Endless

"Can I help you?"

> "Here by appointment...? Hah, get it?"
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Endless is a male god of Death, Souls, and the sole god of the Underworld, being it's main caretaker.

He doesn't often directly meddle in the business of other gods until recently, but keeps a close eye on many of them, specifically those prone to dying and rebirthing many times over.

## Appearance

One of Endless' many jobs is to escort the departed to the Underworld, which becomes much easier if the person is *okay* with crossing over. As such, his appearance may change depending on whoever is looking at him, for the sake of making them more accepting of their situation.

Most gods and other highly powerful beings are immune to this phenomenon, and may view him as he views himself: a fairly tall (6'2) sinewy pale man with shaggy blonde hair that is pushed over one side of the face by an ornament resembling a skeletal hand. Two grey horns sprout from the top of the head and curve upwards and towards one another. His red eyes are bagged, have large pupils and more often than not convey boredom or tiredness. His hands are skeletal, it is unknown if his arms or body and legs are as well. His ears are pointed.

Along with a signature slouch, making him seem shorter than he is, he is always wearing some sort of business or formality-related apparel, specifically suits and jackets. He also sometimes carries a stopwatch or suitcase with him.

## Personality

As his appearance would suggest, Endless is a businessman, but one that's rather surfeited with the fake personality required for his job. He often comes off as snappy and mocking, but not past having a casual laugh with whoever he's talking to. He's impatient, having "places to be" and "a 9-to-5 to work." So impatient, in fact, that he often murders people who prevent his work or threaten his precious free time.

Despite his fairly jaded disposition, he takes his few hobbies very seriously, if you can call binging television shows a hobby.

Before recent years, Endless has only had contact with any gods who either frequent the Underworld or have died. Despite this reclusive nature, he talks like he knows each and every god personally, hinting at the way he spies on all of them in his free time.

## Powers

Endless's powers are more for the sake of utility and work than they are for fighting, but he's not past using them to settle a debate with casual violence.

(Hey most of these break rp pretty hard so if chances are I won't have him actually using them on a character without permission, cheers. - Corvus)

### Death Induction and Control

Through touch, Endless can cause a mortal creature to drop dead on the spot, or cause them to die over a undefined amount of time. He can also prevent their death by a chosen amount of time, although he does this very irregularly and oftentimes for a cost. He can also control the cause of death should he so choose, generally causing heart failure. With the stopwatch he carries in his pocket, he can tell the time of a person's death (regardless of if it has happened yet or not.) and the cause.

### Necromancy

By having control over the corpses of those who are spirited to the Underworld, as well as their souls, Endless can create complex undead constructs out of bone, optionally giving them a soul, and therefore a will of their own. This ability is how he created his interns for help around the Curator's Office.

### Manifest Souls

Endless can control and manipulate, as well as weaponize the souls of himself and others. Mostly used to collect and escort the souls of the departed to the Underworld, he can also seize the soul of the living, putting them into a state of paralysis until another soul is inserted into the body.

### Curator's Privileges

As god of the Underworld, Endless has full control over it, it's subsequent realms, and it's denizens (if the need arises.) He can create portals to and from each realm of the Underworld and from the Underworld to the Overworld of Forengard.

## Background

Created in tandem with the Underworld of Forengard, Endless has always and likely will always be the curator and protector of his domain. Little has been recorded of him before recently, as he was completely and utterly reclusive before recently. (More TBA)

## Domain and Followers

Endless holds heavy domain over the entirety of the Underworld, but spends much of his time at the Curator's Office, a building in the geographical center of first Underworld sect. It has no perceivable outside except for the front door, which is plain and white with a netted fiberglass window with a different nickname Endless uses on it every time it appears.

The office itself is made of an indeterminable material, with gray wallpaper and black carpet, the corners are supported by white marble pillars. Several decorations line the walls: pictures, busts of gods forgotten and legendary, and various other things. The far end of the room is occupied by a desk, usually a stack of paper or two, and a chair to sit at opposite of where Endless would. Behind the desk there is another door to Endless' personal living quarters, where he sleeps, eats, and spends his free time.

## Relationships

Endless isn't an amiable person in most cases, he can crack jokes but tends to be very independent in his ventures. Despite this, he's managed to get tangled (or tangle himself) into the business of other gods.

### Dust

Ash and his shadow cause Endless more than a little headache during his job. Dust specifically because he has killed and then stolen the souls of several gods, which would typically be sent to the Underworld to receive permanent housing or to await rebirth.

### Ash

Ash rebirths (and probably will) time and time again on his own, skirting the typical bureaucracy Endless forces on the dead and those who would rebirth through paperwork. This doesn't hamper Endless' view of the god, just vexes him considerably.

## Miscellaneous

### Weapons

Endless carries no weapons, ending most fights by touching his opponent once. He does, when the need arises, summon the bones of buried corpses to spring out of the floor and attack his opponent.

### Symbols

Headstones, Footstones, Tombstones, and Gravestones are all typical places of worship to Endless, offering white roses alongside food or precious metals as incentive for the spirit of the departed to make the trip to the Mortem Doors safely with Endless. Larger villages or towns also typically have dedicated crypts or tombs for their dead, or crematoriums where worship takes place.

### Trivia

* Endless doesn't like the smell of cigarette smoke.
* His ability to change his appearance also translates his voice from common to whatever is needed for a departed to understand him.
* Endless gets paid minimum wage for his job as Curator, but pays no rent for the apartment in his office.