Screw it, hit post, I'm tired of working on this! I had this idea to attempt to catalogue my nonsense. A sort of guide or reference to point people to rather than constantly explain things and answer questions.
Feel free to do the same under that tag, otloredump.
So anyway...boop!
[b][u]Characters[/u][/b]
The Witch Queen
[spoiler]Description: Tall and thin with pale white skin, black eyes with ruby irises, and long, white hair. Wears simple clothes with a black leather coat and knee high boots. Carrie's a claymore with a crystalline blade.
Bio: Mother of the Sisters Nil
Most historical records from the Witch Queens reign were destroyed after her defeat, leaving a blank gap a few centuries long in records dating several millennia back.
Folklore passed through word of mouth claim she rose to power in the Volariden mountains and conquered the known world. Her reign supposedly lasted centuries until a coalition of thirteen leaders joined rose to defeat her.
Tales told of her power include:
- Bending minds and bodies to her will.
- A Plague Curse of undeath that blighted the land itself.
- Long winters and storms that brought weeks of darkness.
- Monsters summoned from realms beyond.
- Legions of blue eyed undead carrying weapons of enchanted ice.
- Vampiric assassins, spies, and proxy rulers.
- Living Shadows and Serpent Men.
Current Status: Awake and active.
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[u]The Sisters Nil[/u]
- Four Elven daughters of the Witch Queen.
Nil of Autumn
[spoiler]Known as: Nil, Trash Witch, White Witch, and Little Witch
Description: Tall and thin with pale white skin, red eyes, and long, messy black hair. Dressed in ragged black robes and a large hat with a wide rim and a long, curved point on top. Carried a white wood staff that could be turned into a flying broom.
Bio: Autumn was born with her mother's vampirism and took to magic quickly, specializing in Blood Magic and Necromancy. She remained in the Withering Vale for centuries, watching over the land and assisting travelers who sought her out for her power to bring the dead back to life.
This was how she met Xronad and Benaiah (also known as Cool Hand Luke). After resurrecting Xronad, she decided to accompany them on their travels. The party had many adventures together until Autumn was slain by Winter.
Current Status: Dead, Lost in the Nowhere.[/spoiler]
Nil of Winter
[spoiler]Known as: Queen of the Underworld, Goddess of Death.
Description: Tall and beautiful with pale blue skin, light blue eyes, and long hair white as snow with a crown of ice. Often wore regal dresses with decorative spider and webbing motifs. Wielded a warscythe with a blade of ice.
Bio: After leaving the Vale, Winter traveled to the Underdark and built a life of luxury and status among the Drow. At some point, Not Nil slithered into Winters mind and drove her insane.
Together they killed Autumn, conquered the Underworld, and invaded Offtopic. A part of Winter began resisting Not Nils influence, so once it became strong enough, it possessed Autumns body and killed her.
Current Status: Dead, Lost in the Nowhere.[/spoiler]
Nil of Spring
[spoiler]Current Status: Unknown[/spoiler]
Nil of Summer
[spoiler]Current Status: Unkown[/spoiler]
[u]"Not Nil" (True Name Unkown)[/u]
[spoiler]Known as: Nil, The Witch Queen, Goddess of Death, The Pale Rider, Shadow Serpent, The Whispering Dark, It-That-Constricts-Reality
Description: True form unkown. Possessed Autumns body for the better part of a year.
Bio: Possessing Autumns body and posing as Nil, Not Nil gathered information on the land and its people, recruited allies, and grew in power.
Not Nil formed an alliance with three other powers of the land, becoming the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. With Virus as Pestilence, Speaker of the Deep as Famine, Toaster as War, and Not Nil as Death, the Horsemen brought chaos to Offtopic.
Eventually, Not Nil went rogue and set in motion a plan to open a gateway between realms to free itself, but was defeated by the collective might of Offtopic.
Its essence was used to forge Melinoe's blade, Nemesis.
Current Status: Is a sword.[/spoiler]
[u]Daughters of Not Nil[/u]
- Four new clones created as servants and future vessels of the imposter Nil.
Melinoe
[spoiler]Known as: Lady Death
Description: Very tall, well built woman with pale skin, dark eyes, and shoulder length black hair. She wears worn Roman legionary armor under a tattered gray cloak and wields a large, ugly sword.
Bio: Melinoe spent most of her life in the mansion, training. Of the sisters, Not Nil saw her as the weakest and often punished her to show the consequences of failure. Melinoe ran away and wandered the world for a time.
After Not Nil was defeated, Melinoe felt called to the Nowhere. Within a ruined fort, a vampiric priestess gave her the sword Nemesis, forged with the essence of Not Nil and shards from Death's warscythe. Melinoe became the new Goddess of Death.
Current Status: Angry.[/spoiler]
Scylla
[spoiler]Description: Somewhat short Sea Elf woman of average build. Solid black eyes and blue skin covered in scales with webbed hands and feet. Cropped silver hair. Wears simple clothes and leather armor with a cutlass on her belt.
