Corvus

## Corvus Red Ravenhome

Corvus, pictured without his mask.

> *"A corpse should be left well alone."*
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Corvus, the god of dreams and nightmares, is a male deity who spends most of his time in quiet solitude in his old family home, venturing out only to get his fill of mischief.

Known mostly for his affinity for being in places where he shouldn't be, most mortals write him off as a minor god, supplying bad children with nightmares and good ones with fantastical adventures, few know the story behind his creation, or that his tertiary domain is that of reality itself.

If you're lucky, you might ever get to see him in person.

## Appearance

Corvus, when you finally manage a glimpse of him, stands at an imposing 6'6, his expression generally is locked in a constant state of apathy, though his posture denotes confidence. His eyes are at an indefinite state of half-circle, and are intensely bagged by lack of sleep.

His skin is bleached white from years untold spent in recluse without light. His hair is also drained of all color, and has grown to considerable length such that it must be tied into a loose tail in the back with a ribbon, the rest is sweeped to the side and covers one eye. Two sectioned horns (those of a ram or sheep) sprout from his head and curve backwards and downwards, they are a patchy gray color. His eyes harbor an inhuman red glow. His teeth are extremely clean and moderately sharper than normal, his canines in specific are extremely salient and noticeable.They're hard to see, but Corvus has freckles lining his eyes, as well as all over his arms, that which he's very embarrassed of. He can often be seen with a pair of bat's wings sprouting from his back to allow for flight.

His clothing choice varies depending on which sect he's current residing in, but most often he wears his Medieval Sect clothing: a set of formal attire in black, white, and red, topped with a white ribbon and a pair of gloves. Previous to Radience's arrival in Forengard, he wore a porcelain mask with two eyeholes and sparse decorations.

Like most deities, he can shed his humanoid form in favor of that given by the Ambrosia Flower upon creation, but he has never done this in front of the person he has not immediately killed.

His abilities come with the bonus of being able to take the form of literally anything, but his favorite picks are ravens, orphaned children, plague doctors, and members of the canis genus of animals, as well as several creatures of myth such as lycanthropes, dragons, mothmen, or leshens.

## Personality

He has had countless centuries of time to conversate with mortals and his fellow gods, but has not utilized it beyond those who approach him and when he needs something. As a result, he is absurdly blunt, firstly unaware, but mostly just uncaring of any emotional damage he may cause. It acts as a defense mechanism for him as he is extremely wary of strangers.

Over time he's warmed and reintroduced himself to the concept of equivocal positive emotions, using wry and very rueful comedic tones as his main conversational go-tos when speaking with others on amicable terms, but his expertise ends at surface-level interactions like cracking jokes and making vague smalltalk, he is dreadfully inept when it comes to more tender and attached emotional situations.

Beyond that, he has a tendency to vent his frustrations on mortals and even other gods in the form of not only chiding them verbally, but by being generally disagreeable and playing "pranks" on them. The twist coming when Corvus' definition of a prank ranges from dropping a sack of flour on someone from a rooftop to outright eating them. He has a tendency to temperamentally go against what is right morally or smart mentally for the sake of entertaining himself.

He's an emotional wreck, he doesn't know how to cope with the loss of few things he cared about in life, and wants desperately to protect what is left, if they were gone, he would've erased himself from existence a long time ago. He cries a lot in private, also flying into paroxysms of rage and hatred when alone.

## Powers

Corvus isn't fond of fighting, and isn't very martially capable, but is undoubtedly one of the most powerful deities, sporting the ability to bend reality itself to his will. His powers are as follows.

### Reality Alteration

Provided he can think of it, Corvus can alter reality to fit his whim, being able to do virtually anything with this power. The closer he is to something the less effort he has to use, the apex of this being the ability to delete something or someone from reality completely with minimal effort if he can touch them. He uses this to grant himself flight, healing from battle wounds, summon his weapon, among other things.

The difficulty with this ability comes in the form of other gods with similar abilities (I.E. Galaxian) who's powers are on the same level as Corvus', if he and one of the close-to-all-mighty deities were to come to blows, the result would be far from pretty-- or fun to roleplay. For the sake of his own sanity, Corvus often limits himself to more sensible alterations to reality, trying not to draw the ire of some other ridiculously powerful god who would nag him.

This ability accounts for Corvus' unrealistic speed and agility, as well as his strength, survivability and perception. He can also create simple projectiles of illusory fire or plasma using Reality Alteration.

