9/2/2023 0 Comments Realms of lust 5.1![]() ![]() Feel it thumping in your chest, stronger and stronger, attuning every fiber of your being to its wicked rhythms of pain and horror. Picture it expanding, slowly growing to become the size of your entire heart. Hold that malevolent core in the palm of your mind for a time. The part that tastes, most of all, of rage at all the things you can't change and all the things you might have. The part that tastes of bitterness, despair, and envy. Even if you’re one of the purest berks in existence, you'll still discover the part of you that's blacker than any ebony. Eventually, you'll peel away the skin of what you thought was virtue and find a writhing pit of darkest sin. Don’t worry if you can’t find it right away. You want to understand the tanar'ri? Here's how. Simply put, the tanar'ri were chaotic evil personified, creatures to whom the concepts of love and friendship had been long-forgotten as anything but tools to inspire hope to be manipulated and crushed in a world colored only by fury and bleak hate. Anything that moved was at risk of being killed and anything that talked was at risk of being cheated, for the tanar'ri had hate for all things that lived and even some that did not. Scale was also no deterrent since the leapt at the opportunity to inflict brutalities big and small, from burning the flesh from bodies to plucking off the limbs of insects. The vile tastes of the tanar'ri ran wide they took perverse pleasure in the torture of the mind as well as the body. ![]() Cold-heartedly callous yet burningly passionate, the tanar'ri acted on bursts of manic insight and creativity, and directed all of their energy into satisfying the most selfish and hateful of their urges. They delighted in cruelty towards the weak and mercilessly reigned over others with capricious, gleeful savagery. It was these desires, not doctrines, that fueled the violent inner drives which seemed insane to other beings. Indeed, the tanar'ri were bred for evil, as well as torment and corruption, not simply existing, but reveling in anarchy and bloodshed in accordance with their twisted desires. If the obyriths that came before them embodied the chaos of the Abyss, then the tanar'ri were incarnations of its evil. These were the markings of alterations made by the sibriex to the still-developing tanar'ri long ago. Some, like the hezrou and glabrezu for example, had half-organic plating under their flesh. Furthermore, many tanar'ri were also noted to share an odd feature in that parts of them seemed artificial, almost mechanical in appearance. Most tanar'ri had some humanoid features due to their close ties to the mortal realm, but many of the earliest varieties were monstrous and primeval in appearance with little if any such traits, the raw chaos of the Abyss leaving them in such bestial forms. ĭespite not following any overall rules, there were some major commonalities when it came to the tanar'ri forms. In short, the tanar'ri form followed no ultimate pattern because the lives and lands of the tanar'ri followed no ultimate pattern, with some types being entirely unique. Furthermore, the tanar'ri were mutable, always in a state of individual evolution to grow stronger, the path of which also depended on the nature of their environment. It was believed that some layers housed particular types of tanar'ri, and that those in small secluded regions might all share the same basic forms. ![]() The only true rule behind the form of the tanar'ri was that they followed function, each shape an adaptation to the infinitely inhospitable depths of the Abyss. While a common set of standard forms appeared frequently enough to give the appearance of a classification system, the truth was that for every known shape of the tanar'ri there were perhaps dozens unknown. From their skin to their organs, any sense of patterns or logical progression was absent. By their very nature as beings of chaos, it was a mistake to assume that the tanar'ri had any physical traits shared across the entire race. ![]()
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