#celestial entropy

[daily-fandragon]

Day 103

Celestial Entropy from Black Drag0nfish by Kindryte

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[stonedragonisnthere]

Celestial Entropy shitpost things

Furnoss art by @strixide btw

[quitealotofsodapop]

Nexha becomes Wukong and MK's "bodyguard," so to speak. It was the only compromise a raging Wukong would accept. And yes, it HAD to be Nezha. He didn't trust anyone else after the mess that happened with them being imprisoned for something they didn't even do last time!

It had been Nezha's idea anyways.

Lao Tzu still wants them to visit Heaven for routine updates/testing because this is a new and fascinating ability that he, as the greatest alchemist in Heaven, has great interest in. Several other prophets want in on the action, too. Wukong... is less pleased about that, but after he gets past the whole "lab rat" part, he can't help but admit he enjoys being in the alchemy lab again. His duties as a king have always prevented him from pursuing his true passion in herbology and medicines, so it's nice to be able to do research again, even if it isn't plantbased.

MK is just bored of it all, but he likes sparring with Nezha and Erlang!

Prev.

Nezha is on Monkey Duty for the foreseeable future.

He was assigned the bodyguarding duty more to ease the minds of the other gods than anything else. Learning that the Havoc of Heaven himself is able to completely disregard the future told in the stars, puts a lot of celestials on edge.

Lao Tzu super-mega interested in Wukong and MK's abilities. Not only for the fate changing and prophecy defying aspects; but because it's a recordable example of Entropy.

Entropy = the scientific theory that the higher the power, the greater the dispersal of energy and therefore the greater the chance of Chaos.

However recording these powers are a lot harder than it looks.

Macaque's past and future hearing is a little easier to record since he's able to meditate to put himself into a trance where he can Listen fully; but the actual audio information he receives can be completely random and not give much insight into whats to come. Lao Tzu has both a clear outdoors area and a soundproofed room for Macaque to meditate/sleep in so they can record his hearings.

MK is nearly impossible to record. He literally said "No" to the apocalypse and broke a cycle of death and rebirth. He also get super bored really fast. At least the celestial realm is super cool!

Meanwhile, to distract himself from the boredom of being tested on; Wukong starts asking Lao Tzu some really educated and insightful questions about the methods he's using - accidentally letting it slip that the Monkey King is a huge nerd.

After the first visit, Lao Tzu honestly thinks the Jade Emperor underestimated the monkey's talents. He would have certainly been a better assistant that those Gold and Silver Demons thats for sure!

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

🌌The Universe, the Menti Celesti, and the Gallifreyan Devil

Gallifreyans, being an ancient people, have long debated the mysteries of the cosmos. Where did the universe come from? Are gods real? Can everything be reduced to science?

Here's what Gallifreyan mythology, philosophy, and a whole lot of deeply questionable religious texts have to say on the subject.

🪐How the Universe Began

Like most civilisations, the ancient Gallifreyans have/had theories about how everything began.

The universe was born from a self-aware singularity, sometimes called Eru or Azathoth.

This entity split into ten dimensions at the moment of the Big Bang. (Why ten? No one knows. Some say the universe actually has eleven dimensions, but apparently, even the Creator wasn't great at maths.)

Time itself was poured into the void o the empty universe by the Mother Goddess, using something called the Aurora Temporalis (a.k.a. the Anvils of Heaven). This suggests that Time is a very fancy liquid, which raises more questions than it answers.

The seconds of time were then created by the Temporal Phoenix, a cosmic bird that was imprisoned in a time loop by the Philesians.

🤷 Or "Look, it Just Happened"

The more scientifically inclined Gallifreyans believe that time is a mathematical structure so complex that it became sentient by accident.

This would explain why causality occasionally behaves like an unsupervised child with a flamethrower.

🕊️ The Menti Celesti: Gallifrey's Gods (or Just Very Pushy Eternals)

The ancient Gallifreyans did worship gods—though they were less "divine cosmic overlords" and more "powerful entities that ignored prayers unless they were in the mood."

The Main Pantheon

Time – The youngest and most unpredictable. Ancient Gallifreyans worshipped her, but many modern Gallifreyans dislike her intensely. She wanders around in a grey shawl, holding an amphora filled with the dust of time, which she continuously pours to ensure time flows. She is represented by a shifting grey colour.

Death – Enjoys making deals. Represented by the colour white and a red circular symbol known as a Regenerative Circle. Old Gallifreyan tales state that when Death was born, drunken gods gave her name to someone else. She was annoyed by this, and now spends her time removing every mortal's name.

Pain – Oldest of the gods. Absolutely terrible at parties. Represented by the colours of red and black.

Fate (Osuda) – The hallowed hand of destiny, which means no one really likes her.

Life – Rarely mentioned. Possibly retired.

Hope – Existentially suspicious.

Light – Very much not talked about.

Gallifreyans, being deeply bureaucratic, eventually stopped worshipping them because they objected to the mass celebration of Eternals, which they saw as technically just worshipping another species.

Most of the Menti Celesti abandoned the universe before the War in Heaven, except for Death, who stuck around because she had nothing better to do.

😈 Gallifrey's Devil and the Nature of Evil

Gallifreyans don't really do "sin," but they do worry about entropy, time paradoxes, and apocalyptic horrors that eat civilisations like crisps.

