#the celestial bodies

[mossymandibles]

I'm sure it's all lore that will be revealed in due time, but could you tell us about some of the side effects of consuming the celestial flesh?

I’m definitely not good at working linearly and slow at story plot reveal right now anyway, so happy to answer lol

Also, I wasn’t sure how to gage how much context this answer needed so sorry in advance for the long answer 😭. And cw for graphic descriptions of disease/body horror stuff.

Tl;dr Eating Yvishnir eventually caused evolutionary entropy that sometimes causes horrors.

It’s said that Yvishnir (the body not in the ocean) was a fallen star from long ago, before humanity and the fall of Tartarus(ocean body). The primordials, (Furies and sea dragons) were the ancient fish and birds that fed on Yvishnir in order to sustain their size and godhood and multiply on Earth as its continued keepers. They grew jealous over humanity’s progress and out of fear they buried Yvishnir so humans wouldn’t find it, and hid themselves away. That’s how part of the creation myth goes anyway. Then Tartarus fell and uncovered Yvishnir once again, drawing the primordials out and changing the sea.

So when I say ‘eating the flesh’, I mostly mean the Crux. At first, when Yvishnir was discovered and exposed to the atmosphere, it produced something called Crux which permeated the corpse and oozed from it as a liquid, thought to be a type of otherworldly bacterium or ichor to help it decompose. It caused a sort of explosion of hyper biodiversity/evolution, starting with plants. Here are some examples, mostly some fungi:

Most Humans didn’t really consider eating the Crux of course.

There were a few eccentrics and cults however that started the ball rolling. They would mostly eat it from fungi that had grown around Yvishnir, as well as cooking with it. This caused versions of human evolution, where they began to evolve into the Myce and other species to repopulate as, genetically merging with fungi in order to survive the new world. They’re under the blanket term ‘Hox Strays’, who make up most of Marrowtide and other known civilization islands to this day. There are different variations of these and their mutations have ‘stabilized’ over many generations but that’s another story.

As for Yvishnir, there was a point where the Crux changed its properties, becoming more crystalline. Entropy took over the longer the body was exposed. Even the very insects that were feeding on it began to quickly horrifically mutate and grow. People would say that demons were being birthed from its rotted juices. The Crux began to bring on less desirable effects. Humans classified it as several new forms of horrific diseases ranging from otherworldly prions to the very DNA itself denaturing and mutating.

✨Some outcomes include but are not limited to;✨

>Victims known to have fits of uncontrollable laughter while bleeding from orifices. Several cysts that had broken out on the skin were found to contain bits of teeth, hair and even eyes, like they were growing them.

>Some victims became more beast-like but at the cost of their minds and insatiable hunger for more of the celestial flesh/Crux.

>Victims first described it as a tingling sensation in their chest and extremities. Their blood began to change its molecular structure to be crystalline as well. Cells became shard-like, until their blood eventually hardened completely. It could be seen poking through skin, like they were full of glass.

>Worse still, in a sort of sped up form of the first outcome, they can become a never ending cycle of constantly evolving body parts, growing biomass like cancerous tumors of body parts forever in bloom, eg. growing several hands from your eye or numerous organs. The body can’t sustain this and it pretty much ends in death.

These modern day effects were mostly observed by The Ladder and they determined that Yvishnir was not to be consumed by organisms any longer. In the modern day it is safely contained in Hearth, which is the name of the quarantined citadel outside of The Fever, serving god knows what purpose aside from genetic experiments they’re rumored to be continuing with the remaining crystalline Crux Root.

The primordials felt that those who continued eating the Crux were forsaken, punished for eating the god. They along with others had migrated far, far away at that point, populating the mountains of Zenith and oceans that no one dared to sail through. The body of Yvishnir faded into legends. Even people living within Fever and the isles surrounding it knew less and less about the body as time went on, more focused on surviving day to day.

Their are cases where people have somehow managed to preserve the liquid form of Crux, said to still be procured and preserved when the body was first uncovered and would thus have the least amount of risk involved.

