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Tardigrade-monads
Microscopic lifeforms that manifest in the indefinite-sized universes. They are the "natural prey" of the leviathan hydrae, a set of prion-like pathogens that are also Dirge-shadows. When a tardigrade-monad effectively fights a leviathan hydra, or whenever else a leviathan hydra is dissolved, the hydra releases a small wave of energy that can damage cells around it. Extensive exposure to these waves causes a skin condition known as Apophis syndrome, in which skin cells become highly sensitive to exposure to red light and are electrically charged in an abnormal manner. Long-term untreated Apophis syndrome has a massive chance of fatality.
The Dirge-shadows
The six classes of sincrystal, which are objects that if broken, melted, etc. release a burst of Apollyon's pure destructive power. Each is associated with a different ecographic style (metroarchic, economic, deminomic, metrometric, ecometric, and ecoarchic).
- The Typhon. Metroarchic.
- Flamesand. Used for one of the Sinkorosst (the planar bindings on the Typhon). Appears as a thin layer of red sand in some desert regions. When grains of flamesand are melted together into glass, this is considered "destroying" them, so melting them is what brings forth the wave of Apollyon's energy. Metrometric.
- The leviathan hydrae ["Apophis particulates"]. Microscopic sub-living things. Ecometric.
- Sinstone in general. Economic.
- The Void of Threnody. Deminomic.
- The Shield. Held by Ripheus. A literal hand-held shield. Uniquely weakest of the Dirge-shadows, it cannot be destroyed by anything save the Final Power, and even if it could be destroyed, it would release the weakest wave of Apollyon's energy. [Legends suggest a number of obscure origins for the Shield, namely it is commonly, and mistakenly, judged to be a sincrystal construct admixed with something else [ore from the Labyrinth, petrified wood from the aleph-forest, ceramic from objects in Cantor's house, compacted unicorn-horn dust, ortholithic [Form of Adventure-like] matter, residue deposited by tardigrade-monads, exotic metrometric crystal, the "bones" of the Form of Fear, etc. or perhaps even some combination of any or all of the above.]
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The Sin-gem: weapon used to inaugurate the Last War. A chemical membrane was used to culture a large number of leviathan hydrae, which then had a sterilizing agent administered to them in the membrane. Because the membrane was folded around a spherical shell of flamesand, the flamesand melted together, releasing a second wave of Apollyon's force inward, which shattered a precise lattice of sinstones. The residual amplitudes from the first two waves compounded the amplitude of the sinstone break-wave, resulting in the most destructive outburst of sincrystal energy in history. [Had the Typhon been broken, this would have unleashed far greater violence; but the Typhon was never broken.]
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The Void of Threnody: made of negative-dimensional matter, this pocket of Apollyon's energy was raised to life by the power of the Form of Evil. It then betrayed the Form of Evil by trying to kill the Broken Ones (at least, it intended to do so when those beings came to exist, for it foreknew them), but then served both the Form of Evil, and the Form of Destruction, by trying to break the Typhon in order to destroy the Keyscape and prevent the advent of the Final Power [which would have been (A) a way to protect the Form of Evil from Apollyon and (B) an act of destruction extreme enough to sate the hunger of the Destroyer].
[In the theory of the monster transet: the demiplane of Apollyon is also known as the hungry monster and the empty hunger.]