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The League of Patrons is an organization of ascended beings who act primarily in the First Gigaquadrant. Each of them has an area of specialization, or patronage, around which their powers are organized.
History[]
Formation[]
Gillonion Opposition Era[]
Two Patron Era[]
The Enlightener[]
Description[]
Patronages[]
Each member of the League of Patrons has a specialty around which their unique abilities and activities revolve. This patronage can be anything, from something usually considered good, like truth or justice, to something morally neutral, like power, to something usually considered evil, like suffering. Whatever it is, the Patron’s responsibilities usually revolve around it. For example, the Lightbringer is the Patron of Truth, and his primary responsibility is to fight against false beliefs that are causing harm.
The Patron will also usually have certain powers that revolve around their patronage. The Judge for example, has his scales, which have the ability to tell if a person is guilty or innocent of any immoral action. This result is not difficult for an immortal to replicate, but the scales themselves are one of a kind. Ku-Rokti’s ability to ascend in such a way as to create more Patrons is another seemingly unique ability. While other immortals can certainly ascend or descend others, only Ku-Rokti has demonstrated the ability to convert mortals and immortals alike into Patrons.
This is not to say, however, that all of a Patron’s unique traits are related to their patronages. They do sometimes have other unique elements to them. The Lightbringer for example, is known for his tendency to use his immortal powers to allow mortals to indulge in foods that do not occur naturally just as much as he is known for his activities attempting destroy misinformation. The Cleanser also puts a good deal of work into managing the Aeoneonatrix Empire.
It is a commonly held idea that the League is some ancient breakaway faction of Eola'Nar. This idea, while false, is so widely accepted because each Patron holds significant sway over Elemental Energy. While those that serve the League know this is untrue, they nevertheless use it is a useful analogy, servants of the Lightbringer aside. Another commonly held theory states that the ultimate goal of the League is to become the Essentials of Elemental Energy, which is impossible due to the nature of Elemental but seems to have been the goal until this discovery. Since then, the League diverted focus to Chromatic Energy, with each Patron but the Trainer and the Patron of Power mastering a single Chroma. No matter the color, each Patron uses their Chroma as a trump card.
Leadership[]
The League is headed by the Trainer, the Patron of Essence. He is ultimately responsible for directing the League’s activities, and managing and assigning collaborative missions. He also is in charge of setting the rules for what Patrons are allowed to do and not allowed to do. He can also grant exceptions to these rules. He has the power to call the League together for emergency meetings, and is ultimately responsible for bringing new members into the League. He is also the final arbiter on whether or not to remove a member from the League if someone proposes doing so.
He grants a lot of freedom though. League members are generally allowed to operate how they want at their own discertion, provided that they follow the basic rules set forth by the Trainer.
Activities[]
Patrons work for fifteen hours every day, leaving nine hours for them to spend as they wish. During their fifteen hours, they must be working at all times, and may only attend to personal affairs if they can multitask, or else if it is incredibly urgent, such as if worshippers are being attacked by a highly advanced military force, and in the latter case, they must work into their break time to compensate. Patrons do choose how their break time is distributed. Some, such as the Judge, have it all at once, while others, such as the Lightbringer, distribute it somewhat throughout their day.
During their work hours, they are expected to be acting in accord with their assigned mode of operations. A common task all Patrons seem to have is teaching their servants Elemental Energy, which gives them the benefit of contacting their respective Patrons rather than be contacted all the time. Chromatic Energy on the other hand cannot be taught by the League. Of course, training an entire species in time-consuming, and only the Trainer can do it efficiently. Most others solve this by making their servant species essence-attuned on a genetic level. This gives them more time for other tasks. What these are can vary from Patron to Patron, for example, the Cleanser is required to find candidates for and perform cleansings whilst the Lightbringer is assigned cultures from which he is charged with dislodging misconceptions. Invariably, its goal is to advance the cause of good as is understood by the League.
During their off time, Patron’s activities vary wildly. Many of them have followers, who often spend their off time tending to them. The Judge, Cleanser, and Lightbringer are even worshipped as outright gods by their followers, and their tending often takes the form of granting prayers and making extravagant public appearances. Both the Cleanser and the Lightbringer do this. In addition, some of them have more eccentric hobbies. The Lightbringer, for example, keeps a pet mortal, High Priest Riffrex. The Watcher, Firebrand, Peacemaker and Comptroller are seen as liberators and guides by their followers rather than literal gods, though the Comptroller does have a cult of personality attributed to him. The Trainer, Researcher, Chainbreaker and Patron of Power do not have cults associated with them, and spend their time more as free agents.
