Character Sheets and Stories developed during Collabs, or expansion of a main and/or Notable Character Sheet.

THE YOTHARRA - SECONDARY SPECIES FROM THE PROLOGUE OF THE THAKGARIAN INFESTATION
Theme --> Giuseppe Ottaviani - Tranceland
deh39oh-b1bf7365-ac93-4ff2-942c-8d8a424a192b.jpg
The Yotharra - Origins

A society of naturally evolved Arothai gene people, who developed into a sprawling civilization of aggressive explorers and colonisers. They began as worshiper of an ancient deity called Helios who created their galaxy as a seal for an even older evil who came to be known as the Thakgarian Infestation.
In fact it is postulated that their galaxy was the objective centre of their universe who may very well have been the actual seal to cover a compressed pocket dimension in which this abomination was imprisoned.

The Yotharra, moved away from the faith, becoming increasingly materialistic and denying the existence of any form of magic, as their pride and hubris grew.
Even more so as it was encouraged by their accelerated development of technology.

They developed into an early space age civilization in their local solar system and began to experiment with early forms of warp drive technology. Knowing full well that they did not need to rush as their local light-year was more than enough for an early and controlled expansion without the use of a warp engine.

They became known for being creatures of a towering ambition, which would prove to be their downfall.

shub_niggurath_by_neriak_de947ar-pre.jpg

It would be on their final warp drive test that the Thakgarian Infestation would be released, since by then they began experimenting with black hole drives, a known risk factor for most space age civilizations.
The black hole drive, was a gravity based warp engine which would tear a literal hole in the fabric of their universe to access, what they would call, the shortcut under-space.
They were partially right, in that they discovered a compressed dimension "under" their reality, which could potentially take them anywhere in their galaxy and even universe in a seeming instant jump as they would access this realm, through the gravity/black hole drive and emerge on the other side while their ship would be carried through by a dimensional channel created by these gravity waves.
What they didn't know, despite their ancient and abandoned religion's warnings, was that this dimension was not to be even thought of. It was the very prison in which this ancient evil was captured and over which their universe and possible multiverse, created as a shell.
Their self-entitlement and pride and stupid ambition led them to ignore all the warnings despite having even the remnant priesthood of Helios warn them not to proceed with this endeavour.

As the Thakgarian Infestation was released, it immediately consumed this civilization leading it to total extinction. But for the few colony fleets which were also sent to explore the universe prior to their last experiment.

_space_pirates__by_era7_ddu4f09-pre.jpg

One particular fleet of capital ships equipped for colonization, ended up stumbling over a particularly anomalous black hole, which was so deep, in fact, that it not only bore through their universe and into their multiverse, but it tore through all the higher dimensions all the way into the omniversal infinitude.

Without any explanation as to why, they survived the torrents of the Omniverse, and ended up crash-landing in another realm so distant and apart from their original home, that one could easily ask how such a thing was even possible.
To their dismay and horror, they ended up inside an infernal construct of yet another kind of evil. One could easily say that whatever was their karma, the highest forces of creation made sure to punish every single las Yotharra for their pride, and if they were not consumed... then they would become the toys of demons.
This particular realm was would be Tiraxius.

View attachment 9750

A pocket reality created by a High Arch Demon Lord and Emperor of an incredibly vast infernal network, called Shivan Oromirus Kassadar (The Scaled One)
The 'sun' from which this lone planet with it's moons was getting the light and warmth from, would be a particularly unfortunate supernatural well of black magic.
View attachment 9751It is an Aura Node of Greed, a sinister class of Aura Nodes.
This particular Aura Node, would in fact be a supreme form of it's kinds, being that it's nature is of a higher dimension.
This aura node, creates and controls the very emotion of Greed. The very property of existence which wants excess of everything. Greed, believe it or not, is not found only in living beings, but planets can be greedy and even space itself. Everything that starts producing things in excess and stealing or accreting more than it needs according to a cosmic balance, is defined as greed.



Here the Yotharra remnants, ended up crash-landing and survived on one of Tiraxius's moons, the moon Tiraxius VI. Their origins would be met by some unlikely locals, called The Platari, who, due to a particularly typical intervention of the Demon Overlord, ended up worshiping and submitting to the Yotharra thus starting a whole new civilization.

View attachment 9752Fast forward 5000 Tiraxian Years later, and the Yotharra species evolved to use the greed magic of this aura node and implemented it into their technology. Even their bodies were changed, giving them a common black/red hair niche limit, and a general yellow eye glow to almost every Yotharra.

