Void Titans

Overview

Void Titans are corrupted beings transformed into entropic weapons by The Entropy Shepherd, not independent entities or simple guards. Understanding of their true nature evolved significantly through the Fellowship's encounters.

Fellowship's Evolving Understanding

Session 2: Initial Intelligence

Guards in the Army: Intelligence suggested Void Titans served as guards within The Entropy Shepherd's military hierarchy, alongside Fire Giants and The Stillness Choir.

Multiple Entities: Reports indicated multiple Void Titans existed rather than a single unique threat, making them a recurring danger.

Area Denial Forces: They appeared to be deployed as territorial control units, patrolling devastated regions like The Dust Bowl and preventing recovery of entropy-affected lands.

Massive Scale: As their name suggested, Void Titans were understood to be enormous entities on the scale of the original Titans, but representing the opposite of life and energy—physical manifestations of entropy itself.

Session 4: The Truth Revealed at Hearthgate

Not Guards, But Victims: Session 4's encounter revealed the horrifying truth—Void Titans are corrupted beings, transformed into walking manifestations of entropy through century-long identity erosion. The "guards" classification was incorrect; they are weaponized victims.

Restoration is Possible: Shod, a fire giant who had been a Void Titan for over a century, was successfully restored through the Fellowship's intervention, proving these entities can be saved rather than destroyed. This fundamentally changed the Fellowship's strategic approach from destruction/avoidance to potential rescue operations.

The Corruption Process

"Good Cause" Recruitment: The transformation begins when The Entropy Shepherd recruits victims through ideology and purpose manipulation. Targets believe they're joining something righteous—Shod thought he was supporting "a good cause."

Gradual Identity Erosion: Over the course of a century or more, victims gradually lose control over what they are and what they're doing. The corruption is so slow that victims don't realize they're being transformed until agency is already gone.

Century Timescales: The process operates over hundreds of years. What appears to be recent void titan activity may actually be century-old corruptions finally manifesting in their complete form.

Complete Transformation: Original nature is inverted. For Fire Giants, consumptive creation becomes pure nothingness. The philosophical opposite of their natural state becomes their corrupted existence.

Physical Characteristics

Reality Negation: Void Titans create vacuums of heat, sound, and space. They don't walk toward things—reality simply ceases to exist around them.

Witness Descriptions: "It's not like it was walking towards us, it's more like the world was disappearing and that's what was left."

Environmental Effect: "The noise around it would just disappear. It's like it was a vacuum of heat and sound and space. It was horrifying."

Psychic Impact: Witnesses experience headaches, dreamlike perception, and mental distortion when observing or remembering Void Titans. The entities resist being understood or described.

Original Form Beneath: The corrupted being's original form exists beneath the void shell. Boom-Stick acoustic disruption revealed Shod's fire giant shoulder beneath the nothingness.

The Affected (Victims Under Control)

Zombie-Like Marching: People absorbed by Void Titans march continuously with the entity, retained enough identity to be recognized but existing under void control.

Time Perception Distortion: Victims experience severe time dilation. Rattrick experienced two weeks as approximately one hour—consciousness maintained but in radically altered temporal experience.

Physical Trauma: Continuous marching causes extreme physical damage. Rattrick's brand new shoes were destroyed and feet covered in horrible blisters after two weeks under control.

Memory Gaps: Restored victims have no recollection of time spent under void influence, though consciousness appears to have continued in some altered form.

Restoration Trauma: Those freed from void control experience confusion, trauma, and varying physical states. Some flee in panic, some pass out, some remain confused but accepting of aid.

Two-Stage Restoration Solution

Session 4 Discovery: The Fellowship developed a method to restore Void Titans and their victims:

Stage One - Acoustic Disruption: The Boom-Stick (striker-mechanism tuning fork amplifier) produces specific frequencies that disrupt the void corruption field, revealing the original being beneath. Bass frequencies create physical presence where void creates absence.

Stage Two - Magical Restoration: Personal connection and memory projection complete the transformation. Nyx weaponized shared history with Shod, projecting recognition and identity to forcefully reimpose what the void had erased.

Combined Effect: Technology disrupts/weakens corruption; magic restores identity. Both stages required—acoustic alone is insufficient, but provides the opening for magical intervention.

Known Void Titans

Shod (Restored): Fire giant corrupted over a century ago, successfully freed during Session 4. Now serves as Fellowship companion and proof that restoration is possible. Rattrick's testimony confirms a Void Titan destroyed or heavily damaged Blackwharf approximately two weeks before the Hearthgate crisis. Current location and status unknown.

Hearthgate Void Titan (Resolved): The entity threatening Hearthgate in Session 4, revealed to be Shod. Successfully restored through Fellowship intervention.

Others (Unconfirmed): Previous intelligence suggested multiple Void Titans patrol affected territories. How many exist and how many are restorable remains unknown.

What the Fellowship Now Knows

Corruption Can Be Broken: Even century-long transformations can be reversed. No victim is permanently lost.

Acoustic Vulnerability: Specific frequencies disrupt void corruption fields, providing technological solution to metaphysical problem.

Memory as Weapon: Identity and personal connection have tangible metaphysical power. Shared history can forcefully reimpose what entropy erased.

Titan's maybe Victims: Each Void Titan may represent a being who was corrupted, not a monster that chose evil. The moral imperative is restoration, not destruction.

Century Timescales: The Entropy Shepherd operates on timeframes that dwarf most civilizations' historical awareness. "Recent" threats may be century-old corruptions.

Relationship to Other Forces

The Entropy Shepherd: Void Titans are The Entropy Shepherd's ultimate weapons—corrupted beings serving as proof of concept for his vision of perfect stillness through complete energy extraction.

Fire Giants: Shod's case shows fire giants can be corrupted into Void Titans, transforming beings of consumption and creation into entities of pure nothingness.

The Fellowship: Void Titans represent both the greatest threat and the greatest opportunity for the Fellowship's mission. Each titan saved is a victim rescued and a powerful ally gained.

Current Threat Assessment

Active Threat: Multiple Void Titans likely remain active, patrolling conquered territories and potentially corrupting new victims.

Restoration Priority: Understanding how to replicate the two-stage solution at scale is crucial. Mass-producing Boom-Sticks in Khaz-Dorahn represents first step toward systematic restoration.

Intelligence Gap: Unknown how many Void Titans exist, which beings have been corrupted, or how long each has been transformed.

Philosophical Significance

Entropy vs. Creation: Void Titans represent the endpoint of The Entropy Shepherd's philosophy—beings whose very existence negates reality, creating perfect stillness through complete absence.

Hope Through Restoration: Shod's transformation from walking nothingness to burning passion proves that entropy can be reversed, that what was lost can be found, that fire can win against the void.

The Fellowship's Mission: Void Titans embody why the Fellowship exists—to restore what The Entropy Shepherd has corrupted, to bring warmth back to a cooling world, to prove that salvation is possible even for the seemingly lost.