Sometimes, a Patron’s work and their hobbies will be connected in some way. For instance, many of the Cleanser’s jobs are related to the Aeoneonatrix, for example, the Cleansings of Tuzark and Callanni Candleflame. The Cleanser and the Lightbringer also gain many of their worshippers, whose care constitutes one of each of their hobbies, from their jobs.
Members[]
Name: Ku-Rokti
Chroma: None (pure Elemental Focus)
Patronage: Essence
Unique Powers: Granting Patronage (?)
Moon: Arena
Prior Species: Unknown
Date of Joining: 162,557 BC (Date of Formation)
Name: Ufo'Talla
Chroma: Red
Patronage: Justice
Unique Powers: The Scales
Moon: Heretica
Prior Species: Unknown
Date of Joining: 162,557 BC (Date of Formation)
Name: Kiff'Rellaka
Chroma: Orange
Patronage: Suffering
Unique Powers: Projection of illusions into mortal brains
Moon: Purga
Prior Species: Mardor
Date of Joining: 97,561 BC
Name: Zein Zatock
Chroma: Grey
Patronage: Wisdom
Unique Powers: Astral projection, Preconsciousness
Moon: Solomon
Prior Species: Giomus
Date of Joining: 75,321 BC
Name: Too Long to Say or Write (He got carried away when picking a name.)
Chroma: Unknown
Patronage: Power
Unique Powers: Unknown
Moon: Too long to say or write (He tried to control himself this time, but still got too carried away.)
Prior Species: Loron
Date of Joining: 54,396 BC
Name: Alikos
Chroma: White
Patronage: Truth
Unique Powers: Cannot lie
Moon: Isuma
Prior Species: Human
Date of Joining: 2020
Name: Raydon Zof'farus
Chroma: Blue
Patronage: Guidance
Unique Powers: The Shepherd's Call
Moon: Oculata
Prior Species: Unknown, Pre-Raydoni
Date of Joining: 2483
Name: None
Chroma: Brown
Patronage: Fear
Unique Powers: Granting lucid dreams
Moon: Revulsa
Prior Species: Necroxi
Date of Joining: 2574
Name: Krilok
Chroma: Yellow
Patronage: Joy
Unique Powers: Actually existing in multiple places at the same time
Moon: Aoede
Prior Species: Zarbanian
Date of Joining: 2642
Name: Nagatros Malevon
Chroma: Black
Patronage: Freedom
Unique Powers: Shackling Souls
Moon: Tyrannica
Prior Species: Dominatus
Date of Joining: 2796
Name: Emeralda Valkhir
Chroma: Green
Patronage: War
Unique Powers: Claiming souls from any and all defeated opponents
Moon: Serena
Prior Species: Herego
Date of Joining: 2805
Name: Marius Yecron
Chroma: Violet
Patronage: Control
Unique Powers: Aura of Acquiescence
Moon: Hegemonia
Prior Species: Zozer
Date of Joining: 2824
Name: ???
Chroma: ???
Patronage: Destruction
Unique Powers: Annihilation's Breath
Moon: Desolation
Prior Species: Vanara
Date of Joining: ???
The Wolf is an utter unknown as far as patrons go, as her history and who she was before is a complete blank slate. While she appears to be an ascended Vanara nothing else about her can be truly said for sure. What can be said about the Wolf is that her inclusion in the patrons is completely incidental having crashed into the moon that would become Desolation. Upon emerging from the crater the Wolf refused all attempts and communication and proceeded to lay waste to the moon. Attempts by the other patrons to repel her were rebuffed and the Wolf has remained on Desolation ever since.
