Vitriol

The Hunger for Planets Made Flesh (Art from the Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium)

### Aliases

Great Filter
Dark Flow
Devourer of Worlds
Destroyer of Worlds
The Great Destroyer
The Monster of all Worlds
The Hunger That Does Not Cease
God of oblivion
The Jade Lion
The Colorless Green

### Affiliation

Three Great Titans of Creation, Cosmic Egg

## Relatives

### Siblings

Khaos, Ouroboros, Azathoth, God, Ayin, Barbelo, The Darkness, Therion

### Offspring

Azoth, Sol, Luna, Putrefactio, Rubedo

**Leo Viridis**, frequently referred to as **Vitriol**, is a Pre-existential entity of Energy referenced in Alchemical texts.

## Overview

Vitriol is a cosmic glutton, a devourer of celestial objects such as stars, natural satellites, and most importantly planets. Despite the danger he poses to entire galaxies, Vitriol himself is not a malevolent being, acting completely neutral in cosmic affairs. He himself is able to keep any mortal species from gaining too much power. This makes him a unique creature, a completely destructive force that is allowed freedom.

The preferred food for Vitriol is stars, although he is completely willing to eat moons or planets if necessary. His preference alone makes him more amoral, as his hunger has caused him to eat the object that gives life to entire galaxies. Anyone within the galaxy of a recently eaten star would die a slow, lonely, and painful death. He will sometimes choose to eat entire realities.

Vitriol is often described as a sentient force rather than an actual being. Most beings within the Megaverse are unable to approach him out of sheer fear of his power. During the Final Conflict, he is destined to give back to the Megaverse threefold what he consumed in his lifetime, how that is interpreted is different from person to person.

## Appearance

The original form of Vitriol was of a humanoid face of an alchemist surrounded by a wheel containing events unknown and the symbols of the planets. Out of the bottom comes two white feet with stubby legs and a cube from the middle bottom that represents his body. Out of his left and right sides come two white hands, the right holding a candle and the left holding a chrysalis. Out of the top sprouts two small wings attached to his pineal gland.

The form Vitriol usually appears in after a fragment was removed is of a giant green lion with blue eyes, yellowish-green mane, and a golden hind; he has also been seen wearing a crown. The unique thing about Vitriol however is that his appearance can change from being to being based on their culture and background. Some say that he is a green serpent-like creature whose mouth can devour entire planets whole.

He is able to change his size to that of an average lion if he wishes.

## Personality

Vitriol is a passive entity and is amoral towards the lives he took in his quest to satisfy his endless hunger.

Vitriol is unimpressed by pleas for mercy and compassion. However, he is not entirely without morality as he has a limit to how many worlds he destroys, knowing that if he eats too much the cosmic balance will be disrupted.

While Vitriol is not evil, it is impossible for one to bribe or reason with him. In many ways, he is less of a being and more of a destructive that balances the mortal realm by devouring uninhabitable planets.

## Powers and Abilities

Vitriol is an extremely powerful being with immeasurable power at his disposal. He is more powerful than any deity, angel, and demon but weaker than God, Khaos, Barbelo, Azathoth, and possibly the Ouroboros. However, he should not be underestimated as the battle between him and Ayin nearly destroyed the entirety of creation.

Despite his seemingly endless power, he will weaken and starve to death if he does not consume planets regularly.

