The Crawling Chaos

> "What is known of Him has been distilled from the rantings and whispers of madmen and sorcerers. All that is certain is that His dominion will soon encompass the dimensions of earth. He is the Dark God, the Devourer of Souls, the One That Binds, and should He manifest His dread presence among us, every creature living or dead shall learn the meaning of eternal servitude. Not pleasant."
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The **Crawling Chaos** is the cosmic embodiment of evil, turning worlds inside out with its very presence. It corrupts its victims, slowly driving them towards madness and eventually pushing them over the edge, which allows it to snatch them from their world and trap them in its Realm.

The **Chaos** travels from world to world, growing stronger in its power until it eventually consumes all worlds in the cosmos. It is drawn to darker worlds, filled with chaos and darkness, as it chooses worlds that have failed to understand the metaphysical relationship between their thoughts and the world they live in, feeding off of their ignorance.

## Modus Operandi

The most effective way for The **Chaos** to get a foothold in a new world is for it to corrupt its inhabitants, to the point that they commit great atrocities as gruesome acts of violence weaken the veil between The **Entity'**s Realm and the world. Through this weak spot, The **Entity'**s Realm begins seeping over into the world, allowing The **Entity** to pull its first victims into its own nightmarish construct, the *"Corrupted Ones"*, those pushed to do the deeds that summoned this ancient evil in the first place, also known as the Killers .

The Killers are made to do The **Chaos** bidding, which is to relentlessly hunt and kill the Survivors. Many Killers do not do so willingly, although some are happy to sate their blood lust. Some have to be tortured over endless years to be coerced into doing what The **Entity** wants. The **Entity** is ever patient and the torture ever more severe. Eventually they all cave in and start the hunt for The **Entity**.

The **Entity** actively recruits its Killers by sensing their killing potential in their mortal selves, before corrupting them into committing violent or evil acts. It is possible for it to change its mind during the process of converting the human into a new Killer and choosing someone else instead if it senses greater potential in them, as happened with Rin Yamaoka and her father, the latter having originally been chosen to become a Killer.

## Sustenance

The **Entity** is described as an *"Emotion Vampire"*, with sustenance coming in the form of strong emotions, such as the Killer's rage and anger, or the Survivors' desperation, hope or even affection towards other Survivors.

The most effective way for The **Entity** to procure those emotions is through the never-ending trials, invoking hope in Survivors towards an escape from the nightmarish construct and fuelling the Killer's blood lust in anticipation of the sacrifice, a bizarre ritual through which **Entity** extracts its sustenance, which it needs to magnify its power and sustain itself.

With each passing death, a little bit of the Survivor's soul is lost. Eventually, as all hope evaporates, the Survivor becomes less and less useful to **Entity**, slowly devolving into a cold and emotionless shell. Those lost Survivors, whose hope has long since left them, are eventually thrown into a limbo realm known as *"The Void"*.

Survivors that are mortally wounded and 'die' during a Trial, or shortly after escaping, will be revived by The **Entity**, also wiping their memories clean in the process and relocating them back to The Campfire.

## Manifestations

The **Entity** occasionally manifests itself in a physical form throughout the Trial Grounds given certain circumstances.

The two most common manifestations come in the form of spikes or spider legs. The spikes are used by The **Entity** to block Exit Gates  and Windows , or to destroy Pallets . The spider legs either shoot through the ground, piercing and killing any Survivor that did not make it out of the Trial Grounds within the Endgame Collapse timer, or manifest themselves around the Hook , to eventually sacrifice a hooked Survivor, and in case of a successful sacrifice, above the Hook to transport the sacrificed Survivor up into the sky in order to extract its sustenance from the sacrifice.

### The Fog

The Black Fog, also known as *"Dark Fog"* or *"Auric Fog"*, surrounds the pocket Realms of The **Entity** and is but one of The **Entity'**s many manifestations, described in Arcus 54 as a conscious entity in and by itself. The Observer describes The Fog as feeling alive, containing swirls and streams of memories and imprints of beings from all the Terra worlds the **Entity** had consumed.

The Black Fog is composed mostly of auric particles and cells, from which The **Entity** forms everything inside its Realms. Indications of this are found with the Iridescent Add-ons of Killers that were all formed from the Fog itself and are imbued with its power.

Some of the **Entity'**s more knowledgeable victims, such as Vigo and The Observer were aware of the originally mentioned metaphysical relationship between their thoughts and the world they lived in, and thus able to hone their skills and *"bend the Fog's irrefragable rules"*, which allowed them to create to mould and shape The Black Fog to their own will.

The rich presence of auric particles and cells also indicates that The **Entity** is far more ancient than the Observer and his people ever suspected, leading to his speculation that The **Entity** is an *"Original One"*, an *"Ancient"*.