Counci

"*A race of beings with peculiar physical properties, there is no space in their bodies and their souls can harbor very unique traits"-* **The Old One** discussing with **Berons** on the newfound opportunity

### Significance

The counci were the second forms of sentience to tread the plane and it was their sole responsibility to manage the natural progression of souls to create a pure being. Their sense of self righteousness was a consequence of being given power over lesser beings and their own isolation created their downfall as many soon failed to find purpose in their work after the betrayal.

The counci are all thin, black, and leathery beings with plates of bone growing from their skin, every one having one at least on their face. Other than that they can vary wildly in appearance as some have human-like hands while others have long tendrils, their bodies are *mostly* humanoid though not always. Their necks are often long and their width usually lacking. When working their body can glow the significant color of their soul.

Without the soul project to keep then entertained, many splintered off or died trying to find new purpose out in the mortal plane. A list of significant counci dominated locations will be provided as well as their distinct classes.

The counci were the first beings to create soulbound **Relics**, tools which were imbued with the very soul of said counci to provide excelling performance for a specific condition such as fighting or construction.

### Counci Variants

The Counci are most often described into three classes, with other special categories for unique cases. The purpose in identifying these variants is to see how they interact with one another as they all have very specialized jobs.

#### Laborers

Though title can be misleading, The laborors often do just that. They are the engineers for the Soul Project, and are also the most numerous. The most famous of these laborers being **Endar**, for his history of invention, combat, and striking resistances to the corrupting forces of time.

Unlike **Mysterious**, Most counci refused to intervene with the mortals, their resources and pesky nature making them more like a large fireant colony than a real threat.

#### Enforcers

These much more secretive counci are the ones often in Councils, their job is to keep other counci in line and orchestrate what happens in the long term. Their souls are actually weaker overall than the laborers but their armor, weapons, and tools put such an evaluation into question.

These counci are much less active than others, though few are known to never sleep and spare on the constant, most lay dormant and rely on their overpowering force to defeat any foes before being dormant once more.

#### Masters

The Masters are the pinnacle of Counci Generals, Every single one, obviously few, carries the potential to manipulate all energy with ease with influence and sight planets away. They are ever present and the most corruptable as their widespread eyes and knowlege often thrust them into objective nihilism, though it is important to note that their special type of corruption is more alike to a switch in personality than devolving into a monster. The masters are very polarized, either having grand armies of golems with generals or being totally secluded as other counci fear their bouts of anger and seemingly reckless actions. These counci are by far the largest and seldom of familiar biology, refer to the common body types article to see the examples

#### Unique Cases

Junesmoon is a false counci, due to the counci body plan being stolen in the future for him to be sent back in time for them to adopt.

GioGen is a mutated counci, they are unique due to their fragmented body

Bound counci are any counci who have shared their souligate with a mortal, possibly including the upper relatives of Bearhood

### Corruption

Corruption is the act in which a counci will lose purpose and be driven to animistic insanity (in most cases), The corruption drastically increases the strength of the counci at the cost of direction, so a corrupted counci somehow captured by a mortal warlord would be an invaluable asset, Most objective purposes are usually with an expiration date and having sunk so much time into a single project, a counci may find it hard to restart so corruption is inevitable for most counci.

### In Killing

Counci are mass based, so precision weapon weaponry is reductive in effectiveness, the most common benchmark is to remove thirty percent of their mass but the most resilient or simple can withstand losing up to sixty before losing consciousness.

Atmospheres that dampen the ability for souls to express are also useful, such as the one Akhed used, though a cheaper option would be to gather intelligence on a mental flaw in the counci to exploit in order to induce corruption as its inbetween stages are when it is weakest

### Trivia

- The counci were originally derived from the **HUSK** body, but were eventually grown into their own creature, therefore their resemblance to the Enderman from Minecraft is not unfounded.