The Void and Its Denizens

The Void has become a name that strikes fear into people, even those who didn’t believe in the metaphysical happenings on Earth before the Great Enlightenment. The Void is a mystery, even to those who knew of it long before Earth. For the Lurokxì it is a subject never to be brought to light as it defies their every belief in science and logic and any discussion of it will be followed by a lengthy declaration of its non-existence. This book discusses the Void from Andeamer lore, since Humans have only contact with Lurokxi and Andeamer any other view or perceptions of the Void are scarce. Whether the Void exists or not, strange things inhabit our Universe and most of them have an insatiable bloodlust for us.

The Void, in lore, exists outside of the Universe. It was created by Aharmoz and is thought to be an exact copy of Mazhora’s Universe, however it is a land of destruction and fear. But within the Void are even smaller worlds, each inhabited by a Greater Void, known as Aharmoz’s Children or subjects. The Greater Voids were created by Aharmoz as ideas to corrupt or distract Mazhora’s children, the Gods, and subsequently her creations. It isn’t known how many there are but, it is agreed to be more than the Gods. Each has their own corruption or purpose but some aren’t inherently evil. Valac Vetis, the appointed youngest of the Greater Voids, presides over dreams, which includes nightmares as well as good dreams. Mariax Stygal is thought to be the most powerful of the Greater Voids since his sphere is secrecy. To the Andeamer, Mariax Stygal is of considerable importance and when speaking of him in his divine aspect he is called Marëkhs. Marëkhs along with Mïzärn are similar to Prometheus in their contribution to the Andeamer; they relieved them from their animalistic nature and turned them into intelligent beings and sometimes pushing them through great times of strife such, such as the Great War that toppled their civilization some 10,000 years ago. Mariax Stygal/Marëkhs is commonly believed to be allied with Mïzärn for obvious reasons. Both of those Voids are documented as being neutral to the affairs of mortals but, may intervene whenever they desire. Somewhere in history, Mïzärn/Mizar was scorned by his fellow Gods and cast from the realm of the divines, mostly because of his powers and what he added to Mazhora’s Universe, and can be considered a Greater Void in some arguments. The vast majority of Andeamer consider him a benevolent God who has shunned the idea of divinity as extreme pride and arrogance.

Some Greater Voids should be avoided all together. The agreeably inherently evil ones are many and the most infamous among the Andeamer is the Three-Headed Beast. Typically implied to be one being composed of three Greater Voids; Hismael Hamariel, Suluth Styrr, and Surgat Zagam. These are the Voids Andeamer fear the most. The Three-Headed Beast is pure destruction without any rebirth in its wake.

Should one ever find themselves in the Void, they will immediately take notice of its foreign yet familiar landscape. Only certain individuals have reportedly entered the Void. The High Priestesses of Mazarath, (only after years of preparation and only when necessary) the very well informed Lurokxì scientist (who argue it is likely a parallel Universe), and only the most unlucky have entered the Void. All seem to agree that it is a corruption of our Universe. It is dead and inhospitable. Illustrations all have something very interesting in common; a sun. If it is a sun ,this would imply celestial systems as well as an entrance existing on a celestial body.

Any study done of the Void is almost non-existent, or at least very well hidden and most knowledge of it, is educated guesses. Andeamer are the only culture with extensive lore of the Void. Modern and controversial Andeamer theory supports that the Void is an entirely different universe and its inhabitants are also experiencing the Portal Anomalies and that’s how they enter this universe. However, a huge majority agree it is the realm of Aharmoz. But why they seek to do mostly harm is unknown, they may just be confused by our universe and possibly are unfamiliar with its laws of physics, chaos, and overall alien nature.

