#qlippoth

[soylent-crocodile]

Qlippoth Boons- The Ladies

(Qlippoth Assault by Lie Setiawan)

The Qlippoth are one of my favorite aspects of Pathfinder's campaign setting- ancient squirming entities that exist in the overlap between adventure fantasy and cosmic horror. I understand why they're on the lower tier of boons- that is, their boons are entirely a set of three SLAs- they hate worshipers and are an anathema to souls. Consider these boons to be less something they've started giving out, and more a way that secret cults have learned to wrest power from these twilight divinities. The initial obedience and its basic boon are taken straight from PF canon, and I've chosen a handful to keep around.

If you're not familiar with these lovely ladies, I reccommend @monstersdownthepath's lovely articles in their Beasts from Before Month, and I'd also like to thank them for extracting these images from their bestiary!

Also; Major content warning for body horror! These two are themed around pregnancy and parasites in that order, and if either of those things skeev you out, it's best you give this one a pass!

Oaur-Ooung

(Oaur-Ooung by Alexander Alexandrov)

Obedience: Drink fouled water, and maintain yourself on the edge of regurgitation for an hour.  Gain a +4 profane bonus on saving throws against poison effects.

Boons

First Boon Mother’s Embrace- Summon Swarm 3/day, Fungal Infestation 2/day, or Black Tentacles 1/day

Second Boon Mycelium Strands- Strings of your mistress’s mycellial network begin to grow inside you and burst through your skin, allowing you to grasp distant foes and hold tight to your enemies. Increase your natural reach by 5ft and gain a +4 profane bonus to grapple checks.

Third Boon The Gift of Life- Whatever your anatomy, your body begins producing qlippoth at a daily rate. At the start of the day, upon completing your obedience, a random qlippoth from among from among an augnagar, a chernobue, a gongorinan, a nygoth, a shoggti, or an utukku begins gestating within your flesh, giving you a -2 penalty to AC and to charisma-based skill checks, but 2 temporary hit points per level. Upon you taking 50 or more damage, or at the end of the day, the qlippoth bursts from your flesh, dealing an additional 2d6 slashing damage to you. The qlippoth is loyal to you for 1 hour, after which it will come to find all ensouled beings to be an anathema. 

Isph-Aun-Vuln

(Isph-Aun-Vuln by Alexander Alexandrov)

Obedience: Consume a handful of live parasites or infested flesh.  Gain a +4 profane bonus on saving throws against disease and parasitic infestations.

Boons

First Boon From Inside- Detect Thoughts 3/day, Suggestion 2/day, or Fleshworm Infestation 1/day

Second Boon Soul Parasite- Gain Possession as a spell-like ability usable 2/day.

Third Boon Writhing Form- Your body and soul become infested with primordial, abyssal parasites. As a move action, you may dissolve your flesh into a pile of writhing abyssal grubs that, as a gestalt, contain your mind, and may stay in this state until you choose to leave it. While in this state you become an Outsider with the Swarm subtype, take up 10ft of space (square if you can’t fly, cubed if you can), and gain a swarm attack with Distraction that deals 1d6 damage for every 2 HD you have. The Distraction DC is equal to 10+½ your total HD+your Constitution modifier. A creature killed by your swarm attack has its soul devoured by you and cannot be revived with anything short of divine intervention. You can not cast spells that have a somatic component in this form and cannot wield weapons. 

[dailycharacteroption]

Portal Seeker (Investigator Archetype)

(art by SilentPianist on DeviantArt)

We’ve talked about how not every investigator being a detective before, but usually the assumption is that they’re putting their brainpower to work in an entirely different career. However, the core of the investigator has always been about smarts and observation, which can be used for all sorts of, well, investigating. This extends beyond criminal cases, which leads to archetypes like today’s subject.

Whether they are rare or disturbingly common, portals and rifts to other planes of existence can be a serious concern for the locals given what might be lurking on the other side. Whether it be natural portals to the First World forming in a mushroom ring or a deliberately-created portal to the Abyss opened by a cult, even the most benign visitors could be majorly disruptive.

Enter the Portal Seeker, paranormal investigators that seek out such distortions in spacetime, and learn a bit about such secrets of planar metaphysics themselves, though they themselves are no conjurers.

Of course, not every such investigator is only out to close portals or protect others from extraplanar visitors. Others seek to study the portals to better understand the underpinnings of the cosmos, and potentially step through to see what lies on the other side.

Either way, portals and gates are a serious business, and these brilliant minds have the skill and knowledge to deal with them semi-safely.

While many portals and extradimensional spaces are blatant affairs, not all are so easy to notice. There’s a reason that people literally stumble into the First World and the like. However, these investigators learn to pick up on the subtle cues that reveal that such dimensional distortions are or were nearby, and they can even pinpoint their exact location. Interestingly, this also extends to extradimensional spaces created by certain spells like rope trick or even mage’s magnificent mansion, making portal seekers one of the rare few beings able to notice such hideaways without spells of their own.

Being forcibly teleported against one’s will can be a serious problem, but while a somewhat niche problem outside of certain monsters and traps, these planar physicists are well equipped to see such tricks coming and better resist them. This even extends to powerful imprisonment magic, keeping high-level casters from taking you out of the fight and/or the entire campaign.

