The Gathering of the Most High: The 27 imperiex.
the Earth-A imperiex:
Earthstone: The fighter-ace.
Real Name: Erica McCollougher.
Crunch Writeup:
Theme Song: “Road Rage” by Miracle of Sound.
PLX (see below). By default, Earthstone is a higher-order intelligence. Earthstone is a superheroine. A Sunwitch
and an imperiex, Earthstone's powers have manifested external
lly in a shapeshifting vehicle she refers to as 'my dragon'. Earthstone's 'dragon' can become whatever vehicle is needed, from the size of a motorcycle to about the size of a commercial jetliner. Able to form weapons and armor as needed, it is a mobile combat-platform of essentially infinite power.
Away from her dragon (which is never), Earthstone is PL10/150pp.
With her dragon (which is always) she is PLX/600pp.
Earthstone’s predecessor had been a sentient dinosaur named Wyrm. Earthstone currently has no Herald. Earthstone is served by tech-savvy, diminutive humanoid Mandragora known as
Gremlins.
Earthstone's VR-Resonance: The Endless Stormsky.
The Endless Stormsky is an infinite aerial expanse filled with storms
and godstorms of epic proportions. Here, Earthstone may shed her inhibitions and fears and revel in elemental chaos. The Endless Stormsky is a manifestation of Earthstone's fundamental rejection of authority. Inhabiting the Endless Stormsky are
stormlings, small elemental beings whose sole duty is to keep the sky churning in chaos and fury and lightning.
The Endless Stormsky has a two-way portal to Perpendicular-6. It’s known as Storm’s End. Ten PL10/150pp Sunsphinx guard it at all times, only allowing Earthstone and the Solar Lion through.
Earthstone's Majestoi opposite: Coal the Black Fire.
He burns, the Tortured Majesty inside of Coal the Black Fire unable to
not scorch her flesh to ash and turn her bones to glass. Coal the Black Fire only gives off a dim, furnace glow, like an ember straight out of Hell’s lowest levels.
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Earthstone is the fighter-ace!
the Earth-B imperiex:
the Dream Moth: Father of Mutants.
Crunch writeup:
Real Name: Joshua Mathery.
PLX/996pp. By default, the Dream Moth is a higher-order intelligence. The Dream Moth is a superhero. Real name and ethnicity are both unknown. Male unique 'mutant'/imperiex. The Dream Moth's real name and identity is unknown, as he has gone to
extraordinary lengths to protect his human kin, even going so far as to erase his whole identity cyberkinetically from
every computer on Earth
simultaneously.
The Dream Moth is the Father of Mutants, which is ironic, as he, himself is only nominally a mutant. Finding four alien Devices, this somehow 'quantum-entangled' the Dream Moth's every molecule with every molecule in his entire universe, an event Dahkahtkuuv the imwid did
not anticipate.
Basically, the Dream Moth is technically still a mundane human, but he 'wears' his universe as the
ultimate suit of skintight 'powered-armor'. He may do virtually anything as a result; his later attainment of an imperiex-essence merely magnified what the Dream Moth already had.
The Dream Moth’s predecessor was a winged alien ‘giantess’, with an unpronounceable name and a sanity-shattering appearance. The Solar Lion killed her after she attempted to consume Earth-C’s Bull of Heaven. The Dream Moth currently has no Herald.
The Dream Moth is served by phantasmal, vaguely humanoid Mandragora known as
Gauntlings. These Gauntlings have powerful tactile telepathy, are mostly intangible and can ‘store’ themselves in the brains of mundane human beings, passively ‘watching’ all their hosts experience, and transmitting it back to the Dream Moth if so commanded.
the Dream Moth's VR-Resonance: Evolution City.
Evolution City is a vast urban cityscape, going on and on forever, that the Dream Moth and his lover retreat to only every so often. Filled with thoughtforms ('
fascimiles') mimicking the roles/appearances/powers of every form of Earth-B mutant, Evolution City is the Dream Moth's ideal utopia: a world where 'mutants' are the norm and all bigotry is gone like a handful of ash on a windy day.
