Great Beings

The Great Beings are ancient, immortal, and powerful scientist-kings. Belonging to a now-extinct distant race of agori called the larfeia, the Great Beings are responsible for the advanced technology remnants on Spherus Magna and other sports in the Solis Magna star system. They have powerful psionic abilities and other unique powers, and have advanced cybernetics installed into their bodies, making them both supernaturla and highly technologically advanced. coming from their ancient larfeian heritage, the Great Beings wear masks that they have worn ever since becoming empower, though they have been augmented to have powers that ban be accessed through their powers and technology. do to a battle that wiped out most of the larfeia people shortly after being empowered, there are now only less than twenty Great Beings left.

### History (finish and fix this later)

They were gifted powers by a collective of natural protodermis that came to spherus Magna in order to defend its inhabitants from a colelctive of antidermis that rained down on the planet late in Greani's lifetime. They were too late, but were influenced to still go to Spherus Magna. It was a small collective, but large enough to impact the whole of the Larfeia people that they were destined to transform, became different and had power beyond those of other spherus magnans. With them on their journey to space were meteors, their dead from ancient battles with antidermis as part of their Eternal War, and when they rained down upon the Larfeia so too did the metoers, those dead physical remnants of fluid angels. the meteors just tagged along. What advanced the Larfeia was the silver rain of the natural protodermis. Those Larfeia that knew how to control their newfound powers faster and better than others became shamans.

Now, the larfeia were victims of a celestial monster, a gluttonous star of horror who ate dream. This lovecraftian god-like creature was named Annona, and she lived deep under the mountains. She would devour the dreams of their villagers, and threatened their entire existence, so they made a pact: they would round up a hundred selected sacrifices and march into the the Great mountains and deep into her dwelling in labyrinth cave systems, and present the sacrifices to her. Those hundred souls would would be mentally imprisoned their and slowly consumed for a time before she was done and began to attack the Larfeia villagers again. some individuals rallied warbands before and attempted to slay the beast, but they always ended up like snacks for her. The Larfeia people were at her mercy.

After the Silver Rain (the drops that did not hit the Larfeia hitting the ground and either destroyed things or transformed, so the Valley of the Great Beings looks weird as shit), the shamans, now ready and confident, rallied their entire peoples, the whole population, deep into the mountains and into  the cave systems. These shamans needed every single soul as they would serve as a wall of flesh, spear, and small power to defend against the wrath of this abomination as they did the heavy fighting. in the end, the whole population died except for less than 20 of the remaining shamans. They could not kill the monster, but their own power frightened Annona as they peered into her mind, saw all the dreams and imaginations that she had reaped from their people for thousands of years, and her food ripped from her a starved and weak and small, she fled. Mentally they crushed her. The shamans completely surrounded by the corpses of their people. nothing they could do, they left the cavarns and closed the entrance, leaving the place to be amass burial site. Some of those bodies were only mentally reaped, others ahd their bodies torn asunder, gore everywhere, either by Annona's multitude of spiked tentacle arms or by her power.

They went back home and worked in isolation for some time, no one knows how long. but myths spread fo these wizards, these gods among men, that lived away from the rest of civilization, walled off by the impenetrable Great Mountains and the fear they hold. Anyway, eventually, all would come call these powerful foreigners the Great Beings, and after being invited to Atero, all bowed before them and abandoned their old creeds and faiths and proclaimed them to be gods. one by one the nations of the known world submitted to the Great Beings by sheer awe, and the Great Beings eventually utilized these population to wage war on all Celestial monsters, even those ones deemed good by some, and billions died in dutiful obedience to what they saw as a justified war. Like Neala did to Khargnu (Antidermis), the Great Beings enacted a great purge on all of these abominable gods. A divine war on earth with the blood of mortals feeding the harvests to later come in the Great Being's Golden Age that spanned over a thousand of years before their retirement and the eventual outbreak of the Core War.

There were few pockets of those that feared the Great Beings and retained their traditions, but they were a tiny minority.