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Mythos:
Humans are always interested in what they cannot have. They always wonder what's around the corner, behind the door, over the next hill, and imagine some wonderful treasure. I don't know if it was some struggle for power, a quest for knowledge or just that confounded curiosity, but somehow, long ago, there was a group of humans who dug too deep into matters that were never meant to be dug up. Into the black darkness of sorcery they reached, and they touched something, some layer of reality or eldritch abonimation or ancient god. Whatever it was they found, it was too much for them. It changed them, physically and mentally. It is as though their minds stand on the brink between two separate realities, only barely able to resolve the incompatible truths. They are completely mad. Or at least, I hope they are. I can only pray that they are checked by some flaw, some fatal degenerancy. Because however much they'ved changed, they are still interested in what they can't have. They still reach out into the darkness. I can only pray that what touched them, what changed them, never reaches the rest of us. I can only pray.
Alt Names: Elder Ones, Thinglings, Strangelings, Oddities, Otherworlders, The Touched, Reachers, Eldritch, Dagonites, Cthulhu-kin, Drow, Trow, Dark Elf, Deep Elf
Humans are always interested in what they cannot have. They always wonder what's around the corner, behind the door, over the next hill, and imagine some wonderful treasure. I don't know if it was some struggle for power, a quest for knowledge or just that confounded curiosity, but somehow, long ago, there was a group of humans who dug too deep into matters that were never meant to be dug up. Into the black darkness of sorcery they reached, and they touched something, some layer of reality or eldritch abonimation or ancient god. Whatever it was they found, it was too much for them. It changed them, physically and mentally. It is as though their minds stand on the brink between two separate realities, only barely able to resolve the incompatible truths. They are completely mad. Or at least, I hope they are. I can only pray that they are checked by some flaw, some fatal degenerancy. Because however much they'ved changed, they are still interested in what they can't have. They still reach out into the darkness. I can only pray that what touched them, what changed them, never reaches the rest of us. I can only pray.
Alt Names: Elder Ones, Thinglings, Strangelings, Oddities, Otherworlders, The Touched, Reachers, Eldritch, Dagonites, Cthulhu-kin, Drow, Trow, Dark Elf, Deep Elf
Insight:
This is actually one of the few Acheron races which is not based on any genuine Mythology. Abyssians are based on a GURPS fantasy creature called Elder Ones, which are a race of elves who interbred with eldritch abominations. I sort of like the idea of Drow or Dark Elves or Deep Elves, but I don't like the idea of "let's make the dark-skinned ones the bad guys!" So the idea of Elder Ones with tentacle fingers and goofy pupils was appealing to me. And they're not necessarily bad, just creepy and possibly bonkers, not someone you'd want to mess with. I added the squid tails because I had them laying around and I'm starting to feel like characters without tails don't look right. I've been reading a lot of HP Lovecraft, so I decided to give their mythos blurb a lovecraftian twist.
This is actually one of the few Acheron races which is not based on any genuine Mythology. Abyssians are based on a GURPS fantasy creature called Elder Ones, which are a race of elves who interbred with eldritch abominations. I sort of like the idea of Drow or Dark Elves or Deep Elves, but I don't like the idea of "let's make the dark-skinned ones the bad guys!" So the idea of Elder Ones with tentacle fingers and goofy pupils was appealing to me. And they're not necessarily bad, just creepy and possibly bonkers, not someone you'd want to mess with. I added the squid tails because I had them laying around and I'm starting to feel like characters without tails don't look right. I've been reading a lot of HP Lovecraft, so I decided to give their mythos blurb a lovecraftian twist.