Protas

### Intelligence

Dependent on the individual but even the least intelligent of the Protas are human level if not above.

### Range

* Omniverse
	+ World of the Protas

### Diet

Do not need to eat but can for appearance sake or to be polite

### Prey

Do not need to eat but can for appearance sake or to be polite

## General information

### Locations

World of the Protas

In one version of the fanon, The **Protas**, also known as the **First Ones,** the **Proteans**, or the **Ancient Gods** are a race of higher dimensional entities that could be viewed as ranging in power akin to absolute gods to demigods who dwell primarily in the realm known as the World of the Protas, though they are able to free shift through the Spheres, timelines and realities with the only restriction being that they just usually choose not to do so. Though they are quite powerful, they are extremely low in population with only seventeen having existed from the beginning of time until The Source's return and the second renaissance of the **Protas** race, due to their limitless lifespan and a lack of a real need to reproduce (Though they are capable).

Following the disappearance of their king and the source of most of their power, most of the **Protas** withdrew into focusing primarily on their duties through the use of proxies and sequestering themselves into worlds and creations of their own making. Few **Protas** interact with mortals in the 12-13th century.

Though with the return of **The Source** just before the start of the 17th century the **Protas** have begun to become active again though not directly with mortals.

## Physiology

It is hard to explain **Protas** physiology as they are a race that regularly uses Polymorphy (aka shapeshifting) and can change their appearance, form, and even their gender at will. Each individual does tend to look drastically different from the others, usually, their favored appearance is a matter of personal taste, more or less. Their appearances have changed drastically from ancient times taking on a more humanoid appearance over time. Each **Protas** with the exception of **Fanbris** had a soulmate created straight from their own soul at the time of their 'birth' who is directly tied to them, complementing their domain or specialty in some way. The true form of a Protas is a reflection of their true self with the Primes at one time existing as beings of silver and golden energy respectively. While taking physical form, the Protas have a individually unique colored liquid instead of blood called which is called Ichor, these have been used in some of their creations and can be used to determine who made certain beings.

## Racial Timeline

### Before the Creation of the verses (2,000,000,000,000 BR)

The **Prime Protas** exist and deal a hand in creating the multiple verses at first only **The Source** and his mate Asherah exist, they spend approximately one trillion nine hundred eighty-five billion (1,985,000,000,000) years preparing for the formation of the verses via an energy gathering and refining process which leads to an event referred to as the Big Bang.

### Back in time immemorial (15,000,000,000 BR to 300,000,000 BR)

The Big Bang occurs and the primordial reality is born, from this reality will eventually emerge the multiverse and according to the most extravagant philosophers of The Continent, the omniverse with its different layers. Which is everything that exists, existed and will exist.

The god-like **Protas** settle in a realm they call the World of the Protas. Then they begin building their empire cultivating worlds and races, a collective race known as the Cosmic Horrors starts to infect and consume some of the worlds and their inhabitants, causing the **Protas** to notice them and in turn go to war with them.

#### The Source and his mate Asherah have their first set of children (3,307,882,836 BR)

The Prime Protas **The Source** and **Asherah** produce their first child: Metatron, who later becomes **the God of the Akeros**. Producing from his soul, a mate for him Betlena, who later would become the **Goddess of the Spirits**. The birth of this Protas would cause the Emperor of the Cosmic Horrors Zsch-Kar to birth The Darkness from his own flesh as a balancing force against **Metatron**.

### The Protas-Cosmic Horror War (1,000,000,000 BR)

The Prime Protas known as **The Source** creates magic out of chaos and two of the Protas use it to create new races to help during the war, the God of the Akeros the Akeros, while The Source creates the Fey, and their offshoot the Necrophages (one for a variety of purposes, the other to help dispose of the bodies of fallen **Cosmic Horrors**.)

#### The Source and his mate Asherah have their second set of children (939,836,280 BR)

The Prime **Protas** **The Source** and **Asherah** produce their (technically) second child: Xaknera, who later becomes **the Goddess of Duty, Promises and Oaths**. Producing from her soul, a mate for her Ritarin, who later would become the **God of Law and Order**.

#### The Battle of the Living Flame (937,047,615 BR)

**Asherah** and **The Source** find and battle the Great Old One and child of Ximeshassanth, The Flame of the Khemaami-I known as Cthugha, The Living Flame who they banish to the Desolate Dimension.