Some people hunt mermaids for the soul purpose of searching the contents of their stomach, to see if they have remnants of Tartarus in them.

With Tartarus it’s all based on theory because no one is able to get down there to see wtf is going on, they only see the results.

#idk why I instinctively apologize for long answers #lotsa new info ig #I want to make more plants and stuff but I’m usually focused on characters #anon reply #lore #hallowed carrion lore #the celestial bodies

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 274

You know what is fun? Baby Ghost Jason. You know what could be even more fun? Ghosts are Dragons. 

Jason? Aware of none of this. 

He was on comms, y’know listening and rolling his eyes at Dickwing, who used his real name, really Dick, he mocks. It’s just a stakeout, nothing new there, honestly boring when he could be blowing something up instead. It should have just been a stakeout. 

Yet there’s something suddenly there, something behind him. Something that causes his hair to stand on end and his comms to spark into static like some sort of horror movie. Something, something with clawed hands with corpse-pale skin tipped in black, stained or dead or something else, tilting his head up and up and up as he’s frozen. 

“A child, out here? Alone?” a voice crackles, hisses, hums, and purrs, somehow all at once, unnatural in its tone. He can’t move, he needs to move, he has to move, but it’s like the space around him has gone cold and dead, like he’s stuck in the Pits once more as claws hold his head and his vision blurs. “Sleep, child. Rest- we’ll be home soon.” 

#DCxDP #DPxDC #Prompts #Ghosts are Dragons #Halfa Jason #Not Ghost King Danny #Ancient of Space Danny #Jason: If I just got kidnapped by fae because Dick said my name I’m going to riot #Halfas have human-ish forms #Danny has four arms like Pandora & floating horns like Frostbite & same scale patterns as Clockwork #He’s cooing over the little Star Core Jason #Jordan & Ellie: Oh a new sibling? You give us sibling to tease? Yessss gooood #Pariah looking down at this scrap of a teen now forced into dragon form for his health: Ah yes another grandson #Jason has no clue what’s going on he’s very overwhelmed right now #Danny was not the one to nab Jason but it’s his child now look how cute #sun core dan #moon core ellie #space core danny #star core jason #a lil celestial body flock of dragons <3 #Jason is like a chonky amphiptere-esque dragon #long serpentine with feathered wings but also has legs #six chubby catterpillar-esque ones and long curved talons

[newttxt]

eclipse…

#one piece #luffy #trafalgar law #lulaw #clawing at my face #these are so cheesy but i had to I HAD TO #even i am not immune to a celestial bodies metaphor

[galedekarios]

Gale: That's Tara - loyal, intelligent, brave, and apparently unwilling to follow even the most basic of instructions when her own safety is at stake. I wouldn't have her any other way.

#bg3edit #baldur's gate 3 #bg3 #baldurs gate 3 #gale dekarios #gale of waterdeep #gale x tav #tav x gale #otp: a soul that steels my own #otp: you give me hope #otp: celestial bodies #ch: gale dekarios #vg: baldur's gate 3 #series: baldur's gate #gif: mybg3 #devnote: genuine excited in a quite sweet way lives rent free in my head

[thursdaylast]

Pearl joins the ranks of creatureified hermits, plus a more season-specific grian design! pearl was originally going to be a sooty owl, but she made a few too many jokes about being a salmon so fish it is.

#I couldn't figure out how to make Pearl look good as a salmon for a bit then I remembered that salmon are silver for most of their lives #also whenever I draw Grian and Pearl together i HAVE to make them celestial bodies its the law #grian #pearlescentmoon #hermitcraft #rot draws #please ignore any mistakes i drew this very fast

[infamouslydorky]

Ngl, I just like the muck monster design, so I wanted to doodle it

#the owl house #sketches #emperor belos #toh belos #body horror tw #the owl house spoilers #well animated and well written show from what ive seen of clips. im not gonna buy disney plus for it tho sorry #to hell with Michael rodent i say #that aside this guy really is despicable. like wow. disney frollo level but a calvanist instead of catholic. still fits #i would say ''celestial'' by falconshield is a song that fits his character

[girlwiththegreenhat]

had a photo of a planet in my downloads folder i didn't recognize

until i opened it, and it was DUCKS

DUCK PLANET, BABEY !!!

