| “ | I am the darkness behind the stars, I existed billions of years before even the first spark of Creation was lit, God could not destroy me, and neither can you. | „ |
| ~ Khaos to Azathoth. |
Khaos, also known as Chaos, the Guardian of the Abyss, Shadow of God, or Parent of the Parentless, is the Primordial Deity who embodies the void without and form that existed before the creation of the Multiverse. The primeval void became the Primordial Entity that rules the void and the abyss, becoming the creator of the Primordials.
They are the God/Goddess of Nothingness, Oblivion, the Void, and the Abyss. They were personally created by Dyēus and Dʰéǵʰōm - the Primordial Entities of Creation and Destruction, with the purpose of being the bridge between the Heavens and the Earth and between the celestials and humanity, thus partly reduced the amount of paperwork the angels required to do.
They are the Primal God venerated by the ancient Greco-Romans and the possible destroyer of the Megaverse. As such they are one of the most ancient beings and have existed before time itself, they are considered to be one of the strongest existences, whose powers surpass almost all other beings. They are one of the original members of the Three Great Titans of Creation.
In the Myths, Khaos is the primordial source of all things, being also the state in which the entire Universe was in its primeval state. Khaos is the world in its unfinished state. Khaos precedes Order (Cosmos), being the primordial "void" from which everything came, and to which everything will inevitably return, only to start again in a new cycle.
Khaos is also the ancestor of all gods worshiped of paganism and polytheism, that is, the worship and claiming of gods other than Yesh. Khaos is paganism, heresy and pagan idolatry personified, the source of all witchcraft and heresy.
Overview
Khaos' True Form
Khaos is one of the first Pre-existentials Entities to come into being, being even older than Yesh Himself and His wife Barbelo. Not much is known about the origins of Khaos, but it is believed that at the beginning when the universe was in its primal state plunged inside a primordial soup of antimatter, was when Khaos appeared.
At the beginning the world was in its most primitive and chaotic state, with temperatures comparable to Absolute Heat, which was then cooled by the chaotic waters of Zero Absolute, that is, Khaos, which thus allowed the emergence of The Darkness, the last to precede God. Ayin, Khaos and The Darkness, the three main manifestations of Overvoid, and the eternal arch-rivals of God.
When the Lord wanted to start Creation, the Guardian of the Abyss, living up to his title, did not want to allow the Resplendent Yesh to create the universe, going to war with the Almighty. In the War, Khaos created the Primordials, better known as Protogenoi, primitive amthropormophic personifications of concepts and ideas that did not yet exist and were in their most basic and simple state, such as Gaia (Earth), Ouranos (Sky), Tartarus (Underworld), Nyx (Night), Erebus (Darkness), Eros (Love), and Chronos (Time).
After the War ended, Khaos entered a state of deep hibernation, having remained unconscious for billions of years, even before the First Day of Creation. When the Lord then created the light, the stars and everything in the cosmos, the primal void was filled by billions of bubbles, filling Khaos' body, which consequently caused Khaos to become the gap between dimensions such as Heaven and Hell, also being the "dark void" behind the stars. The multiverse could be said to exist within the primordial void body that is Khaos.
In religions, primordial chaos is normally the building block that the being of order uses to create the universe, with the body of primitive chaos being the foundation of the cosmos. In fact, God, the ruler of Order, uses primitive chaos to give rise to creation, bringing the non-thing into existence, and order from disorder. However, this does not exactly place chaos as a co-creator, it can be said that chaos is like a blank canvas that God, the author, uses to design and write His creation.
However, although Khaos is mainly interpreted as the mythological figure Chaos referred to by the Greeks, this Khaos should not be understood as specifically the Greek Chaos, as this is one of the many interpretations that humanity has had of this silent and chaotic Pre-existential being. Khaos is more than the primordial waters of Babylon or the Sumerians, and more than a devourer of worlds or a yawning void, Khaos is the gap that exists where there is no order, being almost omnipresent in all places where law, justice, and order does not prevail. Khaos is discord, and their weakness is harmony. Among the Abrahamic Pantheon, Khaos is known by another name, Tehom, the True Shadow of Yesh.
Appearance
Khaos does not have an actual true form. They commonly appear in the form of a vast darkness made of dark matter and dark, infinite energy that expands infinitely, showing that Khaos can make even infinity itself finite for them. Although they have no true form, they usually take the form of an androgynous, naked, hairless entity made of purple darkness mixed with Vantablack, a color so dark that it absorbs 99,965% of light.
Khaos' true form can best be described as a transcendent void that exists outside the confines of the universe, with the entire Megaverse existing within their noiseless, chaotic body, something that wasn't so frightening to ancient peoples who believed the world to be the remains of a chaotic entity that was defeated by a ruler of order. From Khaos' point of view, all the infinite worlds created by Yesh like universes, planets, realms and multiverses are just bacteria to them, with the Multiverses being the same as soap bubbles that exist inside their body. When manifested through avatars, Khaos describes it as entering within themself, with Zeus comparing it to Khaos' manifestation within the universe as an author inserting themself into fiction.
