Have you used this trope yet?

LOL!

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Oh, I forgot It. That’s a good one too.

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Yeah, trying to comprehend and measure the house is a fool’s errand. It’s like trying to comprehend and measure something abstract, like conciousness or life force.

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Yeah, I had to think about that one. LOL!

Eldritch location and Eldritch objects can be a thing too.

Like people stumble into a place or find an object that can be best described as “totally alien or simply off”.

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Like this? But worse?

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Yep! Made in Abyss the anime and manga is also like that.

The Pit or The Great Abyss is an eldritch location that is so deep that the deeper a person goes, the more they lose their humanity.

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God! It’s like its staring into my soul!

MAKE IT STOP!

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Staring into this things eyes for a couple seconds makes me feel like I just lost a few years of my lifespan.

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Same, I feel the very same.

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Aha, there it is! I was wondering where eldritch would come out in your story because you were talking so much about it :wink:

Well, not exactly, because Richard never once feared Charcoal. But no one else should ever see what Charcoal actually looks like. He’s the demon attached to immortal assassin Richard. The only bits of Charcoal that are described are his fangs, his elongated claws, and sometimes a horn or two, but never the full form. Any mortal to lay eyes upon him would faint in fear and then become his meal.

Usually, Charcoal is in the shape of Richard’s shadow. Sometimes the shadow gets elongated claws, but this form is a lot more tolerable to mortals.


The Forest Crup in Elgana might be like that. It’s not trying to fool, though. It’s just that so much magick is condensed in one spot that it’s gone a little bit insane. Without the Forest Crup, Sorcerers would have had no place to put their failed spells and mistakes they can’t reverse. Those things can’t be running around free, after all.

The Forest Crup is a weird sort of place that, if you don’t know where you’re going, you are certainly going to get lost. It’s made up of layers of possible locations with each layer connected to the next in some odd way.

Maybe you need to climb a tree to end up on the cliff of the next layer. Maybe you need to follow a narrow path to find yourself in water you can breathe in. Maybe you’ll find fish in the sky, and if you follow them, you’ll fall into a swamp upside down.

It’s not trying to get you lost, but you can definitely feel like the Forest Crup is doing it on purpose even when it’s not.

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Yeah, I had to mention it finally, because with Nirvana and the other divine entities, it makes total sense. :laughing:

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Well, yeah. It goes deeper, though:

current example

It was to the sound of shell cracking. I managed to peek an eye open and it was a giant werewolf with antlers that pierced the sky, pounding on the top of a giant villain crab from a Mario game. I wanted to nope the fuck out of this one, except the iconic tell-tales of gods fighting was in front of me. The land shook, nonexistant stars fell from the sky. I could sleep, but I’d likely be crushed.

Inti was nowhere around when I sat up, jostling every which way in a world full of jello. The deer wolf was winning, and the crab king was going to be a nothing if I let this go.

I took a deep breath, 2, 3… “Pearson!”

One last fist, a sickening crunch where the head of the crab should be, and the wolf howled in frustration before slowly turning his massive head towards me. “WHAT DO YOU WANT WITH ME, LITTLE ONE?!”

That little one was an oh, shit moment. Wolves and their traditional endearments, he just…fucking hell.

Of course, I didn’t get why he would have to yell, at first. He didn’t. He was that massive. Pearson knelt down, losing some of his size before becoming frustrated with the horns catching on things yet again. Snapping them off richoched over the hills and valleys of this flat land. I don’t get this dimension. “Rachael, the venom…”

“I know, another dumb move on my part. I think its ok.”

The wolf sighed and shifted back to the man, pushing back in the stumps of horns until he looked like his normal self. It took him some time to find that professionalism he carried over his rage, but eventually he turned back to face the being behind him. “I know you’re not dead. You know I can sense that much.”

The tentacled mess began pulling itself out of the housing of the crab’s shell, slowly. “Pearson, you’re an immature brat. You know by what you wield that we’re weird.”

Again with the loincloths. Why not a business suit?
“Child, stay out of it.” The tentacled thing pointed at me briefly before going back to the man in front of him. “I’m inhuman. I’ve not mixed with anything of this world like you have, the core of my life is not in my head or where you’re guessing my heart is. That thing is a shell, this body is a shell. I’ve got several layers below that. You’re not killing me, no matter how much power you’ve gained.”

“You fight like shit. I just have to endure until I get that last one opened, weak bastard.”

“Gods still have pissing contests?” I muttered to myself.

So clearly, beings are MORE than what is here, without having to say it out loud.

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There is still a possibility that I would for The Endurlon… But where and how, I know not…

SD

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We may not know what the future holds…

Yet, I know the future I strive to find…

SD

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True, true!