Mogarakh

Mogarakh, known as the Father of the Cosmos, was one of the most powerful and most malevolent of the Dread Titans, as well as physically one of the largest. He was known as the creator and despot of the Cosmic City, and the commander of the vast Cosmic Legion, the largest demonic host ever assembled. At some point in 1844, Mogarakh mustered the Cosmic Legion for a grand assault upon Earth, but he was interrupted by Cavitor, who invaded the Cosmic City, bested the Bloodhound in a duel and sent him away, and slew Mogarakh.

Mogarakh is known to have had a brother, but the identity of this brother is unknown, and no source on the topic can be treated as reliable. Some sources assert that Mogarakh killed his own brother to remove him as a rival, whereas others claim that Thangor the Eternal was the brother of Mogarakh. This latter theory is bolstered by the fact that Thangor seemed to admire Mogarakh, and essentially copied his plans to invade Inecuria and empower himself with the life-essence of its inhabitants.

Mogarakh was known for running a vast operation of magical vampirism (not to be confused with the actual vampirism of the Vampires) through which he empowered himself and ensured his position as the single most powerful Titan in the Dreadlands. He used a similar system to the Succubi in order to extract the life-essence out of his victims, but rather than bringing weakening their magical barriers by bringing them to the height of ecstasy, Mogarakh instead induced extreme agony and terror, which had the same effect. This operation was performed on an industrial scale, with most of the Cosmic City dedicated to this purpose, housing countless mutated slaves known as Husks, and the enslaved race of the Brightwings. Given the length of time for which Mogarakh practiced this on an immeasurably vast scale, he easily could have consumed the life-essence of tens or even hundreds of millions of victims.

## The Cosmic City

The Cosmic City was the lair of Mogarakh, created by him to house himself, his servants and his soldiers. It sat on a large floating island in the Dreadlands, in the dimly-lit region known as the Perpetual Night. Its exact size is unknown, but it was vast, said to easily rival the grand city of Onshi (and it should be noted that at the time this was written, 1846, Onshi was one of the largest cities on the planet).

The structure of the Cosmic City was said to be baffling even to its inhabitants, consisting of warped geometry which adhered to no clear rules of logic and bent the laws of physics to suit its own ends. Its layout was constantly shifting, roads changing their course and buildings being moved, demolished and rebuilt at every moment. Its architecture was somewhat comparable to Elvic Gothic, but it bent the fabric of space to achieve designs which would otherwise be impossible, such as making use of infinite fractals and unusual gravity.

One of the most notable structures of the Cosmic City, which was said to be at the centre of the city - though the location of the "centre" was ambiguous and often changed - was the Tower of Infinity, a large windowless spired tower surrounded in a cloud of writhing and softly sparkling shadow magic. This tower was substantially larger on the inside than on the outside, most notably at the very top, where the lair of Mogarakh himself lay. The Tower of Infinity, in addition to being Mogarakh's personal lair, was where the final process of the magical vampirism was undertaken, finally extracting the life-essence from Mogarakh's victims after they had undergone days or even weeks of torture.

The outer and lower levels of the Cosmic City were dedicated to housing the Husks, a collective of several mutated species which Mogarakh bred as slaves for the specific purpose of absorbing their life-essence from them once they had matured. Since Mogarakh had no concern for their wellbeing - he planned to torture them to death, after all - they were housed in tightly packed slums, in tiny dwellings which only included the bare necessities required to raise them to maturity, at which point they would be forced to breed and then would be sent off to the Tower of Infinity to be harvested. Though they had varying appearances, the Husks all shared the same pale grey skin, and were bred to be docile, easily intimidated and sensitive to pain. Mogarakh also enslaved and imprisoned the Brightwings for the same purpose, again selectively breeding them for submission and terror, but they were not mutated to the same degree as their innate magical power protected them against it.