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Qyorth-Vael-0
Commandment 9Reality-Unmaking

Qyorth-Vael-0

The Architect of Collapsing Testimony

“Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour”

A sentient paradox of shifting refractive surfaces and non-Euclidean angles that manifests specifically when a sentient being consciously distorts truth to harm another.

29

Challenge Rating

24

Armor Class

720

Hit Points

Domain Beyond Space & Time

The Interstitial Lattice between perceived intent and objective history, existing only in the nanoseconds where a spoken lie distorts local causality.

True Form

A hyper-dimensional structure of infinite, mirrored faces that constantly rearrange into impossible shapes, projecting the observer's own voice back at them in a discordance of stolen identities.

History Uncovered So Far

Initial reports surfaced in the recovered logs of the Chronos-Anchor expedition (Circa Era: Unknown), where the crew found their own diaries rewritten with histories they never lived. It appears that Qyorth-Vael-0 is not an entity in the traditional sense, but a sentient distortion occurring whenever an objective truth is actively suppressed for malicious gain. Several scrolls recovered from the ruins of Aethel-Gard describe the entity as an 'echo of the ninth silence,' a force that crystallizes falsehoods into physical anchors in reality.

Contradictory records exist regarding its origin. One apocryphal text from the Pre-Collapse era claims it was birthed during the 'Great Perjury of the Star-Kings,' an event where entire civilizations claimed their neighbors were ghosts to justify genocide. Modern archival analysis suggests that Qyorth-Vael-0 does not merely observe these lies; it feeds upon the structural integrity of reality that breaks when a falsehood is accepted as truth.

Fragments of research from the missing Dr. Aris Thorne indicate that the entity operates across all timelines simultaneously. If a lie is spoken in the past, Qyorth-Vael-0 retroactively alters the history of the accused, ensuring the falsehood becomes their permanent record. [REDACTED] indicates that the entity is expanding, as the prevalence of misinformation in the current epoch has provided it with an endless, nourishing landscape of distorted causalities.

Laws Uncovered So Far

  • 01Qyorth-Vael-0 only manifests in the presence of a conscious, malicious deception directed at another sentient entity.
  • 02Once summoned, it replaces the victim's past with a fabricated history that justifies the falsehood told about them.
  • 03Observers who witness the entity suffer from auditory decay, losing the ability to distinguish their own voice from the entity’s projections.
  • 04It cannot influence entities that lack the capacity for abstract language or deception.
  • 05Any attempt to photograph or record its geometry results in the destruction of the storage medium and the corruption of the user's memories of the event.
  • 06It requires a 'Witness of the Lie'—a third party who hears the falsehood and believes it—to anchor its physical form into our reality.

Signs of Manifestation

  • ✦The air smells of ozone and rotting parchment.
  • ✦All reflective surfaces in a one-mile radius begin to show the viewer's reflection speaking words they did not say.
  • ✦A localized drop in ambient temperature to near absolute zero.
  • ✦The sudden, inexplicable appearance of written records that contradict the observed environment.
  • ✦A rhythmic, subsonic hum that forces all nearby sentient beings to speak in the third person.

Legendary Abilities

  • ✦Causal Rewrite: The entity forces all nearby beings to believe a chosen falsehood, turning it into their new reality.
  • ✦Refractive Mirroring: It absorbs any magical or physical attack and reflects it back as a manifestation of the attacker's deepest regret.
  • ✦Temporal Displacement: It shifts its physical location to a point three seconds in the past or future to avoid incoming damage.
  • ✦Identity Erasure: With a mere vibration of its geometry, it strips a target of their name and history, rendering them a blank slate in the eyes of everyone who knows them.

Recorded Sightings

  • ✦2024-04-12: Witness observed at a judicial trial; the defendant vanished as the verdict was read, replaced by a crystalline sculpture of a screaming man.
  • ✦2027-09-22: [REDACTED] in the Arctic Circle; the entity was seen consuming a mountain of falsified documents.
  • ✦2031-11-05: A village in the Andes lost its collective memory of its own history within hours of a local political scandal.
  • ✦2033-01-19: [REDACTED] suggests the entity has begun to inhabit digital communication networks.

Suspected Weaknesses

  • ✦Exposure to unadulterated, universally acknowledged facts, which acts as a caustic acid to its structure.
  • ✦Total silence from the victim of the lie, as the entity requires the verbal confirmation of the false witness to maintain its anchor.
  • ✦A paradox where two observers see the entity while contradicting the lie simultaneously, causing a feedback loop in its geometry.

Forbidden Texts

  • ✦The Codex of the Hollow Tongue by Arch-Heretic Vane (Age of Dust)
  • ✦Calculus of the Deceiver’s Shadow by Unknown (Found in the Obsidian Vault)
  • ✦Observations on the Fractured Mirror by Dr. Aris Thorne (Pre-Collapse)

Containment Protocol

Containment is currently impossible. The Order uses 'Veritas-Anchors'—devices that emit high-frequency pulses of pure, objective data—to disrupt the manifestation for brief periods, but the entity simply folds into a higher dimension and reappears elsewhere.

Cost of Witnessing

Witnessing the entity causes 'Cognitive Dissociation Syndrome,' where the victim loses the ability to recognize their own memories as factual, eventually leading to a complete ego collapse as they believe themselves to be a fabrication of another's lie.

Still Unanswered

  • — Does Qyorth-Vael-0 hold any allegiance to the 'neighbor' it destroys, or is it purely parasitic?
  • — Is the entity a product of the Ninth Commandment, or is the Commandment a warning issued by those who first encountered the entity?
  • — What becomes of the 'real' versions of the histories that have been overwritten?
  • — Can the entity exist in a state of absolute, universal truth, or would it simply cease to exist?

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