"From benevolent Nimwe to corrupted Beastborn, witness the entities that inhabit a world where divine blood transforms innocence into nightmare"
In Arcadia, consciousness shapes reality as much as reality shapes consciousness. Here dwell beings born from divine accident and mortal transformation, creatures that remember what they once were and entities that exist between the spaces of reality itself. Each represents a different facet of how divine power interacts with the mortal realm—sometimes as blessing, often as curse, always as fundamental change.
Guardians of Balance and Hope
These beings emerge from the void not as destroyers but as healers, seeking to restore balance to a world increasingly dominated by unchecked light. They offer guidance without demanding worship, healing without extracting payment, and hope without requiring surrender of free will.
Ethereal beings with pale, ghost-white skin and luminous purple eyes, possessing fluffy white cat ears and flowing feline tails. They can shapeshift into small white cats and emerge from the void itself as creatures dwelling between worlds. The Nimwe speak with voices layered like a thousand whispers woven into harmonious song, calling troubled souls "little starling" with words that wrap around listeners in otherworldly embrace.
Primordial Consciousness from Before Creation
These beings represent an earlier phase of cosmic evolution, when raw elemental force dominated over refined divine consciousness. They exist simultaneously as physical creatures and conscious concepts, experiencing all time periods at once while maintaining perfect memory of every moment since their first awakening.
Primordial sea creatures that once held divine power but now exist in the deep trenches of the Azure Expanse. Individual leviathans can span distances that dwarf continents, their consciousness experiencing all time periods simultaneously while their dreams can spontaneously create new forms of reality. Their bones serve as conduits for the most potent magical workings.
Creatures that die before birth but whose remains retain prophetic power. Their unborn status grants perception of times they never experienced and ability to see potential futures that never manifested. They exist outside normal cause-and-effect relationships, serving as components for divination magic.
Innocence Transformed by Divine Violence
These creatures represent the ongoing consequences of cosmic violence, transformed by exposure to divine blood corruption. They retain enough of their original consciousness to remember what they once were, making their monstrous nature a source of constant psychological torment that drives their dangerous behavior.
Normal animals transformed by exposure to divine blood corruption, becoming monstrous versions of their original forms. They retain enough consciousness to remember their innocent past, creating constant psychological torment that manifests as uncontrolled aggression and specific hatred for humans as representatives of the world they can no longer inhabit.
Entities manifested from growing influence of ancient void powers, appearing as humanoid shadows of living darkness with burning white eyes and eclipse symbols on their chests. They consume life force through contact, create zones of unnatural silence, and coordinate attacks with other supernatural entities as agents of cosmic unmaking.
Children of Two Worlds
Divine-mortal offspring represent the most dangerous and tragic supernatural beings in existence, possessing power that exceeds their capacity for emotional or moral development. These beings embody the dangerous poetry of divine longing made flesh, forever caught between immortal power and mortal understanding.
Beings marked by luminous pale blue eyes that catch light like stars and hold the very echo of the sky. Their births are seen as powerful omens, stirring reverence among the spiritual and devout. The Vaelari possess distinctive physical markers of their dual heritage—neither fully elven nor angelic, but bearing the essence of both bloodlines.
Divine-human hybrids hidden among mortal populations, possessing natural ability to suppress their supernatural nature when necessary. They experience overwhelming awareness of others' emotional states and needs, combined with irresistible drive to protect innocents and fight injustice, though divine power burns through mortal bodies at accelerated rates.
Divine beastmen combinations so rare they're considered mythological, possessing enhanced animal senses combined with divine intelligence. They demonstrate natural command over normal animals of their base species and supernatural knowledge of events within their claimed domain, with power levels fluctuating based on natural cycles and cosmic alignments.
Mortals Reshaped by Supernatural Forces
Mortals who have been changed by prolonged exposure to divine presence, powerful magical forces, or deliberate supernatural intervention. These individuals often serve as bridges between human and supernatural communities, though their transformations frequently come at the cost of their original humanity.
Descendants of Astrid Ravenscroft, the First Bloodmarked, created as biological weapons against gods during the Divine Wars. These transformed humans possess divine essence in their bloodline, granting enhanced strength, speed, and resilience, but struggle with involuntary transformations during emotional stress. Their power was designed for fighting immortal beings but proves dangerous when triggered unpredictably in normal life.
Humans granted supernatural abilities through direct divine contact, including Seers with prophetic sight at the cost of normal temporal perception, Healers with medical abilities but empathic overload, Oracles serving as communication channels, Guardians enhanced with protective powers but bound to specific duties, and Martyrs granted temporary divine power for usually fatal missions.
Practitioners who have dedicated their lives to supernatural study, undergoing gradual transformation through knowledge absorption until magical information begins altering their fundamental nature. They develop reality perception that sees through illusions, temporal awareness that disconnects them from normal human experience, and cosmic perspective that views individual lives as insignificant.
Inhabitants of the Azure Expanse's deepest reaches, including Void-Born Classifications like Null Swimmers (visible only by displaced reality), Concept Feeders (consuming abstract ideas), Time Parasites (feeding on temporal energy), and Tide-Touched Spirits that manifest physically only during extreme oceanic events while serving as communication links between distant realms.