#epistemus

And then on the IDW side of things, I really love the Guiding Hand as a religious concept. So I thought to myself, what if those two pantheons could be merged?

So once again we are talking about:

Mortilus (Death / Natural Cycles)

Epistemus (Knowledge)

Solomus (Wisdom)

Adaptus (Transformation / Change)

HOWEVER, they are not individual people, they are different facets of Primus. iirc the ancient Greeks and Romans did something like this, where they would have different cults worshipping specific aspects of a god?

So anyway, let's say whoever bears the Matrix (in this case Zeta Prime) is the conduit for Primus as a whole. That leaves four Digits of the Guiding Hand and twelve other Primes. Meaning, conventiently, that we can divy up three Primes apiece as devotees of Adaptus, Solomus etc etc. Each one exemplifying some aspect of their chosen Godly Digit.

So firstly let me sum up the Thirteen Primes, as seen in TF One, and their general "thing", if I could suss it out.

Zeta -Matrix Bearer / Leadership

Megatronus - Physical Prowess, War

Nexus Prime - Combination, Community (as he is a communal being, a combiner)

Amalgamous - Transforming

Solus - Invention / Creativity

Onyx - Beasts / Nature

Micronus -according to TF Wiki he was the conscience of the Primes, also Small

Quintus - Evolution? I dunno, I'm trying for something more general than "Likes to create weird organic beasts." . . . You know what, I'm going to give him Reproduction / Fertility. Even if the TF One bots reproduce via hot spot you just know this guy is gonna find a way to get pregnant, look at him, he's a freak.

Prima - In other continuities he's the Matrix-bearer, but here that falls to Zeta. His other thing is being the very first of Primus' creations. So my concept is that he is a nurturer of the other Primes, he takes on a big brother role, and therefore he gets Love (all kinds, not just romantic) and Harmony.

Alpha Trion - Knowledge, Literature

Vector - History, Time

Liege Maximo - Within the TF One universe he doesn't seem evil (maybe he would have been eventually had he not died heroically, but he did), so instead of Lies or Deception, I am giving him Conflict / Dialogue. (Specifically emotional and social conflict, because Megatronus has physical conflict covered.) Conflict is necessary for growth and change. Conflict must be acknowledged and negotiated in order to progress to a place of understanding.

Alchemist - Science / Food / Energon

OKAY, so now comes the hard part, divvying up the Primes among the aspects of the Guiding Hand. LMK if you would move any of them around!

Primus:

Zeta Prime

Epistemus (knowledge):

Alpha Trion

Vector Prime

Solus Prime (because she's an inventor)

Solomus (wisdom):

Micronus (due to him being "the conscience of the Primes")

Prima Prime

Liege Maximo

Adaptus (transformation):

Amalgamous Prime

Nexus Prime

Alchemist Prime

Mortilus (death / natural cycles):

Onyx Prime

Megatronus Prime (as a warrior who faces / brings death)

Quintus Prime

(I feel like Solus and Alchemist could also be swapped, because Solus transforms ideas into reality and Alchemist is a sciency guy.)

(crossposted from my twitter cuz im too lazy wahwahwaaahhh)

(Disclaimer: There's a lotta weird IDW lore concepts I'm using here so bear with me and just search them up on TF Wiki if you don't get them lol)

d3rlord3 is a pre-war archivist who finds a mysterious datapad with zero records on who wrote it, where it came from, or what it means. It somehow leads him to the "crossroads"

he transforms into a horse... maybe idk... i just thought a cool golden horse would be fitting

Avery could be some funky little messenger bot who somehow gets a hold of either the same datapad and/or one of d3r's writings/warnings

i imagine him transforming into a silly alien-ish vespa or something similar in vibe

The King in Yellow is a cosmic entity beyond cybertronian knowledge, but has since, for some unexplainable reason, wormed it's way into being mistaken for one of the Guiding Hand, specifically the (robot) god of knowledge Epistemus

They are trapped as a weird search-engine type bauble called the Magnificence

His vessel plans basically remain the same

I chose to represent KIY as Epistemus/The Magnificence because... come on... it literally looks like one of KIY's funny eyeballs lol

A long time ago, in the beginning of the tranquility of the universe, a giant roamed the cosmos. Daiakuron. He represented the thin balance between chaos and order. His existence was a lonely one, no life existed only scattered space rocks that had slowly built over the expanse of time. That is until he made two children from his very life essence.

