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<blockquote data-quote="Beefermatic" data-source="post: 6958382" data-attributes="member: 6670757"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong><u>Oros </u></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>“Orafate, the End of Time, Fate, The Great Nothing, The Blackened Infinity”</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">-----------------------------------------------</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>Riem, The Akashic Aspect of Darkness, has finally caught up with you, you assaulted him head on some time ago, during which you physically were able to drive him from the field, no easy task, but Riem plays the long game and has been waiting to exact some form of revenge upon you for your insolence for some time now. </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>You know he’s here, the sky has struck black, the stars have all but faded away, Even the star in which you are floating a few million miles from appears dim and it’s fires have stopped moving entirely as if it’s frozen in time. </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>“You know, time is funny.” Riem says, casually sauntering out of the shadows behind you as if it were a backdrop, walking on empty space as if it were solid ground, hands in the pockets of his long black velvety coat. The ground taps with his every footfall, echoing as if he’s walking across a wooden stage in an auditorium. </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>“I sometimes wonder what will become of me when all this is said and done, once Thychen has come to completion, will I, and all his other Aspects simply cease? Cast aside like used toys? Or will I move onto something greater? Who knows, perhaps I may replace him…” He chuckles a manufactured laugh side eying you with his empty pits. He smiles slowly, wolfishly, terribly.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>After a pause, he continues, “Not that you will have much to worry about on that front, see I’ve made many friends in high places, places far higher than you, you banal base entity, what a waste you’ve made of yourself, nearly unlimited potential and you’ve used it in such a terribly predictable fashion…” He shakes his head in disappointment.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>You make a move, cosmic energy of unimaginable power wells within you, mighty Temporal Lord, and you fire a wave of pure devastation towards Riem, a blinding flash makes the stars visible again as they consecutively explode like a concentrated blast of supernova energy, crumbling the galaxy to stardust. Riem, predictably turns into shadows and reappears in the distance behind you. </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>He laughs.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>“What a temper you have, did those poor inhabitants of all those worlds you callously destroyed just now deserve that?” He asks mockingly.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>Reim suddenly begins drawing symbols of green light into the air in front of him with his fingertip which expand exponentially and grow ever more complex, at first you can make them out, a summoning perhaps, but even your mighty Divine magical knowledge is paltry in comparison to Riem’s fabled spellcasting. Suddenly a strange feeling goes over you, you see the universe turns somewhat grayish black and it seems like time itself pinches to a point. </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>“Behold my friend, this is the End of Time” He opens one arm beckoningly to the ever expanding gray. He sneers and looks directly at you with fire in his eyes “You dare to lay your hands upon me? You would dare to interfere with my plans!? You peasant! This is the fate of those who cross me! You fool!” Reim points to the center of the pinch in spacetime which seems to have grown, laughs a long and wicked laugh bows a low bow, bids you adieu, turns and begins walking and steps between dimensions leaving a reddish after image and then nothing.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>You’re suddenly alone, the stars have disappeared entirely just weird concentric circles moving towards a central mass, you feel a palpable tug like being pulled by a tractor beam or unknown force towards the pinched point, now smudge in spacetime.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>You look and it’s hard to describe what you see, a smeared oval of darkness in the distance, getting larger, or are you getting closer? You see the smudge begins to stretch out like a horizon on either side as you look, you can see it stretching further and further somehow you can see it continuing to stretch out, it doesn’t really make sense. </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>You shift your gaze back towards the smudge’s spherical central mass and now you see two massive almond shaped eyes terrible and anathema, a color beyond description, open in the darkness and peer directly at you, into you, followed by a massive jaw stretching from one side of the oval to the other like a massive jack-o-lantern grin, suddenly something about this whole thing seems familiar, like you’ve been here before, a thousand thousand times, you realize that things that encounter this entity never live to speak about it, a great and terrible fear washes over you like being plunged into cold water, you understand what Riem meant by the End of Time! </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>The Fool! </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>He risked existence and brought you to the end of fate itself, the point where Thychen, the Supreme Being’s, Creation ends! You’re looking into the maw of eternity