#eldritch oc

Eldritch horror decides to be a silly little guy, more at 10

I technically have paradox OCs! Gods who existed before creation, but did not at the same time. In my stories' world, multiverse in fact, magic works as radiation would. I developed this world building rule prior to this post I saw but here it goes because its kind of like when one writes an essay and finds more evidence for their argument!

"divinity like radioactivity, contaminating and penetrating the surfaces around it with every beat of an angel's wings, every twitch of unblinking constellation eyes, every flare of holy light, inescapable poison in your lungs as you breath in something too pure for coexistence."

My elder gods in my world, specifically the vast universe of my story Moon Of Sin, have the ability to mutate a living being's soul.

When the elder gods mutate the forms of the souls, corrupting them, they're unraveling and reshaping souls simultaneously. The souls become a little more like the gods in their beginnings: Thinking and feeling, but also having a new appearance just as the gods changed from light and essence into something humanoid. (Mostly humanoid hehe. This specific group can become abstract and incomprehensible.) Hearts and souls are so important in the universe of Sin as a whole because that is how the gods form, slowly becoming more conscious over time. *Then* they gained bodies. The elder gods came (spawned lol) before the gods of Earth, but watched as formless entities without bodies or names. The earth gods sort of evolved faster and once they learned there was more to existence, they began to form. The gods, all gods, I think are magical radiation. However, as we know with radiation therapy to fight cancer, it can be *good.* If radiation ceased to exist, the universe as we know it would instantly end. Atoms would lose their structure, all energy transfer would stop, the sun would go dark, and life would cease instantly, making matter and chemistry impossible. Gods of life are the good kind of radiation. My Star god, called His Eminence and the rest of his kind (called star gods. Please note that elder gods ≠ star gods. An elder god can be a star god but a star god can't be an elder god. An elder god must be extremely powerful and very, very ancient) are like nuclear radiation, wild and untamed.

His Eminence's 'sister', whom I've named Parastin, is in the middle. She's a goddess of life and creation, capable of creating souls, mechanical, and biological bodies but she is an antagonist character because she's fascinated by humanity but does not understand it. She thinks she is good, but she still doesn't understand her own powers, much less what really makes someone human.

This is Analog! I haven't digitized their design...

inspired by twisted Dyle, lol.

analog is an omnipresent Eldritch record keeper. They record every choice that has been made, can be made, and will be made by every iteration of an individual in every timeline, multiple times. Think of it as archiving everything that exists. Analog and Aeralis (my other Eldritch oc) know eachother. I need to share Aeralis (and Ace) lol

but until I show Aeralis, here's a bit of a rundown on Aeralis (well, their relationship w analog)

Thomas:

Uses “to be honest” and similar phrases quite a lot.

Very aware that none of it makes sense, mentions it frequently in his writing. Does his best to explain, but is very blunt with the bizarreness of the situation and doesn’t bother trying to explain what he doesn’t know.

Writes as though he is speaking to an audience, explains things as though he’s explaining them to a room full of people. It helps him process.

Clearly very empathetic

Rambles

Paula:

Formal and thorough, like it’s a scientific essay

Does her best to describe things, but will frequently say that it is not accurate and she’s just doing what she can

Frequently calls enemies mean names and has a very sharp tongue about it

Makes religious references to both Christianity and Paganism

Talks frequently about Nightingale life

Cormac:

Most poetic writing style (other than Lullaby)

Superstitious and it shows

So wordy that sometimes he gets a little hard to understand

Very big vocabulary, will describe things in the best detail that he can, with emotions prominent on the page

Stays practical when it comes to the supernatural and prefers to keep his head down.

Most likely to remember speech

Klaus:

Tendency to cross out (strikethrough) text for whatever reason.

Always writes with a formal, leaderly tone.

Always tries to write things in a way that makes sense, even when he doesn’t understand it. Will theorize to soothe himself.

Frequently self-depricates

Describes appearances frequently

Varnish:

More modern lexicon.

Writes very casually about disturbing things due to his difference in morals.

Criticizes human perspectives on his people

Shorter chapters.

Complains a lot about human names for Chthonic things

Ranter

Lullaby:

Formal writing style, very stilted and flowery at times.

Very “what’s done is done”

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