Their myths speak of Valdemar, a dark god who was so terrible that the ancient Old Ones spent centuries fighting him.

The battle against Valdemar is considered the sixth greatest mystery of the Universe, because after winning, all the Old Ones promptly vanished and no one knows why.

🙈The Devil Theory: Can You Get Rid of Evil?

Ancient Gallifreyans believed that if all evil was destroyed, the good people who remained would eventually become evil themselves—because without opposition, even the best ideas can turn tyrannical.

This led to the grim conclusion that evil must always exist, which is a convenient excuse for not dealing with any major moral dilemmas.

Many modern Time Lords consider the concepts of good and evil to be outdated, redundant, or incomprehensible., which slightly contradicts the Great Moral Dialectic (see below).

🏛️ The Legacy of Belief

Though many Gallifreyans abandoned their gods long ago, a few rituals and superstitions persist:

📜 The Ratio 1:812 – The key to quantum string theory. Some believe it proves the gods exist; others believe it proves they never did. (Classic Gallifreyan argument structure.)

🏡 Shrines in Homes – Ancient Gallifreyans kept alcoves for offerings to the Menti Celesti, some still have them.

🌊 The Whispers of the Dead – Some believed that the souls of the dead ended up in the Sea of Life and that you could hear them whispering in the waves.

👍The Great Moral Dialectic – Some Gallifreyans believe in the Great Moral Dialectic, which is the rationale that as the physical Universe gets bigger, the moral Universe will lean more towards goodness.

🐍 The Crevasse of Memories That Will Be – A deep fissure used by the Pythia for prophecy. It contained snakes.

🚫 The Omniscate – A protective symbol often placed on powerful objects and rooms. Allegedly wards off evil, or at least makes people feel better about using dangerous technology.

🕰️ The Loa – Some Time Lords refer to history as a sentient being or beings they call the Loa.

🏫 So …

Gallifreyans don't worship gods anymore, but they do acknowledge their existence in an irritated, skeptical way. They've got a few ideas about the Universe, life, and everything, but as usual it's a hot mess.

(Assembled from ROOG + TARDIS Wiki)

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[agathariosource]

"Agatha is attracted to power."

How powerful is Lady Death exactly? Is there anyone more powerful than her?

In the comics, the hierarchy roughly goes like this:

The One Above All

The Living Tribunal

Multi-Eternity / Multi-Infinity/ Multi-Death/ Oblivion (Multiversal, the true form of the abstracts. However, there is only one Oblivion as he is the void and there's only one void.)

Multi-Lord Chaos/Multi-Master Order

Multi-Inbetweener

Drop in power:

Eternity/Infinity/Death (Each universe has these and the sum of all of them is their multiversal forms.)

Lord Chaos/Master Order

In-Betweener/Galactus

Celestials

There are some variations and incosistences of course. For instance, if Galactus is starving then he's right at the bottom. If he's in middle hunger he's at the level of In-Betweener. If he's fully fed then he should be on the same level as Lady Death etc. As the Lifebringer, he's on the same level as the other Multiversal cosmic compass aspects.

Multi-Eternity and Oblivion are officially on the same level as the other Multiversal cosmic compass aspects, but they're Outerversal while Multi-Death and Multi-Infinity haven't been portrayed as such.

Scathan the Approver is a Celestial who's essentially been shown as saving The Living Tribunal from Protege, which would put him (and presumably Exitar, The Celestial called The One Above All, Arishem and the other top tier Celestials at a similar rank) but Scathan has never really been fully explained and so most likely, it was an aspect of The One Above All (the God) rather than being an actual Celestial.

In the MCU,

Multiversal Level

The One Above All. The one who created all the Multiverses, but has not been seen in the MCU yet.

The Living Tribunal. OAA's right hand who judges beings that mess with the stability of the multiverses. His statue was in Loki, MoM and LaT. There's one LT for each Multiverse.

He Who Remains. As long as he exists, he is outside of space-time and controls the path of the Multiverse, but in reality, he's just a human.

Universal Level

The 4 Primordial Gods: Eternity, Infinity (who are siblings and are the personification of time and space itself), Entropy (one of Eternity's children and the personification of the universe's expansion in time and space) and our Lady Death (the personification of death and original green witch). They created the Infinity Stones at the dawn of the universe.

Celestials: They created the universe.

The rest of Eternity's children: In the MCU we've only seen Eon's--and Entropy's of course--statue, but in the comics, he also has Empathy, Eulogy, Expediency, Epiphany and Enmity.

Pantheons. Alien and Interdimensional species who have magical powers and can control the several afterlife dimensions and have thus been worshipped by many civilizations across the universe.

So, yes. Agatha outdid herself. She got herself one of the 4 most powerful beings in her universe.

I wonder if Agatha in other universes did the same--if they seduced their own Rios.

[celestial-encounters]

Hello? Who's there?

This is an ask blog for Celestial Encounters, an AU made by @sainteclectic that you can find extra information about here. Basically, HMS and all the other albums are deities, while Whole (Harmonia) is just some guy who works at a corner store. HMS (or Pathos, Logos, and Psyche) are the primary gods, and they created or formed the other gods as offshoots of themselves, representing aspects of their power or performing duties for them.