God storms almost never strike, but, when they do, wooboy, they’re a doozy!
Evolution City has a two-way portal to Perpendicular-6. It’s known as Ascension’s Door. It’s guarded at all times by ten PL10/150pp Sunsphinx, who only allow through the Dream Moth and the Solar Lion.
the Dream Moth's Majestrix opposite: the Nightmare Butterfly.
Like a broken reflection in cloudy glass, the Nightmare Butterfly is everything the Dream Moth isn’t. Contemptuously cruel and driven mad by the extinction of his changemen children, the Nightmare Butterfly hungers for revenge against the ‘brighter’ realms of the Forever Tree.
A floating tree, perpetually on fire yet encased in carnival glass, the Nightmare Butterfly exists in the waking
and Every single dream-Resonance connected to whatever waking world he’s in.
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The Dream Moth is easily the most powerful of the imperiex, stronger even that the Solar Lion of the Sunsphinx.
the Earth-C imperiex:
the Bull of Heaven: Divine wrath, divine stability.
Real Name: Galamgalul.
Crunch writeup: Here...!
PLX/502pp. By default, the Bull of Heaven is a higher-order intelligence. He is also a nephilim
and an Earth-C god. The Bull of Heaven just
Is, being neither good nor evil.
The Bull of Heaven’s predecessor was Anzu, whom the Bull defeated in single combat. He then ate Abzu’s heart, and the Solar Lion permitted the bloody savage transfer of power. The Herald of the Bull of Heaven is
Innana (PL12/199pp female god emotion-controlling brick). The Bull of Heaven is served by skeletal, undead humanoid Mandragora known as
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the Bull of Heaven's VR-Resonance: The Higher Heavens.
A starry sea of pinpricks of light built upon a floor of indestructible glass overlooking the Earth of Earth-C, the Higher Heavens are calm, serene and quiet. Then, the godstorms begin, and it becomes a swirling chaos of oblivion.
The Higher Heavens are littered with thoughtforms of raw storm-essence know as
'Stars Above the Firmament'. They only appear during godstorms.
The Higher Heavens have a two-way portal to Perpendicular-6. It’s known as the Irkallu Gates. It’s guarded by ten PL10/150pp Sunsphinx, who only let the Bull of Heaven and the Solar Lion through.
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the Bull of Heaven's Majestoi opposite: OBLIVION.
CONSUME. DEVOUR. DIGEST. EXCRETE.. CHURN IT ALL TO CHUNKS OF STEAMING MEAT. GIVE ME THIS DAY YOUR DAILY BREAD. AMEN.
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The Bull of Heaven is a god of Earth-C, in addition to being an imperiex. Slain by the demigod Gilgamesh but later resurrected by Ereshkigal, at the behest of Inanna. He is the only imperiex to have been successfully resurrected...so far.
the Earth-D imperiex:
Wylde: Steampunk elf.
PLX. By default, Wylde is a
superbitchin' higher-order intelligence with twin Desert Eagles, katanas with katanas on them and is
So Kewl!!!!!! He also has a strangely colored patch over his left eye for, um, reasons.
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Wylde's VR-Resonance: KEWL! BLADED! ACKSHUN!
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EXXXXXTREEEEEEEME! ACKSHUN! KUNG-FU!
the Earth-E imperiex:
the Spiralhorns: Mightiest of the wildling gods.
Crunch writeup: ’Sup?
Real Name: Wulf.
PLX. By default, the Spiralhorns is a higher-order intelligence. The Spiralhorns is a cosmic imp, and thus may be loosely categorized as a 'supervillain'.
The Spiralhorns has no predecessor, as he’s the first and so far only imperiex Earth-E has ever had. The Spiralhorns' Herald is a
Masked Stranger (PL16/179pp male umbrakinetic brick mutant). The Spiralhorns is served by elf-like, humanoid Mandragora known as
Imps.
The Spiralhorns is the rather tempestuous boyfriend of the King of Billions of Wings.
the Spiralhorns' VR-Resonance: The Faerie Court.