Having to consider that they remained Arothai, their connection to the omniversal flux is higher than any other life-form, which made them particularly sensitive to the local powers, helping them develop incredibly powerful greed-magic based technology and utensils.

They became more powerful and beautiful than they could have ever imagined, as the energy of this particular aura node, inspires a devilish kind of good looks as yet another trait of greed.


STATISTICS OF THE PRESENT TIRAXIAN YOTHARRA SPECIES

The Yotharra
- 5000 years since crash landing
Society status: - Sprawling civilization of space travel capable entities.
- Chaotic good alignment
- Splintered over hundreds of countries, due to the influence of the aura node
- Greed runs rampant as it aligns with their predominant pride and foolish ambition.
- Corrupt society. Mafia is abundant, government corruption is deep and sinister
- Cults to the “True Aspect” of Helios: Some secretive Yotharrah societies know of Shivan, but believe He was always Helios, and therefore, worships him as a demon of war instead.

Religion: Null - some believe in Helios though not an official faith. Shivan may take advantage of this and act the part. Though in recent decades, the Church of Helios and Ihiria has seen an abnormal rise in disciples and believers as even once declared atheist Yotharra have become believers, due to their lack of any scientific explanation for the obvious magic of this world.

As the local Platari assimilated into the Yotharra culture, the Platari side of this mix of civilizations, developed a 3 staged religion.
The official Helios worshiping Yotharrah, are few and scattered tough kept in check by the sinister "Church of Shivan".
The official Ihiria Worshipers are the Platari and some lower Yotharra classes. But most of the Yotharra culture still revolves around science and materialism especially enhanced due to greed.
From the shadows, the Church of Shivan controlls most of the affairs of society, as it is inspired by this demonic spirit.
The second level is the "Church of Helios". Exalted as the "higher" form of Ihiria, through countless centuries of mixing between cultures Yotharra ended up believing that whatever form of Higher power resides above them is that one true almighty deity.
Their ignorance, is exploited tough, by the true deity above this and many other realms, Shivan.
The third and the most secretive level is the shadow organization called "The Church of Shivan" which controlls pretty much everything and encourages all forms of worship as they draw on the worship energy to increase their power, and also produce highly pleasing and artomatic forms of worship to feed the insatiable greed of Shivan.

It is only the secretive Church of Shivan, that have develop their own doctrine around the deity aspect of the "God" they worship. Due to confusion related to forgotten Yotharra religion, Helios has become part of a sort of a trinitarian aspect of their creator.
In the lower levels of their religion, Ihiria and Helios are regarded as two aspects of the same deity, and there is the "Emperor/Father" of that trinity which to them is held as a secret.
The trinity would have Ihiria as the bringer of life, and nurturer of all things organic and natural, Helios the redeemer, Everlasting "friend" to the believer, blesser of the kind in heart and creator of wisdom and the Head of the Trinity the mysterious Father/Emperor - Who would be called Tasmiodeus - meaning for overarching "carer" and preserver of all that which was, is and is to come. His qualities are definitely aspects of greed.
"He that blesses the faithful with vast material and magical riches, and opens their eyes to the need to conquer and have all."
Worship of the "mysterious" father is encouraged, but only the truly arduous and zealot believer, would be introduced to the demonic side, the Church of Shivan.
The Church of Shivan who know of him, only know of him to be what he is, plus this added two aspects. For even these Yotharra do not know the full truth.
Here, Helios is seen as the harbinger of power, all things precious, and all things beautiful - as an addition to the common belief of the good friend of the kind hearted, which as taken from the original Yotharra scripture remnants. This addition was revealed to them by Shivan, who was more than willing to play the part of the trinity.
Ihiria also has a darker aspect in this church besides the mother of life, she is the wrathful nature, wo tests life by power and ability, mercilessly slaying those deemed too weak to survive or to satisfy the greed of Shivan.


Technology: Early space age. Basic asteroid mining, deep planetary drilling and mining, medical expertise: Capable of prolonging lifespan to tens thousands of years.

Culture: Materialistic, technology inclination. Mainly science based, but since this realm has proven to be imposing in it’s magical nature, they began to accept magic as part of their society and merged technology with magic.
Un-official faith in Ihiria/Helios/Shivan

Cultural Status:
War-like, world wars numbered in the dozens, peace is rare, Yotharra countries unite for short periods of interest based time, then split and fight again.

Allies and Disciples: Some, among the local people, have ended up believing the Yotharrah to be messengers of a fictive deity, and regard them as having divine authority. Some Yotharrah exploit such naivety, others try to stay away from it until greed tempts them. A smaller few have gone into fully believing themselves as true disciples and divine souls.
 
Last edited:
Back
Top