Their knowledge of portals makes them quite effective at discerning the destination of such extraplanar passages, as well as any key words or other quirks required to open them.

As they master the secrets of portals, these investigators learn to create their own, albeit short-lived affairs that last only long enough to step through and can only take them a short distance.

Later on, though, the range improves, and they can create them long enough to let others through, allowing for tactical movement with the whole party.

This archetype’s biggest draw for general use is being able to create portals, greatly expanding their movement range as long as they have energy left in their reserves to do so. Losing out on studied strikes does weaken their overall damage output, but they still get studied combat, so it’s not all bad. Losing out on the more generally useful poison resistance/immunity is a bit annoying, but in the right campaign their knowledge and resistances can come in handy. As always, work with your GM. (also, consider that this archetype can detect extradimensional hiding spot spells, which you rarely ever see villains use, but could be a good reason to stump your characters until they remember they can do this.)

Depending on how thin the walls of your cosmos are, these scientists might be extremely rare or extremely common. Either way, they’re likely serious but excited about their work, though likely for different reasons. In a world where such portals are rare, they might be eager to study them, but also recognize they might be too dangerous to allow to stay open, while those in more common worlds might view them mostly for the danger they represent.

Theorizing that the earliest tengu came to the world from another plane, Professor Kosara has been pushing to get funding for an expedition to the mountains where his ancestors have lived for generations, looking for clues of that ancient planar gate that supposedly brought them there, as well as archaeological clues as to why.

Bloodless disappearances in the old Walkigan Estate has led some to suspect otherworldly activity, and they’re right, for a rift has opened up in the basement, the same one that teens often dare each other to go down into. However, when the party and their patron arrive to examine it, Something comes through: a chernobue qlippoth, painting a horrifying mental picture of what happened to those that stumbled through the portal never to return.

Something of a legend, the Transplanar Express is a wonder of technology and magic, a magical passenger train that crosses the entirety of the cosmos, providing safe transport to any plane you like if you can find a station and have a ticket, and virtually impossible to hijack or attack from outside, or so it was believed, until a group of portal-hopping bandits broke in, led by their brilliant commander, and set about taking hostages and heading for the vault car.

[ghoulcaclulator64]

another fiendish pathfinder take on a shinigami this time with her as a qlippoth! try and see how many faces you recognize from her sprites (not all of them are 1 to 1 but some are). the yuma png on the side is very very necessary hes there for scale

[aethyrmazz]

The rise in popularity of quantum entanglement, manifestation, and whatever the 𝙛𝙪𝙘𝙠 CERN is doing has given rise to portal technology and portal magick. By FAR one of my favorite magick systems to practice for over 10 years now. I have only recently learned to hone this skill, and still have a long way to go since I’m still young. Maybe I am playing with fire and contributing to the world taking a rapid plunge deeper into obscurity as the years pass. I don’t mind the obscurity as long as there is peace.

I like the kind of peace that comes with the fear of Gods return. Of course, we live in a duality so that same fear causes people to make some decisions that a decent person would regret.

Increased charge in negative and positive energy. If that charge is steadily maintained “somehow” just think about it.

Now the body of people becomes an energetic battery. The positive and negative energy creates vortexes in highly populated areas like cities.

I’m trying to find a way this all relates to the Sephiroth and Qlipoth. I just KNOW it has something to do with turning body into battery. Like a conductor ⚡️

I don’t want to hurt myself thinking about what the people at the top of the pyramid are doing with this. I just want people to free their souls from being trapped in hell, from being trapped in the Qlipoth. I want to ʙʀᴇᴀᴋ their battery. 🪫

And for everyone to become their own conductor. 🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️🌩️

What would the human race really become then? What would our world really become? Look at how the portals we’ve opened is already causing veils to weaken that separate dimensions.

I’m just ranting. Escape the 22 tunnels of S̵̶̮̬͖̄͑͟et.

♡93 ♡

[pato-love]

[queenofallwitches]

Lucifer the Light Bearer walking me through the hell that was to come....

from a piece of writing done in November 2008 i was still in high school, interesting to read as a ceremonial magician who is now 10 years into her practice to see this in hindsight because I had LITTLE/NO CONSCIOUS knowledge/gnosis of any evocation or invocation methods unless it was dissociative. or called forth into writings from a part of myself which I think It would have to be, back in high school. I had just had my first REAL heartbreak, for context. which ripped my soul apart allowing my parts from childhood to peep through. my only knowledge of spirituality came from mediumship and spiritism with my grandmother in childhood, which involved intense seances, channelling, underground any other ritualistic factors from were split from my conscious awareness but to know thiss from age 16 means I had to have the knowledge somewhere.

Lucifer in the Mirror 14/11/2008

So your back to play round four are you? I just saw you lurking at me from across the room, igniting layers upon layers as you let it it surround the air breezing around us. I inhale, carefully at first of course, always the way i was taught to encourage things, proceed through this world with caution, observe from the outside before jumping in. You know more about this than i do, well part of you does.

