Deities of Liminal Gateways

As they appear in Mineshift

Knots is the deity of liminal gateways and includes alternate realities, veils of life and death, and transitions of various kinds. Knots does not have the power to control gateways, but rather acts as a caretaker and guide, and frequent traveler of them.

## Background

Knots' exact birthplace is unknown and it is mostly believed that they formed in a space between dimensions before slipping into our own. It is unlikely that Knots was ever mortal, or if they were, they lost their mortality very quickly. Knots isn't sure how old they are or when they were born, so they celebrate their birthday on a day that feels right to them.

One day, Knots appeared in the world through an End Portal, but wandered the dimensions beyond that. They've since built several structures in the Nether and Overworld, but has not been able to access the End again.

Knots does not appear in the world often; their pretense is often based on how fun they think it would be. Knots is as a whole are forgiving and generally lax deities who can enjoy mortal company.

## Headmates

**Points** - A locust with some traits resembling a mayfly. Points is heavily associated with death and rebirth; rapidly aging within their headspace, dying and then appearing again as a larvae. Points tends to push for them to raise animals. Points' pronouns change every time they reincarnate and they are genderfluid to some extent.

**Manifold** - An Enderman with light green eyes and particles. Ve is very gentle and can be considered a wanderer, often drifting between realities. Manifold is also a collector, and has a secret museum buried somewhere in the desert.

**Krull** - A cat with 18 eyes, xe is a very chaotic entity. Xe is one of the wanderers and goes wherever xe feels like. Krull is somewhat associated with numbers divisible by 18 as well due to their many eyes and the association with nine lives.

**Sidian & Ire** - The two are a linked pair and are often tangled around each other, they never front without the other. They somewhat represent the Nether and both resemble eastern dragons with the same color/pattern as a nether portal. Sidian uses ne/nym and Ire uses he/hym. Their skeletons are represented in the Nether Village.

**Polygons** - A subsystem which glitches between members. They often appear in the headspace as a multicolored polygonal dragon and no one has been given a straight answer of who is in their subsystem. A couple common names show up, like "A", "E", and "F".

**Hurst** - An aquatic dragon who has an association and fascination with mirrors. They are particularly attracted to the mirror dimension, and they carry a reflective pearl with them everywhere.

**Pueraria** - Sentient Kudzu which exists in a very large section of their headspace. Does not often front in their body, but is significant to The Knots because of their reach throughout their inner world.

*More to be added!*

## Appearance

They are a shapeshifter. They always have an amphersand symbol visible somewhere on their body regardless of the form they take and often have static emitting from their body. Their forms are most commonly green or black. They very rarely appear outside of their alien form.

Their most common one is that of a bipedal alien with green scales, glowing lime green eyes, a segmented body, and antennae. There are static stains which go down their mouth and throat. They do also have paw bean patterns in this form, but their hands are closer to pincers. The ampersand is on the back of their wings.

For their dragon form, they appear as a very long, black dragon with green highlights and a space-like pattern with static cracks on their wings. The ampersand is located on their underbelly.

For their locust form, they appear just like a melanistic locust with a glowing ampersand on their wings.

Their cat form is a black tabby cat with ripping sprites and glowing green eyes and green skin, they have a white ampersand on their chest. They may also wear a silver chain collar in this form.

Their deer form has large branching antlers during spring and summer and no alters during winter and fall; when they have alters, they are branching and large. Their body is a dark green with bright green alters and hooves. The ampersand is on their forehead.

## Trivia

* They have a playlist!
* They are based on Anomaly's own plurality and experiences being a gateway system, and also working with Janus and Hecate who embody similar concepts.
* They were named after mathematical Knots. Some of their headmates were also named after similar mathematical concepts, such as Krull, Manifold, Hurst, and Polygons.
* Many of them were based after headmates in the Anomaly's own system, such as Points and Manifold being species in their system (a locust and an Enderman), Krull being based on the many cats in their system, Pueraria being based on their phythanthropes, and Polygons loosely being based on a subsystem which inhabits a GBA.
* Points' species inclusion is a pun off of locus (meaning location)/locust.
* Sidian and Ire were based on how you need obsidian and fire to make a nether portal, and their names are just the first letter removed from both.
* Polygons was inspired by the Pokemon Porygon and Out of This Dimension from Starfox.
* This page was created by Maxwell going "go nuts" to the couple of folks in headspace and now we have lore. Why are we like this.