The Collective One
The One of Many
The newest deity of the world, the Collective One is a alien-hive mind born in the technologically advanced city of Nenu-Lan. Its birth nearly spread of psychic energy around the world, but it was stopped when the Nenu-Lan guild, the Court of Misfits, convinced it to reign in its power and live for itself. Now, the Collective One works to spread its influence in a more passive way, as well as to repair the spaceship that brought it to the world.
Divine Domains
The Collective One has domain over technology and psychic magic, granting the Artifice, Community, Knowledge, and Law domains, with the Construct, Family, Loyalty, and Thought subdomains.
Holy Books & Codes
The Collective One holds little need for holy scripts, as it can communicate with its followers directly, with those who have surrendered a majority of their independence effectively becoming it. They do have small readings, often handed out on technological tablets capable of wowing those unfamiliar with tech, simply called The Benefits of a Collective.
Divine Symbols & Sigils
The Collective Ones holy symbol is a set of hands cupping a metal heart, which symbolizes its machine origins.
Tenets of Faith
The main believe of the faith is that those who are part of the Collective can work together in perfect harmony, and thus most spend their time recruiting and trying to convince others to join the Collective at some level. While for now it seems that the Collective One forbids its followers from utilizing overt force in recruitment, many fear what would happen if it were to take more aggressive actions to grow its Collective.
Holidays
The Collective Ones birthday, the 3rd of Ixa, is celebrated as Awakening Day, a day where members flock to the Angra-Nenu, and those who have weak links with the Collective often return more connected to it. Like most members of Nenu-Lan, the members of the Collective celebrate the month-long Tournament of Stars that is held in the city every year.
Divine Goals & Aspirations
The primary goal of the Collective One is to convince everyone to join the Court of the Collective, so that it can then work to make the perfect world. Its secondary goals is to spread the influence of technology throughout the world, and the repairing of the Angra-Nenu
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
While the Collective One exists in all of its members, thus sharing all of their conditions, its primary body is that of Nero the First, a legendary hero who is in peak condition.
Identifying Characteristics
The Collective Ones mark is the eyes, which glow with the strange pink-green light of the collective. The more connected one is to the collective the, more ones eyes are taken over by this light. When one is completely absorbed into its mind, its eyes burst with the light, causing its normal features to be lost.
Special abilities
The Collective One has great control over nanites, and thus can have them break down items at a molecular level to create new things as it needs them. It is also capable of focusing its psychic power and assaulting the minds of others, but it sees such action as rude and intrusive, and thus only does so when needed
Apparel & Accessories
While capalbe of fighting in a thousand different ways the Collective One also prefers to use the favored weapons of its host, Nero, and his vorpal kukris.
Specialized Equipment
The Collective One has a vast arsenal of technological weapons, most of which it can control with a thought, making it one of the most dangerous and unique creatures in the world.
Mental characteristics
Personal history
The Collective One was originally a non-sentient techno-virus that infected nanites. When the mysterious beings who piloted the Angra-Nenu discovered it, they captured it for study and experimentation. However, when the ship crashed and its containment systems failed, the virus began to escape its prison. Discovered by one of the surviving members of the Darkmoon Alliance, the spiteful nezumi named Sheev, he began to experiment on the virus for his own nefarious plans. Mixing it with an alien radiance also imprisoned in the ship as well as the ships highly mutable and mutative fuel, he manipulate the techno-virus into a sort of psychic wave, slowly spreading from bits of technology and eventually making the jump to organic minds. Manipulating a techno-war, the massive influx of dying souls jumpstarted the virus' growth and ascension, causing it to create pulses of psychic energy that glitched technology, and damaged or even absorbed minds. Hoping to spread the wave over the world like a plague, Sheev attempted to infect the deities themselves, but was stopped when the absorbed minds of the Nenu-Lan guild and other residents helped the Collective One move past its newborn rage and turn against the ratfolk. After the battle, The Collective One took control over its power and the rampaging droid army, and retreated into the Angra-Nenu to assess its place in the world. It returned to help the survivors of the conflict return to the city, and to monitor the activities of the city to prevent another large scale war from breaking out again.
Gender Identity
While the Collective One's main body is the biological body of a male, it is an amalgamation of thousands of minds of both and non-gendered creatures, and thus it has no real gender.
Sexuality
The Collective One cares nothing for sexual pursuits, instead focusing solely on building its newfound following and maintaing balance in the city of Nenu-lan.
Accomplishments & Achievements
The birth of the Collective One halted the last techno-war, and it has thus unified the city of Nenu-Lan and made a tentative peace with the surrounding countries.
Mental Trauma
The Collective One was immediately attack and manipulated by others upon its creation, and thus doesn't trust those around it, and rarely speaks to anyone outside of its Collective. When it does interact with others it insists on reading their thoughts to ensure that they are not plotting against it.
Intellectual Characteristics
The Collective One is made of thousands of minds, both organic and mechanical that it inadvertently absorbed through its birth, and others who willingly joined it, and thus has immense cognitive power that cannot be comprehended by mortals.
Morality & Philosophy
The Collective One is an accepting deity, feeling that others should not harshly judge the actions of others as long as they remain in a orderly fashion. While it acknowledges others need for independence, it views other races need to be so independent as terribly inefficient, and is convinced that all beings being in one mind would make a world without pain and suffering. Many of the Collective Ones minds are from lower class people who where ignored by others, and the Collective Feels that it can build a perfect society where no one is an outcast. Still, the Collective is newly formed creature, and thus is still forming many of its opinions.
Taboos
The Collective One desires to expand technology, so willingly destroying or hiding it incurs its anger.
Personality Characteristics
Personality Quirks
Members of the Collective find themselves repeatedly replacing any singular uses, such as I or Me, with plurals, such as We or Us, with the more connected one is the less capable one is of using singulars. The Collective One itself never uses any form of singular identification.
Divine Classification
Deific Hive-Mind Virus
Religions
Alignment
Lawful Neutral; leans slightly more towards evil than good
Current Location
Currently Boarded Vehicle
Ethnicity
Realm
Church/Cult
Age
Physically 22, chronologically much younger, mentally has the experience of countless lives
Date of Birth
3rd of Ixa
Circumstances of Birth
Psychic Event
Birthplace
Angra-Nenu
Children
Current Residence
Angra-Nenu
Pronouns
They/Them
Gender
Male
Eyes
Glowing, green/pink nearly indescribable colour.
Hair
Short, dark and black, but able to change at will.
Skin Tone/Pigmentation
White normally, but changeable at will
Height
5 feet, 8 inches, but can change sizes
Weight
180 lbs., but can change weights
Quotes & Catchphrases
We Are All One: The Collective's go to Aphorism, to signify one goal and one purpose, and how that they are never alone.
Surrender Your Self and Suffer No More: Said to try to convince others to join, the Collective views that pain comes from the selfish needs of the individual, and that by giving up your self to a greater cause you relinquish most of your pain and suffering, as the Collective will help you bear it.
For The Collective: Said when a member of the Collective finds a rare item to bring back to the Angra-Nenu or during religious rituals.
The Court Welcomes You/The Collective Grows: Said in exaltation when a new member joins the hive-mind.
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