#### The Battle of The Dull Bloodsucker and The Purification of the Vampire Bloodlines (892,580,230 BR)

The Great Old One and child of Stlanitherath, The Pestilent Discord known as Gna-Limer, The Dull Bloodsucker is killed by **The Source**. The sire of the Vampire races. Asherah convinces her husband to let her purify the bloodlines of the Vampire races of the taint of the Cosmic Horrors and allow them to live as their protected subjects if they serve the **Protas** during the war. They follow through with this plan, D'Hoomaumis, The Vampiric Witch of the Finder, the Prime High Vampire becomes a devoted follower of **Asherah**, serving as her trusted lieutenant during the war, and keeping her siblings in line. Asherah is worshipped as a benevolent goddess by the High Vampires, some truly ancient High Vampires still worship the bestial nature of **Gna-Limer** however.

#### The Source and his mate Asherah have their third set of children (853,697,145 BR)

The Prime **Protas** **The Source** and **Asherah** produce their (technically) third child: Wijun, who later becomes **the God of the Hunt and Beasts**. Producing from his soul, a mate for him Dumera, who later would become the **Goddess of Agriculture**.

#### The Battle of The Sublime Digger (848,881,906 BR)

**The Source** finds and battles the Great Old One Takarneph, The Sublime Digger That Reigns who is defeated then banished to the fringes of the Yottaverse. A echo of the Cosmic Horror's power is used to create the element of Earth, and its elemental plane. The second of the Chaotic magics, Earth Magic is born and is spread amongst the **Protas** and to a lesser extent the Fey and Akeros races.

#### The Source and his mate Asherah have their fourth set of children (847,276,842 BR)

The Prime **Protas** **The Source** and **Asherah** produce their (technically) fourth child: Cimbris, who later becomes **the God of Wisdom and Healing**. Producing from his soul, a mate for him Noxlena, who later would become the **Goddess of Science and Logic**.

#### The Battle of the Pestilent Discord (843,251,089 BR)

The Great Old One Stalnitherath, The Pestilent Discord is defeated by **Cimbris**, **Asherah** and his former children the Vampires he was then banished to the Desolate Dimension, an echo of its power is what gives Pestae their powers over pestilence and disease.

#### The Battle of the Horde (678,412,890 BR)

The Servitor race called the Misathy-Dotha, known as The Horde is killed by the Metatron, God of the Akeros and his brother Wijun, God of the Hunt. **Metatron** looks on in disgust as the bodies of **The Horde** are used as food for the Necrophage horde, allowing for a population boom among the Necrophagic races.

#### Battle of The Commander (643,250,693 BR)

**The Source** finds and battles the Outer God Thanitharzat, The Commander who is defeated and then banished to the Desolate Dimension, later this Cosmic Horror will collaborate with one of **The Source's** own creations the Grigori Albrîhron to get revenge on the **Protas** for his banishment as well as for the later killing of Thanitharzat's father, he rewards the Grigori by secretly implanting him with his child the larval Outer God, Sargoranophfl, The Loathed Extinguisher of the Tyrannical Source.

#### The Battle for the Sun (656,085,139 BR)

**Metatron** alongside his brother Ritarin, God of Law & Order finds and battles the Great Old One D'Hargah, It That Usurped the Sun who is killed. **Metatron** did not want to waste resources and **Ritarin** wanting to ensure the Cosmic Horror's death ironically used its body as fuel for the stars of worlds without life.

#### The Source and his mate Asherah have their fifth set of children (580,969,015 BR)

**The Source** and **Asherah** produce their (technically) fifth child: Ituna, who following the war would become **the Goddess of Sky and Storms**. Producing from his soul, a mate for her Xyzotl, who following the war would become the **God of Harvests**.

#### Battle of The Flame of the Khemaami-I (574,933,332 BR)

The Source finds and battles the Great Old One Ximeshassanth, The Flame of the Khemaami-I who is killed. An echo of the Cosmic Horror's power is used to create the element of Fire, and its elemental plane, using **Ximeshassanth's** own corpse as a core and power source for the elemental plane. The third of the Chaotic magics, Fire Magic is born and is spread amongst the **Protas** and to a lesser extent the Fey and Akeros races.

#### Battle of The Phaser of the Mind (403,343,835 BR)

The Source finds and battles the Great Old One Tu-Shath, The Phaser of the Mind who is defeated and then banished to the Desolate Dimension. A echo of the Cosmic Horror's power is used to create the element of Aether, and its elemental plane. The fourth of the Chaotic magics, Ether Magic is born and is spread amongst the **Protas** and to a lesser extent the Fey and Akeros races.

