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The Elder Gods did not create the multiverse but they were the first of all Minds to emerge.

The Elder Gods are The Spaces and The Spaces are the Elder Gods.

Originally 31, when the first Latter-day God emerged there were only 13. The missing 18 Elder Gods are extinct.

The Elder Gods dwell within the Spaces and on a cycle thousands of years in duration have a greater and lesser impact on the multiverse. There is a greater cycle millions of years in duration where the Elder Gods traverse the whole of existence.

With each cycle fewer of the Elder Gods interact with the multiverse, with some now so dormant they are almost indistinguishable from the Spaces.

Some Elder God cultists are preparing for a multiversal cataclysm should their be too few active Elder Gods Minds to sustain the Spaces. Other cultists believe a day is coming where there will be only one Elder God Mind which will rule over all others.

Each cycle has been linked to a discontinuance event.

Aves Reva

Aves Reva

• An Elder God who dwells deep in perpetual darkness
• A bringer of nightmares
• A manipulator; a player of games, Aves Reva manipulates and cajoles others from deep within the infinite dark moving pieces about the very board of existence for its own ends
• Preceded by a metallic trumpet sound reverberating through the minds of all present
• The Order of the Hidden Aves Reva attempt to understand and emulate his connection to shadow and dark, both within and without
• The Monks of Oba follow the teachings of their founder Cane Hollow, seeking to understand better the universe and existence through the 'dreams’ of the non-waking world they believe seep into the waking world. Differentiate non-waking vs sleeping

The Horned God

• An Elder God that dwells in the Void, the Horned God is sometimes referred to as the Elder God of the Shapeless and unformed or the Great Manipulator
• There are cults (including those of the Wererats) who have revered the Horned God no matter if the Horned God can touch the multiverse or not
• On the last night of first new moon after the autumn equinox and on the last night of the last new moon before the spring equinox it is named as the Time of Sacrifice;
• At the Time of Sacrifice a living creature/s (preferably a sentient creature) is sacrificed – totally 13 in each year - starting with 1 autumn/12 spring, 2 autumn/11 spring etc. until it starts over again;
• On every 13th cycle it is possible for a Time of Hunger and Sacrifice is announced by the Grey Seers;
• The Time of Hunger and Sacrifice means that over a 13-day period culminating on the last night of the new moon a series of sacrifices occur at the deepest night hour – 1 on night 1, 2 in night 2 etc. culminating in 13 on night 13 (total 91 sacrificed)
• The Horned God is heavily linked to chaos, destruction and slaughter
• Cultists believe the Horned God is returning to the world
• Some believe that the Horned God will devour this world and spare only those who bond themselves in servitude to it
• The Horned God was worshipped by some of the Alin who were allied with the Carkade
• The Horned God is linked to the war that destroyed the Alin and the empires they patronised
• Warred with Ammutseba and other Elder Beings in the distant past
• The Horned God was trapped in the void during the last discontinuance and eagerly awaits release into the multiverse
• Knowing it may be drawn back to the Void, the Horned God is preoccupied with its own chaotic existence and seeks only to leave the void and remain forever within the multiverse;
• All others are nothing to the Horned God, playthings to be swept up in its erratic and destructive wake; useful as tools only

Ammutseba

• A powerful elder god, the Carkade elite made pacts with Ammutseba as their empire collapsed around them. While the rest of their race, lands, cities and culture were immolated, the elite and important servants were saved from oblivion by being granted immortality - being turned into undead, mummys of Carkade.
• They now await a summons from Ammutseba to step into the present day.
• A cult has sprung up in worship of the Mysteries of Ammutseba
• Ammutseba is heavily linked to death and sacrifice
• Warred with the Horned God and other Elder Beings in the distant past
• Cultists believe that Ammutseba wanders the darkness of the void and its return is imminent
• Ammutseba seeks to be the master of death, dreams of nothing but death and to be its eternal ruler, feared and revered by all
• Like the Horned God, Ammutseba was trapped within the void during the last discontinuance event brought on by the end of the Alin-Carkade wars
• Ammutseba has died many times over; is an undead elder god of immense power that fears but simultaneously seeks to embrace oblivion - if it is the last creature through the gates
• Lusts for death and to die again and again, only to be reawakened deeper in the spiral of non-existence; ‘un-alive’ but existent
• Ammutseba is the master of necromantic magic in the multiverse, not even the Gods of Death at their strongest wield more necromantic might

Hecate

• Elder Goddess of Witches + Magic
• An elder goddess who is as good as dead, Hecate is in a state of stupor so deep that it almost impossible to indistinguishable from death
• Hecate is a one of the pre-eminent sources of magic and mystery in the multiverse, being made of multiple and competing forms that nonetheless have a contiguous and single formed consciousness that coalesced over eons into the shape of the elder goddess herself
• The collapse of the first and original Atlantis placed her in her stupor, only occasionally does some errant manifestation emerge to interact with the universe more broadly
• Her power, her fundamental link to the fabric of existence, all that she is and knows has served as inspiration and source of power for witches and warlocks for tens of thousands of years as different aspects of her emerge to ‘gift’ her followers with access to some of her secrets from time to time
• She exists in a perpetual state of somnambulance inside a fragment of the real Atlantis, while the main force of her existence seeks to understand the deeper, fundamental state of existence and its manipulation of the ‘real’ world (the quanti)
• Has been absent in any meaningful sense for more than 200,000 years, only occasionally bursting back into a semblance of wakefulness at the times of discontinuance events or other major happenings that rocks and tear at the base nature of existence itself

