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Two 1000-Daze Companions

Covers for 2 1000-Daze mini-novels, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010covers for Contagion Collectors and Death's Head HellionThe first two mini-novels extracted from "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' are available for ordering online.

Just as happily, you can purchase "The Death's Head Hellion" and "Contagion Collectors" by credit card at their original, website prices of $10.00 each.

Of course, both can also be ordered direct from the publisher (that's me) for the same price, albeit not by credit card. (Cheques and money orders only, please.) For the time being, if you order from me (and just because I may be temporarily out of my mind with excitement) I will absorb shipping costs and government taxes on the two, aforementioned mini-novels extracted from "The 1000 Days of Disbelief".

The same as the two thus-far-published, full-length mosaic novels featuring Jim McPherson's Phantacea Mythos, "Feeling Theocidal" and "The War of the Apocalyptics", both mini-novels are set in large measure on the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head.

Their ensemble casts include, at the top of the food chain, Thrygragos Everyman and his firstborn Unities (the incomparable Harmony, Lightning Lord Order and Uncle Abe Chaos) in their freewheeling prime.

Both mini-novels also contain book-specific character companions. In the 'Anheroic Fantasy Illustrated' tradition of the decades-gone phantacea comic books, augmented versions of both companions are now online.

In its entirety 1000-Daze constitutes Book Two of 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories'. A growing selection of lynx to out-takes from all three parts of the overall novel can be found here.

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"Feeling Theocidal -- Thrygragon, Year of the Dome 4376", Book One of The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories, and "The War of the Apocalyptics", the first entry in the Launch 1980 story sequence, should be available at neighbourhood bookstores and public libraries all over the world.

The same should shortly be true of the three mini-novels making up "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", Book Two of The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories.

If you don't see the novels or mini-novels displayed at your local book stops, kindly direct purchasing agents and/or booksellers to www.phantacea.com in order to help them rectify such a sad situation.

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Jim McPherson's PHANTACEA Mythos

Full covers for first two mini-novels extracted from 1000 Days of Disbelief

The background image for this page is a variation of a black and white collage/cover I prepared for War-Pox's 1000-Daze bonus chapter; notes on many, if perhaps not all, of the images that appear in any of the panel backgrounds or the covers reproduced on this webpage are here;

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Anheroic Fantasy since 1977

Front covers for first two mini-novels extracted from 1000 Days of Disbelief

Collages for both covers prepared by Jim McPherson from a combination of his own photographs and scans from magazines and postcards bought in situ.

©copyright 1977 - 2011 Jim McPherson

A number of Phantacea Publications, specifically "Feeling Theocidal", "The War of the Apocalyptics" and the three mini-novels constituting "The 1000 Days of Disbelief", namely "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers", can be ordered from amazon.com and its affiliates, including amazon.ca and amazon.co.uk, as well as from Barnes & Noble. Libraries, bookstores and bookseller collectives can place bulk orders through Ingram Books, Ingram International, Coutts Information (and Library) Services, Baker & Taylor, and a large network of other distributors worldwide.

Or, if you prefer to order directly from the publisher, email or send me your order(s) via surface mail. No matter where you live or what currency you prefer to use, I'll figure out a way to fill your order(s) myself.

As an introductory offer, I will absorb shipping costs and government taxes on "The Death's Head Hellion", "Contagion Collectors" and "Janna Fangfingers" only. Just be aware that I can only accept certified cheques or money orders.

For all the other PHANTACEA Mythos print publications, I'll have to charge an additional 12% to cover Canadian and provincial taxes as well as Canada Post rates for shipping. I do use bubble mailers, though.

BookFinder.com lists both mosaic novels: "Feeling Theocidal" and "The War of the Apocalyptics". Also listed therein are most of the other PHANTACEA Mythos print publications.

Another interesting option for the curious is Chegg, which has a rent-a-book program. Thus far its search engine shows no results for phantacea (any style or permutation thereof) but it does recognize Jim McPherson (a variety of them) and the titles of the novels.

As for the Whole Earth (other than the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head, at least as far as I can say), well, this page contains a list of a few other websites where you can probably order the novels in a variety of currencies and with credit cards.

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The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories

 A Capsulated Character Companion

  • Book One: “Feeling Theocidal” (Feel Theo)
  • Book Two: “The 1000 Days of Disbelief” (1000-Daze)
  • Book Three: “The Trigregos Gambit” (Gambit)

Black and white version of a potential cover for 1000 Daze, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2009Cover Collage for 1000 Daze, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2009Character Companions for mini-novels extracted from 'The 1000 Days of Disbelief'

| "The Death's Head Hellion" | "Contagion Collectors" | "Janna Fangfingers" |

Auctorial Preamble

The 1000 Days of Disbelief, Book Two of ‘The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories’ trilogy, consists of three distinct mini-novels: “The Death’s Head Hellion”, “Contagion Collectors” and “Janna Fangfingers”. Although comprising a whole, each segment is complete unto itself. At some point in time they may come out in one volume, possibly as an e-book. That point is, for now, in the future.

As one might expect from print publications featuring Jim McPherson’s phantacea Mythos, many of the characters in the mini-novels are immortal or seemingly immortal. Their influence is thus felt throughout the ages covered by the overall trilogy. Indeed, some of those listed below are only mentioned in 1000-Daze whereas as few others, as noted,  only appear in one or two of the mini-novels.

The extracts that follow are specific to the already-published mini-novels that make up 1000-Daze. I have also edited them such that I don’t give away too much of the storyline. The complete book-specific extracts can be found at the beginning of each mini-novel. In other words …

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Sedonplay 4824/25 – “The Death’s Head Hellion”

Cover for The Death's Head Hellion, art prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010Tura's Allegory of Spring reminds me of Morgan Abyss, the Master of Weir circa 4825 YD(Extracted from a capsulated character companion for ‘The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories’ Trilogy)

In 4825 Year of the Dome, forces loyal to the Death Gods of Frozen Lathakra threaten to overwhelm the Utopian Weirdom of Cabalarkon. Its demonically-empowered Master counterattacks mercilessly.

In the nearly 5,000 years since the Moloch Sedon preserved it from the Great Flood of Genesis, the Hidden Continent has never experienced such approaching apocalyptic devastation.

