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Indri
Amothay / The Bridgefall Seer
Indri
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- Strength-2
- Intelligence-7
- Charisma-2
- Endurance-3
- Agility-14
- Luck-0
Type: Harbinger
Domains: Disaster, Causality, Distrust
Associations: Bad luck, Riddles, Moths, Failure of infrastructure, Red lights, Tragedy
Summary: Wherever Indri goes, a disaster will happen. Indri sees visions of what disasters will happen, and goes there to stop them from happening, but is never able to, no matter how she tries. Nobody listens to her warnings.
Traits
I warn the weary of the brink. And then I'm gone, in just a blink.
My speed is an unnatural thing. I twist and turn my agile wings.
None I pass by will ever trust my speech. No matter the severity of what I preach.
My blessed mind views words in pairs. This can make warnings hard to share.
Unlucky things happen to those near me. Just one look makes this very clear to see.
I see the future laid out clear. My visions strike me full of fear.
Luck can be such a fickle beast. Sometimes it's grand, sometimes the least.
I shall not die till it's my time. So I warn others through my rhymes.
Original Creator: Babybowser101
Presence
A large shadow, always just out of sight, leaping further and further away. A distant red light up on the mountain, still and unmoving, watching for something. A winged silhouette on top of a bridge's arch, shouting cryptic warnings to a crowd that will soon die. Indri is a towering figure up close, around seven feet tall, although getting that good of a look at her is rare. Her form is similar to that of a lucevian or didaskaloi, but with a massive layer of fluffy black fur covering her entire body that makes her look slightly rotund. Her pure black wings are huge, technically increasing her height to eight feet when tucked into her back and having a wingspan of 12 feet when fully expanded. The incredibly dark shades of her fur and wings make her nearly impossible to see in the dark when her eyes are closed.
Indri's eyes are massive, shining a bright red that contrasts greatly with the darkness of the rest of her body. The light from these eyes is said to pierce the mind itself, allowing Indri to see the thoughts of anyone she looks at closely enough. Indri's eyes can be seen from literal miles away, and because she typically appears at night, are often the only thing that can be seen. Up close, a dim omega symbol can be seen in the middle of Indri's eyes. The specific red tint of her eyes changes, but it is said to be a deeper and deeper red the worse the event she will cause will be. Many of the more superstitious in the universe will run for cover upon seeing a red light in the distance, as one would do if they saw nearby lightning or a tornado.
Disposition
Indri is a mysterious being, speaking in cryptic rhymes that can only be vaguely understood. Although she appears to cause disasters, many of her warnings indicate that she's actually trying to stop them, having seen them in visions. It's possible that Indri is deeply sympathetic, but nobody can be sure. Most who get to hear Indri's warnings directly don't live to tell the tale.
Acts
Ask anyone to try and remember a tragic failure of infrastructure and the answer will be the same every time. The Empyrean Bridgefall of Arkatek. The arkkans, a highly intelligent species specializing in planetary superstructures, had designed an experimental method of getting between planets that didn't require wasting unnecessary fuel. They called it the Empyrean Bridge. It would link together every planet in the Arkatek planetary system using a reinforced metal tube. The planets in the Arkatek system would all orbit their star perfectly aligned, stuck together by this Bridge. Arkkans could hike across the Bridge easily, in no more than a few weeks, with rest stops along the way.
Travel between the planets in the Arkatek system became as easy as a routine commute. For decades, the Empyrean Bridge worked perfectly. Rest stops along the Bridge became hubs of commerce, with some even growing into small towns in their own right. Then a shadow drifted into the Bridge. A blur of darkness, speeding by, with eyes glowing a deep, deep crimson. Soon after the reports of this shadow began, it was given a name. Amothay. For weeks, reports of Amothay were common among those who lived along the Bridge. Then, suddenly, Amothay began to stop and talk to those it passed by. It spoke in cryptic rhyming couplets, confusing and terrifying to the arkkans. Through these riddles, only a few things were learned. Amothay's true name was Indri, and she was trying to warn them of something. Unfortunately, everyone was too afraid of her abrupt appearances and disturbing form to trust anything she said. Eventually, all sightings of Indri suddenly halted with no explanation.
