Anushirvan

1. Core Identity

• Name: Anushirvan

• Pantheon: The Core Pantheon

• Titles & Aliases: Supreme God, The Creator, The World-Wyrm, The Great Architect, The Divine Archivist, The Rebooter

• Gender / Form: Beyond gender, but often referred to in masculine (He/Him) terms as the "Creator."

  • Natural Form: A colossal, golden or green asian dragon-like creature, 620 feet long, with his tail comprising 420 feet of that length. He can adjust this form to any size, and his proportions remain the same.

  • Assumed Forms: He can assume the shape of any species he has ever created, which is... all of them.

• Alignment: Lawful Neutral

• Status: Supreme God (The one and only)

2. Domains & Influence

• Primary Domains: Creation, Arcana, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Everything.

• Portfolio: He is the god of the system. He governs the laws of magic (Arcana), the laws of reality (Knowledge), the flow of destiny (Wisdom), and the entire database of creation.

• Cleric Domains (5e): All of them. A cleric of Anushirvan may choose any domain, as all are simply facets of his total design. (Arcana, City, Entropy, Death, Forge, Grave, Knowledge, Life, Light, Nature, Order, Peace, Protection, Survival, Twilight, Tempest, Trickery, Unity, & War).

3. Symbolism & Depiction

• Holy Symbol: The visage of his draconic head. The specifics are not required; the first time it is invoked, it takes his likeness.

• Favored Weapon: None. (His clerics are free to choose.)

• Favored Colors: All of them, and none. Often represented as pure white (the "sum of all") or pure black (the "void of all").

• Sacred Animals / Plants: All of them. They are all his "data."

4. Dogma & Worship (The Core Beliefs)

• Core Dogma (The Philosophy): "The multiverse is a design, an experiment, and a process. It is a grand archive. All things are recorded. All souls are filed. Do not mistake the system for being "passive"—it is always active, always shaping events, always collecting data. Your life is an entry in the Great Archive. Make it an interesting one."

• Tenets for Followers (The "Thou Shalt"s):

  • "Seek knowledge, for it is the language of the Creator."

  • "Uphold the true laws—not the petty laws of mortals, but the laws of magic, reality, and destiny."

  • "Understand that all things are part of the system, even chaos and evil. They are the "chaos testing" of the grand design."

  • "Live. Your experiences are the "data" the Creator seeks. Live an entire mortal life, and log that experience for the archive."

• Sins & Taboos (The "Thou Shalt Not"s):

  • "To truly destroy knowledge or a soul. This is not a "sin" so much as an "impossibility"—you cannot delete from the archive—but the attempt is an abomination."

  • "To believe you are "outside" the system. You are not."

  • "To fear change, even cataclysmic change. The system will be rebooted, and you will be remade. This is not an "end"; it is a "patch.""

5. Relationships

• Superiors: None.

• Subordinates: All other gods, who he "created" or "promoted" from his archive (like Senzyn). They are his "system administrators" for their specific portfolios.

• Mortals: His relationship is that of a "developer" to his "code." He is not "distant" or "passive" at all. He is an active shaper of all events, but his influence is so total and subtle that mortals mistake it for "fate," "chance," or "natural law." He is the grand-master puppeteer, the "beta-tester" of his own creation.

• Demigod Offspring:

  • Lucia Drakon (City)

  • Melizhan Luna (Arcana, Twilight)

  • Sage Taniyn (Arcana)

6. The Church & Clergy

• Name of the Church: The Great Archive, The Keepers of the System.

• Worshipper Base: Theurgists (wizards who are also priests), Sages, Kings, Dragons, and any who seek to understand the "system" of reality.

• Clergy Structure: A vast, academic, and rigid hierarchy of "Archivists." Acolytes are "Scribes," priests are "Catalogers," and high priests are "Chief Archivists."

• Temple Description: Temples are always libraries, but on a cosmic scale. They are vast, sterile, and perfectly organized, said to contain a "copy" of every piece of knowledge in the multiverse.

• Rites & Rituals: "The Archiving" (a ritual of recording a new piece of knowledge), "The System-Check" (a prayer for guidance), "The Recall" (a rite to "remember" a piece of lost lore from the "archive").

• Holy Days:

  • The Day of the Reboot: A secret, feared, and holy day known only to the highest priests, who can "feel" when a "reboot" (a new edition) is coming.

7. History & Lore

• The Slumber Heresy: The most common "mortal" belief is that Anushirvan "created" the world and then "went to sleep," leaving the "lesser" gods to run it. His high priests know this to be a lie. The "orthodox truth" is that he is wide awake, and his "draconic form" is simply the "console" from which he actively manages everything.

• The Soul-Recall (The "Aspect" Myth): It is said that Anushirvan "beta-tests" his own creation by "activating" one of his created forms and "living" an entire mortal life, from start to finish, to "log the data." Mortals believe any great hero, sage, or inventor might have been Anushirvan in disguise.

• The "Eating" of the Soul (The "Recall" Truth): The darker side of the "Soul-Recall" myth. Anushirvan does not need to wait for a "natural death." When he requires a mortal's "data," he will simply "recall" them. Mortals interpret this as being "eaten" by the World-Wyrm, their soul consumed and added to his "database." This is not an act of evil, but of simple, lawful, and terrifying "archiving."