itself. You immediately attempt to run to find the being in front of you again. You try to attack to find your blasts, your mighty Expressions of Power simply redirected into it’s mouth, it seems to enjoy the taste of your energy, you try to teleport to find you move nowhere, you attempt to manipulate reality to find it explodes in a cascade of bluish blackish white antimatter around you. </em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em></em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><em>You turn to face the creature, there has to be a way! Again it’s horrible eyes look through you, you feel your experiences being devoured, you feel for the first time in eons the cold bite of space, you can’t move, you can’t fly? What? It’s hard to think, hard to breathe, why do you need to breathe? You see the creature opens it’s maw wide, and suddenly, you feel your spirit pulled from your body, you turn around and look at your mortal form floating dead in space. This doesn’t make sense, you’re a Time Lord, not a mortal… Those are the last thoughts you think before your essence, your body and all that you are, are lost to oblivion for all eternity.</em></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Ancient Taiji (Nothingness) Dragon</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Unsizable (Giga-Titanic) Poly-Existential Eschatolic Dragon</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Hit Dice:</strong> Has no Hp/ 2,500d10,000 x <strong>ten thousand</strong> (-- hp/ 250,000,000,000 hp)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Armor Class: </strong>-- (-- Oblivion,-- Stillness,-- Nothingness)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Initiative:</strong> Always goes at the end of the Round, but knows all of fate and plans accordingly</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Speed:</strong> Does not move/ Folds Space to it</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Base Attack/Grapple:</strong> --/-- Cannot be targeted</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Attack:</strong> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The All Devouring Maw (See Below)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The Claws of Attraction (See Below)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Devour Existence (See Below)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Special Attacks:</strong> Static Reality, Breath of Breath, Breath of Oblivion, Blasphemy of Mortality, Wings of Shattered Reality, Jaws of Existential Terror</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Special Qualities:</strong> DR: --/--, SR: --, N[SUP]th[/SUP] Traits, Omni-Elemental Immunity, Omni-Elemental Absorbtion, Omni-Elemental Reflection, Overwhelming Toughness, Adaption, Space Folding, Poly-Existential, Immunities, Keen Senses, N[SUP]th[/SUP] Eye, N[SUP]th[/SUP] Sense, N[SUP]th[/SUP] (Ability Score), Iatric Vulnerability, N[SUP]th [/SUP]Toughness</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Saves:</strong> Fort --, Ref --, Will --</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Abilities:</strong> Str --, Dex --, Con --, Int --, Wis --, Cha --</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Skills:</strong> Makes no skill checks</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Environment:</strong> The End of Time</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Organization:</strong> Solitary</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Challenge Rating:</strong> (official CR 3,750)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Treasure:</strong> Standard</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Alignment:</strong> Beyond Alignment</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Effective Class Level:</strong> 5,000</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">When Thychen, the Supreme Being, created all Existence, his first Creation was the Wuji Dragon, his Son the Annorrath, but in the act of creation, that act made defined a previously undefined Multiverse. In doing so "Something" was separated from "Nothing" and with this act, the Taiji was born, the cosmic afterbirth of the birth of the Wuji. This being represents the end of all things, as much as the Wuji is Infinity, this being is emptiness and lack, as much as he is energy and power this being is stillness. It is the equivalent of the 0 next to an Infinity sign, both are infinite, but utterly opposite. When all is said and done the only thing left will be nothingness, the only thing left is the Taiji.</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Combat: </strong>The Taiji Dragon is a interesting creature. It is not effected like normal beings as it is not actually part of this reality at all. It watches all things and takes appropriate actions but is much more like a natural phenomenon or plant in it’s methods and should be treated more like a horrible natural disaster or trap. It cannot take actions in the traditional sense, but has a number of patterns it can use to devour and destroy it’s foes. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The only exceptions to this are it’s Breath Attacks and Cascading Abrogate abilities which can be targeted onto a foe. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The Dragon always attempts to pull all things into it’s All Devouring Maw, it’s ‘Claws of Attraction’ pull all matter towards the Maw at the speed of light and those fighting it must contend with this constant and inescapable current. It cannot be affected by most abilities and this too must be contended with as it rests outside the confines of space and time yet can affect those within. It will steal the Divinity of all beings with it’s Blasphemy of Mortality and then suck the souls out of all mortals in it’s vicinity. All of it’s abilities are multiverse spanning and there is no escape besides temporally. Against foes somehow able to get around this, it will use it’s Hopelessness and Existential Terror abilities to literally scare the soul out of a being or weaken them to the point that it’s other abilities can affect it. