Demiurges

Killing a man is easy. Killing an idea, now that's hard.

It wasn't just gods and mortals who died in the cataclysm of the End of All Things. The entire nature of reality was brutally rearranged to fit a new order, with things that had once been cosmic truths now discarded and slain. Rules of the cosmos such as Gods Are Powerful Beyond Mortal Ken or Opposing Forces Shall Never Mingle were irrevocably broken. Like Echoes, not all went quietly into oblivion or whatever afterlife ideas go to, but linger. Demiurges are all that remain, undead ideas and concept that refuse to rest, robbed of all power.

Description

Each Demiurges is different, but all have an abstract appearance. Some appear as a cohesive cloud of geometric shape constantly shifting and collapsing into each other, while others are the last light of a dying star. At least one is the form of an ancient, water-logged city that rises from the depths only to fall back again. No matter their physical appearance, Demiurges are powerless. The rising city can never be reached, the cloud of triangles pass the land without bending a grass, the light burns nothing - Demiurges have lost all they once had. The only power they have is as fuel for mages, as a trapped Demiurge can be harvested for powerful magical components.

Of course, catching one is anything but easy.

Demiurges are mindless, and move without purpose or goal. Some re-enact ancient tasks performed to maintain the old world, trying to align stars that no longer exist or balance forces of planes long since broken.

In the World

Its difficult to say exactly how many Demiurges exist in Ithekshem, but most put it at no more than a handful. Powerful laws were shattered into pieces, and each one could become a potential Demiurge, and many were simply blasted into oblivion. Others are still falling to the world, along with all the other pieces of Celestial debris that still scourge parts of the world. For most, Demiurges are haunting memories of the Old World, or a final part of it to burn as fuel to conquer the new one.

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Old World Blues

No matter how much some might wish to bring Demiurges back to their cosmic state before, they're out of luck. Ithekshem is different now, and whatever forces that conspired to slay the very underpinnings of reality aren't easy to replicate.
It doesn't stop people from trying. Just as gods and wizards try to recreate the afterlife or reforge planes, some try to heal the Demiurge and mend a broken reality. They too fail.

by Rock Cafe.info