Set in the Year of the Dome 4824/5, Hellion presents a terrifying dilemma that Thrygragos Everyman and his Unities, freewheeling anarchists the loathsome load of them, must resolve lest the post-Thrygragon Era of Empires results in a second Genesea.

As for Master Morgan Abyss, it isn't a matter of better the Devil you know. It's a matter of, when dealing with the Devil above, singular and capitalized, never forget the devils below, small case and plural.

It's a lesson she learns all too rapidly. Ah, but is it a lesson she also learns all too fatally?

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1. Shining Ones: First, Second and Third Generation Devils

  • The Moloch Sedon

- the All-Father of Devazurkind; the Mighty Eye-Mouth in the Sky; the Devil Himself, capitalized;
- also known as Dark Sedon on account of his star shining darkly (i.e., as invisibly as most stars do) during the day; at night it, his mighty eye-mouth, is by far the brightest star in the heavens above the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head;inverted map of Sedon's Head, prepared by Jim McPherson and Tim Hammell in 1978
- solitary member of the first generation of devazurkind; acknowledged king of chthonic or earthborn daemons or demons since Ragnarok, circa 234 PD (Pre-Dome);Collage  referring to the fact that only the Moloch Sedon ever wins a Sedonplay, graphic prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008
- grown or developed, more so than engendered let alone created, by the Male and Female Entities on the Trigon Asteroid, part of the First Weir System, in the dim recesses of the time-space continuum; somewhat later on in terms of the linear passage of time, the same time-tumbling Dual Entities nuked Weir Star;
- the appearance of Supernova 1987A provided photographic testimony to their success at obliterating its solar system, which included the first Weirworld, if not everyone then alive within it;
- the Entities started the process that resulted in the seemingly immortal, but nowhere-near-almighty, Moloch by using the right eye of Cabalarkon, a then wholly alive Utopian biogeneticist, for raw material; consequently Sedon still regards the now undying Utopian as his father, hence Cabby the Daddy;
-  Sedon’s essence made up the Sedonshem, which transported surviving devils throughout the cosmos until reaching the then Whole Earth in 669 PD;
- Sedon later used his essence to form the Cathonic Zone or Dome (consequently also the Sedon Sphere) in order to separate the consequential Outer Earth from the thereafter Inner Earth of Sedon’s Head;
- that occurred in the Year of the Dome (YD) Zero (4000 BCE); the Hellion mini-novel takes place in YD 4824/5 (A.D. 824-825).
[Online Note: the main entry re the Moloch Sedon is here.]

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  • The Six Great Gods and Goddesses

- the Thrygragos Brothers and Trigregos Sisters comprise the entirety of the second generation of devakind;
- 3 Images suggestive of Thrygragos Lazareme, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008the Three Great Gods are Thrygragos Lazareme (aka sometimes the Lackland Libertine, but most commonly Thrygragos Everyman), Thrygragos Byron (aka both Bodiless Byron and the Unmoving One due to that fact that he’s all head, with his facial features frozen in the same expression, not because he can’t transport himself wherever he wants on the Inner Earth), and Thrygragos Varuna Mithras (who does not appear in “The Death’s Head Hellion” mini-novel for reasons noted in passing therein);
- the Great Gods are obliged to share the worship they receive from their devotional adherents, including their azuras and devic children, plus the adherents of their offspring, with the Moloch Sedon; similarly, they can no more disobey him than their offspring can disobey them;
- because they must have worshippers in order to flourish, Great Gods, like their offspring, are not allowed to kill lesser beings;
- if they do, Sedon will cathonitize, catasterize, or ill-star them (i.e., fuse their spirit selves or essences, often along with their power foci, though not their debrained daemonic bodies, with his such that they thereafter shine out of the night’s sky above the Hidden Headworld);
- the Three Great Goddesses are Trigregos Devaura (the Spirit or Soul), Trigregos Demeter (the Body), and Trigregos Sapiendev (the Mind); they do not appear in “The Death’s Head Hellion” mini-novel due to the fact that the Moloch Sedon abandoned them on the Second Weirworld comparatively shortly after the ignition of the First Weir Star;
- their terrible talismans do, however; hence why “The Death’s Head Hellion” mini-novel is an integral part of ‘The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories’ Trilogy;
- the Six Great Gods and Goddesses, possibly with spermatic contributions from the Moloch Sedon, are the lone parents of the third generation of devazurkind;
- like their solitary father Sedon, and the majority of their third generational offspring (the so-called Master Devas), they generally sport three visible eyes;
- the Trigregos Sisters are sometimes referred to as the three-in-one goddesses because, except to give birth to Master Devas, they rarely separate; hence why the third generation are always triplets.
[Online Note: the main entry re the six Great Gods and Goddesses is here. A detailed list of their Master Deva offspring is here.]

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  • Master Devas

- dictionaries often define ‘devas’ or ‘daevas’ as ‘the shining ones’; hence also the English word ‘devils’, meaning ‘little gods’;
- Hell to Earth artwork by Ian Fry, late 1980s; colour and script by Jim McPherson, 2007collectively occasionally called Sedonites or Sedonists, the Outer Earth Bible’s Sheddim (meaning ‘demons’ in Hebrew, always plural, and sometimes spelled ‘shedim’) may refer to Master Devas;
- so might the Assyrian ‘Shedu’, defined as a protective or beneficent deity, since it too looks and sounds a little like Sedon; (museums such as the Louvre and the British Museum preserve effigies or simulacra of the Shedu as such, under that name);
- although some, notably the eventual Pauper Priestess and the Great God's firstborn Unities, came down from the moon to join Thrygragos Lazareme's expeditionary party circa 725 PD, most arrived on the then Whole Earth in 669 PD;
- Master Devas compose the third generation of devazurkind; the Trigregos Sisters always bore them simultaneously, in threesomes;
- they believe their fathers are one or another of the Thrygragos Brothers; hence why it’s accepted that there are only three devic tribes: the Lazaremists, the Byronics and the Mithradites;
- Mithradites, however, originally were much more abundant, by a factor of two to one, than either Lazaremists or Byronics;
- some point to this as proof the Moloch Sedon couldn’t resist making spermatic contributions of his own to their totality; Artwork by Ian Fry, late 1980s, colour and text by Jim McPherson, 2007
- suchlike wise guys, and gals, therefore suspect there’s a fourth tribe of Master Devas, namely the Sedon Spawn; in Feel Theo, however, a certain eminently forgettable, ever-smiling fiend states to Mithras that they are proof that there are indeed only three devic tribes and that the third and by far the most populous of them is not Mithradic;
- like their fathers, if not their solitary grandfather, Master Devas are incapable of telling lies or violating their sworn oaths; they also generally sport three visible eyes and cannot disobey their fathers;
- in addition to wiping out thousands, if not millions, of Master Devas when they nuked the first Weir Star, the Dual Entities rendered surviving members of all three generations of devakind infertile;
- it was not until Master Devas gained daemonic bodies, starting a number of  decades prior to 2000 YD, that they were able to have children of their own; these were the equally immortal or near-immortal azura spirit beings, hence devazurkind;
- when Sedon himself, Great Gods and/or Master Devas possess sentient beings for procreative purposes, their resultant offspring are often long-lived and, once in a while, unnaturally gifted mortals known as deviants; the titular Death’s Head Hellion, for example, is believed to be a deviant.
[Online Note: as you may have already noticed, a detailed list of Master Devas broken down by tribe is here.]

