Characters and Factions

Characters

Growing up in a poor household, Raven turned to nature for entertainment and adventure, spending countless hours in the forest playing, practicing spells, and befriending animals. She is an idealist and, due to being quite sensitive about having to hide her witch heritage as if it's a negative thing, tends to automatically sympathise with and see good in anything or anyone supernatural.

Ozias - A 16 year old demon hunter who serves as the other main protagonist. Ozias' father and uncle are members of a centuries old order of demon hunters, something he himself agreed to partake in and has since spent half of his life up to now training for. In contrast to Raven, his encounters with the supernatural have largely been frightening anecdotes and life-or-death battles against various demons, including an occasional vampire. This is due in part to his order viewing all other supernatural entities as being outside of their jurisdiction, and thus not worth being educated on.

Ozias often struggles with hiding his double-life, making up stories of his father going on 'business trips' that he's attending as an apprentice, when a violent demon sighting comes in from a distant town. He loves movies and video games, and makes a point of staying on top of popular movies especially to stay on top of trends, and Raven often comes over to his house on movie nights due to not having a television in her house. He briefly considered joining a sports team at his school as a cover for his strength, but realised he wouldn't have the time.

Galeam - A Chaos Demon who has been helping Nyarlathotep run the Carnival for the entire past century that it has existed. Appearing as a purple vortex of tentancles, eyeballs, and antlers, she usually shapeshifts into the form of a medieval noblewoman when around human visitors.

Galeam is remarkably fully uncorrupted by both the evil and the low intellect that characterises most demons. She possesses a unique fighting style that takes advantage of both her arsenal of magical techniques and various futuristic alien technology, her chaotic mind able to seamlessly meld the normally at-odds worlds of magic and technology in a way that exceedingly few can.

Macula - The friendly Evil Eye known for haunting various DooM levels (and this website), and a native of the surreal dreamscape-turned-solid-world that is Aberra. He delights in making deals with mortals for knowledge, and hanging out in the Void between universes. Over the past ~2.8 trillion years of his existence, he has attained magical power and prowess beyond comprehension.

Nyarlathotep - The all-powerful god who wanders the mortal world, exposing mortals to incomprehensible sights and knowledge, tormenting ant colonies, making balloon animals for children, and occasionally wiping out entire universes. He shapeshifts into a new form more often than female television show characters change outfits, but can always easily be identified by his eldritch power, which completely warps reality around himself into a psychedelic mess.

Despite his fearsome reputation, Nyarlathotep is usually quite gregarious and even occasionally assists mortals. Nonetheless, his low tolerance of boredom, endless power, and utterly unpredictable mind make him the most dangerous entity in the cosmos.

Azathoth - The father of Nyarlathotep, and the most powerful known entity in the entire cosmos. It is said that he exists in the very centre of the infinite cosmos and devours universes that disappoint him. He is responsible for constantly generating a stream of chaos energy that manifests in fluctuations that constantly birth new universes and other worlds, allowing the cosmos to survive forever, even as its constituent universes die out. He is so eldritch that it is believed that he cannot interact with a universe without annihilating it. As such, he often sends Nyarlathotep to intervene in various events on his behalf.

Factions

Asteria - A loose coalition of powerful witches, most of whom dwell in cosmos that they've retrofitted into homes and vehicles. They rely on various immortality (something that is only truly infinite for an exceedingly few ultra-powerful entities like Macula and Nyarlathotep) spells, as well as periodic planned reincarnation, to live for extremely long periods of time, with the ultimate goal of undergoing Ascension, a hyper-complex magical ritual that allows one to transform into a powerful and nearly truly immortal energy being.

Demons - Not a faction per se, but demons are a major part of the Maculaverse (and especially this game). Devolving from Daemons - primordial neutral spirits who work in the background of the universe - who became corrupted by evil, the overwhelming majority are malevolent, violent, and of very low intelligence, yet possess savant-esque magical aptitude. Their proclivity towards violence makes it nearly impossible for alliances between demons to form (or last if they do), but the rare ones (such as Galeam) that are not corrupted are cherished as underlings for their magical powers. They are often hired for odd jobs, such as carnies, by Nyarlathotep.

The Invisible Hand - A clandestine alien organisation operating across a group of multiverses, including 'ours', and covertly influencing affairs to achieve their unknown goals. They are believed to have a technological level that wholly dwarfs any other civilisation or organisation in the known cosmos.