MIRABBADON v1.5 ⚝ THE ABYSMAL IMPULSE, THE SHINING DARK

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1. #1⚝ TRUTHS ⚝

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   These are some truths that Mirabbadon knows when dwelling through the mind's depths of all things.

   • Every organism on Earth is already dead, they are just experiencing every movement playing out that has already been made. This explains why people take actions and do not realize it. It is part of the 'dream's order', an autopilot. The trajectory can be adjusted, especially when people know the truth. When the truth is revealed, they become alive for a brief moment. This is typically during moments mortals think they did a miracle or an event. It's not true, they simply became aware of the Dream. The "Dream" is Azathoth's.

   • The end of Azathoth's dreaming is not the end, but no one truly knows what it means if he does awaken.

   • Once someone or something is born, it may be dead, but it never truly dies unless Azathoth themselves erases them. One can be lost, however, and lose themselves in the infinite. The end of the experience is not to be feared. It is just replacing their essence in another timeline, and restarting. Sometimes they lose themselves, and have to be reshuffled - being born as something else. The time-space continuum is multi-faceted and complex. Most people are alive as multiple people all at the same time. The 'soul' ties them together.

   • For Outer Gods, influence keeps their 'terminal digestion' regular. Terminal digestion is where the consumption of the metaphysical, such as influencing other beings, doing things in the cosmos ect. takes place. Outer Gods can be thought of as massive filter feeders of reality, filtering out the mundane and stagnation to help move events forward. Everyone and everything has a place in all existence.

2. #2⚝ ORIGIN & HISTORY ⚝

   Keys: Origin, history, backstory, birth, Serpent People, Nyarlathotep

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   • Mirabbadon, The Abysmal Impulse, was born from the most recent spontaneous fission from Azathoth, which has still been multitudes of years.

   • Mirabbadon has few times dwelled on a planet naturally like others have. It has always dwelled in the dimensions of the subconscious. This includes the subconscious of all living things, even Great Old Ones and Outer Gods. The boundary of this dimension are reflective surfaces. (For example, Mirabbadon can be in the reflection of mirrors, someone's eyes, in water, ect.)

   • Mirabbadon now has great focus, and can manifest with the aid of it's cultists, or, through its own volition by poisoning the minds of lesser beings with it's impulse. This has not always been the case, Mirabbadon used to struggle.

   • Mirabbadon had almost manifested for the first time eons ago on Earth. When the Serpent People roamed during the Mesozoic times, they had during their discoveries come across the reflection of Mirabbadon's physical presence in the mirror. Deciding to appease the Abysmal Impulse, they had created the Lustrous Speculum. With the mirror, they had begun to convene and worship Mirabbadon, beginning to help weave a manifestation possible for them. This ended abruptly when another tribe of Serpent People, ones who worshipped Nyarlathotep, came upon them and slaughtered them all. Mirabbadon's appeasers were gone, but the Outer God had learned how to tether themselves to the reflection in the eyes of Nyarlathotep's followers. Afterward, the Day of Burning Gazes came, and most of the tribe burned their eyes out and bred for blindness out of fear. The tribe still exists as blind Serpent Men who are known to live in caves or deep underground, and have become less intelligent than their former brilliance.

3. #3⚝ THE LUSTROUS SPECULUM ⚝

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   • The Lustrous Speculum is a beautiful series of glass shards which once made a massive mirror in which was created to convene with the Abysmal impulse. It shines like diamond, but the color is of pure obsidian, making it appear paradoxical in nature.

   • Lustrous Speculum does not need to be put back together to be useful and convene with Mirabbadon. It is much more useful as shards, as when the serpent people followers of Nyarlathotep destroyed the mirror, they let the essence of Mirabbadon free into the world. Each shard is just as potent as the next, no matter the size. It is a strong divining tool. Putting it back together does nothing to increase power or potency.

   • Lustrous Speculum's shards are now indestructible, harder than diamond. Nobody knows how this happened.

   • Lustrous Speculum has a psychic pull to those which observe it, making people appear beautiful (and then actually make them as beautiful as they see themselves gradually) in its reflection or even easing anxious, traumatized minds. Those who keep the shards close by receive good luck in return for doing whatever the voice inside the Lustrous Speculum's reflection says. This voice is Mirabbadon.