#birds #ducks #liz blogs #planet of the ducks.... #i was so fooled. i was so befuddled. utterly confounded #perplexed if you will #what use would i ever have for this image of a celestial body #ducks. it was the neighborhood ducks the whole time

[fandom-geek]

btw, the violinist in tmp 4? he's probably james smithson, of "founder of the smithsonian institute" fame

so what do we know about our violinist? he grew up in alnwick abbey, he was illegitimate and had legitimate full siblings, a father "certain of his celestial significance", and he has a nephew to whom he leaves his violin

and smithson? well, his father restored alnwick abbey in the 1750s, which was in ruins up until then. smithson was the only illegitimate child of any of the dukes there in the 1700s, which is when the statement is set

smithson also left his estate to his nephew after his death, with the condition that his fortune would establish the smithsonian institute if his nephew died without any children.

here's a point of divergence, however. in our timeline, smithson was a chemist and mineralogist. in tmagp's timeline, he was a violinist. however, as u/New_Helicopter836 pointed out to me on reddit, when smithson's body was disinterred by andrew graham bell, his right little finger was such that it suggests he played "the harpsichord, the piano, or a stringed instrument such as a violin"

looking at smithson's life, he left for university in 1782, so it's likely that tmagp 4 is set around the same time. it might be a bit earlier since the royal court orchestra moved from mannheim to munich in 1778 (putting smithson at about 13), it might be another point of divergence, or smithson is describing it this way to call back to its earlier significance. i'm not sure, but it's weird either way.

all that said, i'm not terribly sure why smithson describes his father (sir hugh smithson/percy, duke of northumberland) as "certain of his celestial significance", especially when the only other time he says celestial is to describe the violin's music. the user i mentioned before found that sir hugh, a major patron of architectural projects, had an observatory built, but i find smithson's language too specific. is his father an avatar too? mannheim is only a bit north of schwartzwald, after all, and this is about thirty years before tmag 23 where albrecht writes to jonah magnus.

let's look a little at smithson's bequest to found the smithsonian institute in the first place. smithson asked for it to be "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge among men". the magnus institute, notably, is described in the arg as a place of education, and it was founded in 1818. although smithson died in 1829 and his nephew in 1835, the original smithsonian (the columbian institute) was granted a charter by the us government in 1818.

the letter is strangely absent of any names for the violinist or his family, and i can't help but wonder if this is why. and if it is because this is smithson - is this related to why the magnus institute exists instead of the magnus archives? the smithsonian, before it was renamed, was originally granted a charter by the us govt in 1818 - the same year that the magnus institute was founded in tmagp.

this is set 30 years before we know anything of jonah magnus, at least in tmag, so is it possible that he persuaded smithson to fund his educational institute focusing on the supernatural? the changed course of smithson's life from scientist to supernatural violinist would certainly be conducive for that, not least to mention the strange absence of his fortune from his letter to his nephew.

#tmagp #tmagp spoilers #already posted this on reddit but fuck it im doing it here too #i'm strangely suspicious that his dad might be an earlier body that jonah possessed #briefly brushing his dad aside as “certain of his celestial significance” just seems like a perfect description for him but it's so vague #and it wouldn't explain the whole smithsonian/magnus institute thing but the refs are way too specific to smithson #for me to believe otherwise #alnwick abbey was legit a ruin for all of the 1700s until sir hugh and his wife elizabeth restored it so it's either james #or a completely fictional equivalent but why so many specific refs to his life then??? #the magnus protocol

[archive-rat]

The Falling Star

(congrats on the win, Scar!)

Scar is, to me, reminiscent of a falling star. Once among his fellow stars in the night sky, he is now all alone, pulled down by a gravity he cannot resist and taken on a destructive course, against his will. And then, right before impact, maybe he’ll no longer be alone. For those fleeting seconds, the falling star will once again have company, right before he crashes into it and leaves only death and old memories in his wake.

