Gentry/The Image

The Image

A facsimile and falsehood of the most Holy. It once sought to save humanity from some form of unforeseen threat, but is now only concerned with the upkeep and continued perfection of Its realm.

Description

The Image was supposedly birthed somewhere around the Chistianization of Rome, although Changelings knowledgeable of it aren't quite sure. At Its most basic The Image is a gleaming sphere of light whose brilliance reaches all of its realm. This light is shed and shared with all of its taken. It takes from the downtrodden and lost of the world. Those seeking aid and succor from a greater power. It doesn't offer absolution despite the similarities it has to Yahweh. However, it does offer an escape from the Hell that is earth if you would simply give up yourself to It and Its will.

Realm

The Hyperious Host A world of energy. Light dominates much of the hyperious host. The brightest of it all is an avatar of The Image, held aloft and at the center of it all. Below and around it are several layers of spheres wherein an angel commits to their duties. Pillars of fire hold each sphere up, and lightning courses through the floor of it all. Messages are passed from angel to angel by the wind of Its word and on the breaths of messengers. Things are often destroyed by the purity of flame, rebuilt by the designs of shapers, and put to form and truth by builders.

Methodology

An offer. People are met and greeted by angels that reveal their true form, targeting the downtrodden, weak, and forgotten. They get a chance to leave whatever Hell on earth that is their life, and in return they serve and do so without thought or question.

Suggested Themes for Escapees

Calling them escapees is a misnomer at best, and a lie at worst. The Image knows when someone wants to leave or is thinking of something - anything. People are offered to leave because The Hyperious Host is not a place of thinking. You are given divine purpose, and are expected to carry out whatever duties that you are assigned. Those unable to do this for whatever reason are offered the choice to leave, or simply cast out when they start having those nasty things, thoughts, or simply released upon question. You aren't a slave, but when freed you will be hunted until the end of your days.

• Caretakers: Usually wrought in flame, Caretakers are the custodians of The Hyperious Host. Silent, always moving, and beneath notice.
• Guardians: Guardians are one part of The Host's many martial arms. They serve as defenders should anything or anyone wish to invade their home and kingdom. To a tee every guardian possesses the head of some beast in reference to how said beast symbolically serves The Image.
• Justicars: The gleaming, painful left hand of The Image. They oust and confront any captive that wishes to have thoughts or openly create discourse within The Hyperious Host.
• Leaders: Angels given command of a complement of lesser servants to serve the Angel. Typically, they lead the Angels that are ironside in their quests to either find more workers or destroy the forsaken.
• Messengers: Spreaders The Image's word. There words are infallible, and everything is Truth.
• Shapers: The creators and designers of the hyperious host. They are gifted creation and its power by The Image.
• Watchers: Watchers document and record all that would happen in the hyperious host. Newer arrivals, their names, their histories, and their duties.
• Builders: The literal workhorses of the realm. Their work is almost never done.
• Carriers: Spreaders of The Image's truth ironside. They are the ones who greet and seduce potential angels.
• Martyrs: Those tasked with the hunting of forsaken escapees. Their title is such that they may die for The Image, and will be remembered and used as fire for the huntsmen to follow.

By Seeming

• Beast - None save Guardians.
• Darkling - None and never. There is always light, and The Image's light is everywhere.
• Elemental - Beings cast from the holy spheres and divine elements. Light, fire, lightning, and air.
• Fairest - Aside from Succubus for every obvious reasons, Fairest make up the vast majority of the inhabitants of The Hyperious Host. In a realm of perfect beauty
• Ogre - The rarest Seeming, but still present in some fashion. The builders and shapers, but not the architects and creators.
• Wizened - Along with Elementals, Wizened make up the second highest majority of Its captives. There is always work to be done, and they are the ones to pass on Truth in creation.

Escapees

• Escapees - Akka ibn Irin, Vesta