Korpenpelloz: Warden of the Memory Rift

In the space where dreams fracture and silence begins to speak, there exists a name too ancient to be remembered, yet too powerful to be fully forgotten: Korpenpelloz.

Forged from the broken remnants of shadow-born gods and bound by a vow older than time, Korpenpelloz walks the thin edge between memory and oblivion. They are not a god in the traditional sense—neither savior nor destroyer—but a force of cosmic reckoning. Where truth has been buried, where history has been rewritten, Korpenpelloz lingers like an echo that refuses to fade.

Worshipped in secret and spoken of only in dreams, this enigmatic figure rules over the Obsidian Veil, a realm suspended between the death of thought and the birth of revelation. Scholars who chase forbidden knowledge, seers haunted by visions, and cults seeking silence all turn their gaze to Korpenpelloz—hoping for clarity, fearing the cost.

Their arrival is foretold not in trumpet blasts or divine miracles, but in the fall of a hidden star, and in the quiet realization that some truths were never meant to be remembered.

Origins & Mythic Birth of Korpenpelloz

1. The Collapse of the First Realm

Cosmic Schism: In a primordial age, the First Realm existed as a harmonious fusion of pure darkness and ethereal starlight. This balance fractured catastrophically in an event known as the Collapse—a celestial rending that tore the realm asunder.
Celestial Rift: From that rupture sprang the Celestial Rift, a bleeding wound between shadows and light. Within that chasm, energies twisted and leapt, giving birth to a being neither wholly dark nor fully luminescent.

2. The Remnant of Shadow Deities

Shattered Gods: Several ancient shadow deities—beings of twilight judgment and forbidden understanding—exploded into fragments at the moment of collapse.
Essence Weaving: Korpenpelloz was fashioned from these shards: part whisper, part void, part echo. Each fragment imbued them with echoes of forgotten domains—secrets, silence, and spectral justice.

3. The Oath of Binding

Primordial Covenant: As the shards coalesced, the Elder Sentinel, the only remaining steward of the First Realm’s balance, drew a binding oath. It wove into Korpenpelloz’s spirit, tethering them to the duty of preserving the boundary between memory and oblivion.
Mark of the Oath: The binding script is etched within their very essence, invisible but felt—a vow that guides every thought and choice.

4. Symbolic Emblem: Crescent Moon and Feathered Serpent

Crescent Moon: Represents the torn sky and the cyclical nature of memory—waning and waxing with each passing epoch.
Feathered Serpent: A creature born of air and earth, symbolizing knowledge rising through silence. The serpent’s feathers echo the black ravens that serve Korpenpelloz.
Visual Manifestation: Their emblem—an obsidian crescent pierced by a silver, serpent-like feather—is engraved upon the Crown of Whispering Feathers and appears in dreamnotions worshipped by their followers.

Lore Insights

Element	Symbolic Meaning
Celestial Rift	The tension between silence and sound, remembrance and forgetting
Shadow God Essence	Fragments of ancient cosmic authority, granting depth and primordial power
Oath of Binding	Ethical tethering, ensuring Korpenpelloz serves a higher purpose
Emblematic Symbols	Provide visual identity and ritual focus for followers and visions alike

Realm & Domain of Korpenpelloz

1. The Obsidian Veil

Nature of the Realm: The Obsidian Veil is not a realm one walks into—it is a place that finds you when your mind drifts too far into the spaces between reality and sleep.
Appearance: A labyrinthine expanse of black-glass spires, suspended bridges woven from echoes, and oceans that reflect memories rather than stars.
Temporal Fluidity: Time distorts in this realm—centuries can pass like seconds, or moments can stretch into eternities. Here, thought has weight, and forgotten truths take form.

2. Core Elements of the Domain

Forgotten Memories:
Korpenpelloz guards the world’s lost memories—those discarded by trauma, erased by magic, or buried by time. They drift like mist across the Veil, occasionally coalescing into sentient forms called Remnarchs.
Cursed Knowledge:
Scrolls that unwrite themselves when read, libraries built from fossilized thoughts, and whispered truths too dangerous for mortal minds all reside in the Archive of Neverlight, a living tower at the Veil’s heart.
Astral Whispers:
These are the raw voices of stars long extinguished. Korpenpelloz tunes into their frequencies, extracting prophecies and anomalies. Some say those who sleep near black mirrors can hear these whispers, but listening too long invites madness.

