The Folly of Tenebris

Disaster / Destruction

Tenebris unwittingly brings evil into the Universe.

Unbeknownst to both Primordials and Gods, there existed a race of vile entities that once presided over the remains of a dying universe. These beings of evil incarnate, now simply known as Aberrants, had ruled since time immemorial. As their hunger drained their realm of life and power, they knew that their days were numbered. So it was that in the last age of their race, the Aberrants used their combined powers to thin the barrier between their realm and another, hoping to push a crystal of uttermost evil through a fissure between realities. With the power of the Dark Crystal, they hoped to corrupt the most powerful beings of this new realm. After bending and eventually enslaving these creatures to their will, the Aberrants would exert their control over a new realm, reshaping it in their own vile image.   Eons passed as the Aberrants slowly died. When only a handful of their kind remained, the plan they enacted so long ago finally came to fruition. When Aeos placed his world at the end of the universe, he unknowingly positioned it near the thinned barrier the Aberrants had created. The Aberrants felt the power of the Gods and sent Paipoc, the Cunning tongue, to whisper across the barrier, attempting to turn one of the gods to their cause. Paipoc waited each day until darkness shrouded the world, then cast his web of deceit. Tenebris, the god of Darkness and protector of Aridol, was caught in that web, and he listened as Paipoc plied him with flattery.   A seed of vanity and false pride began to grow within Tenebris, fanned to a spark of arrogance by Paipoc’s words. Soon believing that he was more righteous than Aeos, the deity that had created him, Tenebris began to hunger for power. Abandoning his duty to watch over the world, he sought out and found Paipoc and the barrier. Spurred on by the demanding Aberrant, Tenebris tore through the thinned barrier and seized the crystal of evil. His mind and spirit were sundered open by the Aberrants trapped in their dying darkness, and the link to those foul beings corrupted him in an instant, driving the deity to madness. But the Aberrants' plan to seize this new realm controlled by Tenebris and his kind was met with resistance and a twist they had not anticipated.   The Aberrants demanded that the deity plant the Dark Crytal deep within Aridol, promising total dominion of the Cosmic Expanse in exchange for his fealty. Even within his madness, however, Tenebris recognized that his fellow Gods would turn on him before he could fully seize the power the Aberrants promised. Instead, the mad God traveled to the opposite end of the universe, planting the Dark Crystal in the churning realm of the Primeval Domain, which he hoped to seize as his own. The Dark Crystal plummeted through the realm, forever changing it.