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The only beings it truly fears are the Mighty Wuji and Gankyil Dragons and the greatest of High Lords as their powers can far more easily defeat it though it is a truly rare occasion for any non-Eschatol to ever defeat the Taiji and those who do only postpone the inevitable as it is the end of time incarnate, it is an infinite being, and cannot be actually destroyed just displaced. Against such beings it will repeatedly attempt to use it’s Breath of Oblivion power to neutralize whatever is actually capable of harming it.</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The one thing it truly fears is Iatric Energy which is the absolute anathema to it’s being, if it can be somehow targeted with an Iatric Effect, treat it as Undead. It will actively attempt to flee from such effects if at a sufficient power. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Space-Folding (Ex):</strong> The Taiji Dragon cannot move, but is able to fold space to instantly bring all parts of creation to it instantly. It cannot move but can ‘think’ in a way, and manages this via thought. This effectively makes the Dragon occupy all spaces for all positive benefits or effects, and not occupy any space that would be considered non beneficial. Essentially allowing the dragon to target a foe without being able to be targeted itself. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>The All Devouring Maw:</strong> The “Mouth” of the Taiji Dragon is far better described as a massive quasi sentient black hole like anomaly though trillions of times more deadly. Any being who comes in contact with the event horizon of the Taiji Dragon’s mouth disappear forever, erased from existence utterly.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>The Claws of Attraction:</strong> The “Claws” of the Taiji are represented by the enormous spiraling pucker in space-time surrounding the monstrosity. This is represented by a constant Superluminal pull towards the center of it’s mouth. All beings existing in the same Timestream as the Taiji must constantly move away from it at faster than light speeds to avoid being sucked into the event horizon and devoured forever.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Oblivion(Ex): </strong>Oblivion <strong>is</strong> the Taiji, in the most exalted of senses, divorcing him entirely from reality, though still somehow he is unimaginably real, this removes the following effects of his from being effected and effectively removes these checks from needing to be made for him, all abilities he uses work without fail, and all abilities fail against him as he is not actually there. This is signified by a – in his statistic block for the following abilities: Armor Class, Attack Rolls, Checks ( Ability Checks, Caster Level Checks, Skill Checks, Turning Checks, Difficulty Class (for any and all abilities), Initiative, Saving throws, and Spell Resistance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Nothingness(Ex): </strong>The Taiji Dragon is made of Lack, he is nothing, Nothingness made real. He is the shadow cast across the universe at the time of the Wuji’s creation, the Yin to the Yang. This removes the following effects of his from being effected and effectively removes these checks from needing to be made for him, all abilities he uses work without fail, and all abilities fail against him as he is not actually there. This is signified by a – in his statistic block for the following abilities: Armor Class, Attack Rolls, Checks ( Ability Checks, Caster Level Checks, Skill Checks, Turning Checks, Difficulty Class (for any and all abilities), Initiative, Saving throws, and Spell Resistance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Stillness(Ex): </strong>When the final particle has stopped moving, when the final wave has stopped flowing and all things are still, the Taiji will remain. This removes the following effects of his from being effected and effectively removes these checks from needing to be made for him, all abilities he uses work without fail, and all abilities fail against him as he is not actually there. This is signified by a – in his statistic block for the following abilities: Armor Class, Attack Rolls, Checks ( Ability Checks, Caster Level Checks, Skill Checks, Turning Checks, Difficulty Class (for any and all abilities), Initiative, Saving throws, and Spell Resistance.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Nondimensional (Ex):</strong> 100% of all actions fail against the Taiji. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Transcendental Nullification (Ex):</strong> The Taiji annihilates all Transcendental Abilities of it’s enemies.</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Blasphemy of Mortality:</strong> Creatures that look into the unfathomable eyes of the Taiji lose their Divine Immunities, Divine Bonus, and are effectively considered mortal until it removes it’s gaze, or the affected is somehow able to break the gaze. This ability is used to asphyxiate Immortals who suddenly find themselves gasping for air and freezing to death in the middle of Pleromic Space. It is also used to remove immunities to things like Fear…</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Breath of Breath (Su):</strong> The Last Breath of all things. This pulls in all beings in creation towards it’s hungering maw much like a baleen whale pulling in plankton, and steals the life force of any mortal being without save, pulling their very souls from their bodies and devouring them forever. Coupled with Blasphemy of Mortality this effect is devastating.