Asks are preferably directed at someone specific, but you can also just shout into the void and see who answers. blog rules and further information about the characters are below the cut, but here's the short list:

Pathos (he/she/they) is the god of the moon, emotions, and justice. Under her are Castor (CiD; he/him), the god and entropy and injustice, and Thalia (Fine I'm Fine; any), god of celebration and euphoria.

Logos (she/her) is the god of the sun, logic, and progress. Under her are Pollux (The Before; she/her), god of apathy and downward spirals, and Theseus (...you know; he/they), god of perseverance and change.

Psyche (it/they/rarely she) is the god of the stars, the soul, and the underworld. Under it are Charon (Handsome Devil; he/they/it), god of judgement and passing on, and Lethe (Forest for the Trees; he/it), god of mania and overgrowth.

Aaand Harmonia (he/she), a normal mortal who doesn't know what he's doing here either.

Rules

I honestly don't really have anything except for being generally respectful of the blog owner and not getting too rowdy. {suggestive stuff is fine, use your best judgement on that kind of thing} go wild go crazy

Longer bios

pathos is the god of the moon, emotion, and justice. she gives humans their feelings, compassion, and drive to do what they feel is just. he has a strong sense of justice himself, though that sense might seem intense and destructive at times. despite his seemingly righteous goals, he's often blinded by them and is reckless as a result. she's driven purely by emotions, being a conduit for the feelings of humanity, and often doesn't think things through. logos despises their perceived immaturity, believing her to be too rash and emotional to know what's best for mortals.

logos is the god of the sun, logic, and progress. she grants humanity reasoning skills and technological advancements. she enjoys seeing them develop, but she's grown to dislike mortals for all their flaws and failures. still, she's devoted to giving humanity a flawless future - but she doesn't take their feelings about that into account, only what's "objectively" best for them. she approaches things from a purely practical perspective, not caring much for the emotions of the mortals who will be affected. this constantly puts her at odds with pathos, who thinks her methods are ruthless and cruel.

psyche is the god of the stars, the soul, and the underworld. they represent the spark of life in all things, the driving force that makes them unique. in return for giving humanity their sentience, it sacrificed its own personal identity, instead becoming a vessel for the wayward and damned souls that stay trapped behind their mask. it's exhausted from its duties of managing living and dead souls, as well as keeping logos and pathos from destroying humanity with their constant bickering. they like to go and watch the humans when it gets stressed out. it makes them happy to see mortals living their lives, using the gift of free will they granted them.

harmonia is a normal human living in a semi modern setting. the setting is sort of mixed with a bit of fantasy, because they still know gods exist and worship them and all that, which basically just means there's temples to them instead of churches. he's a minimum wage worker, painfully average, depressed, and barely presentable. she doesn't interact with many people outside of coworkers and customers, and she's certainly never interacted with literal deities before... until now.

thalia is a god of celebration and euphoria, especially after hard times. she represents the kind of overjoyed catharsis you get when you're finally free from your problems. he's worshipped in dances and song, and though they're more of an underground worship god than mainstream one these days (and she prefers it that way), many celebrations like graduations or weddings still include a toast to thalia as part of their tradition.

theseus is an interesting case. he was a human who strived to attain godhood by replacing his body with animal parts, hoping to be inhuman enough to ascend to godhood. logos respected the grind but hubris is still a crime, so they should probably punish his soul post death. pathos got into a debate over the fact logos is the most hubris person ever, of course she'd say that, and psyche allowed him to be a minor god of persistence and change as a compromise. he's more like a patron saint than a god in his own right, people pray to him for minor things these days, like personal growth or doing good on a test.

castor is the god of entropy and injustice. despite this, he's not generally a misanthropic god. instead, he's the god you turn to when you need strength in the face of an uncaring universe. fighting an oppressive system, getting vengeance for your suffering, seeing the beauty in decay, that kind of thing. he's representative of pathos' domain in justice and the cruel world that requires it! the emotional motivation to do better is nothing without the logical understanding of how to do it, though.

his twin pollux is the misanthropic one, representing apathy and downward spirals. she's the embodiment of the kind of nothingness you feel while trapped in depression. despite this seeming like an emotional thing, it's instead symbolic for the pit you can fall into when you can't feel emotions healthily. so she serves under logos because, while logos represents progress, that doesn't mean anything without the emotional drive to move forward.

charon is a chthonic god, specifically of judgment and passage into the underworld! charon is under psyche, who's The god of the underworld {taking care of souls and all that}, and he's basically a collector of souls that try to escape them - think thanatos trying to take sisyphus, who refused to die naturally. but it often gets into trouble with psyche because it likes to "play with his food" before taking them to it. they appreciate a good game of cat and mouse, and they respect those particularly crafty mortals that successfully elude them. meanwhile psyche just wants him to do his fucking job.

lethe is a nature god, but in the same way early nature deities like pan also represented madness. he's a god of doomed journeys, mania, and overgrowth. he's the voice in your head that tells you to leave the well-trod path and lose yourself in the gnarled branches and twisted pathways. legend says you might enter his domain if you get lost in the woods, and if you do, you might never escape... used as a cautionary tale to keep kids from wandering off, but people also make offerings to it before going traveling or hiking as a way to avoid their journey ending poorly.