* **Primordial Cosmic Entity Physiology**: Vitriol is a being of immense power, able to manipulate cosmic energy to achieve particularly any feat he wants. His power is great enough for him to defeat Ayin, the Pre-existential Entity of Evil.
	+ **Transcendent Immortality**: Vitriol is immune to aging, having existed since the beginning of time.
	+ **Nigh-Absolute Invulnerability**: Vitriol is nigh-invulnerable, making him extremely difficult to kill. He was durable enough to withstand a nuclear arsenal and two planets colliding into him, although he was left weakened and had to consume planets in order to regain his strength. Even deities, beings with great power, are unable to harm him unless they have help.
	+ **Energy Generation & Projection**: Vitriol can project energy blasts that have enough power to destroy nearly anything, ranging from planets to entire solar systems. The intensity of his blasts depend on how much planets he consumes.
	+ **Energy Absorption**: Vitriol can absorb most forms of energy without much problem. When fighting Ayin, he absorbed a pocket dimension to empower himself
	+ **Size-Alteration**: Vitriol can alter the size of his body. He was able to increase his size to the point that his mass is as big as the sun.
	+ **Force-Field Generation**: Vitriol has the ability to create forcefields that are nigh-impossible to penetrate.
	+ **Flight**: Through his will alone, Vitriol can travel through the air at very high speeds.
	+ **Molecular Restructuring**: Vitriol is able to redesign nearly anything he wants by shaping their molecules.
	+ **Matter Transmutation**: Vitriol can transform the matter of any object.
	+ **Teleportation**: With a mere thought, Vitriol can transport himself and others to anyplace in creation. He was able to instantly move a planet across a galaxy. When Ayin broke free from her prison, he transported himself to her location in an instant.
		- **Inter-Dimensional Travel**: As a Pre-existential, Vitriol can freely travel between worlds and dimensions as much as he wants to.
		- **Portal Creation**: Vitriol is a master of creating portals. He can create countless portals that will cause tears in the fabric of reality. He once used two portals to occupy the space in between to search for food at a faster rate.
	+ **Telepathy**: Vitriol can communicate with others through their minds even at distances as great as universes.
	+ **Omni-Telekinesis**: Vitriol is extremely skilled at telekinesis. He is notably superior than Ayin in this aspect as he was able to push her back with ease. His appearance alone is enough to completely immobilize his targets.
	+ **Cosmic Awareness**: Vitriol is aware of everything that happens in creation. He was able to sense that Ayin broke free from her prison.
	+ **Sentient Life Creation**: Vitriol can create life by controlling molecules.
	+ **Psychíkinesis**: Vitriol is able to alter the memories and emotions of others by manipulating their souls.
	+ **Absolute Recreation**: Vitriol can easily recreate an entire planet with remarkable detail.
	+ **Divine Healing**: Vitriol is able to restore the damage done to himself and others through his ability to manipulate molecules.
* **Omniscience**: Vitriol, has a vast amount of knowledge that surpasses the likes of almost everyone, including Yog-Sothoth thanks to his great age. However, his knowledge is still inferior to that of God's.

## History

### Origin

In the beginning, there was nothing. An endless, shapeless, and formless void of nothingness. Then, all of a sudden, an egg materializes from that nothing, and from that egg came two beings, one of which was Vitriol, and the other being Ouroboros.

However unlike most of the other pre-existentials, he didn't participate in the Primeval Wars as he was more focused on trying to find something to eat. After the war was over, God insisted on having Vitriol killed or at least imprisoned to stop him from his celestial binge eating, even going so far as to blast piece off the creatures body. But then came Khaos, who favored Vitriol, arguing that Vitriol hasn't done anything wrong, and that he won't if he is fed. God was convinced and let Vitriol continue.

### Introduction to Earth

Vitriol came upon the the Solar System and incidentally came upon it's supposed only planet with living creatures, Earth. While he planned on devouring its Sun and leaving with its energy, Vitriol was full that day and was feeling particularly empathetic, viewing the many cultures and achievements of humanity as a gift to the gods themselves. So he shrunk himself to the size of a normal lion and visited a man in Egypt named Hermes Trismegistus. Vitriol told Hermes that if he was able to prove humanities worth to the Jade Lion that his sun would be spared, however if he was unable to do so then Vitriol would consume his central star and let their planet die.

With the help of the goddess Isis, Hermes was able to prove this worth, and Vitriol left to find food elsewhere. This is what eventually lead to the formation of Hermeticism and Alchemy.

## Myths and Legends

Within the system of Alchemy, a green lion consuming the sun is a common image used in alchemical texts, such as the Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium. The symbol is a metaphor for aqua regia (the green lion) purifying matter (the sun), leaving behind gold.

## Gallery

(Art from the Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium)(Art from the Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium)Vitriol fighting Rubedo in the background, unnoticed by Hermes (Art from the Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium)Vitriol with Sol fighting against Rebis on a Griffin (Art from the Alchemical and Rosicrucian Compendium)