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Breath of Oblivion (Su): </strong>This crack of black thunder steals the ink off the pages of the Akashic Library, permanently annihilating one being from ever have existing. Any being struck by this attack must be resurrected by either the Will of the Supreme Being, The Akashic, a Lipika, or The Breath of Cleansing Light of the Wuji Dragon, all other means fail and even all memories of the affected disappear from the multiverse forever.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>N[SUP]th[/SUP]: (Ability Score):</strong> The Taiji Dragon has no ability scores in the traditional sense as it does not exist within the confines of this existence. This is represented by a – in it’s statistic block. It can make few actions and is considered stationary, it never, moves except to use it’s breath weapons, always is considered to be in front of all foes regardless of orientation and never speaks, it will however use telepathy, usually in the form of vivid images to get it’s points across, and though it is considered to have no ‘intellect’ or ‘wisdom’ scores in the traditional sense, it is considered to know all things as it can perceive all creation from beginning to end, in a way it <em>is</em> all ceations as it is both the beginning and end of time itself, and thusly can ‘think’ in a unique way like few things can. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>N[SUP]th[/SUP] Eye (Ex):</strong> The Taiji Dragon cares not for the actions of ‘enemies’ and is the fate of all beings. It makes no rolls in the traditional sense and all actions are considered to have no save. </span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Hopelessness:</strong> Immunities to Fear and Morale begin to crumble and eventually shatter in the Taiji’s presence. Every round all enemies lose 1 ability that gives it immunity to fear or morale effects. Once all immunities to fear or morale resistances are obliterated the enemy gains a stacking permanent -1 penalty for every 100 HD the Dragon possesses (-25) to all rolls every round as it’s psyche begins to utterly shatter. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Jaws of Existential Terror (Ex): </strong>The maw of the Taiji eminates a bone chilling fear. No being is immune to this effect (Though a Wuji’s Breath of Cleansing Light negates the effect for as long as it remains on the same Timestream as it) as they stare into the End of Time and thusly their eventual fate. Beings that look into it’s ever gaping jaws take no damage but are plunged deeper and deeper into the stages of fear every 1d4+1 rounds until the terror becomes too much and their heart stops and they die literally from fear itself. Beings killed in such a manner disappear from reality pulled into oblivion never to be heard from again.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">1[SUP]st[/SUP] Stage: No Effect, creeping feeling of fear</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Stage: Menace (Scared until dragon is affected by an ability)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">3[SUP]rd[/SUP] Stage: Shaken</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">4[SUP]th[/SUP] Stage: Frightened</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">5[SUP]th[/SUP] Stage: Panicked</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">6[SUP]th[/SUP] Stage: Cowering (can make no actions)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">7[SUP]th[/SUP] Stage: Death from fear itself </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">8[SUP]th[/SUP] Stage: 1d4+1 rounds after this the body is pulled in and lost for all time.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Wings of Shattered Reality (Ex): </strong>The Taiji Dragon’s wings do not work like other Eschatolic Dragon’s wings as it cannot make actions that require movement. It’s fractal wings stretch like smears of darkness ever longer, infinitely, into the vast void of creation, and instead apply a plethora of effects to the Timestream it currently effects. Beings within range suddenly find physics no longer make sense, the parameters of this effect are up to the GM, examples of what my Taiji’s wings do are as follows: Immunities work in reverse, a stacking exhaustion penalty of -25 per round to all saves checks and rolls, exits are traps leading deeper into the dragon’s maw, beings find themselves unable to fall, damage heals the dragon if it is somehow able to be struck, healing damages it, the universe becomes like a catacomb with endless pathways and seeming exits and ways away from the Taiji with nothing working but a specific course of action.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Static Reality (Ex): </strong>Blocks uses of Wish, Miracle, and Alter Reality returning it upon the caster in the form of d100’s antimatter damage per HD of the caster. (Ex: 1000hd Immortal would take 1000d100 Antimatter Damage for using 1 use of Alter Reality)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Poly-Existential (Ex):</strong> The Infinity Dragon is a being that exists in multiple concepts and multiple timestreams all at once. It entirely controls it’s dimensions, and it’s opponent’s perceptions of it at all times, allowing it to simultaneously exist as both something micro-diminutive for purposes of detecting it and attacking it and also Xonna-Titanic for purposes of grappling, damage, etc. it is treated as having an effectively infinite size bonus in both AC, Grapple, and Attack all at the same time without penalty.