Killing a man is easy. Killing an idea, now that's hard.
It wasn't just gods and mortals who died in the cataclysm of the
End of All Things. The entire nature of reality was brutally rearranged to fit a new order, with things that had once been cosmic truths now discarded and slain. Rules of the cosmos such as
Gods Are Powerful Beyond Mortal Ken or
Opposing Forces Shall Never Mingle were irrevocably broken. Like
Echoes, not all went quietly into oblivion or
whatever afterlife ideas go to, but linger. Demiurges are all that remain, undead ideas and concept that refuse to rest, robbed of all power.
Description
Each Demiurges is different, but all have an abstract appearance. Some appear as a cohesive cloud of geometric shape constantly shifting and collapsing into each other, while others are the last light of a dying star. At least one is the form of an ancient, water-logged city that rises from the depths only to fall back again. No matter their physical appearance, Demiurges are powerless. The rising city can never be reached, the cloud of triangles pass the land without bending a grass, the light burns nothing - Demiurges have lost all they once had. The only power they have is as fuel for mages, as a trapped Demiurge can be harvested for powerful magical components.
Of course, catching one is anything but easy.
Demiurges are mindless, and move without purpose or goal. Some re-enact ancient tasks performed to maintain the old world, trying to align
stars that no longer exist or balance forces of planes long since broken.
In the World
Its difficult to say exactly how many Demiurges exist in Ithekshem, but most put it at no more than a handful. Powerful laws were shattered into pieces, and each one could become a potential Demiurge, and many were simply blasted into oblivion. Others are still falling to the world, along with all the other pieces of
Celestial debris that still scourge parts of the world. For most, Demiurges are haunting memories of the Old World, or a final part of it to burn as fuel to conquer the new one.
Poor Demiurges, going from fundamental cosmic law to spell fuel is certainly a deep fall..so it is probably a good thing that they are mindless, otherwise, they would probably hella sad :/ On a completely different note, I spotted a typo in the last paragraph, as I am assuming you meant "celestial debris" instead of debris made from eels (though that would certainly be something :p)
You never know with Ithekshem, it could be eel-stars crashing down on earth! But no, it's celestial :D Whoops, fixing now
Creator of Araea, Megacorpolis, and many others.