Xaragon, The Mad God

**Xaragon**, better known as "The Mad God" throughout The Omniverse, was once a benign and benevolent god who eventually went insane, plunging his empire into anarchy shortly before his apparent death.

## **History**

### **Early Existence**

Xaragon existed as one of the oldest entities in The Omniverse, having been among the very first to be made by Creator. As such, due to the greater levels of experience he possessed with his advanced age, he was looked up to by many other beings for leadership and mediation.

This was a heavy responsibility to place on Xaragon, but nonetheless he was able to grow into the role quite naturally. Xaragon's primary power was the ability of Megaversal reality warping, to the extent that he created and destroyed things/events by simply willing it. This allowed him to quickly raise a Gigaversal empire, and Xaragon became one of the early Omniverse's most influential and powerful figures.

Xaragon was a benevolent leader, who always cared for the wellbeing of his people. However, that did not mean he was afraid of getting his hands dirty. Should a threat have arisen against his empire, he always dealt with it swiftly and mercilessly.

### **Creation of The Mevalkagna**

As time relatively passed, Xaragon became increasingly weary. His domain continued to expand, but with it, so too did his amount of enemies. It seemed as if whenever he glanced away even briefly, something else would rear its ugly head. Xaragon was determined to protect his people from whatever threat that would come their way, but the problem was that it was becoming increasingly difficult for him to oversee and monitor his ever-growing dominion entirely on his own.

And so, Xaragon threw himself into creating an entire species as a police force to oversee his empire. In his first attempt, he utilized a magical Green Flame which he had discovered to form creatures from the primordial chaos of Nature. However, due to his lack of alchemical and magical abilities, these beings were hollow and barely filled with life, and thus did not make for effective guardians. Xaragon abandoned these Beasts and returned to the drawing board. Eventually, after much trial and error, Xaragon finally succeeded in the creation of his empire’s protectors: The Mevalkagna. Xaragon's first order to these Mevalkagna was the creation of a defensive barrier around his Gigaverse, which came to be known as The Wall.

### **Downfall and Death**

After the creation of The Mevalkagna and The Wall, Xaragon felt safe and secure for a long period, and his empire prospered. But this peace was not to last, as Xaragon's greatest threat would appear far later.

This threat came in the form of a quickly uprising and expanding militia called “The Eternal Imperium”. The cause behind their fast growth was apparently a divine substance known as Alom, which had been transported from a highly temporally-disruptive event the future. The Alom greatly boosted the power of the Imperium, as well as their devastating technology. Xaragon knew that it was only inevitable for the Eternal Imperium's path of conquest to lead them to his empire.

This dreaded moment finally arrived, as the Eternal Imperium's forces began encroaching upon The Wall. Xaragon, however, had been prepared, and several Mevalkagna stationed around the barrier readily defended it. The Mevalkagna and Eternal Imperium were closely matched, however the Imperium soon began to gain the upper hand and were about to storm The Wall. Xaragon knew he needed to take drastic action soon, lest his empire fall too the Imperium - and he did not intend to let that happen at any cost. He accessed the large collection of Alom which he had found and stashed over time, and absorbed it all into himself at once. The Alom greatly boosted Xaragon's power, and he used his supercharged reality warping abilities to erase the entire fleet of Eternal Imperium forces attacking him out of existence. While this was not a crippling blow to the Eternal Imperium as a whole, they certainly did not attempt to attack The Wall again for quite a long time.

