Ahriman

## Biographical

### Titles

He who sits at the Gates of Death, The Parasite God, The Dark One, The Corruptor, The Realm Drinker, The First Among Thousand, The Promised End

## Overview

Ahriman is an undefined comsic entity that is generally percieved as an apocalyptic being, the enemy of all creation. Although next to nothing is known about his true nature, goals or role in the universe his influence and that of his servants is noticable across every Realm. He is the master of the Daeva and an evergrowing presence in the void between worlds.

## Tales

### The Sumerian Priest

Most Conjurers and lesser Celestial claim Ahriman was a sumerian priest in the city of Ur that was born at the dawn of material time. It is said that he was the first to learn of the Celestials and the Outer Realms through divine visions after excessive prayers and religious rituals. One day he lead a great ceremony atop the ziggurat of Ur which should allow the sumerian gods to physically manifest in the material world. Instead his ritual shattered the World Walls for the first time, creating an opening into the worlds beyond. As the first Celestials streamed into the world Ahriman was sucked into the void infront of him where his flesh was shattered and his fractured mind became one with the abyss between worlds. This gave the void a conciousness and a name, allowing it to grow and fester.

### The Parasite God

Those that believe in the pantheistic Akasha claim that Ahriman is the incarnation of madness, the product of the worlds fractured pysche. Every destructive impuls, every forsaken design and every fallen persona of was reborn in Ahriman; a cosmic horror that only exist to leech of world and grow the very disturbances that spawned him.

### The Outer One

The (...) claim that Ahriman is an outer being, a creature that does not belong in Akasha and the void. They say he walks at many places at once and that his cosmic manifestation in the depts of the void is a mere shadow of his true form, which will enter this world after he swallowed all the others. Who and whatever Ahriman is, he was not born in this world and is utterly alien to it.

### Lord of the Lost

The (...) refer to Ahriman as "He who sits at the gates of Death", as a Lich-God that resides in the deepest layers of the spiritual realm. He guards the gate to the realm in which the memories of lost souls travel, eating them and absorbing them into his own self. He is the incarnation of every long lost spirit, holding the worlds collective memory.

### The Father of Demons

The (...) believe that Ahriman is the father of demons and that he spawned them to disguise among the other Neverborn until they betrayed their cousins. While Demons exist merely to bring disorder and chaos, they are mere pawns for their ancient progenitor that seeks to eat the world.

### The Universal Essence

The Daeva believe, that Ahriman is the immaterial ineffable universal essence in which the Demiurge rests. It is the energy from which Akasha is powered and the one with which it can be destroyed.

### The Disruptor

The Warlocks believe, that Ahriman is the force that disrupts the cycle of creation of the Demiurge. The only way for absolute controll of creation is the destruction or perpetual weakening of Ahriman.

### The Demiurge

The centrists believe, that there is no difference between the Demiurge and Ahriman, since they are both rather extreme