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  • The Firstborn Unities of Lazareme

Harmony, called Datong Harmonia by bygone Illuminaries of Weir on Earth; the Unity of Balance as well as Panharmonium (her pet project, a planetary panacea for beneficial devils and their worshipful multitudes alike);
Part of a mural by David Alfaro Siqueiros, woman struggling against chains reminiscent of Datong Harmonia, the Unity of Panharmonium, photo taken in 2005 by Jim McPherson, graphic prepared on PHOTOSHOP, 2007- reputedly, by a matter of a few seconds, the first Master Deva ever born; beauty incarnate as well as loveliness personified, conceivably the most popular devil on the entire Inner Earth in 4824/5;
- sphere of influence less so than devic protectorate: Sedon's Hairband (as opposed to his crown or headband), between the Hidden Headworld's occipital region and the Cattail Peninsula;
- her power focus or Tvasitar talisman is a golden torc, the so-called Necklace of, as you might expect, Harmony; from it she conjures her golden, chainmail gowns and the broken chains often seen manacled to her wrists; from them she sometimes shoots, what else?, chain lightning;
- her fortunately rarely manifested alter ego is the nihilistic Nemesis, a relentless avenger along the lines of the Classical Furies.
[Online Note: many more lynx re Harmony can be found from here, here and even here.]

Chaos, called Unholy Abaddon by bygone Illuminaries of Weir (after the Biblical Angel of Apollyon, the Bottomless Pit); the Unity of just that, Chaos; hence also Uncle Abe or Uncle Abe Chaos;
- sphere of influence less so than devic protectorate: the Hidden Headworld's Cattail Peninsula;
- his power focus or Tvasitar talisman is the Chaos Blade, which he keeps forever-sheathed out of fear of causing a chain reaction that would bring irreversible carnage to the world, if not the cosmos;
- its sheathe is the shaft or ‘danda’ of a trident or ‘trishula’; the trident’s prongs are the black blade’s hilt and side-guards; from it he shoots black bolts of lightning;
- boasts that he never possesses anyone;
A jumble of shots, most of which were found on the Web, indicative of Thrygragos Lazarene and his 3 Unities circa 4376 YD, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008- considered something of a scatterbrain in that he changes his outward appearance frequently, sometimes without even realizing he’s done so.
[Online Note: additional lynx re Abe Chaos can be found here.]

Order, called Thunder and Lightning Lord Yajur by bygone Illuminaries of Weir; the Unity of just that, Order; his brood brother sometimes refers to him as Odour or Ordure;
- from his power focus or Tvasitar talisman he shoots vajra bolts – white lightning of the non-alcoholic variety;
- sphere of influence less so than devic protectorate: the Hidden Headworld's occipital region;
- goes by Sparky when he’s in altogether human form;
- some consider him the inventor of the caste system, whereby devotees don’t have to be told what to do because they are born into their occupations;
- like virtually all Lazaremists, including their Great God of a father, Thrygragos Everyman, the Unities are at heart anarchists in that they consider rulers, and those who either make or enforce unnecessary rules, demonstrably wrong-headed and hence worthy only of scorn;
- although Lazaremists must obey their father, they really have only have the one rule, the golden rule (and not the one that says that those who have the gold make the rules): namely, ‘do unto others as you would others do unto you’
- Chaos and Order hate each other passionately; they’d seek to annihilate each other, and all that stands between them, if Harmony didn’t always do just that, stand – and sometimes not just stand – between them mollifyingly.
[Online Note: additional lynx re Lord Order can be found here. He appeared on the front cover of pH-3. There's more on the three firstborn Unities here.]

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  • The Thanatoids of Lathakra Minerva as Methandra, photo taken in Frankfurt by Jim McPherson, 2008

Methandra Thanatos, a firstborn Mithradite known variously as Mithras’s Virgin, the Scarlet Empress, Seeress or Sorceress, the Crimson Queen to Tantal’s King Cold, and Miss Myth, after Mythland (the Jewel in Sedon’s Crown, on a map of the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head), her official, but evidently not-so-inviolable protectorate (in the western third of the Mystic Mountain range), beginning as a result of Thrygragon in 4376 YD;
- also known, accurately, if perhaps somewhat disrespectfully, as Hot Stuff; the red-skinned, almost always masked and thoroughly covered (in fabrics invariably coloured different shades of red) giantess whose power focus is a firebrand or matchstick (cane);
- a self-proclaimed death goddess, that of heat and fire, forever-lusted-after by the Moloch Sedon and her brood brother Tantal (King Cold); consequential other major mover behind the expansion of the Empire of Lathakra, which began circa 4730 YD;
- mother, while being subsumed by a be-brained daemon or demon pre-Genesea (the Great Flood of Genesis) of Klannit, the world’s first azura.
[Online Note: additional lynx re Hot Stuff can be found here. As per here, the Thanatoids of Lathakra first appeared in pH-3.]