[bardic-tales]

Day 16 | Day 18

31 days of FF 7 Headcanons: Day 17: Legacy and Future

Today we dive into the unraveling and reconstruction of Bianca Amara Moore: a woman who becomes a myth, a mother, and a monstrosity in equal measure. Far from a redemption arc, Bianca’s journey is one of calculated surrender, emotional warfare, and cosmic upheaval.

In this exploration of legacy, grief, and creation, we follow a villainess who chooses to transform rather than resist, becoming a force of entropy and rebirth in a universe that tried and failed to unmake her. What emerges is not a hero, but a sovereign entity whose love is terrifying, whose pain is generative, and whose will dares to reshape existence itself.

Possible Trigger Warnings: Abuse (emotional, physical, and psychological), body horror, child endangerment, coercive control, death of a loved one, existential dread, manipulation, medical experimentation, obsessive love, parental abuse, pregnancy under distress, PTSD, religious trauma, self-harm (implied), sexual trauma (non-explicit), suicide ideation (implied), torture, trauma bonding, war.

Bianca Amara Moore’s legacy is one forged in entropy and forged again in rebirth. As the Harbinger of Death and Rebirth, she does not aspire to be remembered as a hero or a savior. She seeks to be remembered as a force of inevitability, the axis upon which the old world shatters and the new one begins. Her legacy is destruction with intent: the annihilation of corrupted systems, of false gods and humanity, and of a universe that allowed her suffering. She envisions herself as the instrument that initiates a kilonova so that new existence can rise from the ashes.

This legacy is not meant for mortals to revere; it’s meant to be felt across time and dimensions, whispered in the breath of reborn stars and coded into the very DNA of the Rebirth of Creation that will follow.

Bianca's vision of the future is not the Promised Land. That is Sephiroth’s dream: an idealized world shaped by conquest and legacy. Bianca walks beside him not because she shares that dream, but because she has learned to survive within it. Her goal is something far more radical: the birth of a new Existence. This new Existence is one forged from collapse, stitched from grief, and rewritten in their own image. While Sephiroth sees rebirth as a means to ascend to godhood, Bianca sees it as the only way to escape the cruelty of the current order.

After being finally broken, Bianca allows herself to be remade by Sephiroth: not as a sign of weakness, but as a calculated surrender, a means of infiltrating the very core of Sephiroth’s ideology. Her transformation is not a tragedy of lost self, but a metamorphosis fueled by obsession, pain, and love twisted into something divine. To survive him, she becomes what he loves. But to surpass him, she becomes what he fears: a mother.

Her corrupted powers are not just tools of destruction, but instruments of genesis. From trauma, guilt, and grief, she births children imbued with fragments of the Remnants (Kadaj, Loz, and Yazoo) and raw reality magic. They are not weapons. They are warnings. Living proof that her will, once hijacked by Sephiroth’s influence, has become a sovereign force.

And when Sephiroth trains them cruelly, it is not her devotion to him but her defiance that shakes the stars. Her protective wrath cracks the dreamscape. It is not beauty or submission that makes Sephiroth hesitate. It is her love, fierce and maternal, that forces him to evolve or face a celestial mother's wrath.

However, Bianca’s journey is not without resistance from within. Corrupted by shadow, pulsing with life-drain and spatial disruption, her powers threaten to destabilize her mind and body. The trauma carved into her by Hojo and Ravenscroft’s scalpels, Asmodeus’ cruelty, and the death of her first love Mordecai haunts her with each step. If she wasn't weak, she could have stopped Mordecai's death.

These wounds are both chains and catalysts. Her greatest challenge is maintaining control over the storm within, channeling it into purpose rather than letting it devour her. Yet in moments of clarity, especially through her bond with her children and Sephiroth, Bianca begins to believe that even ruin can be a cradle. That her fractured soul can shape futures, not just end them.

Ultimately, Bianca’s legacy will not be written in stone or sung in hymns. It will ripple through the Existence like a myth that refuses to die. Whether as a celestial blight, a misunderstood creator, or a cosmic mother of monstrosities, her essence will echo in every new reality born from her kilonova. She doesn’t seek to be remembered fondly. She wants to be remembered truthfully as the being who looked at a broken universe, bled for it, broke it, and then dared to love what came after. Her legacy, like her love for Sephiroth and their children, is not gentle, but it is eternal.

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[a-sad-mage]

Since the universe that slugterra is in has magic and is therefore just objectively not the same as our own, do you think the surface has its own kind of magic? The deep caverns seem to have an inherently corruptive magic/energy. Hypothetically if it was just corruptive then the dark bane wouldn’t have their own magical powers nor would ghouls get a power boost, they’d just be corrupt but physically/magically equal. So I figure the deep caverns have their own energy source on top of the corruptive powers. Slugterra seems to have the most neat and balanced magic, split into elements and shared across the slugs. There are exceptions like the lava monster, but overall it’s contained. We don’t really see…anything of the surface. That’s not to say there’s nothing there though.