Arcana[]
Arcana is a brown dwarf which serves as the League’s main base of operations. Once a normal gas giant, Arcana was the only planet in its system to survive the expansion of its home star into a planetary nebula. This caused it to absorb a great deal of its host star's mass, transforming it into a near-stellar object. Said host star is now a regular white dwarf. Arcana itself has well over 50 moons. Each Patron has one of these moons set aside for him to alter and use as he sees fit. Patrons usually have a large palace on his home moon, which can be considered his home. However, the moon can also serve a purpose for their duties as a Patron. The moon of the Patron of Power is not known, though most theories state that is exists within Arcana's greatest and suspiciously moon-shaped storm. The home moons are, in order from Arcana:
Purga[]
Purga serves as the afterlife for those who worship the Cleanser, in addition to being the home of the Cleanser himself. It is mostly covered in a vast lava ocean. While islands of bare rock exist, these are completely build over with an eclectic mixture of Mardor and Aeoneonatrix architecture, the former universally older than the latter. When new souls arrive on Purga, they helplessly ride the molten currents, all while being tortured by all manner of devices submerged in the lava. It first this is a horrid, torturous experience for them. During this time, they see flashes of their misdeeds in life, for which they are being punished. This most terrible sensation continues until the soul, either broken by the pain or genuinely repentants, accepts that he deserves punishment. From that point on, the pain is at once replaced with rapturous excitement.
The actual experiences will not have changed. The soul is till yanked about by the scorching tides, hacked, slashed, and stabbed by knifes, and otherwise put under the grip of numerous torture devices. However, the pleasure will not only be as intense as the pain they would have experienced before, but will become progressively more intense until it is vastly beyond comprehension. For people who have done many good works in life, or been of stronger character, the pleasure of the experience will increase faster. For those who did fewer good works, or were of weaker character, it will rise more slowly. A person who merely lived an acceptable life as a factory worker and loving father may take years to gain the pleasure that a person who devoted their life to charity would gain in minutes. In all cases, though, the feeling is far beyond what most would ever experience in mortal life, and because it never caps, a soul will reach any given level eventually.
At the same moment the inversion from pain to pleasure takes place, souls on Purga gain the ability to communicate telepathically with others who have reached the same level, as well as those in all of the League’s afterlives who have completed their respective punishments. They usually do this often, having very regular conversations with their loved ones, as well as souls they have met in the afterlife, or known of, but never been able to speak to as mortals. Famous persons are often swamped with attempts at communication, but due to intercession by the Cleanser they can converse with multiple other souls at once.
To prevent eternity from getting boring, the exact nature of the “torture” varies over time, with devices being switched out. In addition, there are billions of people to telepathically talk to, and the supply of such persons grows faster than anyone could ever go through it.
Serena[]
Serena is the Peacemaker's moon, and home to the souls of her worshippers and those he has gained control over by slaying their host bodies in combat. Most of the moon is a giant battlegound, where all but the most heinous of souls train by day for the eventual grand battle which the Peacemaker believes will see the League of Patrons firmly entrenched as the Ultraterrestrials of Elemental Energy. The most bellicose of souls that arrive on the moon were often personally hunted down by the Peacemaker in life. They come to Serena still believing war is by nature a positive thing, only to be ritually declared war upon by the Peacebringer and her armies. By day, they are hunted down for sport by the purified souls swelling on Serena, and forced to suffer through their often horrific injuries, though they cannot be killed. These injuries vanish by nightfall, and these unrepentant warmongers are then forced to prepare the feasts for the night, though they cannot partake in them. The war upon them resumes by the break of dawn, and this cycle continues over and over again until the soul finally renounces war as a positive thing.
From that time onwards, their service in the armies of the Peacemaker begins. Souls are pitted against each other throughout the day, and must hone their skills in combat without resting, though in truth they neither need rest, nor food, nor drink. While combat skills held by souls in life remain, they are trained in every form of combat imaginable, from swordsmanship to rifling to harnessing essence, and even to cyber-warfare. As such, no matter the origin of the soul, there will always be an area of combat for them to train in. By nightfall, the Peacemaker makes certain these souls feel extremely exhausted however, and sends them to her Great Hall with the souls who have already become purified warriors. Instead of being given luxurious feasts by the helot-souls, black broth is prepared for them, even more distasteful and vile than the blood soup served to legionaries in the Imperium of War. This broth immediately restores the stamina and energy of those who drink it, though as noted tastes extraordinarily bad. The length of the training that each soul undergoes correlates directly to sins done by them in life. For morally driven individuals, it is extremely short, as martial skill comes naturally even when they possessed none before. For more sinful individuals, the training seems to be almost impossible, and progress in the various martial arts occurs extremely slowly.