Aside from the Greater Voids, there are the Lesser Voids that inhabit this strange world. The Lesser Voids are Voids that Aharmoz didn’t create and according to the Andeamer, they are the equivalent to Mazhora’s Vassals. The Lesser Voids serve Aharmoz and the Greater Voids. Many Andeam scholars theorize, from certain obscure texts supposedly written for or by Mariax Stygal/Marëkhs, describe a hierarchical structure among the Lesser Voids. The Greater Voids have legions of Lesser Voids to serve them for whatever purpose and these Lesser Voids give their allegiance to whichever Greater Void they desire, but some may be too unintelligent to understand this purpose. Lesser Voids are categorized into many groups, varying on intelligence, which governs their power. Aharmoz is of course at the top of the Void hierarchy followed by the Greater Voids, and what the Andeamer call Vrrïzhen, which are incredibly powerful and influential but not as much as the Greater Voids and are more often described serving a Greater Void directly.

With the Andeamers’ various and available religious texts and the Abrahamic religions of Earth put together, there are many similarities between how the Voids are perceived. On Earth, we might call them demons or bad spirits and to the Andeamer they are seen in the same light; dangerous. Both religions say the Voids are structured in a very familiar way.

• Aharmoz - Akhemaaz

  Aharmoz is the supreme ruler of the Abyssal plane. He appears as a satanic figure to the Andeamer and opposes Mazhora.

• The Greater Voids - Zirrgrihn

  The Greater Voids are compared to the Demon Princes; each has their own inner realm and rules as they see fit; they control a legion of Voids under them who carry out their orders; they are the second most powerful in command, but have their own smaller pyramid of power, and speak directly to Aharmoz

• The Regents - Vrrïzhen

  The Regents are first under the Greater Voids. They are the Lieutenants and serve the Greater Voids directly. Greater Voids probably have more than one and each has its own purpose, but they generally keep order among the ranks lower than themselves, as well as carry out the orders of the Greater Void.

• The Lesser Voids - Gaarükh

  The Lesser Voids come in a variety, but typically all serve a Greater Void. Lesser Voids are innately weaker and less influential in our world than Greater Voids or Aharmoz himself, but are the most encountered

Each Greater Void commands his Legion differently, but the stated Hierarchy is the common mold to be shaped. Some may not be organized, which many Andeamer scholars speculate are not; Mariax Stygal is assumed to have the most organized and sufficient as to stay true to his sphere. The Greater Voids cultivate numbers for whatever purpose they see fit and it’s uncommon to come across a Void in the Universe that doesn’t belong to a Greater Void. Only the bare minimum of intelligence will allow a Void into the Universe. Many might not know and that leads people to believe all Voids are insanely intelligent, beyond what mortals can fathom, which isn’t true. There are Voids that are considered on par with animals due to such weak prowess.

The weakest of Voids that enter our Universe do not have corporeal forms and typically try to possess people to interact with the world around them. In Andeamer lore, possession is not always a nightmare. Some Voids possess people and don’t wreak havoc at all, they may be collecting information about the world of the living among other things. There is always ways to know if someone is possess, even without the damaging actions of the Void. Sleepwalking is thought to be a symptom of possession; Andeamer speculate Voids don’t live as we do and become very bored when a person is asleep so the Void takes over and controls the body for a temporary amount of time. Lapses in memory are another common symptom; these lapses are thought to be the Void taking over the body again and the host has no memory of what happened. Of course, one could always visit a priestess of Mazarath if they suspect a Void has taken control of them.

Possession from a more powerful Void could be harder to control and purge. Possessions that turn difficult call for action by High Priestesses of Mazarath. Their methods are secretive and not known outside the order. Many ruthless leaders across Enochian history are attributed to having been possessed by Regents.

Whether the Void exists or not, it has shaped these, extra-terrestrial cultures as well as our own cultures on Earth. But these recent events have convinced many there is much more beyond what meets the eye. However, Lurokxì and Human governments are thoroughly ignoring its significance to the Andeamer and its obvious destruction. The Void should definitely be investigated, from a distance, and understood. Humans were lucky to find extra-terrestrials that were compassionate enough to help us battle an enemy unknown. We should act the same with those from another Universe, no matter how strange and foreign.

The Greater Voids

The Three Headed Beast

As stated prior the Three Headed Beast is the most feared among the Andeamer. Together they wreak havoc and spread vitriol that divide the living.

damaging actions. Andeamer believe Hismael Hamariel corrupts the love between friends, family, and partners until the relationship is rotten and bitter.