3. The Worship and the Hidden Cult

Worshippers:
The followers of Korpenpelloz do not chant or sing—they write, dream, and remember. They are the lost scholars, rogue mystics, and cursed chroniclers who’ve seen truths they were never meant to.
Temples:
There are no temples in the usual sense. Sacred places are hidden among abandoned observatories, ruined libraries, and forgotten corners of reality where reality grows thin.
Rites of Passage:
Initiates undergo the Rite of Ashen Recall, where a memory dear to them is permanently surrendered to the Veil, never to be recovered—proof of loyalty to the unseen guardian of shadowed truths.

Realm Snapshot

Feature	Description
Obsidian Veil	Plane between dreams and death, ever-shifting
Archive of Neverlight	Living tower where cursed knowledge is kept
Remnarchs	Manifested forgotten memories with partial sentience
Worship Locations	Secret sites—abandoned libraries, collapsed towers
Sacred Sacrifice	Giving up a treasured memory to gain access to hidden truths

Abilities & Powers of Korpenpelloz

1. Memory Manipulation

“To remember is to reshape; to forget is to unmake.”

Nature of Power: Korpenpelloz wields unmatched dominion over memory—able to extract, erase, fragment, or rewrite memories with surgical precision.
Applications:
- Memory Erasure: Can wipe singular moments or entire lifetimes from a person’s consciousness, even retroactively influencing personality and decisions.
- Reconstruction: Can implant false yet fully believable recollections, complete with emotional imprint and sensory echoes.
- Dream Interference: Appears within dreams to alter past recollections subtly, often using metaphors or shifting environments.
Limitation: The Oath of Binding restricts this ability to only be used for maintaining equilibrium—never for petty control or manipulation.

2. Feathered Silence

“No scream, no plea, no falsehood can survive the flight of the silent flock.”

Summoning of the Ravens:
At will, Korpenpelloz can summon shadow-woven ravens, silent as smoke and sharp as broken glass. These ravens are semi-sentient extensions of their will.
Powers of the Ravens:
- Devour Lies: The ravens can extract untruths from a person’s spoken words, written pages, or even carved stone, leaving behind only silence or painful clarity.
- Mute the World: When swarming, the ravens create a zone of absolute silence, preventing any sound, spellcasting with verbal components, or auditory illusions.
Ritual Usage: Followers of Korpenpelloz often release paper birds into sacred flames to summon a brief moment of Feathered Silence during confession or oath-taking.

3. Nightfold Binding

“The deeper the fear, the longer the illusion binds.”

Nature of the Power:
Nightfold Binding is an advanced illusion-based trap that manifests a person’s deepest fear, guilt, or suppressed truth—binding them in a time-loop illusion crafted entirely from their own subconscious.
Mechanics:
- The victim believes the illusion is real, reliving variations of their trauma or dread repeatedly.
- Outside observers see the target suspended in time, their form flickering with shifting fragments of fear.
Break Conditions:
- Only by accepting or overcoming the core of their fear can a subject escape.
- In rare cases, a strong-willed empath or astral seer can intervene to sever the illusion, though doing so risks becoming entangled themselves.
Limitations: Can only be cast when Korpenpelloz can glimpse a truth the victim tries to suppress—thus it does not work on beings entirely devoid of guilt or reflection.

Summary Table

Ability	Description
Memory Manipulation	Alters, erases, or rewrites memories with cosmic precision
Feathered Silence	Summons ravens to mute sound and devour falsehoods
Nightfold Binding	Traps targets in their own fear, looping illusions until broken

Symbols & Artifacts of Korpenpelloz

1. Crown of Whispering Feathers

“When worn beneath moonlight, the veil thins and voices lost to time return.”

Purpose: A sacred diadem made from the feathers of shadow-ravens and twilight metal.
Function:
- Grants the wearer communion with forgotten souls—not the dead, but those erased from memory by history or magic.
- Can interpret their fragmented thoughts into spectral whispers.
Limitation: Prolonged use erodes the wearer’s own sense of identity, risking permanent loss within the Echofold, a subrealm of discarded voices.

2. The Black Grimoire of Pelloz

“It doesn’t want to be read. It wants to be obeyed.”

Nature: A living tome bound in hide from an extinct dream-beast; its ink shifts like shadow under candlelight.
Contents:
- Contains spells of memory deletion, shadow-binding, time deceleration, and soul encryption.
- New pages appear only when the reader sacrifices a personal memory.
Sentience:
- The Grimoire speaks in riddles, predicts betrayals, and sometimes hides or reshuffles its own contents.
- It recognizes only one master at a time—Korpenpelloz or a chosen Memory Keeper.