### Soporific Touch

Upon contact or general vicinity, and if susceptible, Corvus can cause a person around him to fall into a deep, natural slumber. They can be woken up as normal unless Corvus wants otherwise, during this state he can control whether or not they have a dream or not. He can control if they sleepwalk or not, what they do while they sleepwalk, etc.

### Dreamworld Control

Corvus can control the contents of any sleeping creature's dreams as if it were lucid. He can also open a gateway into a sleeping individual's dream that others can interact with.

### Vampirism

Before being reborn as a deity, Corvus was a vampire. As such, he has all of the weaknesses and strengths attributed to that. His natural cell regeneration is accelerated greatly, being able to overcome wounds within minutes, he can drain a person's blood through his canine teeth, doing this satiates natural hunger and accelerates his healing factor slightly. Sunlight is uncomfortable to be in, and can cause him to start burning alive if left for too long, this also applies to UV lights. Being near or struck by silver counteracts his healing, is extremely painful, and will burn his skin.

## Background

### Pre-Rebirth

Born into a fairly rich family in the Medieval Sect, Corvus was known as Red Ravenhome and was a forgettable and frankly replaceable son of the line, having many more physically and mentally superior brothers and sisters. During his early teen years, his father, the head of the house, was burned to death at the stake by a group of rebelling villagers spurred on by a local cult. With the throne of the house empty, and the heirs and heiresses scrambling to make themselves the most attractive candidates, Red turned to more outlandish methods to improve himself.

On top of regular intense studying into mathematics, sciences, martial strategy, and most of all, lordship, as well as physical training, Red would make regular trips to the dwellings of mages, witches, wizards, and magicians, trying to use his fortune to purchase a remedy to make him the most obvious candidate for the throne, and they worked, but not as much as he had hoped. Red had bought his way into the front of the pack, with magically enhanced strength and senses, but he was still vying head-to-head against his brother, Condor. The two boys would preform a series of tests in front of a board of other nobles to decide who would take the throne.

The night before the tests, Red, in a final gambit, exhausted his last known option for giving himself an edge over his brother: the blood of a vampire. Drinking it would infect him with the vile disease and the need to consume the blood of others, but would grant him superhuman strength, speed, and perception, more than enough to dash Condor's hopes of winning.

The day of the crucible Red crushed Condor in every competition, so much so it was almost too noticeable. Foul play was suspected but there was no evidence that he had altered himself past his performance in the tests themselves. In an indignant rage, Condor quietly challenged Red to a duel to settle things finally. Red accepted under the guise of sportsmanship, but really wanted to remove his brother from the picture now that his position was mostly secure.

They would duel until one of them was rendered unable to fight anymore. Red was the better duelist due to his newfound vampirism, but when he was struck by Condor, they both discovered that silver is an effective vampire deterrent, it sapped him of the strength he'd obtained from drinking the vampire's blood, and put Condor at an advantage, and in a state of anger and disgust, having discovered the lengths Red had gone to best him. Red, bleeding profusely and in incredible pain, fled his brother into the forest and collapsed into a field of flowers, in front of the most beautiful flower he'd ever seen, where his brother struck him down, believing that he was a danger to everyone.

Condor buried his brother underneath that patch of flowers, where he lay for eternity upon eternity. Long enough for the Ravenhome family to have fallen into obscurity, long enough for Red's treachery to have been found out, long enough the bloodied Ambrosia flower to grow it's roots into his shallow grave.

### GGaD (Post Rebirth)

Red clawed his way out of the dirt and back into that field of roses with full memory of what had happened to him and struck by extreme grief over what had happened to his home. The entire peninsula that houses his family's mansion had broken off from Forengard and become an island off the northern coast, his entire lineage had fallen into disarray and then merged with the local populous of peasants, nobody now knew the name Ravenhome, or the weight is once held.

The first few centuries he spent feeling out his place in Forengard, discovering his new powers, and coping with the guilt and melancholy that came with the relationship he ended on with his family, a greedy monster. His early years in godhood were not kind to him, he was a shut in for multiple millennium at a time. Over time and through intense contemplation, he grew very jaded and outwardly destructive, going on extremely violent killing sprees across the Medieval Sect. His appearance still retains the emotion-devoid mood he was in during that period of time. As word of his work started to spread, another god caught wind of his actions and took to stop him.

There was a confrontation in some hamlet-turned-bloody-graveyard on the coast of the Medieval Sect, ending with Corvus being forced deep into the earth. While he could have easily destroyed both the opposing god and his prison, there was a strange comfort to be gained from the chill and silence, he would remain buried for several thousand years, falling into long periods of hibernation to think through his many issues.