However, Khaos has taken human forms when it desires to visit Earth, a Skyland, an Underworld, an alternate realm, or just anywhere there are people as he doesn't want them to get erased from existence.
Khaos' current appearance is that of a cute young girl with long black hair down to her hips and dark blue eyes with a fringe and long bangs on either side of her face. She is usually seen wearing a black Gothic Lolita outfit and carrying a black parasol. Her appearance prompts God and Barbelo to call her Khaos-chan, although she repeatedly tells them not to.
Personality
Due to their age and extreme power, Khaos is extremely separate and impartial from the rest of Creation. Khaos is incredibly apathetic and emotionless. They view creation events such as the War in Heaven, the Titanomachy, the Apocalypse, and Ragnarök as insignificant. Khaos seems to view life forms in Creation as unimportant, even comparing Zeus to bacteria, showing that Khaos views life in Creation as humans view the bacteria in their bodies.
As a Pre-existential Primordial Entity, Khaos doesn't care about the situation that happens in the multiverse and megaverse, as the megaverse itself is just a worm from their perspective. Khaos is an indifferent and cold god to their worshippers, not caring one bit about their existence. Khaos spends most of their time "sleeping", returning themself to their primordial state of absolute unconsciousness, where they are just a fickle, wavering force in the universe. Khaos is an impersonal, unknowable, unconscious force rather than a literal deity. Trying to understand Khaos is, as stated by Tartarus, like trying to talk to a giant black hole.
Khaos doesn't care about the lives of other beings. They seem unfazed and indifferent towards the death of other beings, including their children and descendants. Death itself simply sees it as something that only happens in Creation, being as natural as gravity, you don't question it, you just accept that it's there. Khaos and God share a sort of layering relationship, though this is likely because Khaos is also a God of Creation, though they are also a God of Destruction. Being also a creator god, Khaos is obviously on the list of beings that Therion wants to devour, probably this is the real reason for them to ally themself with God, since God planned to defeat Therion and that would free God, Barbelo, Life and Khaos from being predated by Therion, their natural predator.
Of all the other pre-existentials, they are the most comfortable with God and Ouroboros, he has had a very neutral relationship with God since the creation of the Universe. They also act as the guardian of Ouroboros. Despite this, Calur emphasizes that it should not be confused that Khaos possesses some love for Ouroboros, as in the end, it will be Khaos themself who must again bring all creation back to its state of initial and boundless nonexistence, including Ouroboros itself. On the other hand, they harbor a strong, nasty disdain and hatred for Azathoth and the outside gods for causing him trouble in the past, where he once threatened Azathoth that he would never be destroyed by people like him.
Khaos is a normally amoral, neutral and impersonal entity, not caring about the countless wars that took place inside their body like the War in Heaven, which was an overwhelming event, or the Titanomachy or the battle between Ymir and Odin at the beginning of time. Khaos is an entity that cares little for the universe created by God or anything that exists in the universe, with few emotions being able to express, which are often perceived as a yawning void, as Khaos' emotions are as abstract as themself. However, when manifested with an avatar, be it an Image Avatar or an Avatar Being, Khaos is capable of showing some emotions or even feelings, even if minimally, as anthropomorphism requires them to have some sort of personality
Powers and Abilities
| “ | Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing. | „ |
| ~ Aldous Huxley. |
Khaos is one of the most powerful divinities that ever lived. Their power is equal to that of Yesh, with Khaos being His shadow, the chaotic shadow of God. In contrast to Yesh, Khaos embodies the concepts of Nothingness, Nonexistence, and Darkness, as well as Chaos, Emptiness, and Eternity. As a Pre-Existential Primordial Entity, Khaos is the creator of the Pagan Gods, the ancient gods worshiped by mankind throughout the multiverse. Due to their position as one of the embodiments of the primordial Void, they are one of the most powerful entities in the Megaverse and beyond, with unlimited levels of power far greater than those of any deity in existence, including any of their spawn.
In the Primeval Wars, Khaos managed to battle Azathoth and God, in the end revealing themself to be an ally of Yesh, with the two together fighting side by side to imprison Azathoth. Khaos is a kind of rival of Yesh, alongside Azathoth. With all this power, Khaos is so dangerous that the Protogenoi and other Primordials would have to take immediate action if Khaos is enraged or bored.
History
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Myths and Legends
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Quotes
- "Since ancient times, there was always a logic behind all beliefs involving the origin of the world, which was chaos. Chaos is the primitive state of the universe, the state that precedes order (cosmos), being the primordial void that precedes creation. However, this thinking changed with the rise of Monotheism, which believes that the universe was not created out of chaos, but was created out of nothingness and non-thing by God. " - Carl Black.