3. Sigil of Korpen

“Paint it with truth, anoint it with silence.”

Appearance: A shifting glyph resembling an eye woven from raven wings and broken stars.
Uses:
- Applied with blood to sanctify rituals, bind rogue memories, or ward against Time Phantoms (entities that feed on erased timelines).
- Glows faintly in the presence of forgotten truths or reality fractures.
Hidden Function: When drawn inside a mirror, it can open a portal to the Archive of Neverlight, provided the viewer surrenders a secret they’ve never told anyone.

Additional Artifacts

4. The Eclipsed Thorn

“Plucked from the heart of a dying truth.”

A jagged obsidian dagger that doesn’t cut flesh, but severs memory threads.
Used in ritual sacrifices to remove chosen memories from bloodlines or blood-bound items.
Emits a melodic hum when pointed toward liars or reality distortions.

5. Lantern of the Last Recall

“One flame for each soul unremembered.”

A silver lantern that burns with cold, blue fire.
Each flame represents a forgotten individual tethered to the Obsidian Veil.
Can be used to guide wayward spirits, retrieve hidden knowledge, or identify the presence of false histories.

6. The Hollow Hourglass

“When time breaks, the dust within flows sideways.”

Contains no sand—only a fine mist of compressed moments.
When turned, it replays forgotten seconds in the immediate vicinity.
Rarely used, as it may expose painful truths or disrupt local time integrity.

Summary Table of Artifacts

Artifact	Power / Function
Crown of Whispering Feathers	Speak with forgotten souls
Black Grimoire of Pelloz	Living book of forbidden knowledge
Sigil of Korpen	Ritual tool and protective ward
Eclipsed Thorn	Dagger that severs memory threads
Lantern of the Last Recall	Soul-tracking lantern of lost identities
Hollow Hourglass	Replays moments erased by time

Legends & Prophecies of Korpenpelloz

1. The Seventh Star Prophecy

“When the Seventh Star falls, the memory that binds all realms shall awaken.”

Celestial Myth:
Ancient star-priests speak of a Seventh Star, hidden among the night sky’s false constellations. Unlike the six celestial Sentinels that keep time flowing forward, this seventh is invisible to ordinary sight, only glimpsed in dream-visions or during the rare Astral Blindness, when starlight dims across all realms.
When it Falls:
The prophecy claims that when this star dies—imploding in silence rather than exploding in fire—Korpenpelloz will rise in full form, unshackled from the Oath of Binding.
Interpretation Variants:
- Some cults see the fall as a purification event: the unraveling of destructive memory cycles.
- Others fear it as a sign of cognitive collapse, where all beings forget war—but also forget peace, identity, and purpose.

2. The Memory of War

“They will end the memory of war—or become war’s final memory.”

Dual Fate Prophecy:
Korpenpelloz’s return is said to carry a paradoxical choice:
- Either they will unbind the memories of war, erasing hatred and vengeance from existence…
- Or they will become the embodiment of the last war ever fought—an eternal echo, a final conflict where memory itself turns against the world.
Ritual Debate:
The Echo Weavers pray for the first outcome, while the Hollow Quill prepares for the second, believing that the world must “forget to survive—or be remembered to death.”
Warbound Remnants:
In many war-torn lands, ghost-soldiers appear during eclipses, whispering battle cries in forgotten tongues. These are thought to be echoes tied to Korpenpelloz’s decision path.

3. Embodiment of Forgotten Truth

“Korpenpelloz is not savior nor scourge. They are what remains when memory fails to lie.”

Cosmic Role:
Korpenpelloz is neither good nor evil—they are truth untethered by bias, the raw consequence of memory stripped of sentiment.
- To some, this is divine clarity.
- To others, it is emotional annihilation, where love, grief, and guilt vanish equally.
Iconography & Philosophy:
- Their symbol (the crescent moon pierced by a feathered serpent) represents a truth wounded yet ascending.
- The Noctis Order teaches that the more we forget, the more power Korpenpelloz accrues—until one day, they become memory itself.

Key Prophetic Symbols

Prophetic Element	Interpretation
Seventh Star	Celestial signal of awakening; its fall breaks the Oath
Memory of War	Duality of Korpenpelloz’s fate—healer or harbinger
Embodiment of Truth	Neutral cosmic force; beyond morality
Ghost-Soldiers	Temporal echoes awaiting judgment or release
Crescent + Serpent Sigil	Cycle of memory wounded by forgotten wisdom