The part that you’ve hidden and i’ve taken.

The part of you that loved me. The evil and delicious part of you that is being deprived from me right now. You made me fall in love with you, and then you left me. I fucking hate you for that, its downright obvious what you did to me.

You call me cruel for cheating on you, well your 100 x worse for leaving me, let karma roll out its dirty and sly path in front of us now.

Lets allow time to direct us too whatever lies ahead, expect the unexpected. I’m fucked and i’m dying.

How does it feel? Because its tearing me apart. I FUCKING HATE YOU FOR THIS, HOW DOES IT FUCKING FEEL I HOPE THIS FUCKING KILLS YOU,

YOU'RE A FUCKING MONSTER AND THE EARTH WILL SWALLOW YOU WHOLE FOR THIS DREADFUL REALM YOU LEFT ME IN.

ALONE, COLD, SHIVERING IN THE DARK.

You speak in tongues within my head, the oh so obvious black and white, devil and god dichotomy that rages inside your manic depressive heart.

Your moods will one day coexist with mine again, i believe and then you will completely understand again.

But your out their, surging with manic desires as i watch you evolve.

You told me i was fucking ugly, you hurt me terribly. You knew it would kill me, you knew that this would kill me, but you carried on with your selfish fucking shit. You wanted to get rid of me in the classiest and most eloquent way possible, a way you could blame me directly for the breakup- oh she cheated on me, she deserved me leaving her. But that just gave you an excuse didn’t it? Another fucking excuse to run and hide from the raging truth i had exposed to you. The water will never wash this away, one day maybe but not today, or tomorrow, or even two thousand centuries on ward will the water wash it away, but regardless still maybe one day. I hate you, i hate you for the cruelty you rolled amongst my life. Your A FUCKING MANIAC, YOU PSYCHOPATH.

Remember this when you fall asleep each night, with alcohol flooding your veins and the taste of other girls painted across your lips.

Remember that you spoke these undying curses to me, and once you sip from this cup you must repay me for the bullshit you induced. Remember a glass can only spill what it contains,

and for many people all they see you is as a half diluted, uncherished, disheartened, half empty glass.

"How do you do, how do you do? My name is you."

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"i don’t want you to be alone to be alone down there. " - modest mouse.

Are you still having fun?

I hope you die alone, i hope i find somebody who will love me like you never could.

I hope somebody will fill the gap because you failed so miserably, just like all the rest. Only this time worse, far far worse.

"How do you, how do you do? My name is you. Flies they gather around me, and you too."

Well you can deny and hide from the vicious circumstance of truth but its time for me to let go, to move forward with my life and let go of the past.

I rise. Even in the ashes I'm burning alive within now. I will rise. You can’t drag me back to your lair, only to push me away once again.

Love has killed someone who loved death, and now I can't even fathom dying.

Love is the most powerful lifeforce that creates new life. Sex and death.

I love you dearly, but i don’t love the new you,

But I am the new you, you embody the old me.

i simply love who you used to be.

I will love who I can become through learning who you taught me to be.

Goodbye you liar, when you can own up and face me again we will resume our quest, whatever that means, but until then i say goodbye .

You wanted to take the path that was the easy way to bow out, the cowards way, that time your sadistic stepmother won your heart over me.

I guess your love for me was pale compared to the love I burst with for you, because IN NO UNIVERSE OR TIMELINE WOULD I EVER DO THIS TO YOU, OR ANYONE.

Lucifer once more fills my spirit with the companionship nobody else can and when

I look in the mirror I see his luminous stare strangling my reflection, urging me to take back my power, LUCIFER IS MY CHILDHOOD FRIEND.

HE IS MEANT TO BE YOURS TOO, But you have betrayed us both.

take the blade over what pain you caused me, this heart shattered already is now fragmented into embers of oblivion. He keeps me sane, when the pain eats away at what sickness once rotted my brain.

I hear your logic, your words of mercurial wisdom, your Gemini triplicity.

It comes off as borderline sociopathic but in the most endearing way. More compelling than being an impulsive, messy, melodramatic, hyperactive mess like I.

I will task your inner voice that is not warm, but cold and dark. Lucifer offers more warmth than your memories do.

I will task the memory of your wit and merge it into my brain so you will always be inside me, a perfect way to sanctify my heartbreak and ritualistically kill the love you stole. Forever I will benefit from the best of you, You cannot take from me until you learn how much pain this has caused me.

You have gone too far.

You will be BOUND to pain and made felt equal proportions, I summon LUCIFER to seal your fate, stab your heart thrice, until your quest is complete.

The grand equaliser, the scales of justice and the law of balance.

I stare back and my eyes green, glisten, Lucifer, slides inside my soul forever, for you will never realise the errors of your ways. Lucifer says I must call forward higher legions of demons to bind you, and I am here to learn my lessons. But the deep knowing is clear that you will be made to feel many things that are born from pain. This is due to your shunning my pain, how dare you turn your back on what this was for the want of complacent fear!!

How could you think that could be anything but a recipe for the worst nemesis to rise from the false sense of security, and empty words, was it even real for you or was it all part of your pick up manual ?

