Sculk Reality

## Relationship Info

### Family

Sculk Overseer (cell division), The Wardens (cell division), Sculk Surveyor (cell division)

### Allies

Sculk Overseer, The Wardens, Sculk Monsters, Fovex, Suzem

### Enemies

Cadmus, Damon, Charon, Creon, Zephyr, Argo, Pandora, Ajax

## Other Info

### Status

Active

The **Sculk Reality** is an infectious being formed from a mutated amalgamation of Soul Sand. It dwells in its own pocket of the Infinite Plane, and is responsible for the fall of the Wardens faction. It created the anomalous substance known as Sculk through cell division, and used it to infect other beings and assimilate them into its hive mind.

## Description

The Sculk Reality loosely resembles the Warden in color and design, but is drastically different anatomically. However, it lacks the bone-like texture. It has several eyes along the length of its body, and two massive jaws. It has two long arms with hook-like claws at the end which glow with a blue energy, which is supposedly used to burrow through the ground and spread its Sculk. It also has two small legs, which it rarely uses due to its ability to levitate in the Infinite Plane, where it spends most of its time.

## Biography

### Age of Civilization

When The Wither escaped the Infinite Plane, a piece of soul sand from the desert was sucked through into the dimension. It sat there, festering for a hundred years, becoming mutated by the unstable energy of the Infinite Plane. The souls trapped within gained higher sentience, and began to combine themselves into a single entity, becoming the Sculk Reality. It had the power to fully manipulate the fabric of the Infinite Plane, and so carved out a pocket of the dimension to become its home.

Meanwhile, the Wardens civilization had constructed a massive portal in their capitol of Subterra. When they activated it, they unwittingly created a gateway into the Sculk Reality's pocket dimension, allowing it access to the Overworld. Upon entering the Overworld, the Reality immediately began to wreak havoc, using its cell division abilities to spread a substance known as Sculk. It used the substance to overrun the landscape and infect lifeforms, assimilating them into its hive mind. Many of the beings it overtook were transformed into blind, muscular creatures known as Wardens. It created a being known as the Sculk Overseer, a giant creature that was half organic and half machine, which could shape Sculk-infected beings into more refined forms.

Eventually, the Sculk Reality would find its most powerful adversary in the form of a human known as Fovex, Darkcleanser. Fovex led a resistance against the Sculk creatures, figuring out that scythes were the most powerful weapon to use against them. However, the resistance began losing, until Fovex's own wife, Suzem, was infected, and became a Warden. Stricken with grief, Fovex was quickly infected himself, and transformed by the Overseer into the Sculk Reality's most powerful enforcer. Sometime between the Reality's arrival and the fall of Provenance, every city inhabited by the Wardens would be infected by Sculk, after which a portal was constructed that created a pocket dimension within the Infinite Plane, where the Sculk Reality stayed, resting, as the Sculk Overseer and the now-infected Fovex carried out its wishes.

It is unknown what the Sculk Reality's current status is, but it is most likely sitting dormant in the Infinite Plane.

## Abilities

### Cell Division

The Sculk Reality can easily divide its own cells to create new creatures, such as the Wardens and the Overseer, and also create the Sculk substance, which can spread on its own without the Reality's influence.

### Soul Fire

Due to its Soul Sand origins, the Sculk Reality can manipulate and project Soul Fire. It can shoot the Soul Fire in the form of fireballs, which will damage their targets and catch them on fire.

### Digging Claws

the Sculk Reality's long, curved claws allow it to burrow through the ground at incredible speeds.

### Infinite Plane Manipulation

Due to being mutated by the Infinite Plane, the Sculk Reality was able to create a pocket inside the Infinite Plane, something that only the Heart of Corruption was able to accomplish.

### Hive Mind

Must like the Heart of Corruption, the Sculk Reality is able to maintain a neural connection with its infected hosts and cell divided creatures, allowing it to issue orders and commands to large troop units at once. Unlike the Heart of Corruption's infected creatures, however, the Sculk Reality's subjects maintain some manner of independent thought, although they are still compelled to obey the Reality no matter what.

## Trivia

* The Sculk Reality is the only known entity besides the Heart of Corruption that can create pockets within the Infinite Plane. How the Reality is able to do this is entirely unknown, as the Heart of Corruption had some manner of defined extradimensional powers, which allowed it to manipulate the fabric of the Infinite Plane.
	+ It is possible the two entities are related somehow, as they both had the ability to infect and control other creatures, although this is highly unlikely.
	+ This theory was later proven to be false.
* The Sculk Reality's ability to manipulate Soulfire was revealed as being derived from its Soul Sand origins, giving an explanation as to why Soul Fire can be found in Ancient Cities.