Xaragon had won this battle, but at a great cost - perhaps too great. Although the Alom had enhanced his abilities, it did so to too far of an extent that they became volatile and unstable. Xaragon found himself losing more control of his reality warping abilities, which became increasingly sensitive. It came to a point that the changes that were made to reality became irreversible, and reality was altered with every single thought and idea that passed through Xaragon's mind, whether it was passively or consciously. Infinite lives were begun and ended, infinite realities and timelines were created and destroyed, all by the thoughts that he thought. Xaragon was horrified by the atrocious changes made to existence by his thoughts, which he could not control. His empire greatly suffered from the warping, deteriorating at a fast rate. Xaragon entered self-imposed isolation within The Wall, fearful of the potential horrors he could bring about to the rest of The Omniverse. The solitary confinement, as well as a combination of the mental scarring caused by the uncontrollable reality warping and trying to control his thoughts, severely degraded Xaragon's mental health. He was very disturbed, and the one thing he wished more than anything else was to relieve himself of the pain caused by his curse.

Then, when he least expected it, Xaragon's saving grace had come. Everywhere he looked, he began noticing synchronicities, finer details in the underlying fabric of reality. It almost seemed as if all these little signs were meant for Xaragon specifically. Xaragon perceived them to be greatly divine, though of course any being with his current mindset would have thought that. He convinced himself that the signs were given to him by a higher being, perhaps even Creator himself, and interpreted these collective signs into a voice. The voice within Xaragon's mind told him that it could lead to a solution to cure him of his maladies, so he used the "divine inspiration" to derive instructions from what the voice relayed to create something that would help. However, due to Xaragon's unstable reality warping, the steps in the instructions manifested themselves physically as they were relayed to him in real time. The final result of this was The Idea Breakers - a race of beings who could physically consume thoughts/ideas, erasing them from existence. They served to reverse the negative effects of Xaragon's reality warping, as well as consume any other potentially harmful ideas that could arise within him before they actually warped reality.

Xaragon was greatly relieved at first, now that his volatile reality warping was suppressed. But then, things became even worse than before. The Idea Breakers were extremely hungry for concepts to feast on, and began zealously consume Xaragon's ideas beyond the limit they were supposed to. And so, what was supposed to be the equivalent of psychological therapy devolved into surgical procedures on a brain. This served to mentally degrade Xaragon even further. By this point, even the most sympathetic and open-minded of beings would have great trouble to even simply call Xaragon "eccentric". Due to his unhinged tendencies, Xaragon had earned the moniker of "The Mad God" to the inhabitants of The Omniverse; though if anybody were to directly call him that, they would surely be fed to his Idea Breakers.

The Mad God, both in an effort to prevent the Idea Breakers from consuming too much of his mind as well as "silencing" his critics, repurposed and weaponized the Idea Breakers as a means of combating his enemies, and punishing all who opposed him. However, the Mad God's arrogance would ultimately prove to be his undoing. The Idea Breakers' original purpose for their creation was to erase the Mad God's harmful ideas. It wasn't that they hungered for ideas in general to feed off of, but they rather wished to fulfill their existential purpose so that they could be free to do as they pleased. The Idea Breakers finally realized that to complete their duties, they needed to neutralize the problem at its source. The Mad God's harmful ideas came from the Mad God himself. The Idea Breakers erasing new ideas did not prevent more from forming. The only way to permanently end it, was by consuming The Mad God as a whole. Without him, there would be no more of his ideas to feed on and they would be free.

And so, when he least expected, The Idea Breakers ambushed The Mad God. The struggle between the two was long and drawn out, which arguably intensified the horror of The Mad God's death as he was slowly mauled alive, before finally being eaten, putting an end to his existence.

### **Aftermath**

Following this, the Idea Breakers, now free of control, laid waste to the remains of The Mad God's once-proud empire, consuming all within it until what remained was an empty Gigaverse-sized space within a barren Wall. The Mevalkagna were also freed of the Mad God's influence, and now they became a wild free-roaming species. However, compared to the Idea Breakers, the Mevalkagna were more intelligent, and their ideals did not align with the breakers'. And so they went to war, becoming eternal enemies. But now that The Mad God's empire was gone, The Mevalkagna abandoned The Wall, as there was now nothing left there for them to protect. Some Idea Breakers would seemingly defect from the rest of the group however, as they went on to worship The Fracture.