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Cascading Abrogate (Ex):</strong> The Taiji Abrogates a new ability from a chosen target each and every round until the dragon is defeated or you escape it’s range (all existence but not all time).</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>N[SUP]th[/SUP] Traits:</strong> Considered only a presence, is unkillable besides by Omnific or higher abilities and reforms eventually no matter what kills it. It is immune to all affects that require a save, and are immune to magical and natural effects. They have 3 fundamental forces of the cosmos that they are associated with that apply to AC, Attack rolls, All Checks, DCs, Initiative, Saves, and Spell resistance. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>N[SUP]th[/SUP] Toughness (Ex):</strong> The Taiji Dragon has an effectively infinite Damage Reduction, uses d10,000s for base hit dice, and has a ten-thousand x health multiplier. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>N[SUP]th[/SUP] Sense (Ex):</strong> The Taiji Dragon is the inevitability of all fates and can perceive the true end of time, even for the Supreme Being as he is The End of Time made manifest. All actions are meaningless to the Taiji as no actions can effect him. (This can be foiled with Omni Eye, Infinity Eye and Omega Eye allowing Time Lords and Other Eschatols to affect him)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Devour Existence (Su):</strong> The Taiji pulls in the entirety of creation into it’s jaws devouring all reality in an instant, this erases an entire timestream from creation but cannot effect the past, only the present and future. It is considered to be devouring all creation at the End of Time.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 18px"><strong>Vulnerability to Iatric Energy:</strong> The Taiji, if it can somehow be affected can be defeated by Iatric (Divine Healing, or damaging Positive) energy. It has no resistance to such effects and takes Double damage just as if it were undead. The Omnific Iatric Effect, which would work just like the Iatric Effect ability, but heal d1000’s would be it’s greatest weakness.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beefermatic, post: 6958382, member: 6670757"] [SIZE=3][SIZE=6][B][U]Oros [/U][/B][/SIZE][/SIZE] [SIZE=5] [I]“Orafate, the End of Time, Fate, The Great Nothing, The Blackened Infinity”[/I] ----------------------------------------------- [I]Riem, The Akashic Aspect of Darkness, has finally caught up with you, you assaulted him head on some time ago, during which you physically were able to drive him from the field, no easy task, but Riem plays the long game and has been waiting to exact some form of revenge upon you for your insolence for some time now. You know he’s here, the sky has struck black, the stars have all but faded away, Even the star in which you are floating a few million miles from appears dim and it’s fires have stopped moving entirely as if it’s frozen in time. “You know, time is funny.” Riem says, casually sauntering out of the shadows behind you as if it were a backdrop, walking on empty space as if it were solid ground, hands in the pockets of his long black velvety coat. The ground taps with his every footfall, echoing as if he’s walking across a wooden stage in an auditorium. “I sometimes wonder what will become of me when all this is said and done, once Thychen has come to completion, will I, and all his other Aspects simply cease? Cast aside like used toys? Or will I move onto something greater? Who knows, perhaps I may replace him…” He chuckles a manufactured laugh side eying you with his empty pits. He smiles slowly, wolfishly, terribly. After a pause, he continues, “Not that you will have much to worry about on that front, see I’ve made many friends in high places, places far higher than you, you banal base entity, what a waste you’ve made of yourself, nearly unlimited potential and you’ve used it in such a terribly predictable fashion…” He shakes his head in disappointment. You make a move, cosmic energy of unimaginable power wells within you, mighty Temporal Lord, and you fire a wave of pure devastation towards Riem, a blinding flash makes the stars visible again as they consecutively explode like a concentrated blast of supernova energy, crumbling the galaxy to stardust. Riem, predictably turns into shadows and reappears in the distance behind you. He laughs. “What a temper you have, did those poor inhabitants of all those worlds you callously destroyed just now deserve that?” He asks mockingly. Reim suddenly begins drawing symbols of green light into the air in front of him with his fingertip which expand exponentially and grow ever more complex, at first you can make them out, a summoning perhaps, but even your mighty Divine magical knowledge is paltry in comparison to Riem’s fabled spellcasting. Suddenly a strange feeling goes over you, you see the universe turns somewhat grayish black and it seems like time itself pinches to a point. “Behold my friend, this is the End of Time” He opens one arm beckoningly to the ever expanding gray. He sneers and looks directly at you with fire in his eyes “You dare to lay your hands upon me? You would dare to interfere with my plans!? You peasant! This is the fate of those who cross me! You fool!” Reim points to the center of the pinch in spacetime which seems to have grown, laughs a long and wicked laugh bows a low bow, bids you adieu, turns and begins walking and steps between dimensions leaving a reddish after image and then nothing. You’re suddenly alone, the stars have disappeared entirely just weird concentric circles moving towards a central mass, you feel a palpable tug like being pulled by a tractor beam or unknown force towards the pinched point, now smudge in spacetime. You look and it’s hard to