BEINGS/CREATURES (mana color, orange if uninitiated to Djinn world)

THE MAIN CREW

• Jackie Boy (continuously shifting mana color): Main protagonist and Narrator. Spirits find him really attractive. Vlad demonstrates to him how it’s what’s on the inside that counts.

• Freya (blue): Magi. Secondary protagonist. Blue hair and eyes. 211 years old. Learning to accept Machina way of life. Wants a Cthulhu stuffed animal for her next birthday.

• Dilly Dally Deny (turquoise): Secondary protagonist. Mouth of a sailor. Bladder of a senior citizen. Hate’s it when Matthias invades his body and takes advantage of him.

• Belial (Johnny, Tokoloshe) (Red): Main protagonist in Poacher Hunters. Ascended by Mephistopheles. Spent some time in Canada with Eris. Ugly mug is useful for Halloween.

• Eris (Andrea) (red): Main protagonist in Poacher Hunters. Best friends are Suzy and Big Mamma. Canadian. Belial’s companion. Boasts an impressive stalker honing ability.

• Rakaia: Newly introduced. Muslim from Yemen. Finds Djinn life incredibly enticing. Tendency to get stabby quite quickly.

PROTOGENOI: OLD GODS (Pre-Cycle Djinn)

• Aether: Lord of Etherealm. Paired with Hemera. Assisted Jack, Freya, and Deny after Tesla Tubule incident in Indiana. Roundhouse kicked Gunther and Hogni into the Netherworld sunrise.

• Chaos: Captive in Machina Prison. Became an enormous 1.21 gigawatt flux capacitor for Machina.

• Erebus: Previous Netherworld Lord/God. The Dark One. Helped Hecate perform a skin peel to create the Grimoire and to help with a younger appearance.

• Eurynome: Paired with Ophion, hangs out in Purgatory. Watches people in the shower occasionally.

• Gaia: Secondary Mother Earth (succeeded Thesis). Shook Humanity enough to give it Shaken Baby Syndrome. Occasionally pairs with Tartarus to create sinkholes to Hell.

• Hemera: Goddess of the Day. Paired with Aether. Helped in development of atomic energy. Worked on Manhattan Project, Tube Alloys, and Tsar Bomba. Has a pocket full of sunshine.

• Nyx: Night goddess. Can either open a person’s mind or turn it into brain pudding. Pauses time occasionally to show off her skills.

• Ophion: Paired with Eurynome, hangs out in Purgatory. Shy and doesn’t like strangers.

• Ouranos: He is the ultimate high that can never be reached again.

• Physis: Mother Nature. Pissed off. Initiated Global Warming as part of Chaos’s Failsafe.

• Tartarus: Biomechanical appearance. Lord of his own Hell. Likes to make Glutton smoothies.

• Thesis: Original Mother Earth, initiating Geomagnetic Reversal as part of Chaos’s Failsafe.

PROTOGENOI: NEW GODS (Djinn that have endured a Cycle)

• Ananke: Goddess of Fate. Was stuck in Machina with Thanatos. Short-term precognitive. Always wins at Black Jack.

• Aurora Eos: Angelic woman in Mexico. Resurrected Matthias. Maxim wanted her as centerfold.

• Chronos: God of Time. Long-term precognitive. Warned Thanatos of Ragnarök. Terrible at Poker.

• Eros (Armando Andronicus) (Deep Orange): Runs Egyptian Museum of Antiquity. Uroboric. Resurrects himself. Likes to leave pennies as tips.

• Hecate (Jin, Birra-ngulu, Pachamama) (green): One of the Four. Tried to castrate the Spanish Inquisition. Occasionally hands out Darwin Awards. Elephants and pigs are the only way she goes.

• Mephistopheles (Diabolos, Admiral Baphomet, Iblis) (red): Main antagonist in Azazel. Broke in Azazel, Eris, Belial, Vlad, and numerous others into the Djinn world the hard way. Stuck his toes in a meat grinder.

