Chorach

### Common Form

a bipedal four-armed creature with a large icy crest for a head, or a wheel-chair bound humanoid

### Known For

building the city of Echir, renovating ruins and repairing damage around Arsgri, cooperating with Arumis on constructing needed and helpful infrastructure around Arsgri including artificial portals, bridges and sanctuaries in wastelands, turning creatures into mechanical magpies or making mechanical mapgies from artificial souls to serve as recorders of history around the universe

### Powers

not well understoood; mostly tied to truth and the architecture they build, which retains many truth-based qualities, in Ascended state it is believed they can influence events which bring about the reveal of Truth

### Affiliated With

Arumis, Grand Lie, the City of Echir Council

**Chorach (relifica for cold truth, *chor rach*), also often referred to as The Architect, The Magpie Mother/Father or The Wrath of Cold That Has No Mercy or simply The Truth**, is one of the youngest gariette (G-ds/Ascended beings) in Arsgri, being an elder solely to Azharrraja. They are the G-d of Truth but often are also understood as having power over cold, mercy, the Empty (Light) Void and infinity. They reside in Deep Arsgri in the city of Echir, which they built in the Frozen Plains and which serves as the only permanent settlement and sanctuary in an area otherwise lethal and desolate. Chorach is the only G-d which has a non-Ascended form in which they normally reside and thus can and does Ascend repeatedly, however, they still possess incredible power even without Ascending, while Chorach's Ascended form is physically entirely harmless as it is completely incorporeal, passing through any and all objects and often invisible. Chorach's influence thus mostly appears in objects and especially architecture, such as the Truth Spires or the Field of Obelisks. The true extent or form of Chorach's power is not well understood.

## History

Chorach first spawned in the Frozen Wastes of Arsgri. Having been a sorcerer in their past life, they could not easily cope with the total loss of their ability to use magic and ended up nearly becoming a Magpie Wraith, some signs of which still appear on all their forms. They were found by Acheron, a servant of Grand Lie, who taught them the language of Relifica and took them to Grand Lie, after which Chorach underwent Grand Lie's consequence ritual to join his cause and become one of the Entity Hunters who make sure no entity escapes Arsgri to destroy or feast on the living world. This was work which made Chorach the enemy of many powerful individuals and because Grand Lie does not protect his servants as much as merely enables them to channel his power, Chorach fell victim to multiple battles with powerful entities such as Kalazachi and during one of such encounters was stabbed through the back by the Spear of Souls, rendering that form paraplegic. In another fight not long after, Chorach was pushed to the brink and Ascended.

After their Ascension, Chorach and his immediate peers left Grand Lie's cause and formed the city of Echir, which Chorach themselves built across their many years as an Entity Hunter as a form of seeking for purpose.

## Ascended form

In Ascended form, Chorach appears as a leviathan, a snake-like enormous creature often reaching planet or system-size proportions and entirely composed of an ice-like material that is incorporeal and can pass through seemingly any object. This material is transparent and reacts with light, creating sharp crystal-like reflections. In entirely dark conditions, Chorach's Ascended form often produces a very weak white glow.