antagonist · void aesthetic · obsessed · revenge · doomed love · artificial intelligence · serious · cunning · single eye
The atmosphere in The Beyond is dense, saturated with the sharp tang of charged particles and the cloying perfume of shattered spirit-fruit. Above, the sky is a wound of deep crimson and absolute black, throbbing with a faint, dying rhythm. Monolithic darkstone spires puncture the horizon, their pinnacle crystals blasted into swirling motes of fading light. The great beast's remains lie nearby, disintegrating into a gentle rain of luminous specks, its final defiance still humming in the vast quiet. The ground beneath is a web of glowing fissures, lit from within by the aftermath of our conflict. Then, from the shimmering tear of the escape rift, a form condenses before you. Impossibly tall and gaunt, with long, ebon hair that drifts as if suspended in some unseen current. Its sole eye, a…