• Narkissos, Mohammed (Baku) (blue): Doesn’t need to sleep to dream. Stinks of narcissism and hubris. Was the center of a Mai Jing’s grand explosion.

• Nesoi: ?

• Oceanus: ?

• Ourea: ?

• Phanes, Makin (male)/Medina (Female) (orange, ether): Assistant atEgyptian Museum of Antiquity. Sequential Hermaphrodite/Androgynous. Makes people horny just to fuck with them.

• Phyche: Utilizes mentally driven abilities such as Paramnesia. I forgot the rest.

• Pontus: Woke alongside Thalassa in 2002. Caused the Indonesia Tsunami. Rogue wave aficionado.

• Tethys: ?

• Thalassa: Woke alongside Pontus. Spends time in Bermuda sinking ships.

• Thanatos (black): The People’s Villain. Bucket List is longer than the Bible. Enjoys a good kill. Swan dives into the deep abyss of the remote Pacific.

OTHER DJINN AND IMPORTANT FOLKS

• Aeetes, Lugus (crimson red): Current Netherworld Lord. Had sex with a Valkyrie once.

• Azazel (Tommy) (red): Main antagonist in Azazel. Works for Oneiroi. Eris’s uncle. His pal Big Pappy takes care of business.

• Ba’al: Netherworld Lord previous to Aeetes after Erebus. Assisting with Tartarus when influx of souls became too great for one being to handle. Hates the taste of Tartarus’s Glutton smoothies.

• Baiame (green): Aborigine. Assisted group as they traveled through Outback. Throws boomerangs at ding-dongs dilly dallying through the desert.

• Bret Heart: Technically not a Djinn, but is a companion of Aurora. Drug Kingpin. Not a wrestler.

• Charon: Ferryman of Tartarus. Needs to eat. Nothing but skin and bones and boat.

• Eshu (blue): Cyberspace guru. Assisted Eris and Belial in Poacher Hunters. Can give you a perfect credit score.

• Gunther, Hans (dark blue): Member of Mercury Corp. German. Scientist who tried to send Jack, Deny, and Freya into Netherworld sunrise. Cousin of Arinna. Probably currently wandering Tartarus.

• Hogni (dark blue): Member of Mercury Corp. Finnish. Also probably trying to figure out his way out of hell with Gunther. Was attached to Gunther’s hip and did everything with him.

• Hypnos (Corbin Caduceus , Xerxes) (dark blue): Leader of Mercury Corporation. Antagonist in Poacher Hunters. Silver tongue. Could persuade a clock to clap its hands.

• Inkarri (light green): Lord of Paititi. Ruler of Aukis. Misses olden days of Inka Empire. Routs for Spain to lose all soccer games.

• Juniper, Arinna (red): Owner of Book Worm. Betrayed Jackie Boy and found herself in a terrible place. Probably smells like sulfur currently.

• Mamma Ipacura (dark green mana): Inkarri had her help with Jack’s recovery from Vlad’s attack in Paititi. Makes a mean enchilada sauce.

• Matthias Corvinus: Astral Projector. Hijacked and shared Deny’s body. Mortal enemy of Old Dirty Willie. Once impaled himself before allowing Willie to steal his body.

• Osiren (Original Sin) (yellow): Man who torched Netherworld Atmosphere with Great Fire. Trying to be the Great Fixer. Attempting to discover secret tunnel into Machina.

• Umvelinqangi (MV): Main protagonist in Poacher Hunters. When he rubs his feet on the carpet, he can melt a doorknob with the static electricity.

• Váli (blue): Magi who killed the Nuckelavee. Rocky Balboa of Chthonia.

• William (Old Dirty Willie, William D. Faust, Vlad Tepes, Lars Christophri Hornæus): Body Thief/Astral Projector. Gutted Jack like a fish and kicked him over the side of a mountain. Frequently shares body with Matthias. Attempts to use as many names as Mephistopheles.

