Ekalisse was the first of the three creator deities to come into being. We were once the only concept to exist. In a single timeless moment, we created the next few concepts: first we invented numbers. Then, the sense of self, of identity. Emotions, wants, desires. Only then did Time and Space come into being. Lonely, we created two new deities, and granted purview of time and space to them. No longer was the world merely conceptual, it had a physical form, and purview over the physical aspects of the world were granted to them to share. We are a deity, associated with the sea, but also with identity, concepts, and semiotics. In our prime, we could rewrite a person’s sense of being, replace who they are on a fundamental level with someone else, or as a soulless husk. We could destroy you on the conceptual level; not only would you not exist, noone would remember you. Or we could be cruel, and let you exist, in a different conceptual layer: able to see the world but not be seen by it. We have granted mortals some level of control over the creation of new concepts; an important step in letting them form culture… but even these concepts remain in our domain, and we could alter, reassign, or destroy them as we please. In our omniscience, we grew bored. In a flash of inspiration, new concept was formed; that of the multiverse. Did we create all worlds outside of our purview? Or did we simply allow them to interact with ours? Even we do not know, and that is exciting. Our excitement grew further when we witnessed two of our own vanish to a place outside our knowledge. We pried and prodded and explored that moment, and in an event we cannot remember, passed through on our own. From there, our knowledge and power faded to an infinitesimally small portion. For the first time, we have become veritably surrounded by things outside of our control or knowledge. Even our own thoughts and consciousness, from before we passed through, have become incomprehensible to us. We are confused and frightened… but excited. We retain control over our godly domains: the sea, concepts, semiotics, and identity… albeit at a very limited degree. We can try to consume the identity of a being, but they can resist us, and the Overseers can restore it if they please. As we are ultimately still a divine presence, we do not have a single form. We can form a group of avatars through which we can fight… but it comes at a cost of our very limited power, and should we run out, we will die. Control over semiotics allows us to obfuscate virtually anything: to temporarily render a person, object, or concept identifiable only as something else, or simply completely unidentifiable. Ordinarily, a descriptor can point to a single obvious concept: if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s clearly a duck. But we can redirect that last step; it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, which means its a moose. Or we can take that duck and simply leave it as an incomprehensible entity, even as its form and properties remains describable. Another nasty trick we have is that we are a manifestation of the concept of us: anything identifiable as us can potentially become literally us. We can manifest through a drawing of us, a description of us, a toyhou.se profile featuring us… we can even gain a semblance of control over any being that implies it is part of us: which includes referring to us with our preferred “we/us” pronouns…
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