Suluth Styrr is destruction of the mind. He drives mortals to insanity. He corrupts the minds of people and turns them into narcissists, psychopaths, overall undesirables who not only destroy themselves but those around them. Andeamer believe someone affected by Suluth Styrr is very unpleasant to be around, even if they have made no actions or spoke no words; they have a strong negative aura to them.

Surgat Zagam is destruction of the body. He is ravaging diseases of the body, a blight and cancer to the Andeamer. He is the reason Andeamer do not bury their dead anymore, because the dead are easily overtaken by his minions. In the early times of the Andeamer, they buried their dead to return them to Enokh, but Surgat Zagam turned them into the Restless Dead who rise from their graves to terrorize the living. As a result, anybody who is not a High Priestess of Mazarath, is cremated. High Priestesses of Mazarath are immune to Surgat Zagam, according to Mazarath’s blessing.

Suluth Styrr

Suluth Styrr (Suh-looth/Suh-loot Shteer) is the first head of the Beast. Suluth Styrr plants seeds of insanity in even the most stalwart individuals. He begins as doubt in oneself, slowly turning into words that eat a person whole. However, he is only the catalyst to a descent into madness, typically his victims do most the work for him.

Whenever Suluth Styrr comes to the mortal plane, any unfortunate soul who crosses him, will surely be corrupted beyond repentance. To Andeamer, he is the why of many negatives behaviors such as self-destruction and even mental illness. Those he touches spread his sphere wherever they go like a contagious disease. Suluth Styrr bore from the center of his father’s mind, a whisper and blight of the individual, spurring doubt, and unholy desires. Suffer under the pain conscious life, no thing is free of Suluth Styrr and the influence of the Greedy and Grasping Void.

Hismael Hamariel

Hismael Hamariel (Hizmayl Hamahree-el) is the second head of the Beast, and will always be second. Hismael Hamariel is the negative extreme of love that spurs jealousy, obsession, and hate; almost the exact opposite of Alioth(Älëas). Hismael Hamariel ruins any relationship whether it be between friends or lovers, should she see it and should it spur jealously in her, she will destroy it. To the Andeamer she not only is the negatives of hykhari (hih-kharee) (lit. negative love) but also carnal pleasure, which would be more akin to rape or non-consensual activities. She corrupts what the Andeamer call vytarri (vih-tah-ree), Alioth’s Gift, which encompasses love of all types and sex while hykhari is jealousy, domination, obsession, rape, etc...

In Andeam lore, the relationships that Hismael Hamariel destroys, specifically those of lovers, she takes one of the partners and a child is born. These children are practically mortal incarnations of Hismael Hamariel and are incapable of love. Luckily however, there are relationships that Hismael Hamariel cannot destroy and these are called averic (ah-veh-reese) for lovers and for platonic friends; they are the equivalent of soul-mates. These relationships infuriate Hismael Hamariel to no end. The corruption of the greatest gift of Alioth tears them apart for may they never find solace, may they never have more, may they never accept Alioth, and may they succumb to her will. The daughter of Wrath and the sister of Envy, none shall have more elation and happiness in their life than the Mother of Maggots, for she is empty. Aharmoz stole the deepest chamber of Alioth’s heart and forever wounded him, he emptied his hate unto a new vessel, and released Hismael Hamariel into the Universe.

Surgat Zagam

Surgat Zagam (Sir-gat Zuhgahm) is a necessary evil in the eyes of Andeamer. Every failed plague of his makes the living stronger, but he is still destruction. He is disease, illness and cancer.

Surgat Zagam is why cremation is mandatory in Enokh or face his meddling. The Voids under Surgat Zagam are notorious for inhabiting the dead and using them to spread disease. The Restless Dead don’t do much damage in medically advanced societies and can be easily dispatched with fire, but it is much easier to cremate your loved ones before they try to attack you as a rotten corpse. Passions sway of wind, disaster born in the spirals of the black, Aharmoz’s son to entertain for ages. He stirred the hole in the sky, captured the release of a dying sun, and let this Greater Void shape the worlds to come. The decay on stone and flesh are one in the same, a changing face, and ravaging sickness. Surgat Zagam remind them, they are no different from the soil they walk upon.