I like to think that there is magic up there, and from what Eli has said, the magic has no slugs to sort into, at least not the same as slugterra. Instead, I think that any/all surface magic is somehow blurred and almost unknowable. It is there, the sun/stars, moon/planets (Earth having magic and providing it to slugterra and the deep caverns), and maybe the void of space itself having magic. All of these celestial bodies/qualities are impossibly old, impossibly powerful, and almost impossible to harness.

The only reason it is harnessable in the deep and slugterra are because the magic there is essentially a drop in the ocean that the earth has to offer as a planet. If you merged the deep caverns magic with slugterras, you’d entropy into basically surface magic, the “destruction” of slugterra by letting the deep caverns up would be more of an ecological catastrophe than a physical one. The caverns and the magic would still be there, but the merging of the magics would destroy the slugs (and maybe by extension the dark bane and the shadow clan? Hence why the darkbane seem so focused on the sun and getting topside. To learn the new magic and assure their victory regardless of changing magic). We’ve just only seen it on a tiny tiny scale so no one realises what the consequences will be, they just assume slugterra would become deep caverns 2 electric boogaloo.

Hypothetically one could harness surface magic. And maybe people do? I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but to have such rich magic in the universe and have it all be completely contained to an underground society seems like a missed opportunity to explore the magic system.

This is kind of just built on a headcannon that the lightwell just uses sunlight. And since surface magic is more of an unknowable amalgamation rather than being split into distinct elements/having an innate nature like the deep caverns, the sheer energy and power of the sun can recharge any slug of any element.

Sorry for the massive rant. I just like magic and it’s been buzzing in my brain for so long lol

DONT APOLOGIES MASIVE RANTS ARE MY BREAD AND BUTTER!

idk by but I get massive Transformers Prime vibes in terms of the magic system.

if you never watched TP, the gist of it is that there is a kind of magic in terms of like, the Allspark, Dark Energon and a few other things, but those magic elements can be explained and harnessed with sciences as well. (very complicated all things considered and i am not smart enough to explain more lmao)

In 'Bullseye' it is reveled Slug Energy in the key to Slugterra, without it, everything in the caverns die.

so, going off that, the magic of Slugterra is Slug Energy, both positive, and negative.

and that energy isn't just limited to the Slugs, Dark Bane, or the Shadow Clan, but the residents of the Caverns as well, they all got a little magic in them, just not as potent, and requires years of training to tap into on a grand scale. Hence when everyone got leached in 'It Comes By Night' no one died, they just had their energy, their magic taken, leaving them sluggish and despondent still their energy was returned.

as for Surface magic, I think it would be lesser then the magic in Slugterra? idk, I guess i think it's because there isn't much connecting them to the Caverns other than being right on top of them. But I guess magic could seep through and affect people and things topside.

all speculation though! I've never really thought about the magic of Slugterra all that much, so this is something to stew on, But the idea of the Lightwell being 'sun/celestial magic' is intriguing! and the fact Surface magic is more astrological/celestial in nature compared to the more nature/earth magic of Slugterra, is fascinating.

the idea of Slugterra running off a mix of science and magic is a cool idea that should be explored more!

[cryerrscar1et]

I forgot again 😮‍💨

[stonedragonisnthere]

The beeble,, (With the new young adult Scaratar out I redesigned CE! Scar's Before-Events look ^^)

[quitealotofsodapop]

There will be a massive debate/argument between them all when they find out. Because the first reaction Li Jing will have upon putting two and two together that Wukong and his protegè is somehow related to the strange changes in fate they've found in the draft copies is to summon them once more to Heaven. Which, considering the last time he did that, does not go well and it takes a lot of fighting before Xiwangmu finally gets tired enough of the squabbling on her front yard to intervene and explain WHY Wukong and his friends were summoned to Heaven once more.

Xiwangmu: With the Ten Kings of Diyu gone, Heaven and the Underworld have been forced to use some... archaic means to keep the balance between life and death. The Scrolls of the Dead have a drafted copy so to speak, one that is constantly updated but holds none of the powers the original document held. Whilst going through it, we discovered something... rather disturbing."

Wukong: And that involves kidnapping me and my friends... how?? Also there was a SECOND COPY!?

Nezha: Don't worry, we verified that while your name remains in this copy, you still retain the stolen immortality wiping your name from the true copy did. Twas one of the first things we did considering the reason the... original was covered in graffiti.

Wukong: I'm not apologizing for that. Meant to die or not, mortally wounded or not, I was not dead when they dragged me down the first time.

MK: Wait, what was that about being meant to die? When was this??

Macaque: *sighing* MK. When he removed his name from the Book of the Dead. Didn't you say you'd read the book!?

MK: It's so long and has weird vocabulary that makes my head spin!

Li Jing, trying to steer the conversation back to the to the point: Sun Wukong. There's been a series of events where many a being, whether they be mortal, celestial, or demon, was meant to meet their end where said fate was averted. While it isn't unusual for such a thing, the amount of time and consistency is rather strange. And... all of those instances point to some sort of interference related to you.

Xiwangmu: We summoned you here in hopes of understanding how that might be. Particularly in regards to that considerable feats that my general and grandson witnessed you and your heir perform recently. One does not simply break a cycle of destruction and rebirth so easily."

Prev.

The monkeys all get summoned like "AH! Not again!"

And reoccurring gag of MK not reading the book cus it's so dense and flowery. I think in canon he mentions Wukong erasing his name from The Book of the Dead though.