Tantal Thanatos, firstborn Mithradite most commonly known as King Cold;
Collage suggestive of King Cold, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011- the Frozen Isle of Lathakra (off the Cattail Peninsula, on a map of the Hidden Headworld), once Sedon’s Horn then Sedon’s Lens, Monocle or Cataract (off Sedon’s Human Eye, the Gulf of Corona), is his devic protectorate;
- completely covered in ice and snow, with very much still active volcanoes, it's roughly the size and shape of Aegean Crete; Cold banned summer there when it was still Sedon's Horn;
- a gigantic, blue-skinned, icicle-bearded, archetypal-Viking whose power focus or Tvasitar talisman is a labrys (a double-headed war axe);
- self-proclaimed death god, that of cold and ice, he’s the major mover behind the expansion of the Empire of Lathakra, which began circa 4730 YD;
- pre-Dome father, while being subsumed by a be-brained daemon or demon pre-Genesea (the Great Flood of Genesis) of Klannit, the world’s first azura;
- besides his thought-father, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, probably the most prolific male Master Deva in terms of having azura offspring.
[Online Note: additional lynx re King Cold can be found here. As per here, the Thanatoids of Lathakra first appeared in pH-3.]

Klannit Thanatos, something of an anomaly in that she isn’t a Master Deva but is, instead, the world’s first known azura;
- as a possessive azura she is a spirit being incapable of gaining solidity by possessing debrained demons;
- conceived and given birth while be-brained daemons or demons subsumed her devic parents, Tantal and Methandra Thanatos, also otherwise just spirit beings at the time, prior to Xuthros Hor, the 10th patriarch of Golden Age Humankind, causing the Genesea or Great Flood of Genesis in Year Zero of the Dome;
- has no power focus or Tvasitar talisman as such, though she does have a very non-azura-like affinity for mirrors, which she can use for remote viewing and travelling between-space (the same as in-the-know witches use ensorcelled stones);
- unbeknownst to just about everyone, perhaps even including her parents, she and a highborn Lazaremist known as Tvasitar Smithmonger have been lovers – her via a succession of willing host-shells – seemingly forever.
[Online Note: Klannit first appeared in pH-6.]

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  • Significant Additional Lazaremists

Tvasitar Smithmonger, a third-born called Vulcanian, Anvil or Anvil the Artificer by his fellow devils; resides on Sedon’s Peak, in the centre of the Cattail Peninsula (Sedon’s Ponytail on a map of the Hidden Headworld);
- since sometime a few decades before 2000 YD, he has been using molten Brainrock or Gypsium, the miraculous Godstuff bubbling out of the Peak’s lava lake, to forge devils their power foci or talismans, hence Tvasitar talismans and why he’s often thought of as the devic Prometheus;
- the cliffheads or cliff-faces overlooking the Peak’s lava lake, filled as it is with molten Brainrock or Gypsium, are said to resemble the Trigregos Sisters;
- his magnificent megalithic domicile, which he constructed atop the middle cliffhead, is known as the Prometheum;
- along with demons debrained by exposure to Brainrock, power foci or Tvasitar talismans allow Master Devas to become solid entities, which they never were until he discovered how to make them;
- his talisman is an anvil, hence Anvil the Artificer.
[Online Note: additional lynx re the devic smithy can be found here.]

Chance, called Wintry Moira by bygone Illuminaries of Weir; a fifth-born also known variously as Lazareme’s Luck, Fata Fortuna and, most commonly among devils, Dame Chance;
- because of her dangerously unpredictable attribute, coupled with her nevertheless undeniable attractiveness, some refer to her as the luscious Lady Luck;
- the devic half-mother of many eventual Legendarians (Jordan ‘Q for Quill’ Tethys, a recurring deviant sometimes recalled as the legendary 30-Year Man or Woman, as well as 30-Beers);
- she’s the half-mother of the various members of Q-Troupe excluding, just perhaps, Squirrelly (Tomcat Tattletail);
- the half-mother of Master Morgan Abyss, aka the Death’s Head Hellion;
- her azuras are called Fatazurs;
- her power focus or Tvasitar talisman is the 3-spoke wheel of fortune traditionally known as the Triskelion.
[Online Note: additional lynx re Lady Luck can be found here.]

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  • Significant Additional Mithradites

Belialma, Sinistral Lust of Satanwyck (Hell on Earth, Pandemonium, Sedon’s Temple on a map of the Hidden Headworld);
Apple Goddess Collage most specific to Bouncing Belle, graphic prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008- Hell’s Belle, also sometimes called the luscious or lascivious Lady Lust as well as Bouncing, Beguiling or Bedazzling Belialma and variations thereof;
- a presumed second-born Mithradite (presumed because even Mithras was never certain what order his devic offspring were born);
- power focus or Tvasitar talisman is the Ruby Red Apple of Concupiscence; like her fellow Apple Goddesses, Concord and Discord, she carries it as the pupil of her third eye;
- always an object of desire, her reciprocal interests cross tribal boundaries to include not just Unholy Abaddon, the Unity of Chaos, and his brood brother, Lord Order, but their father, Thrygragos Lazareme;
- Bouncing Belle resides in her bastion of bliss overlooking Pandemonium, the capital of Satanwyck, where she entertains her paramours, who also include Zuvem Gravedigger Nergalis;
- as well as throughout 1000-Daze, plays a semi-significant role in Feel Theo.
[Online Note: additional lynx re Lady Lust can be found here.]

Pyrame Silverstar, the Pauper Priestess, the fabulously female (adult) Perpetual Presence;
- sometimes called Providence, as in the all-seeing eye thereof, among many another name or title;Pyrame as the Cretan Snake Goddess, Queen Tanith, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2004
- possibly the most important female Master Deva around in 4824/5 YD;
- a presumed ninth-born (presumed because even Mithras was never certain what order his devic offspring were born);Collage reminiscent of Pyrame Silverstar, prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2008
- devic half-mother of all the Sed-sons (or sedons, small case); for mystical reasons, two or three of the mortal boys have to be born, on both sides of the Dome, every generation in order to maintain it;
- with neither a protectorate to call her home or a power focus to call her own, the secret to her success is generally thought to be the demon (presumably Primeval Lilith, the Demon Queen of the Night) she occupies;
- unless programmed otherwise, All of Incain obeys her; hence why she can often be found occupying the She-Sphinx on the Prison Beach of Incain, at the bottom of the Cattail Peninsula (Sedon’s Ponytail on a map of the Hidden Headworld), about as far south as one can go on the Head without having to swim or ride in a boat;
- because of her complicated and never fully explained connection to the Female Entity, All of Incain and its inspiration if not probable creatrix, First Weir’s Mother Machine, as well as, arguably, the demon she generally controls, Pyrame’s the only Master Deva immune to Trinondev eyeorbs or prison pods;
- consequently, at least in terms of devils, though not azuras, only her and her seemingly forever-mate, the Moloch Sedon, can operate in the Weirdom of Cabalarkon (Sedon’s Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Headworld) with impunity.
[Online Note: many more lynx re Pyrame stem from here.]