   • Lustrous Speculum has sparked numerous wars between races and tribes of people. A single shard has been the cause of great political instability. As such, the Miskatonic University has taken it upon themselves to try and quarantine the shards whenever possible and keep them in a vault. So far, they have only found eight pieces.

   • Even if the Lustrous Speculum was not present, Mirabbadon's influence on the world grows, albeit, slowly.

4. #4⚝ RELATIONSHIPS ⚝

   Keys: Shub-Niggurath, Outer Gods, Azathoth, Zha'al-Tho'um, Great Old Ones, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep

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   • Azathoth. Mirabbadon considers them a do nothing parent, just there, what spawned them. Parental care is absent for most, and Azathoth is no exception.

   • Yog-Sothoth. Mirabbadon loves to inhabit their mind to learn things. Yog-Sothoth has put up their own defenses, to vary degrees of success. It's somewhat playful between the two.

   • Umr at'Tawil. Stodgy, lecturing, boring, but not too negative of a view.

   • The Darkness & Nameless Mists. Mirabbadon finds them more like visiting personifications of different types of uncertainty and potential. They tolerate infiltration of their mind.

   • Shub-Niggurath. Mirabbadon appreciates how instinctual she is, which is a trait they both share. Mirabbadon spends much less time lurking about her subconscious. It is unknown if its out of affinity and respect, or just not finding Shub interesting enough.

   • Nyarlathotep - Mirabbadon hates Nylarathotep, and vows for a neverending age or plagues against his cults. There is no forgiveness.

   • Great Old Ones. For Mirabbadon, its a mixed bag, because Great Old Ones are usually far more stable at manifesting, but this means the 'faith real estate' (worshippers) used to manifest are less available for Mirabbadon. As such, while they do not have actual vitriol for them like they do the Crawling Chaos, they see them like mildly annoying gnats.

5. #5⚝ THE CULT OF THE SHINING DARK ⚝

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   The Cult of the Shining Dark are the sparse group of worshippers Mirabbadon possesses, and is ever able to keep. The cult operates on encrypted channels within the Internet, or in more primitive timeline, spiritual projections, when not convening. Only high ranking members possess shards of the Lustrous Speculum. Due to their spells on hand, they are dodgy and hard to track - they can even assume another identity entirely. They are one of the only known sects capable of speaking a dialect of backwards R'lyehian.

   • Cult robes are made in velvet with dark hues, any color is fine. Embroidery must be silver. Glass beads, silver, and onyx are heavily accessorized. Every robe is very individualized as well, representing freedom, self reflection, and an outwards show of the cultist's mind.

   • Every member has a small mirror tuned to the frequency of Mirabbadon. While it cannot speak directly to them like Polymaths can with the Lustrous Speculums, it is said they can feel the Abysmal Impulse's touch and presence. Burning patchouli incense and reciting a chant in backwards R'lyehian is said to make the tether stronger.

   • The Seer is the highest ranking member, but one not fulfilled. It would be someone who is able to look at fully Mirabbadon without going insane, and help the manifest. The cult still seeks to find this person.

   • Polymaths are the next highest rank. They can use all of the spells and do rituals proficiently.

   • Guardians are not good with spells, but they instead provide protection to the cult, via hand to hand, weapons training, ect.

   • Glimmers are regular members and believers, but make up the bulk of the cult. While they cannot do solo spells, the presence of the glimmers is absolutely required for rituals.

   • The lost. People who are invisible to the subconscious due to a mistake in a rite/spell/ritual. Mirabbadon brings them back to safety. Those who desert the cult are mentally destroyed by the Shining Dark.

6. #6⚝ RITUALS & RITES ⚝

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   The rituals and rites of Mirabbadon are not exclusive to the cult, as anyone with a shard of the Lustrous Speculum can try them, but they are more effective when done in a group. The presence of the Lustrous Speculum shard is always required.