Primus a being representing light and peace, tasked with interacting with the building of the cosmos to sustain life. Meanwhile, he created a being of darkness and destruction, Unicron, his task was to eat dead worlds so that the cosmos would be able to recycle. However, he did not consider that the brothers would eventually hate each other for their roles, over time they fought bitterly against each other instead of working together. With no other choice Daiakuron created another life, Gaea she was not as big as her brothers only half their size, she became known as the mediator, and she brought delicate peace to the brothers allowing the balance to continue.

For her service, Daiakuron created a being not linked to his spark, a bot named Atlas to be Gaea's love. The two worked tirelessly together to keep the peace between Unicron and Primus.

Jealousy burned inside Unicron however, and he created a wife of his own, Gozer. Only for it to end terribly as she tried to usurp Unicron after years of being together. One of the few times they worked together Primus and Unicron defeated her.

In time Daiakuron created another bot Weirrall, a scrapper similar to Unicron yet using the space rocks as his junk, coating himself in it. Then Daiakuron created four bots to help lead the eventual life of the universe, Adaptus, Epistemus, Mortilus, and Solomus.

[No image of Weirrall]

However, tragedy struck the universe again, and in anger, Unicron struck Gaea down. She eventually became a half-sphere. In grief Atlas joined his wife coming together to make a full sphere, forever circling the cosmos together. Shunned by the rest of his siblings, Unicron's anger grew untamed and his hunger for worlds only grew stronger.

Their father, having long since disappeared, left Primus in charge. Primus created thirteen bots to help in the fight against Unicron. Prima, Vector Prime, Alpha Trion, Solus Prime, Micronus Prime, Alchemist Prime, Nexus Prime, Onyx Prime, Amalgamous Prime, Quintus Prime, Liege Maximo, Megatronus Prime, and The Thirteenth who later willingly became unnamed.

Unicron followed suit, creating bots of his own as well based upon visions he assumed ensured his glory. Logos Prime, Septimus Prime, and Nemesis Prime, who served as his heralds for finding worlds to eat.

Eventually, Unicron was defeated, using the last of his strength Primus trapped his brother in a ball shape after seeing what happened with Gaea. Sorrowed at the sight Primus, remembered the early days, soon Primus joined Unicron at his indefinite prison, turning into a metal sphere. The two brothers eventually drifted into a reluctant slumber, Unicron now trapped in the form slowly etched out his body and returned to his duties as a world eater, while Primus etched out his body for life. Making each of his primes give an aspect of their nature to these new inhabitants.

especially their heads, empurata victims are notorious for having no face but one singular (usually yellow) eye.

it just so happens to be the same design for epistemus god of knowledge’s real face

it also of course is the only thing left of epistemus when he becomes the magnificence and is left to essentially function as nothing but a magic 8 ball for people to use to gain whatever knowledge they want

it’s also the design that drones use for their head as well

Another Rung AU because I can not be stopped.

Basically, Rung is a lonely human psychiatrist/inventor that after an accident finds himself growing increasingly isolated from the world. Driven by loneliness, he creates the first truly sentient AI from scans of his own brain. He calls it Primus.

Epistemus: Planarian (First animal with a recognised brain/nervous system)

Mortilus: Anomalocaris (Since I can’t just go ‘first in the kingdom of animalia to die’ I’m going with a widely considered ‘first apex predator’)

Adaptus: Tiktaalik (He’s associated with transforming and what’s a bigger transformation than sea to land? Although he might also be an arthropod to represent this)

Rung: When he transforms, everyone is confused why he just looks like a blob, little did he know he transforms into L.U.C.A., the Last Universal Common Ancestor (Primus himself is the First Univeral Common Ancestor)

Solomus: Whatever this thing is called (Its funny)