Valac Vetis

Valac Vetis (Vah-lock Vehtiss) is the youngest and the least influential of the Greater Voids, but is the reason mortals dream. He is quiet and scheming but appears shy and weak. Valac Vetis and his followers roams the dreamscape of mortals and creates the fantastical world around them. He is the Master of dreams, fantasies, and nightmares often attribute to the primal emotion of fear. To see Valac Vetis in one’s dreams is an omen, which is good or bad depending on the events of the dream. Together, Mariax Stygal and Valac Vetis are the least malevolent of their siblings.

His plane is the Dreamscape and minds of mortals and should he materialize into the physical world he is weakened. Valac Vetis, despite how benign his sphere appears, can possibly be one of great destruction,, specifically of the mind. He knows the ins and outs of the mortal thought process and exploits this for various reasons. Valac Vetis and Mariax Stygal are commonly agreed to be aligned, for both benefit greatly from each other’s spheres. His eyes an insult to Mazhora, but weakened by her light. He hides in the Shadows and darkest corners of the mind. He corrupts Mazhora’s gift to mortal men, twisting them into nightmares. Aharmoz took the all-seeing Moon of the Void sky, the tainted air, and the dust of a dead star created from Mazhora’s hands to birth Valac Vetis. This son shows the darkness of all mortal desire, the indestructible corruption that lives in all Mazhora’s children.

Mariax Stygal

Mariax Stygal (Mah-ree-axe Stye-gal) is a Void being that has interfered with the lives of Humans, Lurokxì, Andeamer, and other intelligent life forms throughout history. He is the Void-God to Andeamer, both feared and admired. He is the most curious of the Voids and the most intelligent. Mariax Stygal communes with both Voids and Gods; Valac Vetis and Mïzärn are his peers. Mïzärn showed Andeamer the unknown and Mariax Stygal taught them to harness their knowledge of the unknown to create technologies.

Aharmoz, upon seeing Mazhora birth another son, this one Mizar the god of sorcery and the unknown, took the fiery ash of the Void, his blood, and brain and created a new son. This son, a greater Void, is the most intelligent. He observes and absorbs, power and knowledge. His fury knows no bounds, but his patience is without limit. This son was Mariax Stygal, the one to bring the light unto the endless Void.

Vegar Arniel

Vegar Arniel (Vehgar Are-knee-el) is a Void that interferes with every living thing in the Universe for his own entertainment. He seeks to bring misfortune and to take what makes Mazhora’s creations happy and fruitful. He is possibly the most ignorant or one of the more intelligent Voids. Vegar Arniel never covets, for he takes before he wants. He steals what he does not need and hoards what has no purpose. He gives meaning to what he steals and only steals to watch others unravel.

Vegar Arniel can infuriate many with his presence. He whispers into the ear of mortals their darker desires and how to justify them. He demonstrates how to steal and how to spur jealousy and hate leading to subsequent chaos among organized societies. He is perhaps the most subtle Void in his ways. Vegar Arniel’s plane is supposedly made of everything he hoards. Anything he saw and desired. Vegar Arniel himself sits upon of throne of jewels sought after by mortals for their beauty. Should one find themselves in his plane, never take anything for he will know. There are many tales of Vegar Arniel tracking Voids and Mortals alike who took something of his and killing them. The only way Vegar Arniel might give up something of his, is through trade.

He sows seeds of envy and hate to destroy the Great Empires internally. He is the pettiest of the sons, a jester unto himself and nuisance to all. Aharmoz learned envy from the gods and turned it into a new weapon. He stole a piece of Phecda, which she forever desires, he destroyed the life of a thriving world, and took the dying breath of Vasistha to create Vegar Arniel.

