The End Times (Draft)

Tennhauser gate (what is it), which leads to Elysium (ref. Tenhauser in the grips of Venusburg)
Elysium, a place of stagnant paradise, a place of eventual languish (compare with sheol)
To be in Elysium would be to be set in stone, as the world passed on.
Gannalach, the prophecy which describes the End Times
Cthonians, the bound
Olympians, the unbound
Styrlisks, keepers of the river Styr and heralds/harbinger(?) of the Gannalach
kar'desh, ka'desh, kar'nak, kar'osa, kar'topa.
Hiigara - Homeworld

Gannallach -
The End Times are coming. The world has moved on, the earth has dried. The odgru jahad(name change!!), dwellers of the inbetween (todash? cantoi/discordia) will scour the earth after the devourer worm depredates the land, until nothing is left? (scrap or incorporate? - metaphor?) The Styrlisk have risen from their long slumber to herald its coming. The myth of Tennhauser's gate offers passage to a safe haven from the ravages of the End Times.
That haven is Elysium, the stagnant paradise.
Some choose Elysium and seek it out amongst the already crumbling lands.
Some believe that Elysium offers worse realities than the End Times and oppose the search. Yet others (the wretched?) scoff at the futility of it all and embrace 'the End Times'
Conflict and polarity

A cthonian seeks to solve the riddle of Tennhauser's gate - what is it, and here is it? is it a physical place, or is it a concept? Where can it be found? Along the way the cthonian discovers a correlation between Tennhauser's gate, Elysium and the End Times that could spell inevitability and finality, or Continuation and survival. The answer to the riddle may lie locked in the Gannallach. The key resides with the Styrlisk(the styrlisks ARE THE KEY~! - to unlock tennhauser's gate).

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Flesh out:
ANTAGONISTS
who are the - cthonians, olympians(find another name!).
bound vs unbound
the wretched
teberius=nautaloids?

athropods
mollusca
reptilia(?)
hybrids
hydramiths/hydrohelminth? - styrlisks

progenitors? (dealings with tennhauser?) - HOMO?

turanic raiders

EVENTS/INTERACTIONS
(eventual) council consists of who?
Council decision(or indecision), opinions
Determine degree of styrlisk intervention

MYTHOS
Gannallach by who? (sajuuk kahor?)
Ganna = Ghenna (hell)/ genma (hell)
Lach = laugh/mirth or from can-de-lach (Desperation, SK)
styrlisks as avataers? - true origin n purpose? who? harbinger? Relation to progenitors? (direct creation or side pdt of interactions?)

STORY
htargn seeks to solve riddle of tennhauser gate
leaves for ancients council
acocmpanied by (bullsquid?)
accosted by styrlisk (1)
meets with diff tribes and pieces up mythos
arrives at council, realises correlation
unknown correlation with elements and dealings of the progenitors
returns to stop/alter efforts for tennhauser
reaches tennhauser.
Enters gate.

Inevitability?
Perception of reality/End Times/



THEMES/EVENTS
Metaphors on elements etc. concepts?
Discordia- Counqurer worm, odgru jahad
First times ("of the progenitors" - homo?) - brought to this place via wormholing.
sol goes nova, progenitors decide to save terra by wormholing it to another suitable system - which? And so how n why did they dissapear?
therefore tennhauser's gate is a wormhole?
What is elysium then? (Is elysium here n now??)

PLACES
the clearing
council of ancients (diff frm progenitor) "reach the oracle and state your claims. We will summon the council"
oracle - 'yuggoth' :
"this is the oracle... of Ka'desh.
For thirteen... generations we have protected it from the... unclean.
The Turanic raiders who came... before you were punished for their tresspass.
If you have come to join us, we welcome you, and will spare your vassals until all... have disembarked.
If you have come to consume the knowledge, you will be... removed at once.
What are your intentions?"
"we seek the oracle"

progenitor relic - tennhauser gateway
(bridge across wastelands)