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Elder Things

The Elder Things, or Great Old Ones, are Unliving beings that menaced the early Universe. No two of them are exactly alike, but most are almost inconceivably powerful, are malignant or indifferent to mortal life, and cannot be killed in the conventional sense. Their presence in a planetary system is usually enough to dominate the minds and thoughts of […]

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The Dominions

The Dominions are the great anthropomorphic embodiments of the universal concepts of life. The seven entities serve as the great caretakers of the universe, overseeing and defining concepts such as free will, death, and dreams. Despite their cosmic presence, the Dominions manifest as a very human-like family, complete with all the drama and tensions inherent […]

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Monitor-Kind

The Monitors of Nil or Monitor-Kind are a constant throughout the Multiverse, always amongst the first Primordial life to emerge in each universe. They exist as a self-aware aspect of each Universe, taking on the responsibility for overseeing and recording the history of their native Universe. Nature Monitors are considered the only emergent Multiversal race […]

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Primordial Ones

The Primordial Ones are the oldest and most inhuman intelligences in the Universe. They are entities that thought themselves into existence in the early Universe. Only the elder three, the Triarch (the Source, the Monitor, and the Greater Darkness), are known with any certainty. The Birth of the Primordial Ones The Platonic Field, much like […]

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The Monitor

The Monitor is the third of the Triarchs and the eldest of the Primordial Ones alongside the Source and the Greater Darkness. Whereas they personify creation and entropy, light and dark, the Monitor personifies balance as the living embodiment of universal equilibrium and cosmic awareness. The Monitor has been known by many names and epithets. […]

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The Greater Darkness

The Great Darkness personifies the primordial void from the dawn of creation, the original state of chaos into which the Source brought order at the beginning of time. It/he is the joined oldest of the Primordial Ones, the twin of the Source, although he has no adequate name in most languages, and its nature is […]

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Elder Things

The Elder Things, or Great Old Ones, are Unliving beings that menaced the early Universe. No two of them are exactly alike, but most are almost inconceivably powerful, are malignant or indifferent to mortal life, and cannot be killed in the conventional sense. Their presence in a planetary system is usually enough to dominate the minds and thoughts of […]

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Monitor-Kind

The Monitors of Nil or Monitor-Kind are a constant throughout the Multiverse, always amongst the first Primordial life to emerge in each universe. They exist as a self-aware aspect of each Universe, taking on the responsibility for overseeing and recording the history of their native Universe. Nature Monitors are considered the only emergent Multiversal race […]

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Primordial Ones

The Primordial Ones are the oldest and most inhuman intelligences in the Universe. They are entities that thought themselves into existence in the early Universe. Only the elder three, the Triarch (the Source, the Monitor, and the Greater Darkness), are known with any certainty. The Birth of the Primordial Ones The Platonic Field, much like […]

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The Dominions

The Dominions are the great anthropomorphic embodiments of the universal concepts of life. The seven entities serve as the great caretakers of the universe, overseeing and defining concepts such as free will, death, and dreams. Despite their cosmic presence, the Dominions manifest as a very human-like family, complete with all the drama and tensions inherent […]

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The Greater Darkness

The Great Darkness personifies the primordial void from the dawn of creation, the original state of chaos into which the Source brought order at the beginning of time. It/he is the joined oldest of the Primordial Ones, the twin of the Source, although he has no adequate name in most languages, and its nature is […]

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The Monitor

The Monitor is the third of the Triarchs and the eldest of the Primordial Ones alongside the Source and the Greater Darkness. Whereas they personify creation and entropy, light and dark, the Monitor personifies balance as the living embodiment of universal equilibrium and cosmic awareness. The Monitor has been known by many names and epithets. […]

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The Source

The Source personifies the primordial light from the dawn of creation, which caused the primum movens (the first action), the creation of order from chaos, and the beginning of time. She is the oldest of the Primordial Ones and is the only one known with any clarity. To the Maltusians, the Source was known as […]

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