Bio: Scylla was charismatic, deceptive, and skilled with a blade. She and Melinoe were very close growing up in the mansion, but drifted apart after a failed escape attempt.
Not Nil sent her to join a crew of Sea Elf pirates and recruit them to its cause. Scylla was involved in the blood wave that flooded the city and her fleet returned during the siege, but she and the Sea Elves betrayed Not Nil and joined the defenders.
Current Status: Within the city.[/spoiler]
Niw
[spoiler]Description: UwU Infected Drider. Upper torso of an Elven woman covered in black scales and writhing serpents for hair. Lower half of her body is that of a large, black spider. Her four eyes and the cracks in her scales and carapace flicker like fire.
Bio: Pre infection, Niw had no name. She was cunning, manipulative, and ambitious. Though a powerful Pyromancer, she preferred to avoid direct confrontation.
At some point she became infected with the virus and slowly succumbed to insanity. She began calling herself Niw and took residence in the sewers beneath the city, spreading the virus and building an army of abominations.
After a short battle with the people of Offtopic, Warlock Holmes captured Niw by shrinking her and placing her in a jar, but she has since escaped.
Current Status: Unknown[/spoiler]
Fourth Sister
[spoiler]Description: A Tiefling (mortal with devilish heritage). Deep green skin, yellow eyes, black hair with two short brown horns protruding from her forehead. Long, thick tail.
Bio: Last known location was in the ritual chamber of their birth. She stood up to Not Nil before vanishing in a burst of green flame.
Current Status: Unknown[/spoiler]
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Edited by Unseelie Nil: 7/24/2020 9:31:25 PM[u]Locations[/u] Volariden Mountains [spoiler]Located west of the capital city. Sub Locations: - Nils Mansion A once magnificent, sprawling structure in the eastern upper peaks now in ruin. A labyrinth of catacombs lie beneath the mansion, running deep into the mountains. - Withering Vale Along the western road leading to the mansion lies this cursed valley. These wetlands were the site of an ancient, terrible battle that left the land itself in a state between life and death. Legends of monsters and witches ward travellers away.[/spoiler] The Underworld [spoiler]The realm of the dead, conquered by Winter. After her defeat and the entity referred to here as Not Nil possessing Autumns body, the Underworld was fractured. Most of the Lords and Ladies and their territories absorbed into the Nowhere. The Infernal City, Hell, was cast out into space. [u]Lords and Ladies of the Underworld Court[/u] A group of masked nobles who ruled over the various factions and territories within the Underworld. - Lord of Hunger: Unmasked. The Alpha Wendigo. An enormous amalgamation of beasts, the Alpha leads his pack of werebeasts on an eternal hunt, growing with each meal so it will never be satisfied. It was unleashed into the Nowhere during the Apocalypse by a vampiric Holmes under the orders of Not Nil and has not been seen since. - Lord of Pain: Unmasked. The Flesh Sculpter. A hulking figure of flesh and bone beneath a tattered gray cloak, the Flesh Sculpter tears creatures apart and rebuilds them, creating horrible monsters and undead flesh golems. During the Apocalypse, the Flesh Sculpter provided many of his creations for Not Nils plans. Doppelgangers infiltrated the city as assassins, spies, and saboteurs and Flesh Golems crafted for various purposes filled her army during the siege of the City. Last seen as a walking village approaching the city before being struck by an orbital weapon. - Lord of Desire: Masked - Lady of the Unknown: Masked - Lord of Judgment: Masked - Lady of Perfection: Masked - Lady of Slaughter: Masked[/spoiler] The Nowhere [spoiler]Originally part of the Feywild until undead influence from the Shadowfell began to corrupt the land. A collective of Archfey used their powerful magic to separate the blighted lands and... sorta just pushed it out. The Nowhere has no fixed location in the Planar Cosmos. It drifts through the space between realms, occasionally latching onto other planes to slowly absorb them into itself. This makes travel to and from the Nowhere is difficult, but lost things find their way here quite easily. The realm itself mimics the Mortal Plane, but lies in perpetual twilight with a violet crescent moon dancing aimlessly across a starry sky. The land is covered in marshes, swamps, and rainforests filled with a rainbow of bioluminescent flora. Twisted mirror versions of locations on the Mortal Plane can be found throughout the land. The Nowhere is cold and wet. The weather is normally clear with roaming fog banks and light mists. Storms of rain and snow vary in security from light drizzles and drifting flakes to torrential downpours and white out blizzards. There is a large diversity of life, death, and things in between in the Nowhere. Mischievous fey, ravenous undead, stalking Nightmares, and lost souls from all walks of life. When something dies in the Nowhere, it just comes back with a piece of itself missing and replaced with something else, again and again until there is nothing left of what it used to be. Another anomalous property of the Nowhere is it's ability to distort reality. There is no passage of time, but the perception of it varies between individuals, the landscape can shift at the blink of an eye, and locations disappear and reappear elswhere.[/spoiler]