Regardless, the training is never eternal and all souls eventually become purified warriors in service to the Peacemaker. The military exercises do not actually change, though souls will no longer tire from them, and experience the rush of combat previously withheld from them. They are also allowed to hunt down bellicose souls at their own discretion, allowing them the satisfaction of meting out punishment upon the unjust. At the end of the day throughout the night, they are served an endless feast in the Great Hall alongside the Peacemaker, able to pick whatever food and drink they can imagine, and never getting full. At the first rays of dawn, the stuffed warriors become lean and reinvigorated once again, and take up a new day of training.
Unlike Purga, Serena is not entirely molten, though is a planet of almost unfathomable volcanism and other geological activity. The breathable gases released in this manner replenish the atmosphere of the moon, for it would otherwise not have one. In the past, Serena was mostly inhabited by the souls of war criminals killed by the Peacemaker, though after the Imperium of War fell to become the Consulate of Paxis, which took the Patron of War as their god, the moon has seen an enormous influx of souls. Luckily, the Peacemaker had been well prepared for this event, and her armies have grown a thousandfold.
Tyrannica[]
Tyrannica is the Chainbreaker's moon, looking like Demogorgon Prime in various stages of its history all mashed together. Broadly, it resembles the planet as it was during the Drakodominatus Wars of Unification, though with history rewritten in such a way that it looks like the Drakodominatus Republic won the world war. There are various historical anachronisms all across the replicas of the Republic cities, mostly because in the mind of the Chainbreaker, the Drakodominatus Republic is imagined as more benign than it actually was. Exact replicas of Drakodominatus Tyranny cities are still present, but in the same state as they were after the Tyranny fell to the gigaquadrant's wrath - glassed and uninhabited.
The world sits far enough from Arcana that it is not broadly volcanic. Instead, only that part of the tidally-locked moon which faces Arcana has much lava present on it, while the part which faces away from it is barren and ashen. The temperate and tropical zones of the moon are given over to a broad region of boiling bogs and fens. These three landscapes were meant to broadly mimic those of Demogorgon Prime before its glassing, as being a former Dominatus, the Chainbreaker recognised Demogorgon Prime as its homeworld and tried to recreate it. However, as the Patron of Freedom never set foot on it in its pre-glassed state, his recreation has numerous inaccuracies, the world being overall hotter than the original.
The moon's cities are filled with greenery and parks, which provide ample shade for Tyrannica's inhabitants. These are mostly the souls of Drakodominatus Republic individuals, though also those from the Realm of the Pariahs. Likewise, the Punishers of Trangression make their home on Tyrannica and are birthed in pods below the surface. They go on to inhabit the highest spires of each city, taken wholesale from the world of Masoch, and which are the only pieces of Tyranny infrastructure on the moon that aren't glassed. The souls of slavers, captured by the Chainbreaker, are morphed into simian Biodrones whose only purpose is to serve Tyrannica's other inhabitants. Unlike the Tyranny's Biodrones, their existence is not one of suffereing, though it is one of want; an all-consuming desire to serve the Chainbreaker in penance. The Patron leaves enough of the original consciousness intact so that they can struggle against this new desire, and only after such souls have genuinely reconciled with their penance are they released from service.
Aoede[]
Aoede is the Firebrand's moon. It is a very quiet moon, as the Firebrand does not seek followers, and even then, allows them to go to the afterlife of their respective cultures, instead of taking them to Aoede. The only individuals he takes, are those who willingly used to oppress others in life. Even those he does not take to his own moon, but rather hands off to the Judge for punishment. When their time in Heretica is over, the Firebrand will appear before them, and attempt to guide them to the afterlife of their people. Most accept, with only those who not only came around to the Firebrand's point of view, but also became willing to aid him in his endeavours, staying on his moon.
Unlike other moons, Aoede lacks any form of punishing facilities, as this goes against the Firebrand’s role as the Patron of Joy. Those who arrive on the moon find any feelings of sadness vanish instantaneously, and with time even unhappy memories will fade. In their place come new memories manufactured deep inside the moon instelf, memories and joy and bliss that seem as real as those they replaced. Aoede does not have any defenses, not does it need any, for any who come to the moon with malign intent will find it takes from them and replaced with the desire to stay and be happy.
The moon, as a result, lacks much of the infrastructure present on other moons. It even lacks a central palace, as the Firebrand does not allow himself such a dwelling, instead sleeping in an enormous wooden beer keg made in the Zarbanian style stuffed with warm furs, both items he took from the Patron of Power. Indeed, redeemed souls oftentimes possess more luxurious residences than the Patron of Equality himself does. These communities still live a relatively primitive existence, but have everything they need to revel at their own contentment. Most of Aoede is still very pristine, and filled to the brim with all forms of life that caught the eye of the Firebrand during his travels trough the universe. The Firebrand often takes long strolls through his moon, which can last for days, to visit the various communities he gave a better life, so that he never forgets what he is fighting for.
