Vitriol

**Leo Viridis**, frequently referred to as **Vitriol**, is a Primordial entity of Oblivion 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 seems to have a rather passive and quietly prefers to devour planets that are inhabited, or at the very least suitable for life, this trait only serves to make him more amoral as his endless hunger has cost the lives of millions - otherwise billions as well as rendering even more homeless and scattered across the universe.

Too powerful to be defeated by most (even for fellow cosmic entity; Ouroboros the Primordial of Infinity), Vitriol is often portrayed as a force rather than a being like a destructive primordial god who thinks nothing of pitiful pleas for mercy or compassion yet also seems to be driven by a deeper understanding of the universe than mortals - as he once stated he is ultimately destined to give much more than he has taken from the universe. Despite that, however he still has a limits, as he knows when to eat/devour and when to stop, as it will disrupt the balance of the cosmos.

It has also been revealed that Vitriol is the only one of the few beings that can stop and defeat the spirit of destruction known as Ayin from being released into the universe - so in many ways, the universe is lucky to have Vitriol around.

Of course none of this means much to those caught in the path of a hungry Vitriol and for many the towering figure of Vitriol is the final image they will ever see as their world is consumed by an unimaginable force of power - perhaps this is what truly makes Vitriol so terrifying. He is not evil, but he can not be bribed nor reasoned with, he simply is. The only thing he knows is to devour (uninhabitable) planets only to balance the worlds of the mortal realm.

## History

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 primordials, 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.

## Vitriol

### 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

### Affiliations

Three Great Titans of Creation, Cosmic Egg

## Physical Description

### Spirit of

Hunger, Oblivion, Destruction, Non-Existence

## Relatives

### Siblings

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