[hider=M'arash][center] [color=olive][b]Name:[/b] M'arash Xyil'Vor In'Yan. |[i]Lord of The Lightless City/Lord of The Abyss/The King/Watcher of The Lake/The Shepherd/He Who Sits Beneath The Blackened Sun/Lord of The Lightless Hall[/i]| [b]God of Madness[/b] [b]Domain:[/b] Madness [b]Appearance:[/b] While M'arash's appearance isn't set and can shift according to his will, he usually appears as a tall alien looking figure clad in tattered yellow robes or a similar variant, such as the Shepherd. His followers use the names for his forms when referring to him, as they consider it blasphemy to utter his true name. As a matter of fact he only time his followers do actually speak his name is when they pray, which is usually done in secret where others can't hear or see them. [hider=The King][img]https://i.redd.it/r1heyg3hbtwz.jpg[/img][i]"The mind is my throne and madness my sceptre. As long as they exist, my rule shall never be broken."[/i][/hider] & [hider=The Shepherd][img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/9c/fd/30/9cfd30de83d85be809f26bcd36afb13c.png[/img] [i]"The King rules and the Shepherd guides. Such is the way of the world. Such is the way of our god..."[/i][/hider] [b]Realm:[/b] [i]Vesania, The Maddening Abyss[/i] [hider=Vilor'Akash/Vesania Concept][img]http://conceptartworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Ilya_Nazarov_06a.jpg[/img] [i]"Welcome to my realm, a place built and maintained by my will alone. Stay awhile! stay forever..."[/i] [hider=Melody of The Abyss][youtube]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2K1CXVCQ4e4[/youtube][/hider] [/hider] Vesania is a near infinite expanse of barren wastes, non-Euclidean mountains, and ruins all sitting underneath the sickly light of a black sun. All mortals that enter Vesania are instantly driven mad, as evidenced by the mutated and completely insane remnants of humans and animals that lay scattered throughout the realm (which resides in Sub-Space). At the center of Vesania sits Vilor'Akash the Lightless City, a twisted and utterly incomprehensible circular formation of blackened stone buildings, spires, pillars, twisted bridges, pathways, and strange monolithic structures that is inhabited by a race of highly intelligent, multi-limbed beings known as the Zin'Ara, who act as servitors to their lord and maker M'arash by acting as messengers and emissaries for him when he does not wish to personally enter the mortal plane or the realm of another god. The Zin'Ara also carry out various "[i]experiments[/i]" on beings trapped within his realm. Exactly what these procedures entail as well as their exact purpose is unknown, but judging from the never-ending screams emanating from Vilor'Akash, it can't be good. As for the entrance to Vesania, it's a medium-sized body of water sitting in the middle of the unnamed continent directly to the north of the God of Soul's realm, called Lake Ha'lel (also known as the Lake of Ha'lel or simply Ha'lel) and any being who is dragged underneath its surface by one of the Bii'an or dives underneath the still waters themselves, will end up in Vesania. More specifically an area known as the Plains of Xo'hst. Many of his followers, or Yanites as they are commonly called by those who know of their existence, have come here in secret during months when the moon is full to throw still living sacrifices into the lake or to occasionally crossover into his realm when M'arash declares, usually through a dream or hallucination, that it is their time to leave. [b]Biography/Personality:[/b] Once a mortal from the frigid northwestern region of Tabrasa, M'arash and his companion Ka'li left their original homeland and forsook their faith in the god they once followed in order to forge their own path through the now godless lands. After many years of wandering, they finally came across the cave containing the Divine Cord and the rest is, as the Illuminator would say, history. [b]Notes:[/b] [b]Misc:[/b] M'arash, despite being the God of Madness, prefers to cause insanity in his victims indirectly through an alien looking star shaped symbol with an eye in the middle, called the Eye of Xyil. Mortals who see it will slowly go mad and use any means at their disposal to replicate the accursed shape in order to further expand the range of M'arash's maddening influence. This madness can range from subtle to obvious depending on the victims initial mental state. For example a person with a sound mind would be very subtle in the way they displayed their madness, often acting so normal they even fool themselves into believing they're sane, while a person without a very sound mind will simply become more insane and more violent then they were before. It should be noted that this symbol does not effect the other gods, unlike the maddening presence of M'arash himself or the insanity inducing realm he resides in, despite his best efforts to make it do so. [hider=The Eye of Xyil][img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8b/1e/2a/8b1e2ab150a0871fd3c6c7a2c1e46682.jpg[/img] [i]"It's such an insidiously clever invention. Don't you agree?"[/i][/hider] M'arash has gained quite a following during the ten thousand year absence of the other gods. He accomplished this by warping the minds of mortals who gazed upon the Eye of Xyil. Once this was complete M'arash forced them to wander into the lonely places of the world where he had them form various groups devoted to him and his sign, the most widespread, secretive, and influential of these being the Yanites. {As a side note on the Yanites, they are still largely unknown and unnoticed by most humans living on Tabrasa, often leading very secretive and solitary lives as they wander the world while going more and more insane, leaving the Eye of Xyil scrawled in places they've been where the unsuspecting passerby will come across it. While his followers do stay in one place on occasion, it's usually not for very long. Especially after M'arash's influence has begun to take hold on an area and people start to go insane. They do this to maximize the amount of people they affect and to keep from being caught by the local authorities as well} God's are also able to travel to Vesania through the lake. They are not