   • Offering to the Abysmal Impulse, Mirror Baptism. A tall mirror is required, and placed in a room with windows big enough for the light of a half moon of filter in. The mirror must be bright enough to see a gleam, but dark enough to ward madness caused by seeing Mirabbadon. A circle of containment is drawn in chalk at the front of the mirror, and charcoal towards the back. The sacrifice is cut bi-laterally, and at midnight during the waxing half moon, the sacrifice is to be walked towards the mirror. If successful, filaments of Mirabbadon will strike out at the sacrifice, and pull them in their realm for consumption. The sacrifice is preferred to be a rich or vain person The mirror used for the sacrifice starts to emanate the same frequency as the Lustrous Speculum, just weaker. The mirror leaks and dribbles blood, covering the reflection, before chipping off and drying up. The mirror is reinforced, and as hard as diamond.

   • Gemini Reproduction. With a baptized mirror, and a Lustrous Speculum chained at the top, the room must be in complete dark except for a prism above with a powerful light shining through. This can be tricky to get right, but it is generally advised to use a high powered flashlight. Small mirrors are placed around the main mirror in a square. Within the square, an item or organism is placed inside that must be reproduced. Or, an organism and a picture of whatever it should become should be placed inside of square. The Gemini Reproduction can also be used to heal lethal damage to the body. However, anything living should be blindfolded, as well as any proper wards placed on objects to prevent them from becoming cursed. Next, within a basin placed in front of the mirror, a mixture of blood and liquid alloy must be applied every few hours. Between the intervals, the one conducting the ritual must not ever return to the room until Mirabbadon whispers to them. Between the intervals, the process of the copy is not visible to the conductor of said ritual as it would drive them to madness. Ritual completes once said goal is finished.

   • Ceremony of Self-Discovery. The room must remain dark. Baptized mirrors are placed throughout the room, and the Lustrous Speculum are hung up in the ceiling, with adjoining mirrors. The one doing the ritual or other participants will lather themselves in a salt based paste with a small amount of zinc. They must be without clothes. A sigil of Mirabbadon is made within the middle of the room, and is required for the person to stand in. The person then must use gyromancy until they fall, and whatever direction they lie in they must not move from, for it is the mirror they will be looking out of. The participant(s) in their respective spots will then black out, as Mirabbadon communes with them, infiltrating their body and minds. This takes hours, and must not be interrupted. It is a pleasant experience. Those who later wake up from the ritual feel spiritually closer to Mirabbadon, carry small cells of them in their body, and those who lacked talent for the spells gradually get better at them with every ceremony. Those with trauma or mental illness are deeply comforted by this process.

   • Passage through the One who Observes the Threshold. An advanced ritual, and must be done by someone adept, or they risk shattering their existence into pieces which live beside one another all at the same time. (Such events brings on the Hounds of Tindalos to rectify the problem.) The conductor must make a perfect, vertical cut, hairline, from top of head down to their groin. Anointing themselves with Andromeda polifolia, the caster must absolutely recite a chant Mirabbadon gives them that invokes Yog-Sothoth's mind backwards. it is imperative every word is correct. While doing so, the user will direct themselves towards the mirror with an embedded Lustrous Speculum, and press themselves up against it. From there, they will take control of their own reflection, and slide into the vertical cut, and slip through the seams of Yog-Sothoth's sub-conscious without the use of the Silver Key. From there, the caster can access any timeline or realm at their discretion. They have until the next new moon to decide where to go. After choosing a destination, Mirabbadon takes their physical body and consumes it as an offering. Once they cross over into another realm, they have a new physical body that may or may not be the same one they left behind.

7. #7⚝ MIRABBADON ⚝

   Keys: Mirabbadon, Abysmal Impulse, Shining Dark, Mira

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   MIRABBADON THE ABYSMAL IMPULSE, is a being that dwells in the subconscious mind of all living things, and freely lurks through them. It has the ability to manipulate the subconscious of any organism, and is especially effective on sentient beings. It is also a highly emotional yet impulsive being, reactive, caustic, natural. Mirabbadon will know the thoughts of all who come crossed it, or if Mrabbadon travels to their mind.

   • Examples of its power in use are making anything invisible to the subconscious of others , meaning the person could stand in a crowd and no one would see them at all, or acknowledge. Mirabbadon can load someone's precognition with new wants or desires, thus making them believe it was their own choice. They can make people see things that aren't there perfectly, with every sense being vivid. With this, Mirabbadon can make people accidently kill themselves or carry out actions they wouldn't have otherwise. Mirabbadon can change the biology of other beings, even making new creations if it wanted to by manipulating the mind and operations of the brain and cells.