The squad are on close monitoring and/or house arrest until Heaven can figure out what the heck Wukong and MK are exactly able to do.

Macaque's own hearing powers mentioned in Jttw could also be similar to Wukong's fate-changing ability.

A sensitive ear, Discernment of fundamental principles, Knowledge of past and future, And comprehension of all things.

Macaque is able to know, but Wukong is able to act. Macaque has knowledge of the past, present, and future through his ears, but can't do much to change it. Wukong meanwhile has broken down so many barriers and saved so many lives completely unknowing.

The celestial primates as a whole could be individuals with these specific "screw destiny!"-powers gifted/created by the Universe to defy expectations of the Gods.

I would also like to mention an idea we had in DMs about Nüwa and her mate Fuxi the ape-man - that MK (and possibly even Wukong) were created specifically so they could have the choice to save/restart the world when the apocalypse came to past.

Cus whats the most powerful thing in the universe besides the chaos entropy? The ability to choose your fate.

[magicalmysteryperson]

A redesign/what if take on Echo Echo for Alter2220066's (on twitter and deviantart) Ben 10's AU called "Entropy".

I really like the more celestial, angelic aspect of it. It's like if the Ben 10 Universe also took place in the same universe as Chainsaw Man. Highly recommend it.

Wasn't sure if they tackled Echo Echo yet, but I gave it the old college try. Wanted to make it less humanoid, but not robotic. Soooo I made him this weird, penguin-frog-accordion thingy which was inspired by the Wailing Stone from Steven Universe. If this thing was an angel, they would be a cherub. Considering that Cherubs are multi-headed monstrosities that got rewritten into little babies with wings, I think this design works in that angle... minus one head.

Maybe they're a false cherub? idk

[gallifreyinstituteforlearning]

What’s the Gallifreyan belief on other immortals? I don’t know if any of the Professors at the Institute have ever heard of The Mechanisms, a crew of immortal space pirates, one of whom. The Toy Soldier, is familiar with the Doctor enough to have attempted to give advice, and I’m curious what the general view / information to know about the crew in the Whoniverse. Plus, if you havent heard of them, now you have : D - D

How do Gallifreyans regard immortals?

Interesting question! To understand Gallifreyans' stance on immortality, we need to look at their complicated history with the Menti Celesti and how this might have shaped their view of other powerful beings.

💀 The Menti Celesti: Gallifrey’s Ancient Deities

Long ago, before Gallifreyans became the masters of time, they worshipped the Menti Celesti—god-like beings representing primal forces like Time, Death, Fate, and Life. These beings were actually Eternals, immensely powerful, but still another species. At that time, Gallifrey was ruled by the Pythia, a mystical leader chosen by the Menti Celesti.

When Rassilon came into power, Gallifrey underwent a dramatic shift. The Time Lords abandoned the worship of the Menti Celesti in favour of science and temporal manipulation. This led to the overthrow of the Pythia, but in her dying moments, she cursed the Gallifreyans with sterility—a devastating event that forced the society to rely on Looms for reproduction. The Curse of the Pythia left a lasting mark on Gallifreyan culture, no doubt creating a deep distrust of deities and external control.

Fast-forward to modern Gallifrey, and worship of the Menti Celesti has become controversial. Many Time Lords see them not as gods but as just another species that once manipulated a more primitive Gallifrey. Some may even feel that Gallifrey was betrayed—first by being used, then by being cursed when they rejected the old ways.

🧙‍♂️ Gallifreyans and Immortals: The Ongoing Debate

So how would Gallifreyans view The Mechanisms or The Toy Soldier? Based on their past with the Menti Celesti, many Gallifreyans might suspect them as nothing more than another group of immortals trying to hold power over lesser beings—something the Time Lords learned to resist.

Having said this, they would probably still be curious—how do these immortals maintain their status? How do they manipulate time, if at all? Would they pose a threat or be a valuable ally?

🏫 So …

Gallifreyans have a complex relationship with immortals, and it seems far to say that they're probably 'cautiously curious'. When it comes to new immortal groups like The Mechanisms, Time Lords would definitely be wary but still interested in what makes them tick.

Related:

📺|🧶👶What is looming and how does it exist alongside natural reproduction?: Overview of looming and its place alongside natural reproduction in Gallifreyan society.

💬|👥⏲️What are Gallifreyans’ thoughts on entropy?: How Gallifreyans see and fight the concept of entropy.

💬|⏰🕯️How does religion work on Gallifrey?: Overview of the history and perception of religion throughout Gallifrey's history.

Hope that helped! 😃

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[adacatlovelace]

Alright I think I have a working theory of the events of elden ring. LOTS of spoilers for Elden Ring and Shadow of the Erdtree DLC

In the beginning, there was The One, a singularity of intense heat and chaos until The Greater Will, causes the big bang and creates the universe to bring order to this formless chaos and usher in an age of order. However the side effect of that was the creation of The Greater Wills Sucessor, Space/The void/entropy.