And the very next day, the Empyrean Bridge fell. A sudden error in the Bridge's artificial gravitational field caused everybody and everything currently on the Bridge to fall towards the Arkatek system's sun at terminal velocity. All of this force being exerted on one specific spot of every single planet at once slightly shifted every planet in the system closer to the sun. Then, the Bridge began to collapse in on itself, dragging every planet it was attached to closer and closer to each other. Within just a few days, the entire planetary system had collapsed into one horrific mass and fallen into its sun. The arkkans were no more.
Indri became a mythical horror throughout the universe, the Bridgefall Seer, the bringer of calamity. Wherever she went, disasters would follow. Sometimes they would be small things, like a minor vehicle accident, and sometimes they would be more grand things, like the collapse of an intergalactic economy. Some go as far as to say that many extinction events credited to the notails were inadvertendly caused by Indri herself, centuries before her official designation as an anomaly.
Special
Fatal Checkmate; Au Fait with Fate: Indri commonly has visions of horrible events that will happen somewhere in the universe. She feels a strong compulsion to stop these events from happening, and due to her agility, can get to where these events will happen very quickly. Despite her warnings, her presence inevitably, no matter what, causes the events she foresaw to happen. Even if the events she foresaw should be impossible given her actions, some sort of anomaly will cause the events to happen. She does not understand this. She needs to help.
Journal of the Fallen
Every day, I've seen the red-eyed shadow. I swear it's following me. I first started seeing it just over a week ago, but every time I turn my back, I know it's there. It slips up sometimes, and I catch a glimpse of it as it leaps behind a corner. It's watching me. It's waiting for something. I've been staying home from work the past few days. Every time I see them, those eyes pierce into me more and more. They're getting deeper.
I've done all the research I can, but I can't find any helpful information on this thing. It could be some sort of illness making itself manifest, it could be an undiscovered species, it could be a Limbo demigod according to some sites. Nothing fits right. It's too tangible to be a mere hallucination, it doesn't look like anything from this planet, and I sure don't think the horrific gods of those notails are real.
They called me today. If I stay home from work one more day, they'll have grounds to fire me. This shadow, this unknowable thing following me, might go away if I ignore it. I mean, I've been trying, of course. Work is what I need. Something tangible to keep my mind off of it. Some people might think keeping a nuclear reactor in check is stressful, but it's oddly calming to me. I know I'm keeping people safe.
oh god i see the shadow something's wrong with the reactor and i can't tell what and i just heard a loud banging noi
And so a book survived the blast. Despite the burns that it's amassed. Nobody listens anymore. So here I'll voice my grand rapport. I wish these disasters would halt. Just understand it's not my fault. I'm the only one who can see. Please, do not blame these things on me! I try to stop these every time. Yet they're sure as the end of rhymes. Nothing I say can get across. Even these words I write are lost. This atomic blast I couldn't stop. Yet worse things are coming, chop-chop. Is there any way to cheat fate? All we can do is sit and wait.
Trivia
• It is surprisingly common to see Indri on Eukaryote giving out cryptic warnings without any disaster happening afterwards. Some interpret her riddles as suggesting that the notails themselves are an ongoing disaster. Some simply believe that something incomprehensibly calamitous will happen on Eukaryote in the future. Whenever Indri is on a notail planet, she ends all of her riddles with a face like a notail would. This is probably an attempt to somehow blend in. The only face she ever uses is Ω^Ω, which tends to unsettle notails even more due to its negative expression.
• Dozens of small cults have formed aroung Indri over the years, regarding her as the one true prophet in the universe who is able to see to the end of time itself. Every single one of these cults has had the majority of its members killed in freak accidents soon after the cult first officially started. Those who survive these accidents tell tales of "finally meeting the prophet," and "escaping the doom she foretold so gravely".
• Indri's prophecizing and inadvertent bringing about of change may indicate that she is a demigod of the Creator, although there are numerous other possible explanations for her anomalous nature. Time travel is commonly thought to be involved when discussing Indri with those who don't believe in the Limbo gods, but there is no direct evidence for this theory either.
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