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  • Significant Byronics

Rufous Rudra Silvercloud, Bodiless Byron’s firstborn son, his Beast Master, also his Storm Lord;
- Collage prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2005brother-husband to sister-wife Umashakti;
- joint devic over-ruler of the former Weirdom of Kanin City when the ever-expanding Empire of Lathakra reached its walls;
- rather than either surrendering or fighting the Thanatoids and their allies, including the Unity of Chaos, he joined them.
[Online Note: additional lynx re the Silverclouds can be found here.]
 
Umashakti Silvercloud, Unmoving Byron’s only remaining firstborn daughter;
- a Moon Goddess in that she waxes and wanes with the moon on a monthly basis; consequently sometimes called Lunar Uma,
- her attribute is gravity; hence why devils usually address her as just that, Gravity;
- sister-wife to brother-husband Rudra; joint devic over-ruler of the former Weirdom of Kanin City when the ever-expanding Empire of Lathakra reached its walls;
- rather than either surrendering or fighting the Thanatoids and their allies, including the Unity of Chaos, she joined them.
[Online Note: additional lynx re the Silverclouds can be found here.]

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  • More Lazaremists

Rumour of Lazareme: devic half-father of the first Legendarian;Collage containing images suggestive of Jordan Tethys, the legendary 30-Year Man
- probably does not appear in “The Death’s Head Hellion”, but is mentioned in it fairly frequently because his power focus or Tvasitar talisman, a multipurpose Brainrock quill, transfers to the Legendarian, a recurring deviant who, whenever he returns to life, does so in his dying son or daughter, grandson or granddaughter;
- Rumour was supposedly eaten by faeries circa 4000 YD in the Land of Daybreak;
[Online Note: additional lynx re Rumour can be found here.]
 
Librarian, Biblio Drek, Lazaremist ambassador to the former Weirdom of Kanin City until his disappearance during the expansion of the Empire of Lathakra.
[Online Note: additional lynx re the Librarian can be found here.] 

Bosch's Juggler, cut out of his Garden of Earthly DelightsKrepusyl Evenstar, second-born sister of Metisophia; sometimes called Miss Mist and the Grey Lady;
- primary devic over-ruler of faeries-friendly Crepuscule, the Land of Twilight (Sedon’s Outer Nose on  map of the Hidden Headworld) until her disappearance during the expansion of the Empire of Lathakra;
- formerly Mariamne Dawnstar, she once of the Land of Daybreak on the other side of the Hidden Headworld;
[Online Note: additional lynx re the Grey Lady can be found here.] 

Metisophia, aka Titanic Metis and Wisdom of Lazareme;Ringot with Metowl, by Bosch
- second-born brood sister of the Grey Lady (Krepusyl Evenstar) and the devic Anthea, who vanished not long after becoming a solid entity circa 2000 YD;
- devic half-mother of the first Legendarian by younger brother Rumour;
- power focus or Tvasitar talisman is an all-seeing cauldron that she wore à la the Olympian Athena as a breast plate;
- Methandra Thanatos confiscated her cauldron during the expansion of the Empire of Lathakra; as a result of this, Metis lost her demonic body and promptly vanished from sight;
- quoted in Feel Theo, ring-gotten in Hellion (wherein Methandra Thanatos acquires her revelatory cauldron, which she still has in the phantacea comic books) and appears in “Janna Fangfingers”;
- additional lynx are here.

Djinn Ghoster, one of Lazareme’s heliodromuses, sun-runners or messengers until his disappearance during the expansion of the Empire of Lathakra;
- see also here.

Ursine Bardol, a highborn companion of Chaos (Unholy Abaddon) on the Cattail Peninsula;
- fell out with Chaos over the expansion of the Empire of Lathakra, which Bardol opposed, and subsequently disappeared;
- main entry is here.

Irisiel Mercherm, Lazareme’s preferred Heliodromus or sun-runner until her disappearance during the expansion of the Empire of Lathakra;
- also appeared in Feel Theo;
- additional lynx are here.

Skinless, the Skinless Rasp or variations thereof; a comparatively lowborn Lazaremist called by bygone Illuminaries Rastha Aragon;
- a White Godling flagellant with a flail for a power focus;
- an obvious masochist with a strange, even loving relationship with Fangfingers (Faustus Vladuca);
- beginning around 4730 YD, an early, but comparatively inconsequential ally of the Thanatoids of Lathakra during the expansion of their empire;
- start here for more lynx re the Skinless Rasp.

Fangfingers, a comparatively lowborn Lazaremist called by bygone Illuminaries Faustus Vladuca after a combination of Dacian, Carpathian, Gothic and/or Slavonic deities, folk legends or heroes;
- devils tend to refer to him as the Fop because he fancies himself something of a fashion plate, one with a penchant for wearing a black opera cape with red lining;
- has, for a power focus, a Brainrock glove with fangs rather than claws on its fingertips;
- a Black Godling with an unsavoury reputation for sadism in that he welcomes animal sacrifice;
- along with the Skinless Rasp (Rastha Aragon), with whom he seems to have a strangely loving relationship, he became a comparatively inconsequential ally of the Thanatoids of Lathakra in the early days of the expansion of their empire;
- start here for more lynx re the feckless Fop.

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  • More ByronicsCollage prepared on PHOTOSHOP by Jim McPherson, 2006, intended to represent the Mask of Byron as transformed in 'Feeling Theocidal'

Djerrid Ruin, Byron’s Bowman, one of Byron’s autumnal Zodiacals, as such associated with Sagittarius the Archer;
- called his Green Man due to his proclivity for assuming the form of a 3-eyed, vegetative human somewhat reminiscent of the work of the famous Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593 — slightly too late to have been a character in Contagion);
- in Goatwood (Sedon’s Beard on a map of the Hidden Headworld), where he’s worshipped by hollow-boned avian-humans and garudas, sometimes appears as a be-winged, feather-robed and eagle-headed angelic sort;
- start here for more lynx re the Zodiacal.

