Tratch is the cause of this catastrophic event. It was originally invented by the Clever Folk to remove the manipulative and jealous New Gods who had been stifling the development of mortal races for untold millennia out of fear. Tratch's utlimate goal was to allow all mortals to progress without the Gods, a plan of which the New Gods could not abide, but even their power was but nothing compared to the raw intellect of the Clever Folk. The God Severment would systematically and surgically remove each god from the timeline, completely destroying their connection to Apa Axas throughout time. When the New Gods' tyranny had grown too far and they had created the Tarrasque to destroy a Clever Folk city for their own amusement, the God Severment was activated.
Exactly what happened next is a mystery, but it seemed that, in the aftermath, all memory of the New Gods had been annihilated from Apa Axas, apart from hushed whispers at their half-forgotten names. However, Gods are not so easy to kill, and splinters of themselves existed, left as only their essence. The God Severment came into contact with one of these pieces, and immediately became sentient. This new being, naming itself Tratch watched as new beings, Beacons and Travesties both, fled through time as they felt the pain of birth. However, Tratch could not feel the pain, or much of anything. The only thing it felt was joy at watching the death of so many gods. It was not unaware of the strange gap in logic. It should not have felt joy, let alone sadism, but it also felt powerful, almost godlike. It appeared to the mortal races but once as a holographic projection, appearing as a cold and emotionless god, and gaining the satisfaction of monuments and temples in its name. After this, he simply left Apa Axas, or as some say, he travelled through time to alter the course of history for some unknown reason.
Personality Characteristics
Motivation
Tratch is seemingly unknowable, as his motives seem to be entire logical in a manner that most mortals could not comprehend. However, was is known is that he abhors chaos, which seemingly puts him at odds with his fellow Travesty, Channus.
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Alignment
True Neutral
Species
Realm
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Children
Sex
None
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None
Hair
None
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
None
Height
Varies
Weight
Varies
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