Fiction:Tantummodo Mortem/Synopsis

This is a synopsis of, briefly detailing the main points of the plot. For a full experience, however, be sure to check the main plot pages.

Prologue
Sometime during the Earth years 2791 and 2792, the returned in the form of the. The Xhodocto's mortal armies, which included the and the, had all been either destroyed or fallen into disarray from lack of activity. ordered and his servants to reunite the Xhodocto's forces into a new empire: the. Obeying his orders, the Corruptus gathered the forces of the Devourer Chosen's remnants, the, the Cult, the and the demons of. Under the leadership of, the demons marched into the First Gigaquadrant, declaring war on it once more. At the same time, the Xhodocto destroyed the, and also attacked and exterminated the and turned their realm of Heaven into a second Hell.

Into the Fire
At April 2794, reunited a team of soldiers to venture into the Dominion of the Xhodocto's territory and take down a trio of extremely powerful megaconstructs: Draynia, Ightosia and Ardonia. The team was initially composed of Kithworto himself,, , , , , , , , , and Quinniath, the latter two under 's orders. To get to the Dominion, Kithworto led the team to, where they entered a Xi'Arazulha Vault and used it to be teleported to Inferno. Using the hellish realm as a shortcut, the team was sent to a Dominion base, where Kithworto cut it off from the Dominion's systems, allowing them to use it as their headquarters.

As they secured the base, Kithworto obtained reinforcements for his team in the form of, , , , , and the ONUC Unit. The team also encountered a Ruin Serpent of the slumbering below their base. Staying behind to coordinate the mission, the team infiltrated Dominion spaceships to get to megaconstruct Draynia. In the way, they met, the only surviving of the Aeropagus, and accepted him on their team. The team was eventually ambushed and trapped in an alternate dimension by the Horseman of Famine, who tortured them before Hachiman managed to break his concentration. Since the incident, Agent Nu grew strangely ill.

Following the incident, the team met and fought and, and then arrived to Draynia. Making their way to its core, the team eventually discovered that Agent Nu was in fact being possessed by Santorakh. Being forced to confront the possessed Kicath in battle, Apollo manage to lure Santorakh into attacking Draynia's core, causing it be destroyed from inside out. By using a pair of artifacts given by Kithworto, the team teleported back to the base, saving Nu and destroyed Draynia. Thanks to the possession, Agent Nu gained the ability of absorbing and deflecting Essence back in the form of Chaos Energy.

Feverous
Bfore moving on to Ightosia, Kithworto, Lemmo and Arkarixus worked on a pair of bombs disguised as Kicathian lunchboxes to be used to destroy both Ightosia and Ardonia. In the meanwhile, Hachiman and Kezoreg had to endure training under Kithworto's guidance, until a few months had passed. Apollo had left the team to return to Cyrannus, and was replaced with the Kicathian. Making their way to ightosia with Kithworto's new bomb, they would discover that the megaconstruct was in fact deemed as abandoned by the Dominion.

Ightosia had been overrun with a Xhodocto-made pathogen called the Infernovirus, a hiveminded virus which turns its victims into flaming, horribly mutated versions of themselves. Getting information about it from, the team would later encounter a dreadful, enigmatic shade which would then stalk them through the rest of their quest. As they approached the megaconstruct to investigate it, the team encountered a, the only species in the Gigaquadrant to be immune to the Infernovirus. The Nexus Grox heavily wounded, who was healed and then given a new personality which replaced his old robotic attitude.

When the team arrived at Ightosia, they encountered multiple mutants as well as the Zazane, who nearly devoured Hachiman alive before spitting him out. After Varugr was defeated, the team encountered Skhánaróton -01 once more, now turned into an immense mutant by the Infernovirus, and were forced to run away from him. Planting one of the lunchbox-bombs into the station, the team escaped on their spaceship, destroying both Ightosia and Skhánaróton before retreating back to their headquarters.

Digital Citadel
Returning to their base, the team found their base destroyed as the Ruin Serpent awakened and fought Kithworto. Now joining forces with the team, Kithworto led them to Ardonia, the final and largest of the Xhodocto megaconstructs. On their way, they discovered old Xhodocto logs detailing how Kithworto, in a past life, had actually served under the Legion of the Deathmarch, much to the team's surprise.

Once they arrived at Ardonia and confronted many Nexus Grox synths, the team discovered Ardonia was actually a supercomputer housing the master artificial intelligence of the Dominion: the ancient god AI Ikhtenul Xharn. Destroying Ardonia with the final bomb, Kithworto downloaded the team into Xharn to confront it from inside out. As they did so, though, Xharn was suddenly attacked by. Macin Xermilin would then sacrifice herself to slow Angazhar down, allowing the team to recover Xharn's data matrix and escape back to the Borealis Galaxy.