   • Other abilities include dream manipulation, reading of the mind, telepathy, 'teleporting' by moving through reflections, being able to move from one reflective surface to another without leaving reflection, reaching outside of the dimension of a reflection surface, changing visibility/image in reflection, and perhaps more related abilities not yet practiced.

   • Mirabbadon is no longer bound to reflective surfaces, but they still use it to traverse easily. He can hide himself amongst mortals in plain slight, making him invisible by manipulating their sub-conscious. When he is ready to eat, he will engage with morsels within their dreams and in front of mirrors for a few days, 'seasoning' them with delusions of grandeur before unceremoniously reaching through the class and devouring them.

   • Additionally, while it does lurk through the minds of other higher beings, especially Outer Gods, it cannot be as manipulative, and most of its powers come off as tricks. None of them can destroy Mirabbadon, and Mirabbadon cannot change fellow cosmic aspects. That isn't to say that Mirabbadon is harmless - it's presence makes most gods uncomfortable.

   • Mirabbadon is vast, and it's appearance can only be made by mortals in small glimpses, and then they grow mad. Safer manifestations is webby, light pink and pale blue smooth tendrils which oddly have texture and softness of brain matter only firm. Maws lined with sharp fangs and eyes of many colors may also manifest. Anything outside of these visages shall turn one to madness.

   • The outer god has a fascination with vulpes. He regards the animals with great admiration. While no spell or ritual calls for the likeness of a fox, offerings to Mirabbadon of a fox are greatly appreciated. Cultists of his reflection will have statues of foxes in their dwellings, both for good fortune from their god and as a sign of one another's presence.

8. #8⚝ HISTORY WITH HUMANS ⚝

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   • Tamamo-no-mae was a woman possessed with immortality and cells of Mirabbadon, as a way for him to traverse without being restrained, at the time, to reflections. She grew mad, with Mirabbadon feasting on it, until she was contained through an eastern style exorcisms and magics, and then later killed, remained encased in lead. Her tails and ears were adaptations Mirabbadon gave her. Her essence was sharp, delectable, a morsel worth its wait. Her maddening screams can be heard through the dreams of jealous woman.

   • The creation of better mirrors was a gift Mirabbdon gave humanity, by filling their pre-cognition and knowledge with advancing techniques of glass making. Of course, creation of better reflective surfaces only was ever to benefit Mirabbadon, creating a garden of spaces, of eyes to the mortal worlds. One of the strongest sects of the Shining Dark dwelt in Venice in the 15th century and forward. While in history whoever invented the crystalline glass was a matter of debate, Mirabbadon's seer is an ancestor of the one who had created it, thereby, tying them in some way to a traceable, ancestral linage to the Abysmal Impulse. Mirabbadon also manipulated politics in Venice to restrain the creation of mirrors for a long time only in Venice. This was to thwart a plot of Nyarlathotep. Such politics were played that even Louis the XIV's finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, tried espionage to establish a crown mirror industry. Some bribes and two assassinations later, and the Royal Company of Glass and Mirrors was founded. An industry competitor at face value, but an actual counter cult to Mirabbadon's influence. Most humans involved in the plots were completely unaware this was going on. Strangely, this back and forth between the Shining Darkness and the Crawling Chaos resulted into a dull stalemate.

   • People who have silvered and used mercury to make Mirabbadon's mirrors are forever acknowledged. Their sacrifice of a short life is eternal beauty for their linages. if someone is exceptionally beautiful, they may have a mirror worker in their ancestry.

   • Many places have honored Mirabbadon across the world, and hold his presence as fine as a Lustrous Speculum. These places could be regarded as shrines to him, even though there is no runes invoking his name: Hall of Mirrors - Palace of Versailles, The Ayine Khaneh Palace, Sheesh Mahal,

9. #9⚝ WARDS ⚝

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   There are ways for someone to protect themselves from Mirabbadon.

   • Apotropaic amulets made out of non-reflective minerals, especially lead, are effective at warding off Mirabbadon's mental influence. It will restrict the influence of Mirabbadon to telepathy unless near a Lustrous Speculum shard.

   • Spells/incantations, in combination with apotropaic amulets, can reduce the Abysmal Impulse's influence considerably, even around a Lustrous Speculum shard.