After a long period of being gone, and again forgotten, Corvus clawed his way from the dirt with a different mindset, a moderate but temperamental outlook on things, still with the streak of nihilist violence, but generally rehabilitated.

## Domain and Followers

The nightmare god makes domain over a large island called Somnia that rests off the northern coast of the Medieval Sect. There are two villages that reside on the island: Eclair's Crossing and Marceline's Crossing, as well as the large mansion entitled Ravenhome Manor. He also takes full control of an ancient plane of existence called The Fade that is comprised entirely of dreams and nightmares.

Corvus' followers can be separated into two groups: mages who wish to acquire powerful magics and people who want to ward off nightmares. While he doesn't *ignore* the latter group, he pays little attention to them. The first group have little trouble in contacting him, but the process of acquiring magic that controls *reality* is an arduous one, as Corvus makes it as difficult as possible without seeming purposeful, he goes as far as to call his more devout followers "Desperate fools."

## Relationships

### Radiance

The relationship between Corvus and his corrupted deity counterpart is a strange one. Radiance acts as the main caretaker of Ravenhome Manor and as Corvus' personal errand boy. Corvus would likely best Radiance in a fight to the death, but has not once tried to outright kill him, despite that Radiance has tried more times than can be counted to kill Corvus.

### Benjamin

Acts as Benjamin's boss and employer, Corvus has often enjoyed jubilant bantering with the magician on occasion, but also counts on him to protect and delve the ruins underneath Ravenhome Manor.

### Time

One of the few deities who has helped Corvus thwart Radiance's assassination plots, Corvus is generally friendly to him and often jumps at the chance to accompany him places and return the many favors he's owed.

### Marx

Marx has singlehandedly gotten Corvus addicted to sugar, as well as watching bloody mortal fights at their parties. They don't really know one another past the occasional hello or appearance at an event, despite this they've made it onto Corvus' short list of friends.

### Peacock

Helped Corvus research the Bloodied Ambrosia Flower, as well as helping with Radiance's schemes. By far this is the deity that Corvus has had the most interactions with, he has certainly warmed over time to her but it remains unclear whether or not he has romantic feelings for the goddess.

### Murdoc

Fought together in multiple different battles in recent times, sees Murdoc as a brother and would jump to his aid in a heartbeat.

### Moryl

Corvus' adopted son. He'd never admit it, but he has become seriously attached to his adopted orphan son.

## Miscellaneous

### Weapons

Corvus only owns one weapon, a large ornate scythe he has dubbed "Nevermore." It is styled with a silver blade and a handle made entirely of black iron. Both ends of the scythe is pointed to imitate a pike or alpike. Most of the weapon's elements are engraved with various depictions of crows, leaves, and feathers.

Sometime during his godly adolescence, he created a weapon called the Empty Ark, Corvus was going to use it to destroy himself and all of existence before he was locked underground. It was shattered into four pieces by Radiance upon his arrival to Forengard.

### Symbols

The Ravenhome family crest is used as Corvus' main symbol, mostly because he needed a clever way to preserve his family's legacy. His family's crest was a trident with four prongs and has been depicted in various ways since Corvus was mortal. It is often used as a dreamcatcher by peasants or a sign to ward off evil.

### Trivia

* Corvus never learned to swim and avoids the ocean whenever he can.
* Corvus really, really loves sugar, as well as milk.
* His favorite animal is a lamb, he has a small pasture's worth of them hidden away in The Fade.
* Apart from guards, his mansion has 0 staff.
* Corvus has never eaten a homecooked meal and subsists on raw meat and fast food.
* Other possible deity names were Lone and Red.
* Other possible human names for him were Soren, Marin, and Sin.
* He is loosely based on Alucard from the Hellsing series, as well as Grimm from Hollow Knight.
* His faceclaims are Reciful and Envi from Deep-Sea Prisoner's art.

### Quotes

"Don't weep for the foolish, you'll be crying all day."

"If it's that big of a problem, then kill me!"

"Do I know the difference between right and wrong? Yes, I do. Mortal concepts are pretty easy to understand, but following them becomes a formality when you're a god."

"No, i'm not going to turn off the glowy eye thing."

"What are you gonna do, seal me underground for another thousand years?"

"I can't kill him... I- I can't get rid of him, I don't want him gone. He's my brother, I love him."

"I haven't seen her in a while, I fear she may be taking a younger me's example and hiding away for the next millennium or twelve, perhaps a visit is in order?"

"Oh, no~ physical violence? That's my once weakness, woe is me!"