- "To be fair, none of us really understand what our father was thinking. But at least in our defense, ours is literally the void that exists before creation, so unless you fancy talking to yourself before a giant blackhole, be my guest." - Tartarus.
- "Before the first day... In the beginning it was chaos that lay alone in the void. The chaos was volatile and it turned inside out and began to dance frantically - now imploding now exploding. The darkness was crumbling, the shapes were almost being shaped by accident, but since no one was there, it was all an improbable dream. A pale light thus dawned – a reflection analogous to the clumsiness of the absence of total darkness. Primitive elements were confused into an infinite chain of infinite molecules that did not exist. In nothingness, nothing existed but the anatomy of nothingness. Nothing grew. Nothing was goaded. Hundreds of hidden stars, a thousand and one new constellations. A cosmic and incipient question mark. Meaningless shapes, discolored colors. Silent whispers of a non-existent universe. Diaphanous corruptible lights. Delusions lingering asleep. On that day there was no day." - Idenir Ramos.
- "I do as I please Oh Everlasting Lord of Creation. You may portray the powers of Creation, Control, Change, Destruction, and Restoration but you alone don’t possess them. Him and I also possess them just the same. The Power of Nothingness to bring existence where there wasn’t space-time, matter, energy, spiritual forces, manipulate those very things, to altering them as I please, to raze them back to nothingness or reconstitute from the abyss I can perform these miracles too. The only real difference between You, Azathoth and I is the aesthetic approach we take." - Khaos to Yesh.
- "Before there was earth or sea or the sky that covers everything, Nature appeared the same throughout the whole world: what we call chaos: a raw confused mass, nothing but inert matter, badly combined discordant atoms of things, confused in the one place. There was no Titan yet, shining his light on the world, or waxing Phoebe renewing her white horns, or the earth hovering in surrounding air balanced by her own weight, or watery Amphitrite stretching out her arms along the vast shores of the world. Though there was land and sea and air, it was unstable land, unswimmable water, air needing light. Nothing retained its shape, one thing obstructed another, because in the one body, cold fought with heat, moist with dry, soft with hard, and weight with weightless things." - Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1st Century BCE (Translated by A. S. Kline).
- "Don't engage him, my son. He is the Void that once fought my Father before Creation began. You wouldn't even stand a millisecond against him." - Lucifer to Akiel about Khaos.
- "At the beginning there was only Chaos, Night, dark Erebus, and deep Tartarus. Earth, the air and heaven had no existence. Firstly, blackwinged Night laid a germless egg in the bosom of the infinite deeps of Erebus, and from this, after the revolution of long ages, sprang the graceful Eros with his glittering golden wings, swift as the whirlwinds of the tempest. He mated in deep Tartarus with dark Chaos, winged like himself, and thus hatched forth our race, which was the first to see the light. That of the Immortals did not exist until Eros had brought together all the ingredients of the world, and from their marriage Heaven, Ocean, Earth, and the imperishable race of blessed gods sprang into being. Thus our origin is very much older than that of the dwellers in Olympus."
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Trivia
- Khaos is seen to intervene in creation less than the other Pre-Existentials Entities.
- Angering Khaos (as much as an apathic void can be angered), was Nyarlathotep's greatest accomplishment in his existence, showing even the void can be tricked.
- Khaos identified themself as asexual and aromantic.
- Their name Nihil means Nothing in Latin.
- Khaos considers themself the first NEET in existence.
Image Sources
- (Magnum_Chaos.jpg) by Lorenzo Lotto.
- (Tohu-wa-bohu.jpg) by Wenceslaus Hollar.
- (chaos_by_genzoman_d3artix-pre.jpg) by Genzoman.
- (49cdf99750cce5f28fc736854683b8f8.webp) by Sigu.
- (Chaos_by_thenightmarecooper_dbrujiy-fullview.webp) by TheNightmareCooper.
- (b433b9a13bad2444a80154a1a48b4365.jpg) from Strike the Blood; played by Minamiya Natsuki.
- (Khaos Cover.webp) from Strike the Blood; played by Minamiya Natsuki.
- (Khaos attack.jpg) from Strike the Blood; played by Minamiya Natsuki.
- (c5beff0b0f9a829cc46ff3c8f797f73b.jpg) by Discharge View; played by Minamiya Natsuki.
- (deq40e7-4168873a-c430-43d9-bc5f-42a292c43cf6.png) by Discharge View; played by Minamiya Natsuki.
- (Tumblr_nqi88qgKLE1u17hn0o2_r1_1280.webp) by Daniel Fernandez.
- (Khaos battle form.webp) by AkubakaArts.