The Man Who Draws Things
and his Darkness Device,
The Other Nameless One

Statistics for The Man Who Draws Things and The Other Nameless One are not included, because like their cosm they are constantly recreating themselves. But neither have physically transformed to the Ideal reality, and therefore lack the Ideal Body skill. The Other Nameless One makes up for it with the usual 200 TOU. The Man Who Draws Things runs away a lot!

The Man Who Draws Things

The Man Who Draws Things is first and foremost an "Artist," even to the point of forgetting the time he spent before becoming a High Lord, and living "only in the moment." Of course, being High Lord material means that he is all of the bad things and few of the good. He is petty, vain, blinded by his own vision, and intolerant of his critics. He is rarely creative, usually relying on a pastiche of another High Lord's cosm or ideas taken at random from other art forms for his "masterpieces." Even when he recreates the cosm in his own images, he can barely take the time necessary to complete his plans before he has come up with new ideas that must be carried out, now! Imagine the attention span of the Pharaoh Mobius, the linear thinking of Ulthurion (in his current dragon form), and a sense of humor rivaling that of the technodemon Thratchen and you get the general idea.

The Other Nameless One

The Other Nameless One is a total nut burger, plain and simple. If it's ramblings are to be believed, it was the first and greatest of the Darkness Devices, brought by random chance to the one cosm that is the antithesis of everything it stood for. It holds the other Darkness Devices accountable for it's abandonment and humiliation, and has no problems invading their realms. It still reveres The Nameless One, which alternates in it's addled mind from a brother to a father figure to something it read in a fortune cookie somewhere. It cares not for power, and has not even related the Torg myth to it's High Lord. It wants only destruction, the more the merrier.

How to plan the Ideal Invasion

The Ideal invasion usually consists of three stages: First The Man Who Draws Things comes up with a new idea, and sets about formulating a new World Law to capture it's essence using The Other Nameless One to physically transform the Ideal cosm to match his vision. Then when everything is ready, The Other Nameless One sends the entire cosm, lock stock and barrel, to the chosen invasion site in what amounts to a widespread dimthread. Due to the energy requirements in moving an entire cosm, the invaded area is usually very small, rarely more than a few city blocks, though The Man Who Draws Things has sometimes been able to "ride piggyback" on the stelae of other Darkness Devices to increase this to an area roughly the size of Tokyo. (As a side effect of the transportation, the invaded zone is only dominant. If another reality's stelae are used, the zone becomes mixed.)

Once there, The Other Nameless One works desperately to drain more possibilities than it spent getting there before The Man Who Draws Things grows bored with it all, takes his toys, and goes home. The aftermath of such a quick and dirty invasion is devastating, with twice transformed Ords exploding all over, physically transformed Prateds dying through disconnection, and physical objects that were a contradiction under the new axioms suddenly just disappearing without the Ideal reality to give them form. Luckily, such invasions are rare. It is usually ninety days or more before The Other Nameless One has enough energy to support another one, and even longer before The Man Who Draws Things can come up with a new concept to try out. Additionally, the invasions usually don't take in as much possibility energy as they cost, and The Other Nameless One has to sacrifice parts of the Ideal cosm just to keep going. Soon there may be nothing left but a very bitter young man too self-involved to notice, and an even more bitter lump of darkness to insane to care. But such is Art...

Relations with other High Lords

As to be expected, The Man Who Draws Things doesn't play well with others any better than his Darkness Device, and has no time for anyone who does not "share his vision". And since the Ideal cosm is just as likely to invade their realms - or even home cosms! - the other High Lords don't like him very much either. Most are willing to just let him go on his way, knowing that he will be gone soon enough and they can rebuild. But the Gaunt Man has sworn to destroy The Man Who Draws Things, The Other Nameless One, The entire Ideal cosm, and "that darn dog!"

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