Sedona Spellbinder, a second-born Nucleoid who acts as Byron’s mouthpiece when the Great God chooses not to communicate directly (albeit by telepathy since neither his lips nor tongue moves);
- considered something of a sorceress or enchantress in that her body is composed entirely of particulate matter akin to faeriedust, hence Smoky Sedona;
- despises Thrygragos Lazareme and his Unities because they did nothing to stop the expansion of the Empire of Lathakra, which cost her her traditional territory in and around Lake Sedona (named after her), in the midst of Iraxas (the Penile Peninsula, Sedon’s Mutton Chop on a map of the Hidden Headworld);
- as per here, appeared on the cover of pH-4; there's more stuff here.

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  • More Mithradites

- The Three Nergalids, Mithradite fertility gods individually thought of as the Planter (Zuvem Nergalis, better known to devils as Gravedigger), the Grower (Nergal Vetala), and the Reaper (Underlord Yama Nergal, King Harvest);

Gravedigger, a presumed fourth-born (presumed because even Mithras was never certain what order his devic offspring were born);
- called Zuvem Nergalis by bygone Illuminaries of Weir; generally manifests himself black-skinned;
- nickname in part derives from his power focus or Tvasitar talisman, which is a Brainrock spade with a razor edge, and in part because he’s sometimes called the Nergalids’ Planter even though he alternates planting duties (of Vetala-Fecundity) with King Harvest;
- among his other love interests include bedazzling Belialma (Hell’s Belle, once again Sinistral Lust of Satanwyck in 4824/5);
- an early-on-ally of the Thanatoids of Lathakra; more lynx here.An ancient goddess with a moon-sickle, photographed in a one-time Roman bathouse, circa Nero's time, in  2008

King Harvest, Underlord Yama Nergal;
- a presumed fifth-born (presumed because even Mithras was never certain what order his devic offspring were born);
- started to manifest himself as a skeletal Death God, complete with dark robe and hood, only a few decades prior to 4824/5 YD;
- also one of the three so-called Earthlings (his brood sister, Shal Ereshkigal, and his brood brother, Gibran Nimiki, being the other two); as such he often appeared robust and muscular as befits a God of Miners;
- along with his triplet-siblings and the two other Nergalids (Zuvem-Gravedigger and Vetala-Fecundity), another early-on-ally of the Thanatoids of Lathakra;
- originally, as befitting an Underlord, his power focus or Tvasitar talisman was a miner’s pickaxe;
- when the Lathakran Empire conquered the Penile Peninsula (formerly Iraxas, Sedon’s Mutton Chop on a map of the Hidden Headworld), he helped cathonitize Vanthysces, the Byronics’ Grim Reaper;
- he thereafter fused the latter’s power focus, a scythe, with his own, thereby cementing his position as the Nergalids’ Reaper even though he shares fecundating duties of Vetala with Gravedigger;
- more so than the Thanatoids of Lathakra, he’s considered the devils’ primary Death God; more lynx here.

Vetala, Nergal Vetala, (up until shortly before the ‘Days of Disbelief”, more commonly addressed as Fecundity by her fellow Master Devas;
Vetala as Moon Goddess Fecundity, image of a Judith figure shot in Florence, Italy, by Jim McPherson 2008- a presumed twelfth-born (presumed because even Mithras was never certain what order his devic offspring were born);
- a Moon Goddess like Lunar Uma, a Byronic firstborn, in that she waxes and wanes with the moon on a monthly basis;
- her power focus or Tvasitar talisman is considered a moon-sickle in that its blade is shaped like a crescent moon;
- Vetala-Fecundity becomes pregnant by one or the other male Nergalid come the New Moon and gives birth every Full Moon;
- her azuras, who number in the thousands – more like tens of thousands – by 4824/5, are called Vetalazurs or Nergalazurs, albeit only if their fathers were either Zuvem or Yama;
- Vetalazurs seem to be only good for animating Dead Things, thus in effect rendering them zombies;
- an early-on-ally of the Thanatoids of Lathakra; when the Lathakran Empire conquered the Penile Peninsula (formerly Iraxas, Sedon’s Mutton Chop on a map of the Hidden Headworld), thus displacing the Byronics who’d ruled it for millennia previously, she stayed behind to oversee its affairs on their behalf;
- Vetala resides in the former Weirdom of Manoa, called the Gleaming City due to its golden walls, at the time of “The Death’s Head Hellion” mini-novel;
- most of the husks animated by her azuras cannot function in pouring rain; that said, husks that were amphibious when alive can still swim now that they’re dead;
- despite this unusual drawback, the native Iraches worship her much more fervidly than they ever did her Byronic predecessors;
- this is because her azuras animate Irache Dead Things and the Iraches, who resemble North American aboriginals in almost every respect, always practised ancestor-worship; thanks to her they can now invite their deceased relatives over for tea and buttered scones;
- first appeared in pH-2; also made a memorable appearance in Feel Theo;
- more notes and lynx stem from here.

Geld Neargon, often called Toad (sometimes to his face), due to the fact he commonly appears as a hermaphroditic batrachian (toad), albeit one wearing a crown;
- said crown, his power focus or Tvasitar talisman, is properly known of the alchemical or elemental mitre (after his father, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras); it consists of four layers: one rectangular, one triangular, one circular, and one conical; he sometimes calls it his noggin neutralizer; disrespectful devils often disparage it as his dunce cap;
- the Deva Dand or Lady-Lord of Androgynia, the Land of Neutrality, below Sedon’s Temple (Satanwyck) and cheek-side of Sedon’s Ear (the Aural Sea) on maps of the Hidden Headworld;
- dislikes being called the Neuter because both sets of reproductive organs are fully functional; he thus bears his own azuras;
- faithful to his beliefs, he refused to take sides during the Era of Empires, which was why the Thanatoids of Lathakra and their devic allies had to dispose of him prior to conquering (instead of just absorbing) Androgynia, his nominal protectorate;
 - Harmony, the Unity of Balance, admired Neargon’s unflagging support for her dream of the planetary panacea she referred to as Panharmonium so much so that concern over his disappearance, amongst many other Master Devas, during Lathakra’s expansion finally led her to a key discovery – the existence of ringots;
- also appeared (briefly) in Feel Theo;
- a presumed sixth-born (presumed because even Mithras was never certain what order his devic offspring were born), his main link is here.