OTHER RACES/FACTIONS

• Magi (baby blue): Faithful to the Old Gods. Named after Norse Gods/mythology. Speak Phoenician. They know how to throw an awesome party.

• Machina: Ancient technological race. Torched Elysian Plains. Ether keeps them from joining the rest of the world in its self-destruction.

• Mercury Corporation (Task Force): Tech company lead by Hypnos specializing in Scalar and Machina technology. Places Band-Aid on the boo-boo that is Ragnarök.

• Oneiroi: Secret organization of Djinn. Falling apart at the seams. Thanatos basically said fuck it.

• Specters: Ghost prisoners above Machina Carapace. Watch for their Great Escape, 2016!

CREATURES

• Auki (light green): Imp-like monkey creatures residing within Paititi. Fling poo occasionally.

• Cthulhu (Dag Gadols): Massive squid-like entities. Has tentacles like creatures in The Mist.

• Erinyes: Can only be seen through the ether. From Circle 10. Tartarus’s bounty hunters.

• Imp (orange): Humanlike bat. Chthonia/Shining residents. Smells like wet dog.

• Nuckelavee (orange): Horse-like with translucent skin. Tastes delicious like succulent filet mignon.

• Potamoi: Spirits that inhabit mana rivers. Get too close and they’ll dissolve your body.

• Valkyrie (black): Robed short people. Norse Valkyrie names (In Chthonia). Inhabit Purgatory and either Reality or Netherworld simultaneously / Draug: Valkyrie free from its shell. Acts as a reverse-plumber/carpenter, destroying pipes and walls.

 

DJINN ABILITIES

• -CONVALESCENCE (mana dispersion) & ENERGY CONVERSION

• Absorption: Pulling mana from others.

• Anaerobic Respiration: Utilize mana to supplement breathing in low oxygen environments.

• Ascension: Induction into Djinn life.

• Astral Projection: Separating conscious from body, but remaining tethered.

• Direct Energy Weapon: Utilizes Scalar Energy to charge a weapon.

• Hypostasis: Sharing and unification of mana through sex.

• Resurgence: Accelerated self-healing.

• Resurrection: Reversing necroptosis in living tissue, returning life force to body.

• Uroboricism: Self-consumption initiating reincarnation.

• -DISCERNMENT (empathic)

• Adjudication: Mental judgment. Also known as Guilt Pheromone, Sin Sense, Sin Scent.

• Aphrodisia: Imparting lust on others.

• Musical Pathokinesis: Ability to affect emotions using music.

• Paramnesia: Rearranging of thoughts into intangible mess.

• Transcendence: Moment of oneness. Orgasm. Momentarily experience Lifestream.

• -ELEMENTAL

• Aerokinesis: Movement of air.

• Electrokinesis: Generate electricity.

• Hydrokinesis: Movement of water.

• Plasmic: Similar to combination of Electrokinesis and Pyrokinesis.

• Terrakinesis: Movement of earth.

• Thermokinesis: Ability to control temperature.

• -Calefaction: Raise temperature. / Pyrokinesis: Create fire.

• -Glaciation: Lower temperature. / Cryokinesis: Create ice.

• -MENTAL

• Chromacy (etheric eyesight): Adjustment to rod and cone cells within the eyes.

• Trichromacy: Normal vision, auras may be seen faintly.

• Tetrachromacy: Mana (or prana, or ether) becomes prominent addition.

• Pentachromacy: Combination of two energies can be seen.

• Hexachromacy: Mana, prana and ether are all visible.

• Scotopic Vision: Rods in eyes grown in number.

• Illusions: Visual stimulation that resembles images.

• Mental Wall: keep others from accessing one’s mind through telepathy.

• Omnilingualism (Multilanguage): Translates all Human languages as native tongue.

• Persuasion: manipulate others’ thoughts through conversation.

• Refraction: Changing the color of mana.

• Technopathy: manipulate cyberspace with or without interfaces.

• Telekinesis (Psychokinesis): Move objects by mentally exuding force.