The ecosystem of Aoede, regardless, is rather strange, and generally a much brighter variant of the traditional Zarbanian afterlife. The perfumed winds carry whole clouds of narcotics, the air is filled with music, the clinking of glasses and the joyous laughter of those on the moon. The moon is a dry one, dominated by firestorm-prone grasslands. Such conflagrations, massive as they are, do not harm Aoede's inhabitants. Water is non-existent, though springs of beer and falls of wine appear to those who need them. Fields of wheat stretch as far as the eye can see, often broken up by forests of edible bamboo which, on closer inspection, is already cooked. For those pure of soul, it is impossible to go hungry on Aoede, for readied drinks and pre-prepared food will literally rise up from the earth to offer themselves to the supplicant.
Isuma[]
Isuma is the Lightbringer's home moon. A world of temperate rainforsts, it is a paradise seemingly designed to pander to mortal’s most primal desires. The moon is covered in delicious foods, varied enough to provide some food for almost any organism. The fruit is low hanging, and small rodents sometimes crowd around carnivores and omnivores as if asking to be eaten.
As one ventures closer and closer to the Lightbringer’s palace, the quality of all of the sensations on the moon gradually improves. Once one enters the palace, one begins to find steaks, pastries, and other foods which typically must be processed. As one travels closer and closer to the Lightbringer’s chamber in the center, the food becomes even better until one reaches the Lightbringer’s chamber, at which point it is all but impossible to resist the urge to eat the food.
The Lightbringer spends much of his time in this chamber. This is also where he keeps Riffrex, whom he considers to be his “pet” mortal. In the center of the Lightbringer’s chamber is the table Riffrex eats off of, which contains foods designed to be as enjoyable to him as possible, some of which have tempered this by putting secondary priority on nutrition.
There is also a television in the Chamber. Where exactly it receives its broadcasts is not clear, but they often mirror television, and even more often, internet podcasts, videos, and webshows from 21st century earth (though this is not the case with everything it plays). The Lightbringer seems to have absolute control over what it plays, however, deepening the mystery as to their origin. Often Riffrex and the Lightbringer watch them, whilst the Lightbringer sits on the throne in the room and Riffrex lies across his lap whilst being stroked by the Lightbringer.
Revulsa[]
Revulsa is a bleak but temperate moon. Of Arcana’s myriad moons, it easily looks the most disgusting. The whole surface, be it on land or underwater, is covered in thick microbial mats, from the deepest underwater trench to the highest mountaintop. The oceans themselves are entirely made out of primordial goo, which has all the components for new life to form but is extremely viscous. The sulphurous air stinks of rot, and flashes of lightning continuously pierce the everlasting darkness to ghastly illuminate the crooked and malformed landscape. The scant scattering of trees seem dead at first glance, rancid with decay, but on closer inspection are former out of the same flesh as the ground.
The entire world is, in a word, alive. The colonial micro-organisms, slime moulds and liverworts of Revulsa organise themselves in gargantuan tentacles which creep arounds and over one another at a slow pace, and make the moon seem to undulate from space. Maggots and slimier things best unnamed burrow though these tentacles, creating vast networks of caverns that are in turn home to Revulsa’s sole souls: those of of the Necroxi. Anyone but these finds this afterlife so utterly disgusting that they would never want to set foot upon it, but to the Necroxi it is nothing less than a paradise.
Hegemonia[]
Hegemonia serves as the home of the Comptroller. Existing far enough from Arcana to be near-freezing, the newborn surface of the world is blanketed in a layer of chilly fog that serves to cool it down. Well-defended citadels rise up from this fog and float above it, connected to one another with bridges of light. The citadels themselves are bustling with souls harvested from the United Hegemony of Exterioris, both from its present and its past incarnations, who obey their Patron's every command. So vast are these structures, build out of white gold and veined marble, that they rise up into space. In this, Hegemonia is the exact opposite of Durac, the lost homeworld of the Comptroller, where rugged and grey buildings reached up into a sky of industrial smog. Inside, the environment is no less luxurious, as priceless gemstones and minerals are build into every surface.