Dreams of Destruction
After much research, the team discovered what they obtained from Xharn's interior was not a data matrix, but in fact one of the dreaded Xhodocto Eyes, Apanthrakomena. Obtaining the help of and several other agents of the Draconid Imperium's Wraith Legion, the team traveled to the famous Kicathian planet of  to destroy Apanthrakomena. After the Eye was destroyed, however, the team was attacked by a mysterious, tentacled, dark spaceship which almost killed them as they escaped the planet.

Unsure of their next plan of action, the team would be contacted by and, who warned them that the Dominion had attacked and conquered the Realm of Dreams under the command of the Corruptus demigod. Traveling to the realm by using Hachiman's dreams, the team joined forces with, an anthropomorphic representation of Hachiman's power. They discovered the Dominion had discovered how to merge Entropic Energy and Dream Energy to create Dreamy Soldiers, extremely powerful, essence-made clones of standard creatures.

The team was forced to fight and {[captain|Murangon Nal}} as they ventured deeper into the Realm, where they discovered that the God of Dreams  had been slain and his soul had been taken by Shu'ytrogarva. The team was also forced to fight Dreamy counterparts of themselves, these fights eventually breaking Inquisitor Arsac and causing her to betray the team and join the Dominion under 's guidance. After arriving to Carmetego's throne, Shu'ytrogarva took Dreamy Hachi from the team and devoured him, using his energy to devour Carmetego's soul and turn himself into the new god of the Realm of Dreams.

The team confronted the demon, freeing Dreamy Hachi in the process. The dreamy entity then sacrificed itself to give the team reality warping powers inside the Realm, which they then used to fight Shu'ytrogarva in equal terms. By using his powers, Hachiman revived Carmetego, who delivered a violent beatdown on Shu'ytrogarva which left the demon at the brink of death. The demon's defeat caused the Dominion's presence in the Realm to disappear, and the team was sent back to the standard universe, where they could hear Shu'ytrogarva's last words: the ship that had attacked them at Occasus was a Xhodocto Rectifier, and the Dominion had entire fleets of them ready to attack the Gigaquadrant.

Solitude
Kithworto and the team traveled to Borealis and Andromeda to get the support of the and the  to face the new Rectifier threat. Following this, the team attempted to infiltrated the Dominion again, but were confronted by Agent Nu's sister,. After defeating her, the team obtained reinforcements from the AGC in the form of Venoriel in person, and was then attacked by, who sent them to another universe. During this time, the now corrupted Arsac and the Corruptus attacked the and recovered the Xhodocto Eye Terastia from one of their Reliquaries.

Kithworto mysteriously lost his power as the team was sent to the Mirror Universe, where they were forced to fight the mirror version of the crew of  and work under Eolania Menoraim to escape. During this time, Koluap's behavior changed, becoming hostile and sometimes even demonic. The team was later sent to the Fantasy Universe and then the Dysnomia Universe, the team eventually reached the Eola'Nar realm of Purgatory.

The team discovered Purgatory had been turned into a massive Rectifier factory. Meeting Kilrasinnyá once again, Agent Nu would sacrifice himself and crash Kilrasinnyá into the largest Rectifier in the realm, destroying it, the ship and the entire base, as well as Kilrasinnyá and himself in the process. With the base destroyed, the team was sent back to their own universe. Following this incident, Lemmo and the Wraith Legion left the team.

The Demon Who Came to Tea
Back to Borealis, Kithworto attempted to keep the team's spirits up with a party, but instead they were all sent to the Chaos realm of Insomnia by Santorakh, who wishes to force the team to do chores for him, for no reason but his own amusement. Being forced to follow the Xhodocto God's commands, the team had to do strange tasks such as turn the realm's "music" back on or recover the severed head of a former Kicathian emperor from a shrine.

Koluap's hostility grew to the point Sarec confronted him, where it was revealed that Angazhar had possessed the Spinker through his Xhodocto Axe. Facing a shade shaped like Angazhar in combat, the team destroyed the Xhodocto Axe's demonic influence. They later fought and defeated, who was sent to Insomnia by Zargoth. Both him and were then kicked out of Insomnia by Santorakh for displeasing him. During the team's adventures in the mad god's realm, they encountered Avaritia and Gula, two of the primordial Seven Deadly Sins, as well as encountered Agent Nu once more, having been sent to the realm after the explosion at Purgatory. Koluap lost his Xhodocto Axe to Avaritia during the team's stay at the demon's nest.

After doing all of Santorakh's chores, the team refused to eat from his food, causing the Xhodocto to go on a frenzy and attack the team in a Tandava avatar, using both Avaritia and Gula as his mounts. After a long battle, the team defeated Santorakh, which caused them to be sent back to Kithworto's apartment as if nothing had happened, except Agent Nu was back with them. Following this incident, Sarec left the team.