#### The Source and his mate Asherah have their sixth set of children (313,260,509 BR)

**The Source** and **Asherah** produce their (technically) sixth and seventh children: Idos, who following the war would become **the God of Trickery**, happened to be born alongside his soulmate Orlena, who following the war would become the **Goddess of Chance**.

#### The Battle of The Typhoon (300,406,781 BR)

The Source finds and battles the Great Old One Zo-Tag, The Typhoon who is killed. AnAn echo of the Cosmic Horror's power is used to create the element of Water, and its elemental plane. The fifth of the Chaotic magics, Water Magic is born and is spread amongst the **Protas** and to a lesser extent the Fey and Akeros races.

#### The Battle of The Malevolent Commander and the end of the Protas-Cosmic Horror War (300,000,000 BR)

It is theorized that the **Cosmic Horrors** lost the war against the **Protas** with the death of Zulthembl, The Malevolent Commander , and the banishment of the Prime Cosmic Horror, Zsch-Kar, The Emperor as a majority of the **Cosmic Horrors** are thrown out of reality where life exists being driven out to the Desolate Dimension where they can only barely affect other realities through the aid of proxies (i.e cultists). The Para-element of ice and its elemental plane come into existence through The Source harnessing an echo of Xicllaniparan's power, to create the para-element of Ice, and its para-elemental plane. The Mid-level Cosmic Horrors known as Dagon, Kotheem'Ha The Helper, and Rhyeb The Shifter survive the war and escape to The World. The races created for the purpose of the war are given worlds to live on under the grace of their creators (**The Source** creates the Elemental Planes as well as the fey world of Tir ná nÓg), and the Church of the Protas is born among these races.

#### The Source and his mate Asherah have their seventh set of children (299,999,995 BR)

Five years after the final battle of the war, **The Source** and **Asherah** produce their (technically) eighth child: Quxasis, who was granted by her parents, the title of **the Goddess of Winter and Ice**, granting her dominion over the para-elemental force of ice and the season of Winter. Producing from his soul, a mate for her Huses, who was granted by his parents, the title of the **God of the Dark** with dominion over the night, darkness, and monsters.

### The Source is resurrected when Adalwulf relinquishes his body (1790)

By this time 80% of **Adalwulf's** body and soul, belong to the entity though he lets **Adalwulf** continue to have autonomy over the body. The ancient witcher having seen many people, that he cared about taken by the ravages of time, and war is exhausted and ready for his Path to end. Knowing that he had done what he could to prepare the new witcher caste for the future, **Adalwulf** relinquished his role as Grandmaster of the School of the Fox, **The Source** beckons him to follow an instinctual pull which leads the pair to the castle ruins of Gwydberg, to the holy sycamore tree of the Lady of Ravens, where **The Source** unseals Morrigan having done so **Adalwulf** willingly relinquishes the last fragment of himself and his being is taken over by The Source, who is reborn as an his former godly self. **The Source** having learned to like witchers through his time with **Adalwulf** decides to become their patron, granting blessings to those who among the caste who asked for his help and guidance.

#### The Source investigates with Morrigan the reason for his sealing and resurrects the Grigori Dagda (TBD)

TBA

#### The Source reforges his sword Aetherius to face off against Sargoranophfl, The Loathed Extinguisher of the Tyrannical Source (TBD)

TBA

### The Prime Protas are reunited (TBD)

TBA

Capable of causing a 'Big Bang' though the process takes a very long time. The Primes practically rule the Multiverse, though with the disappearance of The Source his mate Asherah has been distracted as such she is nowhere near as active in her duties which has led to the **Protas** passing from mortal knowledge.
Asherah: Balance, Blood, Creation, Life, Peace, and Protective Magic. Her Ichor is a metallic gold in color.
The Source: Creation, Death, Evocation Magic, Souls, and Victory. His Ichor is a metallic silver in color.
After the Primes, the **Greater** **Protas** are considered the strongest of the pantheon, having embodiments and powers which can be used more for offensive or war purposes.
Metatron: Holiness, and Light. His Ichor is a duller gold in color than his mother.
Betlena: Spirits and Stars. Her Ichor is a bright spectral blue in color.
Xaknera: Duty, Oaths, Promises, and War. Her Ichor is a lime green in color.
 Tier 2 (The Lesser Protas)
After the **Greater** **Protas**, the so-called **Lesser** **Protas** are more peaceful than the **Greater** **Protas**, focusing on more day-to-day affairs than their Greater relatives.
Wijun: Beasts & Beastfolk, Dragons, Faunal Life, and Hunting. His Ichor is a blood red in color.
Dumera: Agriculture and Floral Life. Her Ichor is rich forest green in color.
Cimbris: Healing and Wisdom
Noxlena: Logic and Science
Xyzotl: Harvests and Natural Beauty
Ituna: Sky, Storms and Weather. Her Ichor is a sky blue in color.
Quxasis: Ice and Winter. Her Ichor is icy blue-white in color.
 Tier 3 (The Special Tier Protas)
After the **Lesser Protas**, the so-called **Special Protas** have power over lesser concepts like trickery, punishment, wealth and luck.
Idos: Charisma, Trickery, and Punishment
 Tier 4 (Equivalent to a Demigod or a Hero)
Being a second-generation **Protas**, **Fanbris** is the only known fourth-tier **Protas** as well as the only one without a soulmate (He claims its because he loves games so much), he is much weaker than his relatives but is still capable of reality warping in his personal domain of Games as well as the realm of Tibil.
Fanbris: Games