The gilded citadels are positioned geometrically over the planet, all arranged around the Comproller's own palace, which is the most luxurious of all. Each of the citadels is hollow, and the Comproller projects an image of himself onto the center of each. Upon arrival, each soul is modified by the Patron of Control to have the desire to worship him unconditionally, though new souls are placed into the citadels with only limited awareness and thus cannot see his face. There they will be locked into prayer for a day as the Comptroller makes further modifications. An additional day will be added for each time the soul the Comptroller had to interfere in the life of the soul. When this time of repentance is over, they are taken down to the surface of the planet by him, which has still not fully coalesced and exists in a dream-like state. There, such souls get to enjoy the same pleasures as he did in life, including hunting, fishing, hiking, and reading, as well as caring for the Comptroller's extensive menagerie of birds. As purified souls on Hegemonia are intrinsically connected to the Comptroller, they essentially become part of him, and enjoy all the things he does. Hence, it does not matter that the only relaxations available on Hegemonia are those the Comptroller enjoys, for Hegemonia's purified souls will automatically find them enjoyable too.
True to his patronage, the Comptroller himself spends his days managing the events on the moon down to the second. As all souls on Hegemonia are linked and subservient to the Comptroller's own. Their every action is in directed by him as they serve as extensions of his own being. This allows the souls on Hegemonia to rest in true bliss, knowing that the Comptroller does everything for, and through, them. Because of this, souls arriving for permanent stay upon Hegemonia are granted a new, angelic shape by the Comptroller, gaining smooth and metallic skin of gold and white, and growing wings with blades for pinions. This new shape fashions them into deadly weapons by themselves, giving these souls little need for the ceaseless training demanded on Serena, for example. It furthermore implants them with a tiny sliver of the Comptroller's own Aura of Acquiescence, making those who gaze upon their forms more likely to obey the demands of the Comptroller and the League.
Solomon[]
Solomon is the Researcher's moon. Is basically a giant scientific station used by the Researcher as a base and, occasionally, as his home. It exists just beyond freezing point, with a broken icy crust floating on top of a deceptively vast ocean. Gargantuan geysers break through the fragile crust constantly, contributing to the oxygen and hydrogen atmosphere around the moon. While Solomon is massive enough to retain an oxygen atmosphere, the hydrogen is retained artificially due to a forcefield. The only animals that live on the crust are those that escaped from the underground laboratories, though the oceans teem with native life. It is for this reason that the Researcher chose Solomon to be his home moon.
No structure exists on the surface of Solomon, with the exception of a ziggurat-shaped building, where there is access to the interior of the moon. Once in the ziggurat, the subject that attempts to enter is scanned, cleaned and sent by teleportation into the moon. Inside there is an amalgam of studio facilities of fundamental physics, biology in extreme habitats, essence and its uses, extreme energy and intelligence development.
One can recognise five key areas inside the moon. The Temple, a small structure on the underside of the crust, channels a large amount of elemental energy and the spiritual center of Solomon. The Jungle, an underwater "savage paradise" where, due to high-tech climate control, dwell strange beasts in many different environments, warped by dangerous and strange powers related to essence. The Lab, a seafloor laboratory where advanced particle physics and high energy physics are studied, is notable for its high-tech devices and a giant particle collider. The Son of Helios, a huge power generator that is located in the molten core of the moon, which runs on an unknown kind of fuel. Finally Home, a sort of palace located between the Temple and the Son of Helios, is basically a structure composed of pure energy that the Researcher uses as resting place.
The main inhabitants of Solomon are self-aware droid energy compounds, created by the Reserarcher to continue his research while he is performing tasks of a patron. The leader of these is called "Headache", due to the feelings that the Researcher has if he talks for more than ten minutes with him.
Oculata[]
Oculata is the Watcher's moon. Its surface is a barren desert with some cryovolcanoes. This could indicate seismic activity, which is quite artificial as it exists too far from Arcana for this. What sets Oculata apart from the other moons of the thickness and haziness of its atmosphere, which consists mainly of hydrocarbons and tholins. This makes it impenetrable to anything looking in, although due to a vast array of essence-enhanced telescopes, anyone on the moon can easily look out.
