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- The Buried: Elemental Earth (ElE)
Also called The Centre, Choke, Too Close I Cannot Breathe, Forever Deep Below Creation.
The fear of small spaces, suffocating, drowning, being buried alive. Fear of everything crashing down around/on oneself. Fear of being trapped without enough space. Manifests as caves, dirt, financial issues, heavy rain, underground transport, tight spaces such as coffins.
- The Corruption: Necromancy (Nec)
Also called Filth, The Crawling Rot, Flesh Hive.
The fear of corruption, disease, filth. Fear of the feelings of disgust, revulsion, and the things or beings that might evoke such feelings.
Manifests as mould, bugs, rot, decay, infection, the feeling of one's skin crawling. Can also manifest as unhealthy love and companionship.
- The Dark: Elemental (ElW - Water)
Also called Mr. Pitch, The Forever Blind.
The primal fear of the dark, of what lies beyond that we cannot see, and the creatures hiding from our view.
The Dark is said to be one of the oldest manifestations.
Manifests as creatures hidden in the dark, shadow figures & monsters, blindness, coldness, dark water.
- The Desolation: Elemental (ElF - Fire)
Also called The Lightless Flame, The Torturing Flame, The Devastation, The Blackened Earth, The Ravening Burn, Asag.
The fear of pain, loss, burning, and destruction, especially with a senseless cause.
Followers are enriched by destroying the lives of people who had things to live for, and destroying things before their potential is realised.
Manifests as fire, wax, heat, burns, destruction of potential.
- The End: Entropy (Ent)
Also called Death, Terminus, the Termination of All Life, The Coming End That Waits For All And Cannot Be Ignored.
The fear of death itself—uncaring and unstoppable, the fear that everything ends eventually.
Manifests as bones, various forms of the dead (skeletons, mummies, zombies, etc.). Also has close ties to dreams and can manifest through them.
- The Eye: Divination (Div)
Also called Beholding, The Ceaseless Watcher, It Knows You, The Great Eye that watches all who linger in terror and gorges itself on the sufferings of those under its unrelenting stuporous gaze.
The fear of being watched, exposed, followed, having secrets exposed. Can also pertain to the drive to know and understand, even if your discoveries might destroy you.
Manifests as eyes, a creature or figure that keeps constant watch. Often manifests in libraries and books.
- The Flesh: Transmutation (Tra)
Also called Viscera.
The fear within the human, realisation that we are just animated meat and bones.
Manifests as meat, corpses, blood, bones, butchers, meat-related industry. Often manifests as strange bodies—bodies being unnaturally twisted, reshaped, and butchered.
- The Hunt: Druidic (Dru)
Also called The Everchase.
The animalistic fear of being chased or hunted; the primal fear of being prey.
Manifests as predators, predatory monsters, animal instincts, animalistic traits.
Takes hold of apparently "normal" people after they are exposed to the need for The Hunt. Self-proclaimed monster hunters might become 'Hunters' and proceed to develop a need to hunt and kill monsters.
- The Lonely: Abjuration (Abj)
Also called Forsaken, The One Alone.
The fear of isolation, of being completely cut off and alone or disconnected from the rest of society.
Manifests as fog, large rooms, silence, remote and isolated houses, empty rooms, crowds of faceless people.
- The Slaughter: Kinesis (Kin)
The fear of pure, unpredictable, unmotivated violence. The fear of pain coming at sudden, random moments.
Manifests as people driven "mad with Slaughter," soldiers, music that either induces Slaughter or warns that Slaughter is coming. Often manifests in imagery of war or murder, and can appear wild like a frenzied killer or calm and regimented like soldiers firing on the battlefield.
- The Spiral: Illusion (Ill)
Also called Es Mentiras (It Is Lies), The Twisting Deceit, It Is Not What It Is.
The fear of madness, that the world you know is wrong, that your mind is lying to you. Fear of deception, lying, deceiving of the mind and senses.
The Spiral appears with imagery of spirals, patterns and fractals, and often manifests as hallucinations or illusions.
- The Stranger: Conjuration (Con)
Also called I Do Not Know You.
The fear of the unknown, the uncanny, the unfamiliar. The creeping sense that something is not right.
Manifests as beings and aspects of beings that provoke an "uncanny valley" response: human and other being-adjacent forms, such as mannequins, wax figures, masks, and taxidermy. Often manifests in theatres and performances.
- The Vast: Elemental (ElA - Air)
Also called The Falling Titan.
The fear of heights, falling, and large open spaces including sky and wide spaces. More broadly: the human fear of insignificance and meaninglessness, of losing oneself in too much space.
Manifests as void, wide-open spaces, vertigo, falling, the transformation of something that should have a limit into something infinite.
- The Web: Hysteria (Hys)
Also called The Spider, The Great Spider, Mother of Puppets, The Mother, The Spinner of Schemes, The Hidden Machination.
The fear of being controlled or trapped, especially being unaware of one's own entrapment. The fear of being forced to do things against one's own will, of being manipulated. Also the fear of spiders.
Manifests as spiders, spider webs, web-like patterns, puppets.
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