#I’m so proud of this one #I’m also so proud of Scar! he did it! #btw friendly reminder that the whole fandom doesn’t have to agree on one celestial body for the winners :) #diversity of opinions is a good thing! #I’m so mentally ill about him guys #anyway tag time! #art #mcyt #digital art #trafficblr #life series #traffic smp fanart #my art #secret life #secret life fanart #mcytblr #slsmp #slsmp fanart #goodtimewithscar fanart #goodtimeswithscar #life series fanart #mcyt fanart #gtws fanart #gtws

[binarystargames]

CELESTIAL BODIES IS NOW OUT! GO GET IT!

Our (myself and @basilisika's) mecha game is FINALLY OUT! Go get it here!

(You may have read my post about The Grid™️ a little while ago. This is that!)

We're running an itchfund to raise a little so we can devote the time and energy to create our full vision of what this game can be. The stuff you're seeing here is only a fraction of this game's potential: please help us get the whole way. In exchange, you'll get the Terrestrial Edition right now (a playable version with the base concepts and a smattering of content to get you started). If you give us a little more we'll make more content for you too! Weapons, factions, and even new Frames entirely are on the table.

(We also have community copies available, and those higher tiers will unlock more too.)

What are you waiting for! Go get it!

#ttrpg #ttrpg design #indie ttrpg #celestial bodies #mecha #indie dev #indie game dev #indie games #ttrpg dev

[fuckyeahgoodomens]

Revenge - Aziraphale style :D (joking)

#good omens #gos2 #season 2 #goodomensedit #ep1 #1i5 #jon hamm #michael sheen #gabriel #aziraphale #gabriel's body #I do not sully the temple of my celestial body with gross matter #how it started #s2 trailer #gabriel and tea #gabriel and food #angel mug #2ep1 #2i1i7

[leidensygdom]

A surrogate satan picture for @macabrecabra ! I saw the chance to draw a monster and I RAN (This is Azarath, their Aasimar- Who also has a vampiric disease!)

#fantasy #monster #body horror #dnd #dungeons and dragons #aasimar #angel #celestial #vampire #sygdomthings #syg2024 #eldritch #eldritch horror #biblically accurate angel #demon #terato #ttrpg #art #artists on tumblr #potlucksecretsatan2023

[laurzzz]

RSCB (Celebrity AU) - Distress

Okay who gave the robots pretty clothes and attachment issues— /silly (obvi it's me......)

I'm currently writing a fic for this AU and these artworks are scenes featured in it. Check it out here if you'd like! Please read the tags completely + this fic is only visible to registered users on AO3.

#rising stars and celestial bodies #dca fandom #celebrity au #sundrop #moondrop #y/n x sun #y/n x moon #y/n x sundrop #y/n x moondrop #laursdraws

[pillowspace]

I made a video for my dearly beloved AU, Celestial Sundown. Apps used were ibis Paint X and Text on Video & Video Editor

#pillowspace art #celestial sundown au #dca au #dca fandom #cw blood #tw blood #body horror #eye imagery #sundrop #moondrop #fnaf sun #fnaf moon #fnaf eclipse #celestial sundown eclipse #celestial sundown sunna #celestial sundown meno #fnafsb au #fnaf au #fnaf daycare attendant #fnaf dca #video #jack conte #feeling strangely shy abt the song choice but the second i heard it i immediately latched onto the heart thing #Youtube #dca oc #fnaf oc

[sun-and-moon-duo-duel]

Fellow poll runners, ask/reblog game! you suddenly become the very thing your poll is about, how fucked are you?

#mod star #definitely not the duel #ask game #reblog game #cw swearing #im personally having a lovely time being two celestial bodies at once

[hoaxghost]

Coming here to stop the debate bout whatever is the better type of angel between anime girl and celestial horror cause BOTH are good and are equally skilled at bringing down plagues upon people

#and no they aint part of my file recovery story just drawing em for fun #my ocs #angel oc #angel ocs #celestial oc #body horror #anime girl