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The Eight Avatars of Erebus are the highest servants of Erebus - his right hand men. Thanatos was the first. His reign was shadowy death, and he sacrificed many to the growing and twisting monsters of the Darkness. He struck from the shadows and created a legacy of fear. Apate was the second, the so-called Specter of Deceit. Apate embraced the darkness as a concealment of her plans. In the shadows she built the Evergloom Cult to follow Erebus and eclipsed the sun before she finally ascended to the right hand of Erebus. Hemera was the third avatar, born of her own fear of the dark. She eventually betrayed Erebus and forfeited her powers, before she was killed by Hypnos, the fourth, whose reign was defined by his rebuilding of the darkness cult. Nemesis was the fifth avatar, whose shadowy reign began a feud with the Werebeasts. Oizys was the sixth avatar of Erebus, but not much is known about his reign. Perhaps this makes him the darkest of them all. Eris was the seventh avatar, and the first to attempt a large scale ritual designed to remake the world in the image of Erebus. She failed. Oneiros is the eighth and current avatar of the Darkness, who seeks to replicate the Eris Ritual with enough alterations to fix her flaws.
=== Shadows of Erebus ===
Shadows of Erebus are monsters of darkness, lurking in the darkest darkness. Vague shadows and odd sounds at night are commonly associated with these Shadows, but the Darkness more often manifests in sinister forms. One tale tells of an ashy creature with a dark scar over its heart, dark blood dripping from its black claws that appears in dark smoke on quiet nights. Other legends tell about the Void Spirits, malevolent entities bound to pitch black armor, from which thick tentacles emerge, burrowing into the minds of their victims. Shadows of the Darkness are completely subservient to the Children of Erebus.
=== Church of the Evergloom ===
Although there is only one Child of Erebus at a time, embodying the full power of the darkness, there are other mortal followers of the Darkness. The Church of the Evergloom bows to Erebus and his children, reveres the night creatures that stalk mortal prey, and offers their undying loyalty to the King of Infinite Darkness and Shadow. The Church of the Evergloom is the largest organized group of mortals that directly worship a single dominion, and a force to be reckoned with. Their strength is the main cause of the peace treaty with King Theondume.
== Ganadgureba ==
Destruction. Desolation. Devastation. Decimation. Slaughter, chaos, and blood. Unbridled and pure. Ganadgureba is a fluid dominion, thriving on strife and chaos, living for revolution and change, shifting like desert sands. The breathing parts of Ganadgureba live to bleed and kill. There is no King of Ganadgureba, since Magnum Chaos, its first god, was killed by Utsnobi. Magnum Chaos was a wretched figure of scar tissue with an open chest revealing a bleeding heart and cracked ribs. Iron sheets were nailed over its face to protect its followers from death when they looked upon it, and led its followers into battle with a terrible scream which faltered the bravest of warriors. Following its demise, Ganadgureba has simply been a unified purpose to destroy completely. It breathes pain, feeds on suffering. Often, mortals who follow its path have lost everything, and only seek to make others feel the same. They don't just slaughter people, they torture them and destroy their hope. Ganadgureba is true evil, unlike the Darkness.
=== Princes of Ganadgureba ===
The Princes of Ganadgureba are often called Demons. They are the greatest princes of Magnum Chaos, second only to their king in its life, but now disorganized masters of their own fates. Laag is a prince that appears as a towering figure with horns, a spiked tail, and a head resembling that of a dragon. He leads armies of monsters made of corpses and blue fire, and fights with cold, iron chains. Wildfire is another prince of fire, a grey figure with a twisted crown which appears beyond the trees before forest fires. Molten flames flow freely from its hands and burn hotter than any normal fire. Voyenachal'nik is a powerful prince which acts as a god for many followers of Ganadgureba. It emphasizes strength, dishonor, and combat above all. Its worshippers are known to fight each other to the death in service of Voyenachal'nik, which rewards the last one standing with great power. This Prince is also known for possessing the corpses of sacrificed innocents, forming a figure locked in a frozen, ugly expression of terror clad in black armor and wielding a double-bladed battleax, but its true form is unknown.
=== The Affliction ===
Sometimes seen as its own power, the Affliction, or sometimes The Plague, is living disease. It has no agenda, no desire but to spread. It is an old god of decay, reviled by all, and defined by that disgust. It cannot be stopped, only spread. Rarely, contained. Hosts of the Affliction are given powers over disease, and often use these powers to infect their victims.
== Ezoterika ==
Ezoterika, alternatively Vyru Sodininkas, Tvali, or the Keeper of Minds, is an old god of knowledge, wisdom, and magic. Depicted as a concealed figure traveling the halls of the Eternal Library, Ezoterika is also the god of secrets and forbidden knowledge. Darker than that, it is the dread feeling of being watched, of having your whole existence, your whole mind, invaded and exposed and horribly seen, of having your secrets laid bare. Above all, it is the inescapable drive to know, to seek and find. To uncover secrets yourself, to see and to know. It has a dark lure, promises of power and infinite knowledge. Ezoterika rules from the Eternal Library - a realm of infinite rooms with a collected infinity of volumes, containing every combination of letters, symbols, words, and phrases possible. Within the library are the secrets to the universe, every answer to every question, every story ever written and thought of, but infinitely more gibberish and garbage. The more you search, the closer you are to falling under the influence of Ezoterika, and the harder it is to leave. Entrance to the Eternal Library is guarded by Black Books of limitless power.
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