True Name: N'yrrhath
Titles:
The Sleeper Beneath the Root
The First Sin
The Shaper of Forgotten Worlds
The Black Cradle
Origin:
Long before humanity existed, before even the formation of the earth as it is known now,
N'yrrhath was born from the First Chaos.
When the universe was young, raw energies — life, death, creation, destruction — clashed freely without rules.
From the infinite storm, entities emerged — "The Shapers."
Beings so alien they could not be classified as gods, demons, or lifeforms.
N'yrrhath was one of the greatest among them.
But where other Shapers chose to create worlds, stars, ecosystems,
N'yrrhath chose to dream.
His dream became reality.
His nightmare spawned entire races — monsters, anomalies, cursed realities.
However, the other Shapers feared his uncontrollable influence.
They sealed N'yrrhath, burying his core consciousness deep within planets —
where he could no longer shape reality directly.
Earth was one of those planets.
Long ago, N'yrrhath's Cradle was hidden beneath the deepest crust of the world, in a sleeping dimension layered between reality and unreality.
His Current State:
Over billions of years,
Humanity rose without knowing they were living atop a sleeping nightmare.
Natural disasters, mass extinctions, unexplainable horrors — small leakages of N'yrrhath's dreaming.
Even Hollowborn corruption originally stemmed from faint echoes of his presence bleeding through weakened spots in the earth.
After the wars with the Hollowborn and the death of many natural barriers,
the cracks grew wider.
Now, N'yrrhath begins to stir.
His awakening would overwrite the world —
reality itself would warp into his Dream, remaking Earth into an impossible, monstrous landscape where time, physics, life and death blend into pure madness.
Why the Genesis Core Matters:
The Genesis Core — created as part of the world's primal balancing systems —
was meant to stabilize Earth's reality and suppress any sleeping Shaper's influence.
It was Earth's immune system in artifact form.
If Kaela uses the Core wisely, she could seal N'yrrhath again — but at massive cost.
If the Core is destroyed or misused, N'yrrhath's awakening would become irreversible, and reality itself would collapse into endless, ever-shifting chaos.
Thus, factions sought the Genesis Core either to:
Control it for power
Destroy it to reshape the world in their image
Use it to defeat rivals and elevate themselves before the end
N'yrrhath's Personality:
Alien Intelligence: Thinks and dreams in concepts incomprehensible to humans.
Not Evil: Not in a human sense — simply a force of endless change and rebirth through horror.
Speaks in metaphors, impossible images, broken emotions.
Views Kaela as a "Spark," a curiosity, a potential inheritor of his Dream.
To fight N'yrrhath is not simply to fight a monster —
it is to fight against reality itself trying to rewrite you.