describe what you see, a smeared oval of darkness in the distance, getting larger, or are you getting closer? You see the smudge begins to stretch out like a horizon on either side as you look, you can see it stretching further and further somehow you can see it continuing to stretch out, it doesn’t really make sense. You shift your gaze back towards the smudge’s spherical central mass and now you see two massive almond shaped eyes terrible and anathema, a color beyond description, open in the darkness and peer directly at you, into you, followed by a massive jaw stretching from one side of the oval to the other like a massive jack-o-lantern grin, suddenly something about this whole thing seems familiar, like you’ve been here before, a thousand thousand times, you realize that things that encounter this entity never live to speak about it, a great and terrible fear washes over you like being plunged into cold water, you understand what Riem meant by the End of Time! The Fool! He risked existence and brought you to the end of fate itself, the point where Thychen, the Supreme Being’s, Creation ends! You’re looking into the maw of eternity itself. You immediately attempt to run to find the being in front of you again. You try to attack to find your blasts, your mighty Expressions of Power simply redirected into it’s mouth, it seems to enjoy the taste of your energy, you try to teleport to find you move nowhere, you attempt to manipulate reality to find it explodes in a cascade of bluish blackish white antimatter around you. You turn to face the creature, there has to be a way! Again it’s horrible eyes look through you, you feel your experiences being devoured, you feel for the first time in eons the cold bite of space, you can’t move, you can’t fly? What? It’s hard to think, hard to breathe, why do you need to breathe? You see the creature opens it’s maw wide, and suddenly, you feel your spirit pulled from your body, you turn around and look at your mortal form floating dead in space. This doesn’t make sense, you’re a Time Lord, not a mortal… Those are the last thoughts you think before your essence, your body and all that you are, are lost to oblivion for all eternity.[/I] [B]Ancient Taiji (Nothingness) Dragon Unsizable (Giga-Titanic) Poly-Existential Eschatolic Dragon Hit Dice:[/B] Has no Hp/ 2,500d10,000 x [B]ten thousand[/B] (-- hp/ 250,000,000,000 hp) [B]Armor Class: [/B]-- (-- Oblivion,-- Stillness,-- Nothingness) [B]Initiative:[/B] Always goes at the end of the Round, but knows all of fate and plans accordingly [B]Speed:[/B] Does not move/ Folds Space to it [B]Base Attack/Grapple:[/B] --/-- Cannot be targeted [B]Attack:[/B] The All Devouring Maw (See Below) The Claws of Attraction (See Below) Devour Existence (See Below) [B]Special Attacks:[/B] Static Reality, Breath of Breath, Breath of Oblivion, Blasphemy of Mortality, Wings of Shattered Reality, Jaws of Existential Terror [B]Special Qualities:[/B] DR: --/--, SR: --, N[SUP]th[/SUP] Traits, Omni-Elemental Immunity, Omni-Elemental Absorbtion, Omni-Elemental Reflection, Overwhelming Toughness, Adaption, Space Folding, Poly-Existential, Immunities, Keen Senses, N[SUP]th[/SUP] Eye, N[SUP]th[/SUP] Sense, N[SUP]th[/SUP] (Ability Score), Iatric Vulnerability, N[SUP]th [/SUP]Toughness [B]Saves:[/B] Fort --, Ref --, Will -- [B]Abilities:[/B] Str --, Dex --, Con --, Int --, Wis --, Cha -- [B]Skills:[/B] Makes no skill checks [B]Environment:[/B] The End of Time [B]Organization:[/B] Solitary [B]Challenge Rating:[/B] (official CR 3,750) [B]Treasure:[/B] Standard [B]Alignment:[/B] Beyond Alignment [B]Effective Class Level:[/B] 5,000 When Thychen, the Supreme Being, created all Existence, his first Creation was the Wuji Dragon, his Son the Annorrath, but in the act of creation, that act made defined a previously undefined Multiverse. In doing so "Something" was separated from "Nothing" and with this act, the Taiji was born, the cosmic afterbirth of the birth of the Wuji. This being represents the end of all things, as much as the Wuji is Infinity, this being is emptiness and lack, as much as he is energy and power this being is stillness. It is the equivalent of the 0 next to an Infinity sign, both are infinite, but utterly opposite. When all is said and done the only thing left will be nothingness, the only thing left is the Taiji. [B]Combat: [/B]The Taiji Dragon is a interesting creature. It is not effected like normal beings as it is not actually part of this reality at all. It watches all things and takes appropriate actions but is much more like a natural phenomenon or plant in it’s methods and should be treated more like a horrible natural disaster or trap. It cannot take actions in the traditional sense, but has a number of patterns it can use to devour and destroy it’s foes. The only exceptions to this are it’s Breath Attacks and Cascading Abrogate abilities which can be targeted onto a foe. The Dragon always attempts to pull all things into it’s All Devouring Maw, it’s ‘Claws of Attraction’ pull all matter towards the Maw at the speed of light and those fighting it must contend with this constant and inescapable current. It cannot be affected by most abilities and this too must be contended with as it rests outside the confines of space and time yet can affect those within. It will steal the Divinity of all beings with it’s Blasphemy of Mortality and then suck the souls out of all mortals in it’s vicinity. All of it’s abilities are multiverse spanning and there is no escape besides temporally. Against foes somehow able to get around this, it will use it’s Hopelessness and Existential Terror abilities to literally scare the soul out of a being or weaken them to the point that it’s other abilities can affect it. The only beings it truly fears are the Mighty Wuji and Gankyil Dragons