Djinn Domitian, Mithras’s lion-headed (leontocephalic) herald and primary Heliodromus or sun-runner until Thrygragon in 4376 YD;
- power focus or Tvasitar talisman was a fanfare trumpet, hence Mithras’s trumpeter;
- devils often referred to him as the Masochist since he enjoyed being dominated;
- sometimes depicted in Mithraea on the Outer Earth, where he’s generally known as Zurvan;
- featured most notably in Feel Theo, though does have a cameo, as an inanimate statue, in Hellion;
- more notes and lynx are here and here.

Tammuz and Osiraq, Mithras’s eleventh-born torchbearers; sometimes depicted in Mithraea on the Outer Earth, where they’re commonly referred to as Cautes and Cautopates; devils think of them as Mid or Equinoctial Spring and Mid or Equinoctial Autumn;
- feature most notably in Feel Theo, though both have cameo appearances, as an inanimate statues, in Hellion, which is also where they their most significant, um, impacts (albeit mostly off-camera, as it were);
- devils addressed their triplet-brother as Midsummer;
- called Novadev by latter day Illuminaries;
- as detailed in both Feel Theo and Hellion, he was responsible for drunkenly destroying Strongyne (modern day Santorini), the Island of Strong Women, circa 2500 YD on the Outer Earth (1500 BCE), thus abruptly ending the so-called Mad Goddesses’ Mediterranean Matriarchate;
- for his troubles Sedon cathonitized him instantly — but the term ‘going Novadev-nuclear’ terrifies devils and Illuminaries of Weir alike in 4824/5;
- prior to Thrygragon, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras celebrated his feast day on Mithramas, Midwinter or the Winter Solstice; the day that marked the rebirth of the sun (in Imperial Rome, Sol Invictus was another name for Mithras); he left the other solstice and the two equinoxes to his three male favourites of his heyday (circa 2000 to 2500 YD, though his Age officially lasted until nearly 4400): Novadev, Tammuz and Osiraq (none of whom were named thus – by Illuminaries and/or Sarpedons returning to the Inner Earth in order to help revitalize the Utopian race trapped on the planet – until the Dome's 4th Millennium);
- more notes and lynx re Mithras’s eleventh-born, seasonal triplets are here.

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2. Deviants, Demons, Faeries and Mandroid Monstrosities

  • Deviants

- When Great Gods and/or Master Devas possess sentient beings for procreative purposes, their resultant offspring are often long-lived and occasionally unnaturally gifted mortals known as deviants.

the Legendarian, aka always Jordan ‘Q for Quill’ Tethys, the legendary 30-Year Man or Woman, as well as 30-Beers; Collage suggestive of deviants appearing in 1000-Daze, Jim McPherson, 2011
- somewhat controversially, although he can come back as either a man or a woman, he generally considers himself a ‘he’; this, he claims (when attempting to appear modern no matter whose age it is), is due to the fact that he first came into being as a man and nothing can change that;
- a multitalented musician, painter and recurring tail- as well as taleteller who, whenever he returns to life (after dancing the legless limbo, as he puts it), does so in his son or daughter, grandson or granddaughter, albeit not until they’re irrecoverably dying –  whereupon he or she recovers, though now as him, not him or her, despite looking nearly identical;
- evidently has never committed suicide out of fear that that’d be the end of his recurrences;
- all Legendarians develop a telltale scar in the middle of their forehead, about where a devil would have his or her third eye; it’s about the only physical difference between what they looked like before he took them over;
- when he comes back he keeps the memories of whomever he was previously but additionally brings with him his own memories, which date back to his first incarnation circa 4000 YD;
- can read tee-tee tails, which only Illuminaries of Weir, some witches and very few other non-devils can;
- even as a woman, he suffers from a procreative imperative (the compulsive need to reproduce such that he can succeed himself or herself, quite literally, lifetime after lifetime); as such, he may be the natural father of Morgan Abyss, the Death’s Head Hellion, as well as many a member of Q-Troupe;
- most crucially, Rumour’s quill, what Tethys sometimes calls his power pen as opposed to power focus, follows him from lifetime to lifetime;
- among many other purposes he uses it to draw himself and others between-space (the Weird, the dark-grey universal substance of Samsara, mundane reality), provided they’ve previously given him permission to do so;
- he can draw on anything, even the air itself, but generally draws on a pad of paper or parchment that he splotches out of the nib of his quill; he naturally calls it his splotch pad;
- Rumour’s quill being Brainrock, its ink is too; as such it never runs out;Tura's Allegory of Spring reminds me of Morgan Abyss, the Master of Weir circa 4825 YD
- anyone can use his quill while he’s dancing the legless limbo between lives but it always comes back to him whenever and wherever he reincarnates;
- it can, however, be stolen; if held or taken far enough away from him, he can’t will it back to himself either;
- more notes and lynx re the Legendarian are here and here, amongst probably many other places, including this one.

Morgan Abyss, Melusine Master of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon in 4824/5, called the Death’s Head Hellion due to the fact that she manifests a death’s head atop her Master’s Mace as if it’s her personal gargoyle;
- the fact that she’s not a pureblood Utopian allowed Pyrame Silverstar and her demon (presumably Primeval Lilith) to take her over some years previously, whereupon they manoeuvred her into the Mastery of Weir.