## Abilities

* **Protas Physiology**: An **Protas** naturally has the abilities of a **Protas**.
	+ **Spirit Divinity**: The **Protas** receive power from a divine spiritual source.
		- **Patron God**: The **Protas** serve as patron gods who personally protect, assist and/or looks after those people who believe, have faith, pray to and worship them. The individual **Protas** can chose who to reward between those in need and their devotees with blessings, favors and gifts, like granting people supernatural items or divine powers, or even granting them aid from other supernatural entities.
	+ **Divine Aura**: The **Protas** have the ability to surround themselves in divine energy.
		- **Divine Presence**: The **Protas** have the power to emit a transcendent presence that can cause supernatural effects.
		- **Flight**: The **Protas** can fly by lifting themselves in their surrounding divine energy.
		- **Submission (Their creations and the faithful)**: The **Protas** have the power to cause their creations and anyone faithful to them to go into submission or yield to them at their whim.
	+ **Spirit Physiology**: The **Protas** are a race of Spirits: a supernatural and conscious (although may not be necessarily sentient) being that in its normal state is incorporeal, invisible, and immaterial. Many spirits are able to materialize either by shifting into a more solid form or by taking a vessel to give them physical shape, which can be done either by possessing an already existing form (either a living being or an object) or by animating and wrapping part of the environment "around" them. As a spirit, the **Protas** have the abilities of spirits.
		- **Empathy**: The **Protas** can fully interpret the emotions, moods, and temperaments of others without reading apparent symptoms, allowing them to understand introverts or discover one emotion is actually hiding another. They can attack someone in a personal and emotional way since they know exactly what emotion is flowing through them and can use this knowledge to play against them.
		- **Inaudibility**: The **Protas** have the ability to become inaudible by anybody or anything at will.
		- **Inodorosity**: The bodies of the **Protas** possess no discernable scent.
		- **Intangibility**: The **Protas** have the ability to phase through physical matter at will (similar to a Specter).
		- **Invisibility**: The **Protas** have the ability to render themselves unable to be seen.
		- **Possession**: The **Protas** possesses the power to inhabit the bodies of other beings/entities.
		- **Redundant Physiology**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** lack any physical weaknesses.
			* **Contaminant Immunity**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** are immune to poisons, bacteria and diseases.
				+ **Disease Immunity**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** are immune to all diseases.
			* **Digestive Expulsion Negation**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** lack the need for defecation or urination.
			* **Energy Independence**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** have an independence from energy, having no need to eat, drink, sleep, ATP, Mitchondrion (and by extension the lack of need for calories or other units of energy). The **Protas** do not fatigue or get tired. The **Protas** can can use their powers continuously/repeatedly without a need to recharge or refill their energy.
			* **Injury Immunity**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** have the ability to not be affected by harm.
				+ **Discomfort Immunity**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** lacks any uncomfortable sensations on the body.
				+ **Organ Independence**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** have the power to lack or live without any internal organs given that their being is energy-based and for the most part not organic in nature.
				+ **Oxygen Independence**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** have the power to survive without access to oxygen.
				+ **Pain Suppression**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** has the power to neutralize their sensitivity to physical pain.
				+ **Pressure Resistance**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** have the power to be resistant to high amounts of pressure and gravity.
				+ **Protected Senses**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** are immune to or can nullify any effect that damages or influences the senses, they are unaffected by blinding lights, deafening explosions, and extreme flavors/smells.
				+ **Temperature Immunity**: Because of their physiology, the **Protas** has the power to be completely unharmed by any/all temperatures.
		- **Shapeshifting**: The **Protas** possesses the power to alter their form and appearance.
		- **Soulmate Connection**: **Protas** are connected, linked, and bonded with their soulmates, with whom one has a feeling of deep or natural affinity all of which involves similarity, love, romance, platonic relationships, comfort, intimacy, sexuality, sexual activity, spirituality, compatibility and trust.
			* **Supernatural Reproduction**: **Protas** can supernaturally procreate with other entities; reproducing any common to completely unique beings with supernatural properties and powers that originated from them, having offspring brought forth by using supernatural methods or by natural reproduction with a partner. **Protas** can only naturally reproduce with their soul mate.
		- **Telekinesis**: The **Protas** possesses the power to move, manipulate or otherwise interact with objects/matter without using physical means.
		- **Telepathy (Differs at various levels with individuals)**: The **Protas** possesses the power to transmit information from one person to another through mental means.