No retrospective thoughts, feelings and comments other than my pain were on par to this line of thought. This is my thorn, and because Lucifer is the morning star, Hepesteus, the illumination of the morning light of Venus, in mythology, I possibly embodied to protect and preserve myself. I have a retrospective notion due to recent spiritual evocation that Lucifer had approached me along with the dark goddess Hekate, as I believe there is an inherent link between the two, THAT IS ALL I CAN SAY. I went through what can only be described as the unofficial qlippoth initiation after this period of time, and survived. I also have a truly rebellious, fallen spirit. I was at rock bottom here, so perhaps, chosen for the courage and bravery I was demonstrating in a time I was being shunned and shamed by all aspects externally.

Some references from occult sources that are meditations on the theme of the origin of LUCIFER:

The dwelling of the gods and the riding of the clouds are both known to us from the Ras Shamra texts at Ugarit in N. Syria, and so too is Dawn a deity, of whom this figure is described as a son.

The most high is Elyon, the title so often used of God…. All these elements may be paralleled in the Old Testament, suggesting how richly Canaanite religion and mythology have influenced Old Testament thought.

(Interpreters One Volume Commentary of the Bible, 1971)

Eliphas Lévi explains the symbolism of Lucifer:

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil.

The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the Paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

To personify evil and exalt it into an intelligence which is the rival of God, into a being which can understand but love no more – this is a monstrous fiction.

To believe that God permits this evil intelligence to deceive and destroy his feeble creatures is to make God more wicked than the devil. By depriving the devil of the possibility of love and repentance, God forces him to do evil.

Moreover a spirit of error and falsehood can only be a folly which thinks, nor does it deserve indeed the name of spirit. The devil is God’s antithesis, and if we define God as He who is we must define His opposite as he who is not.

(Eliphas Lévi, The Mysteries of Magic)

"Lucifer, or Luciferus, is the name of the angelic Entity presiding over the light of truth as over the light of day… to the profane [the uninitiated] the Astral Light [universal Soul, the Matrix of the Universe] may be God and Devil at once…. Lucifer is divine and terrestrial light, the “Holy Ghost” and “Satan” at one and the same time….

The Fall was the result of man’s knowledge, for his “eyes were opened.” Indeed, he was taught Wisdom and the hidden knowledge by the “Fallen Angel”…. And now it stands proven that Satan, or the Red Fiery Dragon, the “Lord of Phosphorus,” and Lucifer, or “Light-Bearer,” is in us: it is our Mind – our tempter and Redeemer, our intelligent liberator and Saviour from pure animalism.

Without this principle – the emanation of the very essence of the pure divine principle Mahat (Intelligence), which radiates directly from the Divine mind – we would be surely no better than animals.

(Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, 1888)

" The Roman Church concocted the Lucifer-as-Satan myth after they took over emergent Christianity in the early 300s, as evidenced by references to both Tertullian and Jerome.

If Lucifer is so important, why is nothing else ever said? Light Bearer, Morning Star; nothing negative about that.

Lucifer not only does not mean anything negative, as a matter of fact, it doesn’t really seem to mean anything at all, biblically speaking.

Out of the over 800,000 words in the Bible and the Apocrypha, Lucifer appears once, and then in an ambiguous reference.

Whatever the word means to certain Christian sects, theosophical and metaphysical groups, or secret societies, as you can clearly see it does not come from the Bible!"

(Harrell Rhome, New Dawn Magazine, 2009)

[rogerwilliamson]

(via Nightside QBL An Alternative View)  In exploring the Nightside Qlippoth Tree and its connection to the Lightside QBL Tree, I propose that there is only one QBL Tree. This singular tree consists of four interconnected worlds, forming a circular and self-sustaining machine.

[monstersdownthepath]

Still reading through Divine Mysteries and while I've greatly enjoyed 99% of what I've read so far, there's a few bits that make me frown.

Perhaps one of my biggest disappointments is:

Aonaurious, a Qlippoth Lord* introduced way back in 1st edition's Bestiary 6 as a footnote among the existing Qlippoth Lords who were actually getting stats, alongside Yamasoth (who was given stats in another book) and Shiggarreb (who was never given stats, but who got a Divine Obedience). He had the intriguing epithet of "the Enigma Clot," invoking the imagery of some malefic hair clog or perhaps a constricting fungus, in either case fitting in alongside the grotesqueries of both the other Qlippoth Lords and the qlippoth in general.

Absolutely nothing about Aonaurious was known but his name and his title for the longest time, and though Shiggarreb received some additional development in the Complete Book of the Damned which came out months later, the Enigma Clot was left to languish for 8 entire years and a whole edition shift before finally appearing in Divine Mysteries as... a giant praying mantis.

Not just a loss in terms of what the Enigma Clot could have been, but he also seems to have completely supplanted Shiggarreb, being a warmongering beast hellbent on slaughtering literally anything and everything he sees without pause or tire, exactly as the Marauding Maw/Warmonger Queen was once stated to do. Fair enough, all things considered, especially since with Shiggarreb being gone, we get a more unique Qlippoth Lord named Nyuo-Ogh the Always-Observing... but this also means that poor Aonaurious stands out like a sore thumb among his demigod kin, as his current lore as it is has him lacking any form of parasitic aspects, a mainstay among qlippoth as a whole and incredibly pronounced in the existing Qlippoth Lords. He instead represents a relentless hyper-predator, something that already has representation in the forms of existing lords Chavazvug and Thuskchoon (each of which also embody parasitism in different ways).