and the greatest of High Lords as their powers can far more easily defeat it though it is a truly rare occasion for any non-Eschatol to ever defeat the Taiji and those who do only postpone the inevitable as it is the end of time incarnate, it is an infinite being, and cannot be actually destroyed just displaced. Against such beings it will repeatedly attempt to use it’s Breath of Oblivion power to neutralize whatever is actually capable of harming it. The one thing it truly fears is Iatric Energy which is the absolute anathema to it’s being, if it can be somehow targeted with an Iatric Effect, treat it as Undead. It will actively attempt to flee from such effects if at a sufficient power. [B]Space-Folding (Ex):[/B] The Taiji Dragon cannot move, but is able to fold space to instantly bring all parts of creation to it instantly. It cannot move but can ‘think’ in a way, and manages this via thought. This effectively makes the Dragon occupy all spaces for all positive benefits or effects, and not occupy any space that would be considered non beneficial. Essentially allowing the dragon to target a foe without being able to be targeted itself. [B]The All Devouring Maw:[/B] The “Mouth” of the Taiji Dragon is far better described as a massive quasi sentient black hole like anomaly though trillions of times more deadly. Any being who comes in contact with the event horizon of the Taiji Dragon’s mouth disappear forever, erased from existence utterly. [B]The Claws of Attraction:[/B] The “Claws” of the Taiji are represented by the enormous spiraling pucker in space-time surrounding the monstrosity. This is represented by a constant Superluminal pull towards the center of it’s mouth. All beings existing in the same Timestream as the Taiji must constantly move away from it at faster than light speeds to avoid being sucked into the event horizon and devoured forever. [B]Oblivion(Ex): [/B]Oblivion [B]is[/B] the Taiji, in the most exalted of senses, divorcing him entirely from reality, though still somehow he is unimaginably real, this removes the following effects of his from being effected and effectively removes these checks from needing to be made for him, all abilities he uses work without fail, and all abilities fail against him as he is not actually there. This is signified by a – in his statistic block for the following abilities: Armor Class, Attack Rolls, Checks ( Ability Checks, Caster Level Checks, Skill Checks, Turning Checks, Difficulty Class (for any and all abilities), Initiative, Saving throws, and Spell Resistance. [B]Nothingness(Ex): [/B]The Taiji Dragon is made of Lack, he is nothing, Nothingness made real. He is the shadow cast across the universe at the time of the Wuji’s creation, the Yin to the Yang. This removes the following effects of his from being effected and effectively removes these checks from needing to be made for him, all abilities he uses work without fail, and all abilities fail against him as he is not actually there. This is signified by a – in his statistic block for the following abilities: Armor Class, Attack Rolls, Checks ( Ability Checks, Caster Level Checks, Skill Checks, Turning Checks, Difficulty Class (for any and all abilities), Initiative, Saving throws, and Spell Resistance. [B]Stillness(Ex): [/B]When the final particle has stopped moving, when the final wave has stopped flowing and all things are still, the Taiji will remain. This removes the following effects of his from being effected and effectively removes these checks from needing to be made for him, all abilities he uses work without fail, and all abilities fail against him as he is not actually there. This is signified by a – in his statistic block for the following abilities: Armor Class, Attack Rolls, Checks ( Ability Checks, Caster Level Checks, Skill Checks, Turning Checks, Difficulty Class (for any and all abilities), Initiative, Saving throws, and Spell Resistance. [B]Nondimensional (Ex):[/B] 100% of all actions fail against the Taiji. [B]Transcendental Nullification (Ex):[/B] The Taiji annihilates all Transcendental Abilities of it’s enemies. [B]Blasphemy of Mortality:[/B] Creatures that look into the unfathomable eyes of the Taiji lose their Divine Immunities, Divine Bonus, and are effectively considered mortal until it removes it’s gaze, or the affected is somehow able to break the gaze. This ability is used to asphyxiate Immortals who suddenly find themselves gasping for air and freezing to death in the middle of Pleromic Space. It is also used to remove immunities to things like Fear… [B]Breath of Breath (Su):[/B] The Last Breath of all things. This pulls in all beings in creation towards it’s hungering maw much like a baleen whale pulling in plankton, and steals the life force of any mortal being without save, pulling their very souls from their bodies and devouring them forever. Coupled with Blasphemy of Mortality this effect is devastating. [B]Breath of Oblivion (Su): [/B]This crack of black thunder steals the ink off the pages of the Akashic Library, permanently annihilating one being from ever have existing. Any being struck by this attack must be resurrected by either the Will of the Supreme Being, The Akashic, a Lipika, or The Breath of Cleansing Light of the Wuji Dragon, all other means fail and even all memories of the affected disappear from the multiverse forever. [B]N[SUP]th[/SUP]: (Ability Score):[/B] The Taiji Dragon has no ability scores in the traditional sense as it does not exist within the confines of this existence. This is represented by a – in it’s statistic block. It can make few actions and is considered stationary, it never, moves except to use it’s breath weapons, always is considered to be in front of all foes regardless of orientation and never speaks, it will however use telepathy, usually