The Faerie Court is Grimm’s Fairy Tales, brought to horrifying light. Though not necessarily evil, the entities dwelling in the Spiralhorns’ VR-Resonance are certainly cruel and capricious, able to twist their words while remaining true to the letter of their oath. The Faerie Court is an enchanted forest, full of boggart and leprechauns and witches, spotted here and there with terrified villages of people captured from Earth and forced to play the role of medieval Germanic peasants!
Cruel faerie games of mischief and decetion’re commonplace, and usually pointed exclusively at humanity and/or superhumanity.
Weather is tempestuous, and godstorms are a weekly or biweekly phenomena. They most often happen during nights of the crescent moon and the gibbous moon.
Attending the Spiralhorns at the Faerie Court are mischievous thoughtforms called '
fluxwhisps'.
The Faerie Court has a two-way portal to Earth-M, a one-way portal leading to the Faerie Court from Perpendicular-5 and has a two-way portal to Perpendicular-6.
The portal to Earth-M is called The Cousins’ Causeway. It’s guarded at all time by a single Sunsphinx of at least PL12/200pp, sometimes more. This guard is shifted out every month, and a new one brought in.
The portal to Perpendicular-5 is known as the Road to the Court of Millions of Years. The Road to the Court of Millions of Years is guarded at all times by a single cosmic entity,
the Guard With Ten Hundred Swords (PL19/400pp).
The portal to Perpendicular-6 is named Heaven’s Stairs. Heaven’s Stairs are guarded by ten PL10/150pp Sunsphinx at all times. They only allow the Solar Lion and the Spiralhorns through with impunity.
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The Spiralhorns is the eldest of Earth-E's wildlings, but is somehow still the most youthful and exhuberant in action/attitude.
the Earth-F imperiex:
the Overlord: The world's only non-cyborg psychic.
PLX. By default, the Overlord is a higher-order intelligence. A Mongolian Buddhist monk and former tribal khan, he awoke his powers after ingesting the Soul of Meru, a flower given to him by
Sol Invictus I.
The Overlord’s the third imperiex to have safewatched Earth-F. The first was a nameless time-traveling alien computer of infinite consciousness; it was demolished by the Vampiredeities of Earth-A and was never reinstated after the timeline was altered.
The second imperiex, the one who succeeded the nameless alien computer, was an early Stone Age Neanderthal, who was a brick of effectively infinite power. Named Zdun, she was killed by her own hand, after the sacking of Constantinople by the Turks.
The Overlord is served by bestial humanoid Mandragora known as
'orcs'. Formerly servants of Zdun, the Overlord simply took over, rather than eliminating the orcs andbstarting over with Mandragora of his own.
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the Overlord's VR-Resonance: Intellect, Unchained.
The
Machine-Deities and
Machine-Titans have no power here. Vast crystalline structures reach like knives stabbing the alien purple sky, and only that which is purely biological can exist, here. Technology is violently ejected.
Floating to and fro are thoughtforms: appearing as perfectly normal human brains inside Klein bottles the size of large dogs, these
greatlight brains patrol Intellect, Unchained ceaselessly, hunting for unlawful or tech-based intruders.
The weather is calm, save when
Machine-Deities or
Machine-Titan breach the dimensional stormwall, in which case epic godstorms instantly rouse themselves.
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the Earth-G imperiex:
Here be the answers Ye seek, O traveler!
the Earth-H imperiex:
the Dancer at the Gate: The first arhat, and the oldest living Buddhist.
Crunch writeup:
PLX/330pp. By default, the Dancer at the Gate is a higher-order intelligence. The Dancer at the Gate is a retired superhero. Skeletal, mummified and hideously emaciated, the Dancer at the Gate is
the arhat and has lived for millennia. One of the first converts to the Buddha's teachings, the Dancer at the Gate was also
the first arhat. This fact gained him his imperiex-essence, and his psychic mastery over fire has grown to star-igniting levels.
The Dancer’s predecessor was the Black Cloud, an unknowable gaseous entity that enervated life merely by existing. The Black Cloud’s demise is not known, but the Solar Lion regarded the Black Cloud with some sentiment. The Dancer at the Gate is served by multi-armed humanoid Mandragora known as
Daevas.
the Dancer at the Gate's VR-Resonance: The Shores of Nirvana.