All this being said, I don't hate Aonaurious, and I do like the threat he presents as "the predator that kills far more than it could ever possibly eat and chases down prey that could not possibly be worth the effort of getting at," but I feel like such a plain appearance is a waste of a fascinatingly evocative title and a sad miss in terms of fitting in thematically with the rest of the lords.

Nyuo-Ogh is a fantastic addition to the Parasite Pantheon, though, I'll say that. Shiggarreb wasn't exactly a good fit herself, so I do not mourn her.

Edit: Reading his physical description more closely (Divine Mysteries, pg. 226) makes him sound more like a monstrously enormous and clawed house centipede, and if ANY creature could be called an "Enigma Clot" it would be a gigantic house centipede! I'm going to treat him like he's one of those.

[milk-crafting]

ok so i made more progress on her than i expected fghjkk

[dailycharacteroption]

Class Feature Friday: Azata Subdomain (Cleric Chaos or Good Subdomain)

(art by MeredethDillman on DeviantArt)

It’s time for another cleric domain, and this time we’re looking at the first of many subdomains associated with a specific classification of outsider!

These subdomains all are based off at least one alignment domain, possibly two, replacing spells and abilities at the same level.

It can be assumed that these subdomains represent a special connection with outsiders of that type, the granting deity and the devout follower finding resonance with the philosophies associated with such spirits, and naturally, calling upon them as servants.

And it only makes sense that we’re starting with the azata! These are the chaotic good spirits of freedom, valuing the ability to choose for oneself one’s own fate without the restrictions of order, but without harming others or impinging upon their freedoms in kind. They are revolutionaries, freedom-fighters, and sometimes just kind souls that wander by, lend aid, and then drift away just as freely.

Azata share many aesthetics with the fey, not just in appearance but also in their whimsy and the wild nature of their home in Elysium. This is perhaps because of the long-standing alliances they have with the more goodly of the fey as well as their own delight in such shapes.

Like the celestials they venerate, clerics that tap into this domain may wander the world following omens and the winds of fate to provide aid where it is needed most and move on when they are no longer needed. They also may seek to inspire others towards kindness and the pursuit of desires and dreams, living a life that is free.

Inquisitors following the same path may act much the same, though they are likely more militant, and actively seek out tyrants to undermine and overthrow, from the servants of diabolic divinities to mortal tyrants to slavers and exploitative business owners.

No matter which domain they use as a base, these divine casters offer freedom to those accept it.

Rather than the general bolstering touch of good or the unlucky touch of chaos, these devotees can imbue others with the freedom of Elysium with a touch, helping them to fight off hostile enchantments, escape from the grasp of foes, and even step lightly over rough terrain for a few moment.

Additionally, they replace the base protective spell, magic circle, and either the blade barrier or object animation spells with those that bolster movement, grant flight, and allow them to call upon the aid of an azata for long-term help.

The alignment domains are all very similar, their spells mostly being the same sort of thing except geared against and for a certain alignment, so the build of a cleric of good or a cleric of chaos won’t differ that much, but being able to undo charms and compulsions, providing resistance against grapplers, and of course, the mobility spells are perfect for a cleric or inquisitor that wants to ensure their whole party can do what they want when they want and not be hampered by the attempts of the enemy to control the battlefield and their actions. Being able to call upon azatas is also nice.

Of course, one must also consider what deity or philosophy your character believes in as well, not just in how they interpret the idea of freedom, but also the disposition of any azata they call upon. A goddess of rebellion might have more militant spirits at her command compared to a deity of art and inspiration, for example.

It is curious indeed to see an azata-aligned duskwalker, but Kebia sees her duty to destroy the undead as freeing them from the bondage of necromancers and/or their own traumas. As such, she tends to recruit teams of undead hunters and focuses on supporting them with her divine blessings.

The foul fungal lesser qlippoth known as cythnigots may be among the least threats from the lowest places in The Abyss, but they are especially repugnant to those faithful to the azata gods, who view the way they infest and appropriate the bodies of small animals as a perverse form of enslavement even if the animal is long dead. Thus, when rumors of a mutant cythnigot capable of infesting larger creatures reaches their ears, the temple of the Long-Walker send their own to investigate.

The inquisition of The Dancer work undercover in troupes of performers as a sort of underground railroad, freeing slave and secreting them way from their master, though they have to be careful so the cities that host them do not overly suspect them. As such, they are unlikely to perform overt acts like slaying unrepentant owners and slavers unless pressed.

[like-glittering-ice]

I invoke Lucifer, Lord of the Dragons. The dark God of the Qlippoth!

Open the way to your stellar realms...