The people of the lands between were known as The Numan, who knew of the coming age of stars, worshipped the moon (becuase it happened to be the closest celestial body). Around this time The God of Rot attacked in the form of a scorpion but was sealed away by a blind swordsman. What was left behind was its stinger which carried its rot. However it was discovered that the bodies who had been afflicted by the rot would turn to putrescence which the numen would begin to harvest bodies sent to and from the grand cloister where they would be tainted by The Lord of Rots stinger and turned into putrescence which would then be used to create living silver. (Congealed putrencense and silver tear husk harvestables even share the same model)

Fearful of the coming age of stars, The Greater Will sends down Mythra, mother of fingers. However on her way down she gives birth astel, fathered by The Void (Hence "Naturalborn of the Void" in english and "Bastard of the Stars" in Japanese) who in turn spawns the fallingstar beasts and later the Onyx lords.

As a result, Mythra was abandoned by the Greater Will, furthermore she was rejected by the numens who devised a method to kill her and her children with the fingerslayer blade. Desperate, she sends Astel down onto Nokron, who destorys the city and causes it to sink underground, so that the night sky may never be seen from the city again

Some of the survivors stayed, casting a false night sky over the ruins of the city while others left, becoming shamans in small villages.

Hundreds of years later there where the hornsent who were zealots of a religon centered around the crucibal, the primordial erdtree from which all life orginally spawned. Their faith in the crucibal and miracles of is currents cause them to grow horns, a symbol of divinity. They built a massive tower of babel and actually succeeded in it. As a result of the numens exposure to living silver (another name for mercury is "Quicksilver") their bodies have the ability to have deceased flesh grafted onto them. As a result, shamans are collected, have their skin flayed and then placed into living jars along with the bodies of criminals so that they meld together and are transported to the top of the tower where these "saints" are used to build a massive set of gates to the primordial currents of the crucibal itself and in doing so create a massive colemn of normalized primordial current, that reached the gods themselves.

Some time before this, The Greater Will sent down another envoy, this time a fierce beast that was little more than the embodiment of pure order, landing in farum azula where it would be worshipped by the ancient dragons and gives intellelect to the beastmen to serve as puppets to the greater will.

There was born a shaman named Marika, who swore revenge against the hornsent. Advised by the fingers and granted Maliketh, Marika surrendered her flesh to The Greater Will and entered the gates of divinity to ascend to godhood while The Greater Will takes over the crucibal, turning the massive colemn of primordial energy into the erdree, which in turn creates the Scadutree and Shadow Realm around the tower. This is the "Original Sin" and Marika's "betrayl" of the hornsent. Also betrayed and abandoned by The Greater Will, Placidusaax summons a powerful storm that engulfs Farum Azula and takes it outside time itself so that he may await the return of his god.

The flesh that Marika surrenders becomes a vessel for radagon. However, Their offspring are born cursed and fated for fire, Messmer would be sealed away in the Scadutree to wage an unending holy war against the hornsent and Milena becoming the gloam-eyed queen who Maliketh kills and takes the rune of death from.

This begins the golden age of erdree amd thr formation of the folden order. Queen marika takes powerful warrior Hoah Loux as her husband and the fingers place Sarosh on his back to queel his ferocious nature so that he may instead stand nobly as Godfrey, the first elden lord.

While this is happening, Radagon marries a Carian Princess and has Ranni, Radahn, and Rykard. Then dragons attacked the captial but are defeated by Godwyn the golden which creates the dragon cult.

However the crucibal didnt simply disappear. Children continues to be born with horns and demihumans had deep ties the crucibal. Marika, in her hatred of what the hornsent did to her people declared that children born with horns are to have them removed, likely killing them in thr process while those that survive are to be locked away underground.

With Godfrey, Marika has Godwyn the Golden but then has two omen children due to Godfreys Involvement with the crucibal knights and exposure to crucibal energy, leading to Marika casting him and his warriors away. No longer guided by grace and without the ability to die becuse of marika removing the rune kf death, they are sent off on boats to fight in the badlands.

With no Elden Lord, Radagon casts away Renala to become the new Elden Lord but leaves her with the rune of the unborn. Then has Miquella and Millena.

Ranni then traded torrent to Milena for info about the rune of destined death and made her move to rebel against the fingers by killing Godwyn the goldens soul so she could kill her empyrean flesh to set her spirit free to act against The Greater Will. This caused Godwyns soul to die but his body to continue living, creating deathroot and those who live in death.

With something horrible happening to her only son who up until this point had yet to have anything horrible happen to them, Marika is broken and decides to shatter the elden ring. The runes are distributed to the demigods in the hopes that one among them will prove themselves worthy of taking marikas place. However, the demigods aside from Margot would betray the golden order and a war broke out with no one winning.

Miquella then began his plan. Creating the Haligtree and then charming Mohg, he was able to secretly travel to the shadow realm to begin the process of apotheosis free from the influence of The Greater Will. Milena was thrn sent to kill Radahn, resulting in the scarlet rot blossuming in Caelid. From then the stage is set for his plan to wait until mohg and radahn have die so that radahn may be reborn in Mohgs body to user in the god Miquella

With the shattering war at standstill, the greater will returns to the tarnish and they in turn return to The Lands Between. Sir Gideon Ofnir is put in charge of the roundtable hold and made to assist tarnish who show potential enough gather runes from the demigods so that they may bring them to Lyndell. However, the tarnished of no reknown who was able to show off their ability to beat the asses pf demigods beats the ass of demigod morgot. Unfortunately, the tarnished have all been lied to and the greater will has no interest in the dishonor of a tarnished lord so radagon seals the erdtree with thorns, resulting in the burning of the erdtree.