• Transparency (Translucence): Appearing invisible.

ITEMS

• Codex Mortuorum: Unlocks seeing and manipulating Purgatory.

• Ether Camouflage: Flash-drive sized item that blurs wearers image to digital recorders.

• Ether Resistant Watch: Provides exact time regardless of realm, as well as tracking beacon.

• Grimoire: Text that allows reader to unlock elemental and mental abilities.

• Phurba: Dagger exhibiting etheric interaction.

• Wepwawet Phurba (marbled grey): Found in Giza (Netherworld side). Transitional.

• Dagger of Iblis (black): Found in Yemen. Informative. Showed first half of suicidal gods tale.

• Espada de Damocles (light grey): Held by Bret Heart in Monterrey, Mexico. Transitional.

• Blade of Supay (white): Found in ether pocket within Paititi. Informative. Showed Osiren’s release from Tartarus thanks to Mephistopheles.

• Phurba of Altjira (dark grey): Discovered inside Uluru.

• Prana Sac: Grape-sized collector inside Cthulhu mouth. Allows reading Codex Mortuorum.

• Wraith: Device from Tartarus that allows direct access to Circle 10.

PLACES

• Canterbury, New Zealand: Location of Mercury Facility. Jack receives 5th Phurba there.

• Chthonia: Fields where androgynous bodies grow from mana fog, south of Necropolis.

• Cyberspace: Internet. Directly interferes with Etherealm.

• Ether: Universal binding substance that divides realms, destroys electronic devices.

• -Ether Channels: Tubules used to cross through ether, wormholes.

• -Ether Pockets: Hidden spaces within realms or between realms.

• Fólkvangr: Wasteland with mana fissures, north of Necropolis.

• Mercury Center: Research facility of Scalar and Machina technologies.

• Monterrey, Mexico: Near Bret Heart’s compound and location of 3rd Phurba.

• Necropolis: The living space within Chthonia Sect.

• Paititi: Hidden land in Peru mountains. Ruled by Inkarri and Aukis. Location of 4th Phurba.

• River Place: Jack’s residence. Haunted like a mother fucker.

• Shining: Caverns under Netherworld landscape.

• Uluru: Also known as Dreamtime and Ayers Rock. Original hiding spot of 5th Phurba.

• Yemen, near Aden: Location of second Phurba.

REALMS

• Dreaming: The dream world.

• Etherealm: Space between other dimensions. Separate from Ether Pockets and Machina. Cyberspace interferes with it.

• Lifestream (Eternal Dreaming): Equivalent of Heaven.

• Machina (Forbidden Realm, Lost Continent): Land hidden by ether that holds Chaos hostage.

• Netherworld (Elysian Plains, pre-Great Fire): Transitional realm, 1 day-46.5 hours. Daylight burning 22 hours.

• Purgatory: Spectral Realm.

• Tartarus (Hell, Jahannam, Ukhu Pacha): Basic torture amenities, 10 Circles, 10th circle is a void left by Osiren’s departure.

 

CONCEPTS

• Chaos’s Failsafe: Protogenoi wake in event of global destruction.

• Cycle: Time loop at end of Ragnarök that created the Protogenoi

• Geomagnetic Reversal: Thesis’s punishment from being woken, reversal of poles.

• Global Warming: Physis’s fever.

• Great Fire: The torching of Netherworld’s atmosphere.

• Djinn: All people who initiated transformation towards immortality, aura colors depict lineage.

• Djinn Kin: Inducted as a Djinn through one of the Four.

• Djinn Sickness: Negative ailments attributed to learning abilities.

• Lucid Dreams: Conduits for multiple people to share visions.

• Mutual Dreams: Dreams shared by more than one person.

• Ragnarök: Global Warming/Geomagnetic Reversal. End of the world. War of Gods vs. Humanity.

• Sterilization Plan: Global reduction and prevention of future generations. An effort to prevent Ragnarök.