## Culture

The actual population of the **Protas** was relatively small especially when compared to their enemies the Cosmic Horrors who vastly outnumbered them. Despite this discrepancy the **Protas** won the war between the two races, and developed wondrous magic and technology that would form the basis for most of life to come.

Due to their small population the **Protas** would live with other races socially without problem not suffering the superiority/inferiority problems that later races would sometimes suffer from.

## Racial Bias and Relations

“*The Cosmic Horrors are ancient beings of power, hunger and madness that are best left forgotten for the safety of life as it is known, but they refuse to just go quietly into silent oblivion.*”
―The Source explaining what a Cosmic Horror was to Adalwulf of Aedirn
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The arch-enemies of the **Protas**, for the most part the **Protas** are hostile towards Cosmic Horrors though there have been exceptions.

“*The children of dear Gridona, they take after her gifted with forge and metal.*”
―Asherah
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Viewing them as the children of Gridona, for a long time the **Protas** avoided making contact with this race though Wijun and Dumera would occasionally extend blessings towards them, their natural predilections away from hunting or plant tending would make these blessings unnoticed by the populace.

## Technological Feats

### Aetheric Alchemy Forge

Also known as a Life Forge, this apparatus was used to create the species that would come to be known as the Refiam. It was a cause of conflict with some members of the Grigori who began actively rebelling against the **Protas** in a bid to become the masters of the Multiverse, this led to more or less the **Protas** isolating themselves for several millennia from their creations.

### Dimensional Gateways

At one time, the **Protas** would place these gateways on various worlds to allow travel for their mortal subordinates to travel throughout the Multiverse, since the events of the Grigori's rebellion would lead to the destruction or disuse of many of these gateways though the would be copied to lesser degrees by other races, they did not operate to the full capacity of the originals.

### **Protas** Cosmic Blockade

The Protas Cosmic Blockade was an interdimensional barrier formed and maintained by the **Protas** (mostly The Source and Asherah) during the Protas-Cosmic Horror War to protect the fabric of the multiverse from being too damaged by the interference of the Cosmic Horrors. While the barrier still exists millennia later it is far weaker than it used to be and is primarily now used to protect the World of the Protas from discovery and subsequent possible invasion by the Grigori, the Nefandi, and the Aen Elle.

### Protas Artefacts

Several pieces of gear, armor and weaponry were developed and many exclusively used by the **Protas** and at times their subordinates.

See Aetherius, The Crown of Timelessness, Durendal and Tokens of Huses.

### Transcendent Technology

**Protas** technology thanks to the work of Noxlena and Cimbris is the most advanced in the known Multiverse being several hundreds of millions of years more advanced than humans at the time, as such many pieces are restricted to use only by the race and have several safety measures in effect to keep less developed races from using, stealing or copying them.

## Trivia

* The **Protas** are the creators of quite a few races such as the Grigori, Fey, Necrophages and the Akeros.
* Originally the author of this article had given the race the collective name of Elohim, but was informed it was religiously distasteful to do so,

## Notes

* The race known as the **Protas** are a purely fanon creation as such there is no official proof of their existence in the Witcher works outside the fanon community.
* **Protas** are free to use in stories and articles, all I ask is that you honor the lore present and if you make one add their name and a link to this page.
* The **Protas** are the author of the article's interpretation of higher powers, as such if anyone disagrees or doesn't want to include them in their headcanon that is perfectly acceptible.
* The existence of the **Protas** are a personal iteration for the fanon by Adalwulf of Aedirn, as such their existence in the fanon is not 'definitive' and is subject to the decision of inclusion in others head canons.
* This article is free to edit as long as you honor the lore, and remember that for the most part the **Protas** fall out of humanoid knowledge during the time of the Grigori.