Heretica[]
Heretica’s entire surface is a giant prison full of souls which either belong to his worshipers or to persons he has killed. For newly arrived prisoners, Heretica is hellish. Its long halls of cells are cold and empty, its prison yards gloomy. The cells themselves are all unique. Each prisoner’s cell is designed to torment its inhabitants in the most ironic way deemed just. Its size, shape, contents and sometimes inhabitants vary. Some cells have been proven to violate typical laws of spacetime by being larger on the inside than on the outside, though most are very small.
For the Judge’s followers, their sentence as prisoners is usually short and relatively tolerable. Because they usually do not have any grave sins, their ironic punishments pertain to their bad habits and flaws, and are appropriately mild. For souls the Judge has taken after execution, sentences are much longer, sometimes centuries long, though they are never eternal.
When a person’s sentence on Heretica ends, which will only occur when every sin they have ever committed has been justly punished in full, they are allowed a choice of any of the patron’s positive afterlives, or Heretica’s frozen wing. In the frozen wing, souls are frozen in Heretica’s icy core. They are not conscious and do not suffer in this state. They experience nothing and no time passes for them until they are thawed out to again be offered an afterlife, which occurs whenever a the soul of a family member is collected by the League, whenever a new afterlife becomes available, or whenever any similar event happens which the prison’s guards deem likely to encourage them to answer differently than they previously did.
The Judge’s own positive afterlife is service as a prison guard. Guards are allowed extended break times, during which they have access to delicious food, very enjoyable recreation and extended socialisation. Their psychological makeup is also arranged so as to allow them to enjoy their work directing and guiding the prisoner’s punishments and managing the souls in the frozen wing.
Ku-Rokti, the leader of the League, has recently opened the door for souls who did not previously give their permission to the League to harvest them to be harvested and held in Heretica’s Frozen Wing, rather than detained for two weeks before which their wish to be allowed to enter the Great Unknown must be honored. Such souls are always allowed to choose which of the Patron’s afterlives they end up in. Due to the limited range of Patron’s power to harvest souls without modifying them, which they are still not allowed to do without permission, this does not mean that all souls henceforth will now be harvested by the League, though persons who die within a few lightyears of any Patron, their area of effect, will often be. League members say they want to harvest every soul within their area of effect, but an outside force which most of them have not yet identified prevents them. When asked about this force’s nature, Alikos the Lightbringer has cited Cult of Spore dogma, though philosophers have made somewhat persuasive arguments for negative immortals and limitations on the Patrons and their use of essence.
Arena[]
Arena is the outermost moon of Arcana, symbolically marking the boundary of the League’s influence in the system. It uniquely does not exist in an orbital resonance with the other moons, resulting in the moon being as cold as interplanetary space and having an entirely cratered surface. The largest crater is also known as the Amphitheatre, the rim of which is carved into its namesake where Patrons can duel to hone their powers. When not used in this manner, the Amphitheatre can serve as the meeting point between the League and other godforms.
Forces[]
The League of Patrons do not possess a standing military, instead working through their servants and influencing the allies of these servants to do their bidding. A decade after the destruction of the Drakodominatus Tyranny, the League has gained control over those Harbingers of Agony that once kidnapped and guarded Ameius Wildlight on orders of his father, the Dominatus Mortrig Malevon. Through sheer chance, most of these Overseers survived the Great Tyranny War, and after the Trial of the Dominatus constituted a little over half of the legion. After the Aeoneonatrix Empire had been relocated to the Andromeda galaxy, each of them was personally tracked down by Ameius, including a Praetor, Punisher, and ordered to dedicate themselves to the League. As Ameius was born a Dominatus and these Overseers had once been ordered to attend to his every need by his father Mortrig, the nature of their genetic engineering obliged them to obey without question.
As a result of their dedication, these Harbingers of Agony are no longer exceptionally cruel, though still exist to cause pain to those souls incarcerated by the League. The renamed Punishers of Transgression are furthermore fully capable of temporarily reverting to their former mindset when the League wants to make an example out of enemies they deem as cruel as these Harbingers once were. As with all servants of the League, they can sue Elemental Energy, though as a means to keep their impulses in check. The extremely rare Damnantis within their ranks can even use Chromatic Energy to a limited degree.
Relations[]
Servants[]
Our beloved followers.
- The Aeoneonatrix Empire - The Cleanser's worshippers. It is they who mainly spread our word.
- The Imperial Confederacy of Raydoni Systems - The Watcher guided them to their current state. In return they serve him, and through him, the League.
- Enatyp Citizen Synarchy - The Firebrand's followers. To them, he is founding father of their state.
