![]() ![]() ![]() They all have placed absolute faith in an ideal that they believe is more valuable than their own lives. ![]() They all live by the same modus operandi, using and manipulating people for their own calculated ends, and without exception these ends of theirs are selfless and altruistic in intent. They all make deliberate use of a mask constructed from false presumptions and external expectations that explicitly serve to distance themselves from others. They are all outwardly off-putting, unsettling, and foreboding in presence which is itself an intentional act put on by each Child. They are all associated with powers that countercheck the powers of the Abyss as wielded by Glen and the Jury. They all harbor a certain awareness that grants them clarity to the nature of the universe, the design of the system that operates it, and the roles played by those around them. They all exist as counterparts to an incarnation of Glen. Thus all known Children of Ill Omen share many a commonality that represent the role they've accepted. Rather than possessing a predestined fate from their births, the Child of Ill Omen is simply a role that a select few step into due to their values, decisions, and beliefs. While this motivation behind their existences greatly and deeply influences the nature of the Ill Omened, this less so determines the virtue of who they are from birth and more so indicates the character of the people they would eventually become. The Core of the Abyss creates Children of Ill Omen due to her loneliness, out of her yearning desire for connection through the Abyssal desolation of her isolated life. This is because Children of Ill Omen are only created retroactively, regarded as a distortion caused by the existence of Glen, and thus there are no qualities that can be considered inherent to being a Child of Ill Omen. What exactly determines a person being Ill Omened is never expanded upon aside from the characterizing attribute of red eyes. Thus the Jury's intense revulsion towards Children of Ill Omen and adamant commands for their executions. Created as aberrations by the Core of the Abyss herself, they exist outside of the Jury's control and perception and came into being as a direct response to counter Glen's existence. The Children of Ill Omen are the sole exception to this. Glen is the being designated as the "Crossroads" who will lead the Tale to its End, and the Baskervilles merely exist to obey his every command and unquestioningly serve his will. ![]() Jury, the deity who created everything, conceived the Abyss as a " Tale" to be lead to a designed "End"-that is, to be destroyed. In truth the purposes for the creation of the Baskervilles, the Children of Ill Omen, and Glen which had been close secret since the beginning of time are not what they themselves had believed. This was usually carried out by an ascendant Glen, who was believed to have retroactively generated the Child of Ill Omen. Children of Ill Omen were thus set for execution for their curse. Their ability to interact with the Core gave them the potential to upset the balance between the material world and the Abyss which was the Baskervilles' duty to protect, making them extremely dangerous. As only Glen was permitted to interact with the Core, and even then only under extreme circumstances, Children of Ill Omen were regarded as heretical. These people were branded by their red eyes. After the Tragedy of Sablier, the stigma surrounding Children of Ill Omen faded, and legends of red-eyed children as those who brought calamity fell out of public consciousness.Īmong Baskervilles, a Child of Ill Omen was the only being other than Glen Baskerville capable of interacting with the Core of the Abyss. Prior to the Tragedy of Sablier, Children of Ill Omen were regarded as heralds of misfortune, and were subjected to persecution, trafficking, and abuse. Those born with red eyes were referred to as "cursed," though no name existed for the curse separate from those afflicted by it. No other distinction was explicitly made between a person who was Ill Omened and one who was not, at least among laypeople. In common usage, a "Child of Ill Omen" simply referred to a person born with at least one red eye. ![]()
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