Cassiel Avak

Cassiel Avak (Cassee-el Uh-vahk) is the Void of indulgence and hedonism. Cassiel Avak is an apathetic Void who does not care for anything that doesn’t please him. He tempts the hearts of mortals with their own desires, presented so they may never struggle. The Voidly nature of Cassiel Avak is slow. It bears its ugly head whenever denied to bring down vengeful wrath. Andeamer believe Cassiel Avak and his ilk dangerous because he weakens their will, turns them lazy and impatient. Without the hurdles of life, Andeamer never grow or learn. Indulgence, in the way the Andeamer describe it is something not earned. The Andeamer believe only through trial and dedication is something earned, whether it be a title or material object.

Born of hate and deceit, He only seeks hedonism to dangerous extremes and hides from his mistakes. His sin is apathy, ignorance, and arrogance. Aharmoz took the dead sun of the Void, his seed, and Mazhora’s tears and created Cassiel Avak. This son spreads a blight of ignorance and dangerous indulgences across Mazhora’s Universe.

Mephistopheles Phelesar

Mephistopheles Phelesar (Meh-feasto-fell-eez Fell-ehsar), an engineer of the Void, mostly a nuisance to those who oppose the Void. In the Dirrag and even admitted to by Mariax, Mephistopheles Phelesar is where lesser Voids come from and possible how Void-turned people happen. Despite the source of many woes, there is not a lot of information on this particular Void, and if there is it is a closely guarded secret.

The black smoke pollutes the skies of the Void. The turning gears, music to this Greater Void, a machine, glinting and beautiful against the grey lands. Mephistopheles Phelesar only occupied by his creations, his minions, to be given life without purpose.

Known Voids

This is a list of any names that might be found in Enochian texts. Much of Enokh’s knowledge of the Void was lost after their Great War and is only recently being recovered. Some of these names are accompanied without purposes and might not even be Voids.

Adnachiel Rigariel (Ad-natchee-el Ri-gaaree-el): His purpose is unknown. The only surviving text that mentions this Void is one where Mariax Stygal states, “Adnachiel Rigariel shall build.” He is dubbed the Architect because of this but his true purpose is unknown. From the Dirrag; Mariax answers and inquiry about a destruction in a far away land from a follower with prophetic dreams.

Eligus Rigarnus: Purpose is unknown. Mariax quotes Suluth Styrr, “I will bring the Void from within Eligus Rigarnus, turn him red and eat his heart.” From a mostly destroyed text recovered from a Temple of Marëkhs.

Zagehlas Another name mentioned by Mariax Stygal; “Bring about your own demise and serve the Abyssal King, be the miserable harlot you whining child. I curse your existence, Zagehlas.” From the many tales of the Void-Turned in the Dirrag. Andeamer scholars think Zagehlaz may have been Void-turned, and possibly once a scholar under Marëkhs. Ronove Mentioned by Mïzärn; “Fear the wisdom the Void may bring, don’t approach the Master directly for he will fill you and you will burst. Seek Ronove and you will find your answers without eternal damnation.” This quote by Mïzärn is widely believed to be him steering individuals from seeking answers from their Void-God directly and instead go to his lesser servants. The followers of the Void-God believe Mariax has the tendency to over indulge any inquiries made to him directly, this isn’t always bad however, there are those driven insane as well as other misfortunes brought about seeking counsel from Mariax; Ronove may be one of these servants or Regents.

Sakath: From Sakath and Älëas. “Sakath, born of your jealous mother and unwanted wherever you may go, but know even you are welcomed in my temple, in my House. My love and my kiss brings any from the Void, even those born of hate incarnate.” Sakath is supposedly one of many born from Hismael Hamariel, out of jealousy and hate from the relationships she’s destroyed. In this tale of Sakath and Älëas, Sakath is redeemed of her Void-borne nature and taken by Älëas to Ursanistyn where she serves. Sakath stands as a tale of redemption for the Andeamer and is one of Älëas most important and well-known tales.

“The Doctor”: A more recent phenomenon seen since the Great Enlightenment; appears as a plague doctor circa 1600s. Caught in several images across Earth, but these are of course under scrutiny. Purpose is unknown, but assumed from its appearance this Void may be one under Surgat Zagam.

Written by Johannes Winnipeg; published in The Universal Journal of the Study of the Void, 2028 5th Edition

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