Post by HeliosMegistos on Jul 19, 2022 22:39:38 GMT
Nulu'kethan the Sleeper of Europa
The first of the Great Ones to be discovered by Mars and last to awaken at the dawn of the Cosmic Era. It's discovery lead to the first known outbreak of the Kru'sta Plague and Cosmosis derived from exposure to it's strange biological matter and immense telepathic presence. As a result of the widespread chaos caused by comosis and the plague mutating the majority of the colonial inhabitants into horrific monstrosities, Europa was quarantined and eventually destroyed by the Martian Empire and it's debris were pulled into Jupiter's immense gravity well. In the aftermath the Dark Watch was form to cover up and deal with all future encounters with additional Great Ones and the Sleeper while not forgotten became out of sight and out of mind as it was thought impossible for it's still slumbering form to escape the crushing gravity well let alone survive it.
Four thousands of years later the Dark Watch were proven wrong when in the aftermath of the Antaran Maaw's formation it's galaxy wide aftershocks induced a massed awakening of all know Great Ones across the galaxy. As Mars and other powers human and alien alike struggled to respond and system after system went dark the Sleeper finally awoke. The resulting outbreak of cosmosis shook the empire to it's very foundations and society broke down in the madness and infighting that ensued and the government collapsed as a result of the actions of the Princess - Miranda Selene Lancaster, the granddaughter of the Martian Emperor - Robert Antares III Lancaster. In the days that followed tens of millions died as those afflicted with cosmosis murdered or killed anyone who resisted them while the Sleeper itself carved and folded space with it's immense strength and traveled from world to world spreading the truce source of the Kru'sta Plague in the form of it's Void Spawn.... among them the transformed Miranda who would one day fully ascend to become Nagu'thaloth the Mistress of the Abyss.
Word of it's rampage across the core of the Martian Empire traveled as refugees fled seeking safety and the battered remains of the Martian Imperial Navy and the Solar Guard tried again and again to defeat the Sleeper and it's kin with every weapon and tactic at their disposal.... such efforts were sadly proven futile. As fleet after fleet and army after army fell before the colossal power of the Sleeper, which became known as Nulu'kethan to humanity at large as cults formed to appease it and the twilight of the Solar Era came to a close with the dawn of the Cosmic Era. Nulu'kethan, the Sleeper of Europa is now the ruler of hundreds of billions of souls who worship him with a mixture of fear and respect & awe and humility. Soon after the fall of Sol it transformed Mars from a lush garden world into a nightmarish ocean world to serve as it's throne world and new habitat, ever since it has being called the Charnal Abyss for the great acts of butchery, depravity and madness that occur within it's inky black depths at the whims of it's ruler.
Nulu'kethan, the Master of the Abyss rarely leaves his throne, spending much of the time either in... congress with his exclusive consort Nagu'thaloth producing countless young Void Born, receiving the worship, offerings and supplication of it's many worshipers and subjects or overseeing various rights and affairs as his whim permits. When he does leave the Charnel Abyss it is to defend or expand his domain, Nagu'thaloth is always at his side. Few can stand up to let alone challenge the Master of the Abyss and thus he is rightfully acknowledged as the oldest and most powerful of the Great Ones, the first among equals in the highest levels of their kind. All hail the Scourge of Mars, Lord of the Charnel Abyss, Herald of the Beginning and the End.
The first of the Great Ones to be discovered by Mars and last to awaken at the dawn of the Cosmic Era. It's discovery lead to the first known outbreak of the Kru'sta Plague and Cosmosis derived from exposure to it's strange biological matter and immense telepathic presence. As a result of the widespread chaos caused by comosis and the plague mutating the majority of the colonial inhabitants into horrific monstrosities, Europa was quarantined and eventually destroyed by the Martian Empire and it's debris were pulled into Jupiter's immense gravity well. In the aftermath the Dark Watch was form to cover up and deal with all future encounters with additional Great Ones and the Sleeper while not forgotten became out of sight and out of mind as it was thought impossible for it's still slumbering form to escape the crushing gravity well let alone survive it.
Four thousands of years later the Dark Watch were proven wrong when in the aftermath of the Antaran Maaw's formation it's galaxy wide aftershocks induced a massed awakening of all know Great Ones across the galaxy. As Mars and other powers human and alien alike struggled to respond and system after system went dark the Sleeper finally awoke. The resulting outbreak of cosmosis shook the empire to it's very foundations and society broke down in the madness and infighting that ensued and the government collapsed as a result of the actions of the Princess - Miranda Selene Lancaster, the granddaughter of the Martian Emperor - Robert Antares III Lancaster. In the days that followed tens of millions died as those afflicted with cosmosis murdered or killed anyone who resisted them while the Sleeper itself carved and folded space with it's immense strength and traveled from world to world spreading the truce source of the Kru'sta Plague in the form of it's Void Spawn.... among them the transformed Miranda who would one day fully ascend to become Nagu'thaloth the Mistress of the Abyss.
Word of it's rampage across the core of the Martian Empire traveled as refugees fled seeking safety and the battered remains of the Martian Imperial Navy and the Solar Guard tried again and again to defeat the Sleeper and it's kin with every weapon and tactic at their disposal.... such efforts were sadly proven futile. As fleet after fleet and army after army fell before the colossal power of the Sleeper, which became known as Nulu'kethan to humanity at large as cults formed to appease it and the twilight of the Solar Era came to a close with the dawn of the Cosmic Era. Nulu'kethan, the Sleeper of Europa is now the ruler of hundreds of billions of souls who worship him with a mixture of fear and respect & awe and humility. Soon after the fall of Sol it transformed Mars from a lush garden world into a nightmarish ocean world to serve as it's throne world and new habitat, ever since it has being called the Charnal Abyss for the great acts of butchery, depravity and madness that occur within it's inky black depths at the whims of it's ruler.
Nulu'kethan, the Master of the Abyss rarely leaves his throne, spending much of the time either in... congress with his exclusive consort Nagu'thaloth producing countless young Void Born, receiving the worship, offerings and supplication of it's many worshipers and subjects or overseeing various rights and affairs as his whim permits. When he does leave the Charnel Abyss it is to defend or expand his domain, Nagu'thaloth is always at his side. Few can stand up to let alone challenge the Master of the Abyss and thus he is rightfully acknowledged as the oldest and most powerful of the Great Ones, the first among equals in the highest levels of their kind. All hail the Scourge of Mars, Lord of the Charnel Abyss, Herald of the Beginning and the End.