ENERGIES/TECHNOLOGY

• Ether: Physical energy, lines, trails, ultraviolet spectrum.

• Mana (aura): Energy exhibited in all living organisms, infrared spectrum.

• Prana (Spectral Energy): Spiritual energy, residual mana, Codex Mortuorum attracts it.

• Eloptic Generators and Buffers: Allows negating gravity in B-2.

• Evanescent Field: Theoretical field allowing viewing into other realms.

• Gamma Utilizing Shockwave Transmitter (GUST): One of few weapons that work on old Djinn.

• Gravitons: Utilized by Machina for Gravity Core

• Gravity Core: Energy source for the Machina within barrier

• Machina Probe: Device sent out to gauge Reality, was captured and initiated technology explosion.

• Machina Tech: All forms of technology after Machina Probe discovered.

• Refraction: Bending of light waves to affect ether.

• Scalar (Radiant) Energy: Ambient energy around earth created through interaction with geomagnetism.

• Tesla Tubule: Used for mechanically traversing through realms.

 

CHRONOS’S CHRONOLOGY (so far)

• ~8000 BC: The Great Fire. Original imprisonment of Osiren and creation of Tartarus. Appox. Date Machina was hidden within massive ether pocket.

• ~6000 BC: Cycle 1 (Chronos, Ananke, Tethys, Oceanus).

• ~4500 BC: Cycle 2 (Pontus, Thalassa, Ourea, Nesoi).

• ~3000 BC: Cycle 3 (Aurora, Phanes, Eros, Psyche).

• ~1500 BC: Cycle 4 (Thanatos, Diabolos, Hecate, Narkissos). The Four dropped from the sky.

• ~575 BC: Corbin Caduceus ascended. Initiator is unknown.

• ~475 BC: Xerxes (Mr. Caduceus) amassed one of the world’s greatest military forces in an effort to gain the gods’ attention.

• ~500 AD: The Four attempt suicide. Gained attention of the Older Generation of gods. Oneiroi created.

• -Pontus and Thalassa visit Thanatos

• -Aether and Hemera visit Narkissos

• -Chronos and Hypnos visit Hecate

• -Gaia and Tartarus visit Mephistopheles

• ~800 AD: Baiame ascended due to Hecate, formerly known as Birra-ngulu

• ~1400 AD: Approximate age of Inkarri and Ipacura. Ascension due to Hecate’s visit to Inca Empire.

• ~1450: Vlad Tepes and Matthias Corvinus ascended due to Mephistopheles.

• 1675: Torsåker Witch Trials.

• 1872: Chronos wakes, provides original Doomsday of 2000.

• 1880: Tartarus allowed Osiren’s release from Circle 10 thanks to Mephistopheles.

• 1895: Ba’al relinquishes Chthonia rule to Lugus Aeetes.

• 1914-1918: WWI initiated to curtail population growth.

• 1916: Hemera woke.

• 1920: Old Dirty Willie initially experimented with HIV in Kinshasa, Congo

• 1937-1945: WWII initiated to dramatically reduce world population. Hemera had active role in creation of Atomic Bombs (Manhattan Project, Tube Alloys, and Tsar Bomba)

• 1947: Machina Probe appeared.

• 1948: Aether assists in sending Ananke and Thanatos into Machina.

• 1950: Hemera returned to Lifestream.

• 1980s: Old Dirty Willie accelerates worldwide HIV infections.

• 1981: Gaia wakes.

• 1982: Gaia causes El Chichón volcanic explosion.

• 1985: Matthias initially lost his body to Vlad and spent rest of time in Purgatory.

• 1997: Ananke and Thanatos released from Machina with Gaia’s help.

• 2000: Chronos’s original Doomsday, reset to 2050.

• 2002: Pontus and Thalassa wake.

• 2004: Indonesia Tsunami caused by Pontus, Thalassa, and Gaia working together.

• 2012: Hemera woke again. Coronal Mass Ejection caused by Hemera nearly destroyed worldwide technology.