Yurlunggur

• The Elder God of Dissonant Transpirarion

• Transpiration = the action of Transpiring
• Transpiring = to escape through pores/openings and to then be revealed or become known

• There were once more; one and the same Yurlunggur but more; now there is just the one
• Yurlunggur spends all existence seeking and calling out across the void and all existence for its lost selves
• The lost selves no longer exist in this existence
• Depicted as a blind serpent whose planet spanning body blackens the night sky where it touches this plane from the Great Beyond as it continues its eternal journey, unknowable to most mortals
• Yurlunggur is a truly ancient Elder God, existing at the very fringes of existence, Yurlunggur passes through the void of the Great Beyond, distant from all things, existing purely within its own dream state, almost entirely unaware of the multiverse about it.
• Yurlunggur is one of the few beings that can pierce the threshold beyond the multiverse into other existences, momentarily understanding the enormity of the Great Beyond and what it protects the multiverse from before simply adding that knowledge to its own jumbled dream state.
• One of the earliest of all presences, Yurlunggur has time and again almost passed the threshold, but instead remains a being of power beyond that of most other creatures in existence
• Trapped in the void, Yurlunggur is only free to roam creation during the times of upheaval, when all planes slip and slide before stabilising within new patterns and formations
• Yurlunggur is a bringer of creative destruction, a bringer of vision of what is, what was, what may have been and what may be
• Yurlunggur is a force of the cosmos; cannot be reasoned with, cannot be communicated with; but whose wake changes the shape and underpinnings of existence
• ‘Avatars’ of Yurlunggur have made their way to distant worlds in time past; the Avatars are parts of itself it splits off to go search more easily among the ‘real’ worlds for its other selves
• There have been so many and Yurlunggur's ‘thinking’ is so nonlinear that it does not even know how many it has propagated over the years or what has become of them.
• Most Avatars simply disintegrate back into the quanti, waiting to be reabsorbed by the Elder God where a very few become truly self-aware, becoming creatures of significant power in their own right
• One Avatar is Wonambi, who is the powerful creature that propels the power of the Dark Heart of the Forest. The powerful Wonambi wants nothing more than to use the power of the Echoes to control the prime plane which it views as an endless supply of food and power to eventually rise and challenge the great powers of the cosmos, Elder Gods included
• Nahuatl, Jamaran, The Grootslang, the Devourer, Dendar the Night Serpent are/were Avatars
• The Caridern encountered Yurlunggur 60,000 years ago and it changed those who encountered it utterly

Architeuthis

• An Elder God who dwells in deepest, darkest depths of an ancient ocean that spans worlds
• Forebear of the Kraken
• Elder God of Prophecy and Hunger
• Unknown and unknowable, Architeuthis only rarely recognises and even rarer still acknowledges the entreaties of its followers
• Architeuthis has forgotten what it once was, jettisoning any such thoughts as absurdist and meaningless as what was, is what was and cannot be again
• Deep in the space that is the eternal ocean between all worlds, Architeuthis swims through quantum-time endlessly drawing in the eternal possibilities of the future and present
• Is always voraciously hungry, being drawn on forever in a restless search to satiate an unquenchable need

In game

• Jessudu's records indicate that Jessudu claimed to have had an encounter with Architeuthis and pointed her on the path to creating the Yuggoth Spawn
• The SRG are carrying a glass globe that contaings the ink of Architeuthis

Astarte

• Elder Goddess of Oblivion
• Dwells deep within the Void, the nothing follows in her wake
• Her followers include the Bakenzenzi who are growing in power in the equatorial jungles of the world
• Is currently silent

Ereshkigal

• Elder Goddess of Perdition and Torment
• Feared by all elder day races
• Ereshkigal lurks in the territory where the outer planes meet the Void, snatching unprotected spirits to utterly consume them
• Is currently silent

Eonatator Urnericii

Eonatator

• Elder God of ceaselessness
• Has been deep in stupour for longer than Hecate

Nopcsai Waipariensis

• Elder Goddess of the unlimited
• Is barely more than a rumour, but like all elder gods even in an absolute fugue state is still incredibly dangerous

Azathoth

Azatoth

• Elder God of Irreverence and Obscenity
• Myths state that if a mortal locates Firestorm Peak there exists a portal to the Great Beyond where Azathoth’s body dwells
• The enemy of all others
• Is an amorphous blight of utter confusion and forever spreading tentacles upon a curiously environed black throne
• Azathoth gnaws hungrily in inconceivable, unlighted chambers in the Great Beyond eternally planning and living virtual scenarios on how to survive the end of all things

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