[literaryvein-reblogs]

A-Z Dictionary of Esoteric Terminology

for your next poem/story (pt. 1)

Esoteric—designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone; may refer to the occult

Affenicum - a word for soul

Barakah - soul power; a blessing bestowed by a holy person

Cthonian - something associated with the earth and the underworld

Deity - the personification of some force or concept of great magnitude; a being embodying the essence or entirety of an aspect of existence

Egrigor - a thought form created by will and visualization

Fana - a Sufi term meaning "becoming absorbed in God"

Godhead - divine Nature or Essence; the source of all emanation and manifestation, of which all deities are but aspects or facets

Host - from the Latin hostia, meaning "a sacrificial victim"

Ineffable name - a name for God which either must not or cannot be spoken

Jnana - literally "primordial knowing"; wisdom; the activity of enlightenment; knowing, which transcends all dualistic conception; perfect intuition

Kalpa - the longest describable span of time

Libation - the act of pouring a liquid on a symbolic figure of a deity, or on the ground

Mania - a Roman goddess of the dead who ruled over the lares and manes in the underworld; she is sometimes called the "Mother of Ghosts"

Neti - literally, "not this, not that"; it refers to the idea that the supreme godhead is transcendent and cannot be described or understood

Occult - from Latin occuiere, "to cover up"; not revealed; secret; mysterious

Pantheon - from Greek pantheios, "of all gods"; the arrangement or hierarchy of deities and spirits within a particular system

Qlippoth - literally "shells"; usually described as a plane/s containing demons, negative or disintegrating spirits, elementals, and the degenerating shells of the dead

Rapport - resonance; an interface relationship involving energy exchange such as the relationship between hypnotist and subject, control and medium, or object and psychometrist

Sandarace - an alchemical term for the fiery form of Spirit

Thaumaturgy - miracle working; magic used to make overt changes in the material world

Unction - ceremonial anointment with oil; sometimes performed as an act of consecration; also used in rites for the severely ill or dying, as in the case of extreme unction; in ceremonial magic, unction is often used as a symbol of the quest for initiation, or the dedication (consecration) of the magician to enlightenment

Vac - literally "speech" or "word"; cosmic reason or pattern, somewhat similar to the Greek idea of Logos

Wic - an Old English word meaning "to bend, to twist, or to wiggle"; a very old term for the practice of magic; also had been translated as "to weave, or to know"

Xeni Nephidei - spirits who delight to reveal to people the hidden properties of nature

Yaksha - a nature spirit which resides in a tree, usually regarded as female; are said to accompany Kubera, the god of wealth

Zen - a system of mental stillness originating in India, where it was known as dhyana; the goal is to permit experience by direct perception or intuition

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[queenofallwitches]

2009: alchemical vandalism and chaos magick exploration of introduction liber null and Psychonaut as a teenager

INTRO: PSYCHOTIC BITCH

 this is scribed out of my teenage diary when I first acquired the book Liber Null and Psychonaut as a high schooler with a rebel spirit and petulant for chaos, destruction and lack of any consequence (and a high tendency for psychic events but I had atheist parts who programmed me to disbelieve in my spiritism roots).:

*** If you read, you'll judge. 

SO FUCK OFF.     22/2/09   Incessant, consistent bordering temperamental, unpredictable A BLUR: If I have to choose a collection of adjectives to describe the onset of this year, those would be my chosen few.   CHAOS.   Regardless of the rollercoaster worthy joy start + my chin is well above the ground and my heart is still beating heavily.    I DEFY ALL SCIENCE.   I SHOULDN'T BE ALIVE.   If I rewound the tick-tock clock and set it to playback the events of the past seven months, plus add a vile and disruptive little monster who cunningly asks the -7 month ago me whether she'd picture her circumstance to be drawn the way it is at current, I would of honestly told that rude and intrusive little monster that I would be a world away from here.    DEAD.    Regardless, I'm glad of the insipid destination which I've landed in.    I spent the first 44 days of this year off my head on drugs.   EMPLOYED TO SELF-DESTRUCT AT ANY AND ALL COSTS. Even while I study and work.    You want to know the truth though?   I feel like I've been reborn.    Despite my "oh-so-obvious" junkie quota being fulfilled, I am more mentally stable than I've been in a very long time.    Lie out my tarot cards and offer me a million dollars to reveal my future and I'll still tell you to fuck off. Fate isn't real. Nothing can be predetermined.    Time is interchangeable and a flexible masterpiece.    Anything is possible, this rollercoaster ride is becoming more wild by the macro-second.   The tunnel we're lurching through is poisoned with pitch-black inevitability.    I am my own god, don't try and bring me down with a kingdom of deceit.   This isn't real This isn't real This isn't REAL This isn't REAL.   ASHAMED.   Time goes to waste

Ashamed is something that I've scrunched up and thrown away into the past.

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accidental recovery arose from this period of intentional self-annihilation. 

From the intentional 'dark night of the soul' induced psychotic to a psychonaut via the process of psycho-alchemy.