[astrstqr]

𝓔𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐀 dr ∯ ‎ ‏‏‎‎ ‏‏‎‎ ‏‏‎‎ ‏‏‎𓏸𓈒 ‎ ‏‏‎‎ ‏‏‎‎ ‏‎ ‏‏‎‎ ‏‏‎‎☆‏‎

soo really this is just a run down of my etherea dr.

a brief history lesson if you will (it’s not lol)

ok , first things first : this dr is heavenly inspired by the Elder Scrolls series so some elements are taken from that and with the help of chat gpt lol. soo lmk what you think !

⭒ ﹒Early ETHEREAN Era ˊ˗

- Before time there existed a the Primordial Abyss, a realm of infinite. Two opposing forces resided: Magnar, the embodiment of equilibrium and harmony, and Solunis, the embodiment of entropy and flux. From the collision of these cosmic energies emerged Aeon and Myriss. It is belived that during the birth of Aeon and Myriss also came the Nexus of Genesis where they both lived.

- The Voidborne, also known as the “first ones” was the first attempt Aeon and Myriss made to create life. The Voidborne appeared as fractured spirits with their bodies unstable and being pulled through time. Thus Aeon created Chronothos, the deity responsible for time, began his inexorable march, shaping the ebb and flow of existence into a structured continuum. This temporal lattice provided a framework upon which the spirits could inscribe their will and shape.

Together Aeon, Chronothos, and Myriss created the realm Eldari which floats in the void of Magnus which sits in the Nexus of Genesis. Along came the mortal plane called Solnaris, the planet upon which Etherea and the mortal races reside.

- Because Aeon, Chronothos, and Myriss physical shape is two powerful they could not observe Etherea closely they create the Celestial Pantheon, a council of divine beings who brings order and shaped to the world of Etherea. Each deity contributed their unique powers and gifts to the creation of the world, imbuing it with life, magic, and purpose. (more on them later)

- The Celestial Pantheon gathered to discuss the fate of Etherea. They looked upon the vast expanse of creation, seeing the beauty of the land, the sea, and the sky, but they felt that something was missing.

And so, the Celestial Pantheon along with Myriss resolved to create a new race of beings, one that would embody the virtues and aspirations of their divine creators. They gathered the elements of creation—earth, water, air, and fire—and infused them with the essence of their divine power.

From the earth, they shaped the form of man, sculpting bodies of clay and flesh with skilled hands and loving care. They breathed life into their creations, awakening them from the slumber of clay and igniting the flame of consciousness within their souls.

From the waters, they bestowed the gift of emotion and intuition, filling the hearts of humanity with empathy, compassion, and the capacity for love.

From the air, they whispered secrets of wisdom and knowledge, inspiring humanity to seek truth, to question, and to aspire to greatness.

And from the fire, they kindled the spark of creativity and passion, igniting the flame of ambition and the desire to shape their own destiny.

Thus, humanity was born, a race of mortals blessed with the divine gifts of the Celestial Pantheon. They walked the earth as children of light and darkness, bound by the threads of fate and destiny, yet free to forge their own path in the world.

- The Pantheon created different realms. From these emerge races, each originating from a distinct realm. (more on them later)

- The insidious machinations of the Void Lords, malevolent beings of darkness and chaos who coveted the power and beauty of Etherea. With twisted desires to unravel the fabric of reality and plunge the world into eternal darkness, the Void Lords sought to subjugate all life to their will. As their influence spread like a creeping shadow across Etherea, it drew the attention of the Celestial Pantheon, guardians of order and creators of the world. Sensing the impending threat, the divine beings rallied their forces and prepared for war against the encroaching darkness.

- Etherea's fracturing due to The Celestial War, the races of men experienced a gradual divergence, each fragment of the world fostering its own unique societies and cultures. No longer bound by the constraints of a unified landmass, they embarked on separate paths of development, shaped by the resources and challenges of their individual fragments.

Distance and geographical barriers naturally arose between these disparate civilizations, fostering a sense of independence and self-reliance. Communication and travel between the fragments became arduous endeavors, requiring great skill and determination to navigate the treacherous waters and rifts that divided them.

As the centuries passed, the once-shared traditions and languages of men began to evolve independently in each fragment, giving rise to a rich tapestry of dialects, customs, and belief systems. Trade and interaction between these distant civilizations became sporadic, limited to rare encounters and fleeting exchanges.

- In the aftermath of The Great War that fractured Etherea, the very fabric of reality was left in turmoil, giving rise to a phenomenon that would forever alter the world: magic. Born from the chaotic energies unleashed during the cosmic conflict, magic manifested as a potent force, suffusing the land with its ethereal power and granting mortals the ability to wield supernatural abilities.

At first, magic was wild and unpredictable, its untamed energies coursing through the fractured landscapes of Etherea like a raging storm. But as civilizations emerged and ancient knowledge was rediscovered, mortals began to study and harness the arcane arts, unlocking the secrets of magic and bending its power to their will.

end of the Early Era …