Fire In The Void

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Rhïarrh was severely weakened by his imprisonment in the Void. Over millennia he is gradually building strength and exerting a wider sphere of influence. Like a dark puppeteer, he dwells in the depths of the Void, pulling on the strings of consciousness and bending the minds of the weak to his malevolent plots. To sustain himself, he consumes and the consciousnesses of lesser beings. In this fashion he has absorbed the collective consciousness of millions and his power grows by the day. In a region so close to the interface between the Void and the material universe, he has discovered a phenonmon that occurs with significant frequency. When a being dies in the material universe, their consciousness dies with them – but more often than not the symmetry is broken and instead of the reflection of that being consciousness also dying in the Void, it persists – weak, floating, vulnerable and easily consumed by a greater intelligence.

In the Void, Rhïarrh has compensated for his lack of physical form by evolving into a sort of hive mind – a vast collective consciousness that continually expands as more and more souls/consciousnesses are absorbed. Rhïarrh's anger, violence and malevolence is amplified through this vast consciousness and it affects everything it touches within the Void. In the material universe this manifests as the dread Lán-Faën – a physical embodiment of the Tyrant-God's rage. It is important to note that Rhïarrh, though fully aware of the Lán-Faën phenomenon, does not control the demons on an individual basis – or really at all. The Lán-Faën are mindless in their movements and actions, killing and destroying for no reason other than there being something to kill and destroy. The terrible black storms that spill from the rift in the north carry these demons along with them, leaving terror and destruction in their wake. The death and suffering caused by these dark incursions only serve to provide more souls for Rhïarrh to consume and be strengthened by – meaning that subsequent each wave of storms is larger, travels further, carries with it more demons and is even more violent and destructive than the last.