in the form of vivid images to get it’s points across, and though it is considered to have no ‘intellect’ or ‘wisdom’ scores in the traditional sense, it is considered to know all things as it can perceive all creation from beginning to end, in a way it [I]is[/I] all ceations as it is both the beginning and end of time itself, and thusly can ‘think’ in a unique way like few things can. [B]N[SUP]th[/SUP] Eye (Ex):[/B] The Taiji Dragon cares not for the actions of ‘enemies’ and is the fate of all beings. It makes no rolls in the traditional sense and all actions are considered to have no save. [B]Hopelessness:[/B] Immunities to Fear and Morale begin to crumble and eventually shatter in the Taiji’s presence. Every round all enemies lose 1 ability that gives it immunity to fear or morale effects. Once all immunities to fear or morale resistances are obliterated the enemy gains a stacking permanent -1 penalty for every 100 HD the Dragon possesses (-25) to all rolls every round as it’s psyche begins to utterly shatter. [B]Jaws of Existential Terror (Ex): [/B]The maw of the Taiji eminates a bone chilling fear. No being is immune to this effect (Though a Wuji’s Breath of Cleansing Light negates the effect for as long as it remains on the same Timestream as it) as they stare into the End of Time and thusly their eventual fate. Beings that look into it’s ever gaping jaws take no damage but are plunged deeper and deeper into the stages of fear every 1d4+1 rounds until the terror becomes too much and their heart stops and they die literally from fear itself. Beings killed in such a manner disappear from reality pulled into oblivion never to be heard from again. 1[SUP]st[/SUP] Stage: No Effect, creeping feeling of fear 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] Stage: Menace (Scared until dragon is affected by an ability) 3[SUP]rd[/SUP] Stage: Shaken 4[SUP]th[/SUP] Stage: Frightened 5[SUP]th[/SUP] Stage: Panicked 6[SUP]th[/SUP] Stage: Cowering (can make no actions) 7[SUP]th[/SUP] Stage: Death from fear itself 8[SUP]th[/SUP] Stage: 1d4+1 rounds after this the body is pulled in and lost for all time. [B]Wings of Shattered Reality (Ex): [/B]The Taiji Dragon’s wings do not work like other Eschatolic Dragon’s wings as it cannot make actions that require movement. It’s fractal wings stretch like smears of darkness ever longer, infinitely, into the vast void of creation, and instead apply a plethora of effects to the Timestream it currently effects. Beings within range suddenly find physics no longer make sense, the parameters of this effect are up to the GM, examples of what my Taiji’s wings do are as follows: Immunities work in reverse, a stacking exhaustion penalty of -25 per round to all saves checks and rolls, exits are traps leading deeper into the dragon’s maw, beings find themselves unable to fall, damage heals the dragon if it is somehow able to be struck, healing damages it, the universe becomes like a catacomb with endless pathways and seeming exits and ways away from the Taiji with nothing working but a specific course of action. [B]Static Reality (Ex): [/B]Blocks uses of Wish, Miracle, and Alter Reality returning it upon the caster in the form of d100’s antimatter damage per HD of the caster. (Ex: 1000hd Immortal would take 1000d100 Antimatter Damage for using 1 use of Alter Reality) [B]Poly-Existential (Ex):[/B] The Infinity Dragon is a being that exists in multiple concepts and multiple timestreams all at once. It entirely controls it’s dimensions, and it’s opponent’s perceptions of it at all times, allowing it to simultaneously exist as both something micro-diminutive for purposes of detecting it and attacking it and also Xonna-Titanic for purposes of grappling, damage, etc. it is treated as having an effectively infinite size bonus in both AC, Grapple, and Attack all at the same time without penalty. [B]Cascading Abrogate (Ex):[/B] The Taiji Abrogates a new ability from a chosen target each and every round until the dragon is defeated or you escape it’s range (all existence but not all time). [B]N[SUP]th[/SUP] Traits:[/B] Considered only a presence, is unkillable besides by Omnific or higher abilities and reforms eventually no matter what kills it. It is immune to all affects that require a save, and are immune to magical and natural effects. They have 3 fundamental forces of the cosmos that they are associated with that apply to AC, Attack rolls, All Checks, DCs, Initiative, Saves, and Spell resistance. [B]N[SUP]th[/SUP] Toughness (Ex):[/B] The Taiji Dragon has an effectively infinite Damage Reduction, uses d10,000s for base hit dice, and has a ten-thousand x health multiplier. [B]N[SUP]th[/SUP] Sense (Ex):[/B] The Taiji Dragon is the inevitability of all fates and can perceive the true end of time, even for the Supreme Being as he is The End of Time made manifest. All actions are meaningless to the Taiji as no actions can effect him. (This can be foiled with Omni Eye, Infinity Eye and Omega Eye allowing Time Lords and Other Eschatols to affect him) [B]Devour Existence (Su):[/B] The Taiji pulls in the entirety of creation into it’s jaws devouring all reality in an instant, this erases an entire timestream from creation but cannot effect the past, only the present and future. It is considered to be devouring all creation at the End of Time. [B]Vulnerability to Iatric Energy:[/B] The Taiji, if it can somehow be affected can be defeated by Iatric (Divine Healing, or damaging Positive) energy. It has no resistance to such effects and takes Double damage just as if it were undead. The Omnific Iatric Effect, which would work just like the Iatric Effect ability, but heal d1000’s would be it’s greatest weakness.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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