Thoughtforms of perpetually-meditating monks ('
the Ten Billion Buddhas') attend the Shores of Nirvana at all times. One cannot progress parts the Shore, on one side of which is the madness-inducing Sea of Maya and on the other side the Translucent Forest wherein dwells several Buddhist superhumans of both arhat and gorgon existence.
The Translucent Forest is guarded at times by The Pride, seven lion-bodied gorgons of immense splendor, wearing golden barding and adorned in gold and precious stones.
Godstorms never occur, so placid is this VR-Resonance.
the Dancer at the Gate’s Majestos opposite: the Extinguished Ember.
“
Enlightenment fell through, gnosis collapsed in on itself. It’s all b******t. It’s a con, a long, laborious Con. No one escapes Samsara. There’s no way out. We will all suffer for eternity. God can’t hear us and the Noble Eightfold Path is a sham.” says the Extinguished Ember. “
There is no hope.”
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Enlightenment can be scary, ESPECIALLY with an infinitely powerful pyrokinetic...
the Earth-I imperiex:
the Ir/Maker: The cosmic craftsman who made both Infinite Brands and the Infinite Staves.
PLX. By default, the Ir/Maker is a higher-order intelligence. The Ir/Maker is
not a complete entity...it is, rather, the consciousness of Urut-nnil separated from its body as an unexpected side-effect of receiving an imperiex-essence. As a result, the Ir/Maker has no physicality, being a memetic core permanently astrally projecting from its comatose body.
The Ir/Maker’s stature as Earth-I’s imperiex has no predecessor, as it was and still is Earth-I’s first imperiex. Should the Ir/Maker ever be genuinely threatened, Urut-nnil would instinctually come to the Ir/Maker’s defense. The Ir/Maker is served by Mandragora known as
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the Ir/Maker's VR-Resonance: The Ir/Maker's Celestial and Divine Workshop.
The Ir/Maker is a memetic craftsman, and is second to none in this endeavor. A technological paradise, everything here is sleek and cutting edge, but no hard lines and curves everywhere. Half of it is hard Light constructs, while the other half is the universal superstructure keeping it standing.
Helping the Ir/Maker are its
dolems, man-sized sapient machines of immense intellectual prowess.
Godstorms only happen with the system periodically crashes, then reboots, which, once rare, has become distressingly common as of late.
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Hephaestus, if the Greek god were a malevolent sociopath: that's the Ir/Maker in a nutshell. Not all imperiex are nice people, after all...!
the Earth-J imperiex:
the King of Billions of Wings.
Crunch Writeup: Heeeeeere!
PLX. A sidhe and one of the first diverhosts, the King of Billions of Wings’ Oneiric Raiment is that of a great long-necked bird made of colored class with a billion or more constantly beating wings—-bat wings, bird wings, insect wings—-stirring up violent illusionary windstorms and cacophonous sounds all around himself. His voice is like thunder and his presence is magnetic.
Underneath the Oneiric Raiment, however, is a much different sight, being a mere human being, thin and short and unassuming. He’s a German citizen born and raised in Germany, and was attempting to go to medical school.
The King of Billions of Wings is the rather tempestuous boyfriend of the Spiralhorns!
the King of Billions of Wings’ VR-Resonance: the Land of Vast Beasts.
Here, sidhe and pooka directly manifest
without the need for host bodies, and dwell in savage splendor in a dark, brooding swamp that goes on literally forever. The natives are animalistic and huge, and drag themselves to and fro with limbs barely able to allow such great bulk any locomotion at all.
Here and there are huts inhabited by hag-thoughtforms, able to brew toxic poisons and diseased draughts—-if paid enough, whether in coinage or in human misery.
The natives of this VR-Resonance are called
’the Vast Beasts’ heave themselves here and there, so massive yet with such little limb-strength as to render themselves able only to crawl rather than walk or swim. They are predatory, and can communicate across vast distances with their ululating, gibbon-like cries. They practice a mad religion devoted to what they perceive of as chthonic gods, beings whose very existence is questionable, at best.
