Champions, welcome to our final faction analysis!
For our final report, we turn our attention from the calculated grudge of Silence, to the maddening, cosmic horror or Delirium.
Read on for intel concerning the lore and art of the Delirium faction: the aberrant terror of the pre-creation Void. This faction of Lovecraftian nightmares, psychic harvesters, and the primordial cult of Xilith is ready to unleash a tide of annihilation and madness upon our reality.
Delirium
Lore
Population: Unknown
Capital: N/A
Governing Body: Tyrant, the Divine Fear - There is no “ruling council”. Delirium is as often at odds with itself as it is with anything else – there is, however, rumor of a great being, invested with the power of the starlings and stitched for the dreams of the insane.
Notable Locations: The Void Portal, Jade City, the Great Project
To understand Delirium, one must understand the history before time. In that era, there were the Celestials, true shapers of our multiverse, who imposed order and defined our reality; But there were others that existed before: beings that basked in the undefined primordial mass and reveled in the formlessness, and chaos of the universe. These creatures fed on the energy of possibility, and now sought a return to nothingness.
At the center of this primal entropy, if such can be said of them, is a great urge given form: Xilith, the Dream Devourer. Older than the gods; where its gaze falls, there is only annihilation.
The Frontline of Extinction
The southern edge of Terrene Gall is where Delirium has established its beachhead. A Void Portal, a maw of distorted reality, hangs over the now terraformed ruins what was once Jade City.
From this foothold, Starlings, Stitchers, and Cultists harvest living creatures and employ bizarre machines to force them to dream the nightmares that are used to fashion their armies. Will you be able to banish the tides of extinction before they conquer our world, or will you too join the ranks of devotees to annihilation?
Art/ Inspiration
The Delirium Faction is a maddening mix of creatures. They are the hatred and fear of earthly races given form, a sickening blend of Lovecraftian nightmares, horrors from the void of space, and hybrid abominations that defy description. Of all the factions, Delirium is the most truly alien, a collective of twisted and insane beings that thrive on the energy tainted by chaos. Often set on a course of destruction without purpose.
The Lords of Delirium, sometimes called Gods of the Deep or demons, are led by Starlings, creatures whose purpose is to orchestrate the pandemonium. While their quest for chaos causes them to be opposed by all factions, the Starlings specifically targeted Scales first to weaken them with madness.
The Starling’s appearance is a grotesque mixture of desiccated, ancient sea creatures fused with shimmering, cosmic nebula clusters. Their bodies dappled with shifting colors and shimmering stars.
Other Delirium creatures even appear as translucent slimes, mixed with jellyfish, where one can plainly see the undigested remains of their victims – be it mangled flesh, vehicles, or the shattered remnants of technology.
Environment
Delirium’s territory looms upon a landscape of jagged, obsidian cliffs. Their structures are not built, but grown: made of towers that twist like petrified tentacles, perpetually clawing at the sky.
These cyclopean stones, slick with the sheen of eternal mist, pulse faintly as though the structures themselves draw breath from some abyssal heart. The air surrounding their conquered territories doesn’t just hang - it hums with a low, maddening resonance — a chorus of whispers from dimensions mankind was never meant to name. Beneath the blighted land, oceans of ink and shadow churn, waiting for Xilith, their dreaming god, to rise once more.