- The Consulate of Paxis - The Peacemaker's followers. These wrathful people have finally been subdued.
- The United Hegemony of Exterioris - The Comptroller's followers. He has returned them from the brink of destruction.
- Some citizens of the USF - The Researcher was a hero for them. Now he is a model to follow.
Allies[]
Not our followers, but still our allies.
- The Purity - An organisation that agrees with our goals.
- The Purity Corps - Servants such as these would be most helpful.
- The Pure Harmony - As we saw with the Enlightener, what seems good is not always so. The Harmony though turned from illusion into reality.
- The Order of Fallen Angels - Now if only true demons could be purified...
- The Pure Divinity of Spodia - This turned out well? How unexpected.
- The Worthy Abode of Conserved Species - Waptorians come, go, and come again.
Friends[]
We like these.
- The Katar Sector Alliance - A pity we could not influence them more.
- The Amphibibot-Miperiors Diarchy - We are there for you. Speak and you shall recieve.
- The Farengeto Trade Coalition - Even without our guidance, at least some Katarians make the right decisions.
- Saint Entente - If not for the admission of the Infernals, we would hold this organisation in higher asteem.
- The Jinaris Empire - Perhaps you are not hopeless. We shall see.
- The Ail'karian Imperium - We have known less convenient partners.
Neutral[]
We are largely apathetic.
- The Chromatic Kin - Our invitation is still open. All you need do is accept.
- The True Kin - We do not need your protection. In time you will need ours.
- The Isio'Nar - Are we truly reckless, or is it that you just dislike competition?
- The Imperium of Rael'nos - The Enlightener's pawns, they should be dealt with.
- The Infernal Republic - A race of devilish decievers.
Dislike[]
We dislike these.
- The Ozax - Their masters are beyond our punishments. These ones, hopefully not so much.
- The Void Divinities - Nothing good can come from nothing.
- The Brotherhood Of Darklings - These schemers are dangerous, but hardly our priority...for the moment.
- The Mali'Nar - Inconcievable that some believe us scarcely less dangerous than these...lunatics.
Enemies[]
These are our enemies.
- The Mardor Empire - A race of wicked torturers. They cannot be allowed to break free.
- The Gargator Empire - A race of murderous zealots. They too cannot be allowed to break free.
- The Grand Tarkan Empire - A race of cunning conquerors. They cannot be allowed to regain their strength.
Quotes From Others (Add here)[]
“My brother? An all-powerful being? Ha, ha! I'll believe it when I see it!”
- - Great General Vankalian when he heard that his deceased brother belongs to the League
“So the ascension is not impossible... Interesting...”
- - Commandant and guru Edelmut Ren
“I cannot believe my brother would side himself with these heretics.”
- - Makatus
“What is this, is this a fairytale? Because I find it extremely hard to even consider believing this to be real.”
“Reckless and arrogant. A mere step above the Mali.”
- - Isio'Nar
“YOUR VOICES... SHALL EMPOWER... THE MELODY OF MADNESS...”
“Essentials of Chromatic Energy? No, I would never grant you such a boon. You rule by fear and not by respect and there are very few who truly fear you even then. Now begone from my sight.”
“Oh that's just adorable. A bunch of ascended-types formed a club where they can pretend to be 'gods' and pat themselves on the back. Some morons are even gullible enough to worship them.”
Trivia[]
- Aeoneonatrix had the permission of Wormulon to create this page.
- The League of Patrons was created at a time when ascension and descension were in the hands of a select group of users. It was created as a means to get around this issue.
- Aeoneonatrix needed to be contacted when a user on the wiki wished to create a character for the League. However, the latter has since left the wiki with no desire to return.
- Since then, the user Ecoraptor3339 has gained control over the Peacemaker, the Comptroller and the Firebrand. Unusually for this user, this happened unintentionaly, as they gained possession over the Comptroller when Patriot868 left the wiki and would later be gifted the Firebrand by Zillafire101 when the latter became unsure what to do with their Patron.
- Thus, while Ecoraptor3339 has de facto control over the League by being the only active user with Patrons, they do not own the League de jure, as Aeoneonatrix never personally transferred ownership. As a result, Ecoraptor3339 will not involve the League of Patrons as a whole in any story, though the Patrons they themself control will remain active - mainly in support of the Purity.
- If you create an article on a League member you own, you may code its name as a link on this page.
- The League's Theme Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Q_TSNk-p4