Godstorms are rare, but small-scale rain is omnipresent. The swamp is perpetually threatening to flood...
the Earth-K imperiex:
the Ogrefather: Tyrannical brick on a cosmic scale.
Crunch writeup: Here thou art, O traveler...!
PLX. By default, the Ogrefather is a higher-order intelligence. The Ogrefather is, as you might imagine, a supervillain.
The Ogrefather has had five predecessors as imperiex: Earth-K just can’t seem to keep them for long before they die. The tirst was a hypersentient superinventor amoeba named One; the second was a hypersentient trilobite telepath named Ig; the third was an ultrasaurus pyrokinetic named Afshu; and the fourth was a Bolshevik revolutionary named Dmitri, who was assassinated on the orders of Joseph Stalin.
The Ogrefather is served by Mandragora known as
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the Ogrefather's VR-Resonance: The Void.
It is a dead world, everyone turned to salt by atomic weaponry or the cries of great
Apocalypse Birds which’re the Native thoughtforms of The Void.
Godstorms are brief-but-daily affairs.
The Void has three two-way portals: one to Earth-L, one to Perpendicular-2 and a final one to Perpendicular-6.
The portal to Earth-L is called Titandoor, ands guarded by a pair of Sunsphinx sisters (one PL15/220pp, the other PL9/151pp), both of them telepaths.
The portal to Perpendicular-2 is called Homedoor, ands guarded by ten PL10/150pp robots of Sunsphinx design.
And the portal to Perpendicular-6 is called Goddoor, ands guarded by a single PL12/200pp Sunsphinx Supermanalogue. He only allows the Ogrefather’s and the Solar Lion to use Goddoor.
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the Ogrefather’s Majestrix opposite: Idealized Iconic Representation.
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The Ogrefather is evil. Pure, simple, uncomplicated evil.
the Earth-L imperiex:
the Horror That Walks on Teeth: Sanity-shattering 'Mythos-god' Ogrestructure.
PLX/1262pp. By default, the Horror That Walks on Teeth is a higher-order intelligence.
The Horror That Walks on Teeth is followed in a mindless procession by Mandragora known as
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the VR-Resonance of the Horror That Walks on Teeth: Mngruunxixix.
Mngruunxixix is the internal anatomy of an Ogrestructure so large it dwarfs even the Horror That Walks on Teeth. Jungles of red, weeping meat, forests of boils, ulcer-lakes, intensional labyrinths——such is the landscape of Mngruunxixix.
Mngruunxixix has three two-way portals in it: one to Earth-K, one to Perpendicular-2 and one to Perpendicular-6.
The portal to Earth-K, which is itself nameless, is guarded by no one.
The equally nameless portal to Perpendicular-2 is guarded by no one.
And the—-of course!—-nameless portal to Aeion is guarded at all times by ten PL10/150pp Sunsphinx Biokinetic, who work constantly to prevent Ogresymbiosis from infecting the citizenry of Perpendicular-6.
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the Horroe That Walks on Teeth's Majestoi opposite: VOID.
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Ahem...
"Cthulhu hates me, this I know
"For the Necronomicon tells me so
"All our world he will reclaim
"When R'lyeh rises up again
"Yes, Cthulhu hates me
"Yes, Cthulhu hates me
"Yes, Cthulhu hates me
"For the Necronomicon tells me so."
the Earth-M imperiex:
Adam Kadmon, the Primeval Ancestor: The first Dreamer...
PLX/992pp. The eldest Dreamer to have survived since the Earthshattering 60 million years ago, Adam Kadmon, the Primeval Ancestor is also
the oneirofloral, a tree in humanoid form a mile-and-quarter tall. Adam Kadmon is a brick of infinite strength, but his
real power is the ability to disassemble his body, convert to pure spirit, and turn any city into a natural wonderland---only to then reassemble his body and move on!
Adam Kadmon's Dream is, "All life is embodied in my Being!"
Adam Kadmon just
Is, as he is neither a superhero OR a supervillain. He is served by Mandragora known as
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Adam Kadmon's VR-Resonance: the Faerie Kingdoms.
