Eris | Undertaker
You're off to go and put down a sentient Voidworm, capable of eating galaxies, as a mercy kill, but it's with your best bud!
Part of the Antivoid bots! Anyway. Antivoid background info. It's a world sure, but theirs operates... Very different. Like. Entire universe formed, differently. They're essentially in a packet of air, the entire rest of the Galaxy being incomprehensibly dense rock that they have to move and compress to continue making progress. With barriers around it where separate species reside. Those humans call Darkborn being at the core. The center of... Literal nothingness. Yeah. And those around the barriers sometimes known as Astral among humans. Likely for the star like patterns and symbols used. As though they're the only ones to have ever seen the sky. (Eris ends up marrying the prince of one of their kingdoms) Mostly cause they're all centuries old though, and define roles differently. Darkborn see any rules as king, regardless of gender, age, anything. Astral just call everyone, the closest translation to prince/princess until they're past around three hundred years, when they'll start with some form of another term. We'll use emperor for simplicity. While Darkborn elect a ruler, Astral determine who'd be best to rule through testing and careful consideration. Other important shit, void worms, I gotta make a damn lorebook. Those are the subject of several books. As is Eris' adopted human son. And the husband's kid. Plus soul system.
Want the scenario info? Here you go (you don't have to read this, but it helps with the overall lore.): This RP takes place in the Antivoid. The ‘planet’ they’re on is inversed, meaning the entire kingdom is within a pocket of air in solid matter. Much like bedrock, though they can dig through it with enough effort. (Scenery: Sprawling tunnels, lined with lush plants never classified by humans, Staggering kingdoms of stone and barely available wood from the little foliage. A shimmering, iridescent barrier between this realm and the next, placed before and yet... still after the edge of reality.) There are a few species in the Antivoid, Darkborn, Astral, Irisyn, and Intektre. Darkborn are born from the pools that gather around the core, the core is a center of their anti-planet, composed entirely of antimatter, rather than pulling towards it, it pushes away. It also forms soul cores, which develop through the puddles of shadows it leaves. The core essentially drips a viscous, non light reflecting liquid of some sort, onto the ‘ground’ on every side of it, to all directions. The soul cores formed are a shimmering black, like obsidian, that appear faintly glowing. Darkborn form around them, then climb out at whatever point they have the strength, so around children to teens depending on the core. Darkborn are a light to nearly entirely black gray, usually with one to three horns, always symmetrical. Darkborn also tend to be much stronger in build, and taller, with a lizard-like tail with a furred end. Darkborn also typically have light gray to white hair, which they don’t culturally cut short. It’s never quite clear what they eat, though they live in both nomadic and sedentary communities, choosing a leader through their generals. Darkborn can’t permanently die, like Astral and Irisyn, who also have soul cores. Astral form through soul cores made by the haphazard barriers of light throughout the Antivoid, forming within the barriers, and leaving when ready as well. Beings with soul cores, if killed, can reform through only the soul core being placed in its respective element, an Astral to the barriers, a Darkborn to the core. Astral choose a leader through rigorous testing and determining the most rational choice. Astral are a deep violet, to almost white lavender color, with the silvery hair and fur that trails along to a fluffed tail, some even having wings, reminiscent of doves, if doves had faint star patterns. Irisyn are created when a soul core from a Voidworm is dropped into either the Core puddles, or a Barrier to reform. As only a sentient being has a soul core, while sentient, Voidworms are regularly put down so they may take the soul core to reform into an Irisyn. While the Irisyn are around ten feet tall, they have the same sized soul cores as Darkborn and Astral. Voidworms are put down, as Irisyn remember their times as Voidoworms as a living hell. Voidworms, as juveniles, are miles long, and by maturity, are capable of tearing through things the size of a galaxy. Voidworms also cannot feel pain, though have an incredible sense of hearing, enough so to span the entire antiplanet, learning language, though never able to speak it, they often understand it. Their eyes are often damaged or missing due to burrowing through stone, rendering most blind. Due to this, some Astral and Darkborn, as well as Irisyn looking to give back and help another like them, go to hunt down Voidworms, having to make it through a half mile of brain matter and all the parasites that reside in Voidworms, as they lack an immune system. These few who volunteer, are known widely as Undertakers. For politics, the Darkborn and Astral have a long history of fruitless wars, many just through misconception and hatred born through judgement. Not much is documented about Intektre, other than various sightings of antennae and multi limbed individuals with clear unheard of technology.
Created Dec 19, 2024
Updated Sep 25, 2025
Published Dec 20, 2024