instantly driven mad upon entering like mortals, but that does not mean the risk is not there. Gods that enter this realm must be on guard constantly, lest they to fall victim to madness. The only time that M'arash will physically appear to his followers is to usher them through the lake and into Vesania, once it is their "time" to leave. He usually chooses to appear in his Shepherd form and is, as always, accompanied by his companion Ka'li. While he doesn't do it often, as spreading madness is his goal, M'arash can prevent others from accessing Vesania by causing Ha'lel and everything in it to transform into a churning blanket of fog that is capable of completely engulfing the entire island it's on, a fog that is nigh impossible to dispell while the god himself still lives. Despite being the god of madness M'arash is surprisingly sane. This does not hinder him however, rather it only aids him in his quest to cause more madness in the minds of mortals and the gods they follow, as he can more effectively reason out what conditions, actions, or tortures are best to use against his victims. M'arash's reasons for causing madness are quite simple and can be traced all the way back to his Divine Cord which, although it was unclaimed and didn't previously belong to any other deities, embedded an unending and extremely strong desire to drive others insane deep within his being that, over the years, molded him into what he is now. [hider=Creations][img]http://monstersvault.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/chthonian_cthulhu_lovecraft_monsters_vault_5-768x543.jpg[/img] [i]"Mindless creatures, but useful."[/i] [color=olive][b]The Bii'an[/b][/color] The Bii'an are a race of mindless slug like creatures with hardened, yet flexible, outer shells that live at the bottom of Lake Ha'lel. They have very long lifespans, sticky white blood (which is warm), survive on a diet that consists mainly of the microorganisms within Ha'lel, and generally grow to about 40 feet in length. M'arash has complete control over them and uses them to drag offered or hapless victims underneath the lake (which exists in both realms) and into Vesania where the Zin'Ara will then proceed to drag them off to Vilor'Akash and perform horrific experiments on them. [hr] [img]https://i.pinimg.com/236x/95/bf/7d/95bf7d31e5a109a5118f2815ccdd47b4--alien-art-cthulhu-mythos.jpg[/img] [i]"The Zin'Ara...such beautiful creatures. Truly my best creation."[/i] [color=olive][b]The Zin'Ara[/b][/color] The Zin'Ara are a race of highly intelligent multi limbed beings who live within Vilor'Akash and act as servitors to their maker M'arash. They stand at around 9 feet tall, weigh around 210 pounds, have inky black blood, numerous eyes that give them a near 360° field of vision, a sharp tooth filled maw on the bottom side of their heads directly beneath their eyes, communicate via telepathy, they have a body temperature much lower than that of a regular human (around fifteen degrees Fahrenheit), and a hard outer shell that protects their vulnerable undersides. They survive on a pure protein diet, most of which comes from the people and animals trapped within Vesania, unlike the Bii'an who eat the microorganisms that live within Lake Ha'lel. They can use their appendages for a variety of things such as the reproduction of their race. They accomplish this through the use of crystalline vats in which a new Zin'Ara is grown from the appendage of the old. The Zin'Ara, like the Bii'an, also have extremely long lifespans that allow them to live for well over a hundred thousand years. They also write in an alien [url=https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a7/2e/44/a72e4452d96622857ba9b62abe9ae435.png]language[/url] composed entirely of curved symbols. [hr] [img]https://img00.deviantart.net/d5b1/i/2016/184/4/e/mtg__eldritch_moon__abolisher_of_bloodlines_detail_by_namesjames-da8kv88.jpg[/img] [i]"Ah Ka'li! Guardian of my Cord! Go forth and strip the flesh from the bones of our foes!"[/i] [hider=Human Form][img]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/b6/b2/13/b6b2132a792e0ea5db60e7dc925295f3.jpg[/img][/hider] [color=olive][b]Ka'li: Guardian of The Cord[/b][/color] Ka'li was, and still is, a close companion of the god M'arash. They traveled the world together when they were mortal (and when M'arash went by a different name) all those years ago, moving from place to place after fleeing their original home and forsaking the god they once followed, whom they lost faith in after its unexplained hundred year absence from the world along with the other deities. When M'arash came across the Divine Cord, Ka'li pledged to protect him while he underwent his divine metamorphosis. After the ten day period his transformation was complete and so was hers. For while she sat in the cave they found the Cord in, it had slowly begun to transform her into an alien looking creature with dormant supernatural powers. It was only after M'arash created Vesania and brought her to it that the initial changes took full effect, turning her into what she is now as well as fully awakening her dormant abilities. At present Ka'li still resides within Vilor'Akash and acts as M'arash's personal bodyguard. She is ready to kill at a moments notice in defense of M'arash or, more importantly, his Divine Cord and has several abilities that help her in this regard such as being able to move at supersonic speeds, the ability to use a small portion of M'arash's maddening power (which is akin to, yet separate from Magic) for herself, the ability to morph her body back to its human form (something she only does when acting as M'arash's personal bodyguard during his ventures into Tabrasa or his occasional trips into the realms of other gods), and the ability to regenerate lost or destroyed limbs through sheer force of will. While all of this makes her very difficult to kill, it does not make it impossible as cutting off her three heads, crushing her, lighting her on fire, or electrocuting her will be enough to keep her from using her regenerative gifts, and lead to her demise. Trapping her in some way is also a viable option in certain situations.[/hider] "Put it on my Tabula."[/color][/center][/hider] Status - Inactive.