Wednesday, February 5, 2020

Axiomite

Did i tell you yet how much i hate alignment? Yeah **** alignment. Anyway, here's lawful neural: the race.

In post-awakening Europe, where wild magic roams free and magical realms clash, most axiomites take the likeness of greek philosophers. While the likes of Plato and Pythagoras are welcomed, and indeed, have taught the humans much about the wider world they are now part of, reports speak of an axiomite known to use uncharacteristically chaotic methods to make mortals reconsider what they consider to be truth - one that looks like Diogenes. Some peasants also swear they've seen him in a third form, other than his humanoid and crystalline personas - that of a giant, plucked chicken with the face of a man. When his lectures on the indifference of universe to life start turning violent, a group of olympic medalists is called in to try to reason, or otherwise deal with him.

J-00-k was a perfectly fine axiomite, with a normal, regular, and punctual lifestyle of such a being. An encounter with a mad gnome wizard left him completely broken, though - after the gnome cast reduce person on the axiomite during their fight, the poor thing's sense of scale become fundamentally flawed. Whenever he tries building an inevitable (which is several times per day - after all, that is his job) the constructs come either gigantic or minuscule. As arbiters the size of houses start appearing across the planes, the axiomite seeks the help of mortal summoners and diabolists.

One plane was not enough for the axiomites of Nova Alexandria. When their plane became entirely covered in buildings, all part of their mega-city, they expanded to the material plane. While they are not aggressive, they keep building with no regards to local life nor architecture, creating structures atop the already existing humanoid cities and settlements. Excursions into their home plane reveal that no other outsiders remain - only the axiomites and their inevitable constructs. When questioned about the reasoning behind such a project, they happily talk about the plan but there seems to be no central authority guiding it, which also means that localized resistance is futile - eventually, another team of axiomites just arrives and starts anew.

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