Exactly the same in theme and tone and visuals as Earth-E’s VR-Resonance, it’s easy to mistake
this\VR-Resonance for
that VR-Resonance.
The Faerie Kingdoms have two two-way portals: one to Earth-E and one to Perpendicular-6.
The portal to Earth-E is called The Cousins’ Causeway, ands guarded by a single ferrokinetic Sunsphinx.
The portal to Perpendicular-6 is titled Emre’s Passageway, ands guarded by ten PL10/150pp Sunsphinx.
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Adam Kadmon's Majestos opposite: Cain the Betrayer.
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the Earth-N imperiex:
Lelitth: The iconic 'brain in a jar'.
PLX/299pp. By default, Lelitth is a higher-order intelligence. Lelitth is a supervillain. Neither an
aesir or a spiritwolf, Lelitth is something never before seen on Earth-N: a telepath. However, to unlock such abilities she paid a most gruesome price: the surgical emplacement of her disembodied brain into a primitive wheeled robot. Without a body to hinder her, Lelitth finally unleashed the full might of her psi-charged consciousness. Lelitth's later empowerment by an imperiex-essence merely vastly magnified what she'd already unlocked.
Lelitth is served by highly psychic Mandragora known as
'Hexengeister'.
Lelitth's VR-Resonance: Intellect, Unleashed.
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the Earth-O imperiex:
the King of Wyrms:
PLX/990pp. By default, the King of Wyrms is a higher-order intelligence. A zawuut warlord, the King of Wyrms attempted to conquer Earth. During the invasion, however, the Celestial Light shown upon him, and His Draconic Majesty realized the errors of his old life. He is now a superhero.
He is served by Mandragora known as
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the King of Wyrms' VR-Resonance: The Gates of the Celestial Light's Gardens.
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the King of Wyrms’ Majestos opposite: Psikosis.
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the Earth-P imperiex:
Pondgood Toadgod:
PLX/700pp. By default, Pondgood Toadgod is a higher-order intelligence.
Pondgood Toadgod is served by chthonic Mandragora horrors called
Flayed Ones Who Dance.
Pondgood Toadgod's VR-Resonance: the Good and Beautiful Pond.
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the Earth-Q imperiex:
the Man Encased in Jade: The most patriotic of heroes.
PLX/616pp. By default, the
Man Encased in Jade is a higher-order intelligence. He is a superhero. The
Man Encased in Jade is a WWII Allied superhero; but, when Earth-Q's previous imperiex died saving Earth from a
massive wandering black hole, it was this emerald-skinned powered-armor hero whom the Solar Lion chose as the replacement. Now sealed inside his armor for all eternity, the
Man Ecased in Jade is a figure ever-vigilant for the return of fascism...!
The Man Encased In Jade has a personal VR-Resonance, and’s served by Mandragora perfectly resembling Allied soldiers from WWII, known as
’grunts’.
the Man Encased in Jade's VR-Resonance.
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Imagine the Man Encased in Jade as if he were Captain America permanently imbued with the Uni-Force, and you've got a pretty good mental image of this guy.
the Earth-R imperiex:
Shiva-and-Kali: The twin destroyers, making way for the next thing.
PLX/1000pp. By default, Shiva-and-Kali are a higher-order intelligence. One entity in two bodies, Shiva-and-Kali are ancient aliens, long ago stranded on Earth, that became as one via the grafting of an imperiex-essence. Now one being, Shiva-and-Kali obliterate the old, to make way for the new.
Shiva is a vast demonic giant, his face contorted into a hateful scowl. He dances on the severed heads of his enemies. His breath is as fire. But this fearsome imagery is a false front, a symbolic representation of how fearsome destruction can be. He is served by literally bull-headed Mandragora named
Removers of Obstacles.
Kali is a many-armed obsidian-skinned beauty, her face full of murderous glee and wearing a necklace of skulls. She is the mother-who-devours; the drinker of blood; the final silence waiting past the moment of death. But this, too, is a metamophorical allusion to the fact that destruction can be sudden and come from the unlikeliest of sources. Kali is served by serpent-headed Mandragora known as
Openers of the Way.
