Consumption

Ancient beyond measure, Consumption may be one of the earliest Occultarum that ever spawned in the void. A creature of constant blind hunger, Consumption has only recently been drawn towards the light of humanity. Darkness has heralded its coming and even the other Occultarum fear the old beast. To Consumption, even they are little more then a feast waiting.

A Sight Of Consumption

Consumption is an endless mass of undulating spheres, ranging in color from black as the void to a sickly purple in in size from small to titanic. These move without rest, submerging within the greater mass and reemerging again, giving the creature the appearance of the same constant motion as maggots crawling just beneath rotting skin. Consumption has no discernible front or back and sometimes comes apart into component parts that spin around each other in a dance similar to celestial orbits, but it has no center.

Every now and then, something different will briefly struggle to the surface of the Consumption or a cry will break past the roiling mass. In its long life, the Consumption have devoured even other Occultarum and fragments of these beings are still being slowly digested within the great beast.

Eternal Hunger

The Consumption has no agenda, no ulterior motives. It seeks to consume all that it encounters by corrupting all it touches into smaller copies of itself. Matter that come into contact with Consumption begin to degrade and transform, first in small black droplets with the same appearance as the spheres that make up its body. Eventually, as the corruption spreads these spheres grow larger and the process accelerates. When the Consumption comes near, these spheres fly towards the mass to join the greater whole.
Not even the Occultarum are safe from this, though they are harder to digest. There is no telling what will happen to any man or woman unfortunate enough to be touched by the Consumption, but it can't be good. Should it breach the shroud and coil around the world, there will be nothing left.

Sub-division of the Consumption
Like other Occultarum, the Consumption is capable of partitioning part of its essence into entirely new forms - part of the greater whole but independent at the same time. The Consumption rarely bother to do so, though it is anyone's guess if this is choice or lack of thought.
The only sub-division the Consumption does bother to spawn has been the Mawed Eye; a great, floating eye enclosed with teeth and fangs. The Mawed Eye travel the void, seeking things to devour. While it lacks the corruptive nature of its root-soul, it is more than capable of devouring lesser beings and celestial detritus.

The Occultarum

Cosmic-scavengers and void-maggots, the Occultarum are creatures from another plane of existence who have spent aeons gnawing on the bones of dead gods and dying stars. More concept then corporeal, the Occultarum are alien things that follow no natural laws. Ever since mankind unlocked the secret of magic, they have been drawn to this fresh new banquet.
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The Covenant

Not all Occultarum are so blind. Some have evolved from their feast on human souls and come to see the value in restraint, like a farmer who fattens his cattle. These Occultarum have formed a loose alliance, a Covenant, and they more than any other fear the Consumption for its arrival heralds a possible end to their project. Time will tell but in face of such terror, humanity's only hope for survival may lie with those who have feasted on them.
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Area-5A-4

Unfortunately for mankind, the world has already seen errant spheres of the Consumption land on its soil. Weakened by the distances from the void and the shroud that separates Occultarum from the world of mankind, these spheres consume slowly.
In Area-5A-4, the Shinomas Magocracy watch these strange alien beings and study them. Even among the callous Magocracy, there are those who call for their immediate destruction, but the lure of turning these unknown things into weapon and to end the war have so far prevented it.