[thecreaturecodex]

Nascent Demon Lord, Carchanore

Image © @chimeride

[Sponsored by @crazytrain48, from Arduin. Carchanone is one of the Arduin demons with the wildest appearances, but relatively little flavor text. Which inspired me to go off in my own direction, tying into some of my favorite topics in Pathfinder, such as the economy of souls and belief, the qlippoth/demon cold war and the machinations of divinities. The mouths in the claws are borrowed from another Arduin archfiend, Gorog-Nor the Hungry One.]

Carchanore The Death Mole, The Burrower Between CE nascent demon lord of burrows, portals and paranoia Domains Chaos, Earth, Evil, Travel Subdomains Cave, Demon, Fear, Portal Worshipers evil molekin, miners, planar travelers, doomsday preppers Minions katpaskir demons, earth elementals, skymetal reavers Unholy Symbol a molehill with a spiked ball protruding from the top Favored Weapon heavy flail Devotion spend one hour digging. At the end of the hour, while standing inside the hole or tunnel, kill a living creature and consume some or all of it. Gain a +4 racial bonus to saving throws against paralysis and petrifaction. Boons 1st—stone call 2/day; 2nd—stoneskin 2/day; 3rd—plane shift 2/day (as 6th level spell)

Nascent Demon Lord, Carchanore CR 25 CE Outsider (extraplanar) This creature is the size of a wagon, a cross between a mole and a lobster covered in stony armor and spikes. It has eight elephantine legs each ending in sharp claws, and a long tail tipped with a spiked ball. Its arms are long and have crab-like pinchers. It has a circular whirling maw set in its eyeless face, and similar orifices open up in the corners of its claws.

Carchanore is a monster caught between worlds. Once, the Death Mole was a qlippoth lord who lived as a simple predator, albeit of the great wrackworms that crawl between the planes. His gift at digging is such that he can bore through planar boundaries in pursuit of his prey, and his knowledge of earth and stone made him occasionally revered by subterranean humanoids such as molekin or troglodytes. Deskari, Lord of the Locust Host, considered him a nuisance and a possible competitor to the portfolio of portals, and Yamasoth resented their shared domain of Earth. After Deskari was killed in the Material Plane, the severed faith of his remaining worshipers was cast into the multiverse, and the Burrower Between happened to be its recipient. The exposure to faith and sin warped Carchanore into a nascent demon lord. It made him rather more powerful, but also more vulnerable; without a domain to call his own, Carchanore cannot rejuvenate, and now is terrified that either old enemies or new will slay him. So he roams, digging his way from plane to plane and stopping only to rest.

Carchanore is a straightforward combatant. He prefers to fight with his natural weapons than with his earth magic, although he appreciates his newly gained ability to summon demons. Carchanore’s hide is stony hard and covered with sharp spikes, and weak creatures striking him may shred themselves on his spines before he even lays a claw on the. Carchanore is a juggernaut, trampling earthbound foes before grinding them to pieces with his diamond teeth. Carchanore has three mouths—one in the normal place and a secondary one at the joint of each of his crustacean claws—and any creature killed with these weapons is ground into mincemeat. If creatures keep their distance, Carchanore has a nasty surprise—he can fire the spines on his shell like a barrage of ballista bolts. In his previous life as a qlippoth lord, Carchanore gleefully fought to the death, but now he is quick to flee as he has a newly acquired fear of permanent destruction.

Although the bulk of Carchanore’s cult is made up of survivors of Deskari’s minions, not all of them are. The Burrower Between’s survivalist paranoia makes him popular among others who believe that the end is nigh, and some of his followers are converted from Groetus or other apocalyptic religions. After all, multiple apocalyptic events have been narrowly averted on Golarion, so sooner or later one of them is bound to come to its fulfillment. Such followers are noted for their endless digging, creating vast sprawling bunker complexes for themselves and filling them with provisions and traps. "Dig forever" is a common saying among the Burrower Between's worshipers. Amoral wizards interested in planar travel and mass summoning occasionally call on Carchanore to open gates for them, but doing so is fraught with danger, as the Death Mole views them as challenging prey as often as he does as supplicants.

Carchanore in the Great Game In the Age of Monsters plotline, Carchanore has received his demonic nature as an experiment. Pale Night, who straddles the line between qlippoth and demon herself, brokered a deal with a coalition of powerful katpaskir demons to turn the attentions of the fragmented cult of Deskari to a qlippoth lord, and the Burrower Between was the “lucky” recipient. Pale Night is now observing the Death Mole very closely, to see if he can fight his way into the ranks of true demon lords, or if he will die trying. Pale Night is keeping her reasons for this trial secret even from her allies.