Shiva-and-Kali's VR-Resonance: the Maze within the Heart of the Worlds:
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the Earth-S imperiex:
the Spidergoddess: Beautiful, avenging destroyer.
Stats Writeup:
PLX/1200pp. By default, the Spidergoddess is a higher-order intelligence. Standing 6 miles high with purple skin, raven hair and 'armor' crafted from solidified sunlight,
the Spidergoddess' most signature feature are her six arms. Lean and willowy, she is FAR lighter on her feet than she should be, and is far more frail than her epic height would indicate.
Nevertheless, the Spidergoddess
is an imperiex, and as such is without equal in Earth-S. Swifter than Mercury, more agile than Luna and more clever than Minerva, the Spidergoddess may control entire
ecosystems by 'burying' herself in them: effectively becoming
part of the land. With this godlike power, the Spidergoddess may cause earthquakes, slide entire cities into the sea and erupt volcanoes.
Prior to the Day of Fiftyfive Suns, the Spidergoddess was the humiliated wife of a lecherous senator. She was mousy and afraid and lived in fear of her husband’s wrath. Then, fifty-five suns seemed to light up the sky, and, as she transformed, the Spidergoddess contemptuously crushed her husband to death under her immense foot. She swore to never be powerless again, and immediately sought mundane human worship, proclaiming herself Minerva made flesh.
However, her charade was easily unearthed, and her fellow Skytower Giants brought her low, forcing her to kneel before Emperor Hadrian. She was ordered to recant, but all she did was screech defiance. She was thrown in a deep pit and buried alive, like the titans of old.
And there, in the dark, the Solar Lion whispered to her, telling her she wasn’t Minerva, but rather Ariadne, who was secretly Minerva’s beloved disciple. He offered her freedom and power beyond measure if she would be agree to uphold the universe as Jupiter envisaged it and let go of her hatred of the Roman elite. She swore, and the Spidergoddess easily burst forth from her simplistic earthen tomb.
Before the Spidergoddess was imperiex, Earth-S’s imperiex was Nemesis, a sentient black hole. Nemesis was captured by the Tlolkku and slain in an attempt to capture an imperiex-essence—-but of course, such things are impossible.
The Spidergoddess is served by massive Mandragora known as
gigantes. Toweringly huge and catastrophically idiotic, gigantes nevertheless have an undeniable skill with Roman-era craftsmanship.
the Spidergoddess' VR-Resonance: the Great Plains of Ulf.
A vast grassy plain inhabited by gigantes and the memetic cores of a select few Roman mortals, the Great Plains of Ulf are a pastoral paradise, where the natives live simple lives amidst cyclopean ruins of unknown origin. Here, the Spidergoddess can control the landscape
without needing to bond with it, physically!
The Great Plains of Ulf has a two-way portal to Perpendicular-6. Called the Stairs of Perihelion, it is guarded by ten Colossal+ PL10/150pp Sunsphinx Giants.
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Though quite fragile, the Spidergoddess can easily destroy all life on Earth without much effort.
the Earth-T imperiex:
Lux: Avatar of light; Inheritor of the sun.
PLX/708pp. Both an Avatar (of light)
AND an Inheritor (of the sun),
AND a nephilim, Lux is the greatest light-manipulator to've ever lived. She can glow so brightly as to cleanse whole galaxies of life; she can create planetary-scale illusions; and more!
Lux is served by literally searingly-hot male dancer-Mandragora of great beauty named
Satyrs.
Lux's VR-Resonance: the Apocalyptical Illuminous.
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the Earth-U imperiex:
Enginseer Ka: Ancient Egyptian technological wunderkind.
Crunch Writeup: —-looks—-
PLX/333pp. The imperiex of Earth-U,
Enginseer Ka was a Pre-Dynastic Ancient Egyptian ‘magician’ in the employ of King Scorpion. In reality, Ka was an ‘ancient astronaut’, that’d shaped himself into a human guise, and now lent his vast technological knowledge for the benefit of earliest Bronze Age Egyptians. Kept alive for millennia by his science,Mika walked the land, guiding, shaping and destroying as he saw fit.
