The Elder Itch
If you were to gaze upon all of Creation, sum it all up at once, you would notice that you're omnipotent and the power invested in ye could probably be used better than being an oversized camera. You may also notice some things that don't quite make sense. Some things that don't add up quite right. Things that are subjectively objective. The confusion the author wants to instil in the audience without properly communicating anything is in between "using the word 'quantum'" and "describing stuff as 'non-Euclidian' without understanding any of what that means and refusing to acknowledge it when you bring it up in conversation. I mean seriously, a non-Euclidean space is just where two lines defined as being parallel within this space can intersect. Like... on a sphere. Ooohhh... oh noooooo... maybe spheres are working for The Great Old Ones, 'ey Howard? Yea, fuck you, you uneducated, xenophobic, pasty sack of virgin cunt". With that out of the way, you'll notice a nagging thought at the back of your mind. An itch. Creation and all within- every rock, every person, every planet- can feel this itch as well. Makes you wanna just... scratch through your skull, doesn't it? A hefty amount of blissful ignorance and doublethink can help to satiate this itch but, quite unfortunately, it's never going to be scratched.
The Itch is old, Elderly, in fact, and this has earned it some name or another across human history. It's quite indescribable in any corporeal means, you would have to put in a lot of effort to give even a framework of it. Yea. If something doesn't make sense? It's the Itch. "Why is it raining with no clouds? How am I catching four times the number of squid as I am fish? Why does this dress appear in different colours to some people?". It's the Itch. It's widely unknown what the Itch wants or even what it is directly responsible for but some people dedicate their lives to enacting its will. There have been notable examples of intervention from the Itch and these are known as "Expressions of the Elder Itch". When they're unconfirmed, they're referred to as "Events Indicating Elder Itch Occurrences".
Manifestation
List of nearly-confirmed Expressions of the Elder Itch:
- There is an object in a cave somewhere in the modern country of Plac. Some people see it as a cube, some people see it as a triangle-based pyramid. It is known that statistically less people see the pyramid than the cube and it is unknown if the object takes any more forms than just these two.
- The star that orbited the planet-creature, Hell. Thought to be a being of some description but, unfortunately, said descriptions rarely align.
- The eye colour of people in Astenia's old royal lineage tends to be completely indeterminable. At a glance, it could be blue or a bluish-purple but even people unafflicted by colourblindness are fully unable to tell what colour they are. This colour dysphoria is thought to be an EIEIO.
Outside of these examples, anything but Creation itself, realistically, also be an Expression of the Elder Itch.
Localization
Whenever, wherever, it could be anything but it isn't often anything.
Type
Metaphysical, Astral
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