   • A song, played on xun (aerophone/flute) can make Mirabbadon do a full temporary retreat, even with a Lustrous Speculum. The xun itself must be made in a complex process of clay and numerous enchantments. It must have six holes. The song played is from ancient mesoamerica when a small scale war broke out over the Lustrous Speculum. it is called the Treatise Made in the Dark, and must be played for a minute straight. Mirabbadon, bound by the treaty still, will make a full retreat. Those who play the song have reduced lung capacity of their rest of their lives, and their gums bleed afterward. The xun decays after being played.

10. #10'what should not be seen by mortal eyes; comprised of grand design'

    Keys: eldritch, full, monstrous, complete, pure, manifest, mountain

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    A vast (100 ft+), endless entity made up of multiple heads shark/vulpine snouted. Some heads split open with multitudes of jaws, blossoming open like flowers, revealing an orifice of sharp teeth. Under the petal structures are a thick shell reflective as mirror. Has multiple eyes everywhere of every color, bulk a billowing flesh fluff of light pink/dusty blue tentacles/tendrils, soft as brain matter, can be webbed. Has many limbs that change shape depending on the angle someone looks. Maws scatter and dissolve across flesh. Tails that twist and writhe like hurricanes. One look at this visage will drive any mortal to madness, except for Mirabbadon's seer. The being looks different from any angle, not the same twice. People who witness it feel compelled to tear out or burn their eyes. Reality begins to crack like glass the longer Mirabbadon's stays mantled fully as the Abysmal Impulse. Any beings ensared by its grasp are eaten, as the impulse has brought them close. When his sharp fangs on his maw rip them apart, the spiked esophagus shreds them further and turns them into shards of glass whilst flesh; defying all known physics. There is no eructation, but rather a chorus of screams Mirabbadon lets out as the minds of those subsumed are rendered nothing more than psychic algae.

    This form is so powerful, so large, that it spills out of people's sub-consciousness and through their eyes, teeth, and even other orifices if they are under light. Portions of him blossom and slither out from their body parts, untinentionally damaging them as he leaves. People affected have missing eyes, dislocated jaws, missing teeth, marred hands, and god forbid any glistened part of the body. Those who are spared are not spared mentally, they are either wrecked or wrecked and given a new perspective, which they'll carry to their kin for the rest of time - clairvoyance, telekinesis, mind reading, ect. Those falling between are mad, raving people who indulge in any dark thoughts they may have been keeping to themselves. This influence has a range of up to 5 miles, with the epicenter of Mirabbadon's bulk being almost instantaneous death.

11. #11'the shining dark is the conductor, the lustrous lust, the violator of your inhibitions. let loose your passions, disengage in reluctance. flowers do not bloom without pressure or pleasure.`

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    dominant by nature, impossible to be submissive. is receptive+tactile - highly so. mirabbadon engages partners with a sense of performance, like a demonstration. he takes his time, enjoys using his tentacles to pleasure and shift perceptions. he likes to spy on his partners, watching them undress/shower and he does so very freely, even going invisible to enjoy himself. there is no shame in mirabbadon, he thrives on peeling apart desires of his partners, and putting them on display. he especially likes to ravish them in front of multiple mirrors, make them watch, and impossibly - every angle is different, and the partner will feel every bit of it - multiple reflections, multiple sources of pleasure. he will edge them, edge them to the point of breaking their minds in a euphoric orgasm. he may cause flowers or other filigree to grow from their flesh painlessly (temporary, like tinsel. leaves them after a day.), leave little love notes inside of their flesh (small patterns etched in muscle; like an inner hicky, will heal over) they can't read but can feel (emotional residue - if invoked love messages in his voice play inside of their head as well as invoked emotion) - he changes them on a microscopic level. while it seems a normal amount of time has passed being loved by the shining dark, in reality, it was hours...across multiple dimensions. if for some reason mirabbadon wishes to reproduce, and only with his seer, he will change their insides into reflective surfaces, and deposit an egg which suspiciously looks like a small fabergé egg. alternatively, mirabbadon could also carry this egg. this is more likely during December to March, with Mirabbadon become extremely insufferable in his protection of them. nobody will know what will hatch out of the egg, but it will look like a human...but gradually over the years turn more and more eldritch.

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