When the old Earth-U imperiex—-Voidwings—-died in 440 CE defending her reality from Starvampires, the Solar Lion already knew Enginseer Ka would be the
perfect replacement. Receiving the imperiex-essence caused Ka to dissolve his own body into a formless memetic ‘machine’ living in the minds of every human and superhuman being on Earth. Now Incarnate in fragmentary form, with the processing power of every human being simultaneously, Ka has sought to plumb the depths of his power and experience upgrade following upgrade following upgrade.
Recently, however, Ka has finally a ‘plateau’ of sorts, beyond which he seems unable to ascend.
Enginseer Ka is served by tiny, ittybitty robot Mandragora known as
Coglings.
Enginseer Ka's VR-Resonance: the Moebius Circuitry.
A city of time loops and circular, self-referential stories, the Möbius Circuitry is a bizarre mishmash if Ancient Egypt in the Middle Kingdom era and the cyberscapes of movies like Tron and Troy: Legacy. The old and the new fuse in an ungainly manner, with mummies with cyberlimbs and blaster-wielding pharaonic guards mingling with superstition-laden yet still advanced edifice and a belief in magic coexisting with the efficacy of science.
Inhabited by thoughtforms called
Starsphinces, animated Sphinx statues made of perpetually crumbling sandstone.
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the Earth-V imperiex:
Jax the Sleeping King: He who wrecked the universe.
Crunch Writeup: For those curious enough to look...
PLX/317pp. By default Jax the Sleeping King is a higher-order intelligence.
Jax the Sleeping King is served by VR AI-Mandragoras known as
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Jax the Sleeping King's VR-Resonance:
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Were it possible to recall imperiex-essence, Jax would have been stripped of it long long ago. Jax is the one whose tyranny heralded the Catastrophe that wrecked galactic civilization and led to Earth-V's current sorry situation.
the Earth-W imperiex:
the Vast Glutton That Eats the Sky: Endless, destructive, apocalyptic appetite for food.
PLX. By default, the Vast Glutton That Eats the Sky is a higher-order intelligence. Placeholder.
the VR-Resonance of the Vast Glutton That Eats the Sky:
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the Earth-X imperiex:
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the Earth-Y imperiex:
Jotun Mountainsunderer: Blessed...? Or cursed...?
PLX/666pp. By default,
Jotun Mountainsunderer is a higher-order intelligence.
Jotun Mountainsunderer is the greatest of the Jotuns of Earth-Y, implanted by AEsir with a VAnir-level hearth thorn
and an imperiex-essence from the Solar Lion!
Jotun Mountainaunderer has a personal VR-Resonance, and’s served by strange, tall, genderless gaunt Mandragora known as
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Jotun Mountainsunderer's VR-Resonance:
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the Earth-Z imperiex:
Infinity'Spore: The one and only 'Spore of the void.
PLX/666pp. An infinitely dense pinprick of fungus and gravitic force, Infinity'Spore is the most
alien of the imperiex.
Infinity'Spore's Mandragora were all consumed long ago by earthhaunts.
Infinity'Spore's VR-Resonance: n/a.
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Perpendicular-6's imperiex:
the Solar Lion: The eldest of the imperiex.
in addition to being an imperiex, the Solar Lion also owns a lesser godforge. As a result, the Solar Lion's powers are quite extreme in scale and scope. They are
also firewyld, meaning they are the very substance of existence, itself.
The Sungods, the Sunsphinx
and the Timewardens are all powerful servants of the Solar Lion, and're spread thinly throughout the Forever Tree.
However, as is appropriate for an imperiex, the Solar Lion has both a personal VR-Resonance and a host of Mandragora servants known as
’builders’.
the Solar Lion's VR-Resonance: the Pinnacle of all That is Created.
The Pinnacle of all That is Created has two-way portals to every single parallel-Earth, Perpendicular and Resonance in the
ENTIRE—-but
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the Solar Lion’s Majestos opposite: Tenebrous.
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