The Emanations were once the denizens of the Mortal Plane. Their bodies were the domain itself and the beings that dwell within it. Physical manifestation of concepts and ideas as they exist in reality. They held no will of their own and carried no ambition. They were servants to nothing and everything. Caretakers of the Infinite. Now, they are something else. I try to use the word 'shadow' but Vauban hisses at me. A shadow is a flat projection cast by a light and an object. Less real. Vauban insists that these Emanations are more real, somehow. He uses words like inhabited, exalted, rendered final...
-Iskandar Lunaros, teaching Kayn about the Emanation.
History
The Emanations, also known as Titans, were the first race of gods to come into existence, the majority of whom were born directly from the void of Chaos and adopted by Anu. Unlike the Isu and Ennead, the Emanations are essentially sentient aspects of the universe itself, and therefore they cannot truly be killed. They are the denizens of Chaos, physical manifestation of concepts and ideas as they exist in the Mortal Realm. Even the power that Anu possesses are ultimately only able to disperse their physical forms. They can be banished from manifesting in the world physically but their consciousness can never be destroyed. They have absolute and total control over a particular aspect of the entire universe which makes them immensely powerful and difficult to kill. They were not always the hideous, pale-skinned creatures that reside in the bowels between planes, but were sealed there in aeons past due to Kronos' defiance against his neighboring deities. Before that, they were very humanoid, but they have become twisted and malformed after evolving to the rampant energy of the Blind Eternities. Now they dwell within the space between universes, |
outside the borders of reality. They have become merciless, cruel and enigmatic beyond imagination, seeking only "to twist reality into a realm of eternal torment," and ultimately to devour all matter and energy and the universe itself. However, the most powerful of the Emanation can actually "emanate," themselves into the Mortal Realm as a type of larvae. All hosts of the larvae become bound symbiotically by their Emanation, which drives the host to feed off the desires of their Emanation lest the worm grow unsatisfied and consume them instead. The first to ingest the larvae are the daughters of Atriox.