Carchanore CR 25 XP 1,640,000 CE Huge outsider (chaos, demon, evil, extraplanar) Init +9; Senses blind, blindsight 120 ft., Perception +44, tremorsense 300 ft. Aura unholy (DC 25)

Defense AC 42, touch 18, touch 34 (-2 size, +9 Dex, +1 dodge, +4 deflection, +20 natural) hp 546(28d10+392); fast healing 10 Fort +27, Ref +31, Will +29 DR 20/good and adamantine; Immune charm and compulsion effects, death effects, electricity, paralysis, petrifaction, poison, visual spells and effects; Resist acid 30, cold 30, fire 30; SR 36 Defensive Abilities shatter weapons, spiny defense

Offense Speed 40 ft., burrow 60 ft. Melee 2 claws +40 (1d8+14 plus grab), bite +40 (2d6+14 plus grind), tail slap +38 (2d6+21) Ranged 8 stalagmite shots +35 (2d8+14) Space 15 ft.; Reach 15 ft. Special Attacks adamant attacks, gatecrasher (7/day), powerful blows (tail slap), rake (2 bites +40, 2d6+14 plus grind), trample (DC 38, 2d8+21) Spell-like Abilities CL 25th, concentration +32 Constant—unholy aura (self only, DC 25) At will—chaos hammer (DC 21), greater teleport (self plus 50 lbs. objects only), spike stones (DC 21), stone shape, stone tell 3/day—flesh to stone (DC 23), transmute mud to rock, transmute rock to mud, wall of stone, word of chaos (DC 24) 1/day—clashing rocks (DC 26), earthquake (DC 25), repel metal or stone, stone to flesh, summon (9th level, CR 20 or less demon)

Statistics Str 38, Dex 29, Con 38, Int 17, Wis 28, Cha 25 Base Atk +28; CMB +44 (+48 grapple); CMD 68 (80 vs trip) Feats Alertness, Combat Reflexes, Critical Focus, Deadly Aim, Dodge, Improved Critical (claw, stalagmite shot), Lightning Reflexes, Multiattack, Point Blank Shot, Power Attack, Precise Shot, Staggering Critical, Stunning Critical Skills Climb +45,Intimidate +38, Knowledge (engineering, geography) +31, Knowledge (planes) +34,Perception +44, Sense Motive +44, Stealth +32, Survival +40 Languages Abyssal, Celestial, Draconic, Terran, Undercommon, telepathy 300 ft. SQ nascent demon lord traits, no breath, sprint, stone stride, thagomizer, tunneler

Ecology Environment underground (the Abyss) Organization unique Treasure none

Special Abilities Adamant Attacks (Ex) Carchanore’s natural weapons count as adamantine for the purposes of ignoring damage reduction and hardness. Gatecrasher (Su) As a standard action, Carchanore can tear a hole in reality between 5 to 20 feet wide in an area within his reach. This functions as a gate spell for the purposes of planar travel except that creatures can travel in either direction through it, and remains open for 1 minute or until Carchanore chooses to close it as another standard action. This can even function in the area of a dimensional lock or similar effect, as long as Carchanore succeeds at a caster level check against the caster level of the spell. Grind (Ex) A creature struck by Carchanore’s bite attack must succeed a DC 38 Fortitude save or take 1d4+1 points of Strength and Constitution drain from having its flesh ground. A creature struck by multiple bites a round does not take additional damage, but suffers a -2 penalty to its saving throw for each additional bite. A creature reduced to 0 Strength or Constitution through this effect is slain and cannot be raised from the dead by any spell or effect that requires an intact body. The save DC is Strength based. Shatter Weapons (Ex) Any manufactured weapon that strikes Carchanore takes 4d6 points of damage. Weapons that take any amount of damage above their hardness gain the broken quality. Spiny Defense (Ex) Any creature striking Carchanore with a melee weapon, unarmed strike, natural weapon or touch attack takes 1d8+14 points of piercing damage. Weapons with the reach property do not endanger their wielders in such a way. Sprint (Ex) Once per hour, Carchanore can move 10 times his speed when making a run or charge action. Stalagmite Shot (Ex) Once every 1d4 rounds, Carchanore can fire off eight of his spines as a standard action. Treat these as ranged attacks with a range of 120 feet and no range increment. Carchanore can fire these at the same or different targets. Creatures struck take 2d8+14 points of piercing damage, Carchanore regrows spines effectively immediately, and never runs out of ammunition. Stone Stride (Su) Carchanore ignores difficult terrain and damage from natural, worked or magically altered earth, mud and stone. Thagomizer (Ex) Carchanore’s tail slap deals bludgeoning and piercing damage. Tunneler (Ex) Carchanore can move through solid rock at half his burrow speed, leaving a 15 foot square tunnel as he moves.

[ttrpg-smash-pass-vs]

Green Hags are human-sized creatures that can shapeshift into other humanoid women. They're also great at mimicking animal noises, and are liars who delight in corrupting others and shattering thier morals/minds. Before eating them of course. But hey, seduction is one of thier best skills! Helps with betrayal and spreading misery. Thier breath can sap your strength, as can thier touch if you don't know they're an enemy. They've also got spells for invisibility, making lights and sounds, and turning into trees!

The gongorinan is a qlippoth, which in PF2e are the beings who lived in the outer rifts before demons started forming and pushed them to the outskirts. Gongorinan are some of the stronger ones, standing 6 feet (1.8 m) at the top of thier shell. They can force you to drop any tool you're holding, have innate spells to petrify and turn you into an animal, and can make you slow and clumsy by showing you the horrors inside thier maw. Those horrors are all the forms it can turn you into, as even without thier spells they can turn you into animals, plants, or even fungi! That's thier ultimate plan, make everyone return to monke so you can't conceptualize sin, and therefore don't become damned and add to thier enemy's forces.