Pusan Wanderlust, a self-psychopomp or Wayfarer in the Wild Weird (between-space, the dark-grey universal substance of Samsara, mundane reality);
Collage of fauns frolicking, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011- in this respect she’s like garudas, mutated ravendeer, the psycho-swans ridden by Valkyrie, pterippi flying horses such as Attis’s Pegasus, Kore’s hellhounds, All of Incain and virtually any devil who has a power focus, which is why Pyrame, who (in Feel Theo) had to give up all the Tvasitar talismans she’d acquired over the centuries on Thrygragon (Mithramas Day 4376 YD), began to rely on All in order to get around;
- also known as Trailblazer because she can supposedly track anyone between-space (aka the Weird or the Grey); most often called Goat, which she considers complimentary;
- a resolutely female faun or fauna (a female satyr) who’s been around perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 years longer than Quill Tethys (the Legendarian); fauns famously have a voracious appetite for sex;
- unlike Quill (the Legendarian), Pusan can only recur in her daughters or granddaughters (when they’re on the verge of dying);
- deviant father was Taurus Chrysaor Attis whereas her devic half-mother was most likely Amal-Althea, Lazareme’s female healer (who was seen occupying Pusan in Feel Theo);
- a pedum or shepherd's crook that once belonged to Goatfish, one of Byron’s female Zodiacals (Capricorn), who vanished during the heyday of the Outer Earth’s Goddess Culture circa 2000 to 2500 YD, automatically returns to her whenever she comes back to life;
- more notes and lynx re the famous fauna are here and here, amongst no doubt many another place such as this one;
- notes on the Frolic image is here.
Faun spotted and shot in NYC by Jim McPherson, 2009
Q-Troupe, presumed sons, daughters, grandsons and/or granddaughters of Quill Tethys (the Legendarian); 
- all claim Dame Chance (the Master Deva bygone Illuminaries named Wintry Moira) as their devic half-mother;
- all are over 20 in 4825 YD; 20 is the minimum age Legendarians can come back in their descendants (an age that, perhaps curiously, applies to incarnations of Pusan Wanderlust as well);
- a few have Jordan for a first name, some have Tethys for a last name, but all go by their Q-names: Quick, Quiff and Quit-It are triplets; Quail and Quack are twins; three others answer to Quaff whereas one accepts either Quiddity or ‘Quid’; the last of them, ‘Squirrelly’, eventually admits that his full name’s Tomcat Tattletail;
- all make their living as entertainers travelling in the same group, which is fronted by Dame Chance.

Tomcat ‘Squirrelly’ Tattletail, possibly a deviant, a faerie trickster, a be-brained demon, the latest Daemonicus or, just maybe, an ever-smiling devil in disguise;
- a metamorph or shape-shifter; when on the Inner Earth, often affects the guise of Thrygragos Lazareme as Harmony most commonly sees him – as a blue-skinned, golden-haired pretty boy, albeit with only two sea-green eyes, which suggests he’s a faerie trickster more so than anything else;
- one theory is he’s what became of Rumour of Lazareme after faeries ate him circa 4000 YD; Harmony calls him trillion-timing Tommy, on account of he’s loved her and left her many times over the centuries;
- a master musician whose favourite instrument is (suggestively) a syrinx or panpipe;
- plenty of other lynx stem from here and there.

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  • Definite Demons

Lilith and Daemonicus, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010Primeval Lilith, Demon Queen of the Night; the thought-immortal queen of chthonic or earthborn daemons or demons;
- imprisoned by the Dual Entities within All of Incain (then better known as Ginny the Gynosphinx) on the then Whole Earth sometime much earlier than 669 PD (pre-Dome), which is when the Sedonshem landed atop Kanin City, or even 725 PD, which is when the Sedonshem arrived on the Moon;
- fused with Pyrame Silverstar, then unnamed, sometime after All of Incain (at the time known as Ginny the Gynosphinx) ate the latter circa 725 PD (the year Thrygragos Lazareme led the devic expeditionary team down from the Moon, where the Sedonshem was hiding from the dozens of Utopian millennial or generational ships that had been pursuing devakind since time almost immemorial);
- a good place to start trolling for more on the lovely, if nowhere near lovable (except to other demons) Lily is here or here; there's a mite more in Pyrame's link here.

Daemonicus, Dusted Daemonicus, possibly aka Smiler or the Smiling Fiend (the ‘A’ in the VAM Entity); possibly also Tomcat ‘Squirrelly’ Tattletail; reputedly indestructible, pre-Sedon king of chthonic or earthborn daemons or demons;
- one probably incorrect theory is that he’s born, and reborn, of Mother Nature, as a counterbalance to the Moloch Sedon;
- there’s an, um, extract (excrement?) from Feel Theo re Daemonicus here; as per here, a nominal Daemonicus appeared in the phantacea comic books.

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  • Mandroids

All the (self-proclaimed) Invincible She-Sphinx of Incain; once Ginny the Gynosphinx; Mandroid Mother Machine as well as occasional monster maker;
- ages-old construct of the Dual Entities, likely from their 61st lifetimes (as Alorus Ptah and Trishtar Thrae, the second version of the Biblical Adam and Eve);2sphinxes
- in all probability based on First or Second Weirworld’s technology; responsive to Pyrame Silverstar due to the Pauper Priestess’s purported duplication of the Female Entity’s brain patterns in the distant recesses of linear time (possibly during the Male Entity’s 3rd lifetime, which in part took place on the first Weirworld);
- All’s head resembles that of the Female Entity whereas the head of the Egyptian Sphinx (aka Andy the Androsphinx, her long dormant male counterpart) originally resembled that of the Male Entity;Shot of a demon, behind glass, taken by Jim McPherson in Lima, Peru, in 1998 and modified on PHOTOSHOP in 2007
- more often than not huge and winged; a therefore perhaps surprisingly mobile psychopomp – meaning she can travel at will through the Weird (between-space, the dark-grey universal substance of Samsara, mundane reality), though always leaves a root of herself behind on the Prison Beach of Incain;
- used by devils, especially Unmoving Byron and Varuna Mithras (prior to Thrygragon), as both a temporary holding cell or as a long-term prison for their transgressing fellows;
- rather, Mithras’s firstborn deviant son, Chrysaor Attis, who ceased recurring as of Thrygragon, stuck devils in All on his father’s behalf;
- in addition to their fathers, though not the Moloch Sedon, whom she’s designed to eat, All tends to be responsive to highborn devils;
- although possessed of a modicum of sentience, if not much in the way of actual intelligence, still a machine; can be turned off and on as well as reprogrammed;
- there’s all sorts more on the She-Sphinx here.

Magnus Minus, origin unspecified, might be a demon but, just as likely, might be a mandroid; may have been a monster made by All of Incain, the Dual Entities or even Pyrame, through All, since she seems to know a lot about him – including how to revive him after howsoever many centuries of moribundity;An unidentified painting spotted in the Met Museum in NYC done in the style of Hieronymous Bosch, photo by Jim McPherson, 2009
- self-proclaimed as well as self-named mighty Minotaurus of Minius (Absudyl, the Subterranean Realm of the Mandroids);
- regardless of whether he’s more mandroid than demon, he’s a daemonic demiurge, one who fancies himself a latter day Daemonicus in that he’s a demon king lacking subjects but completely capable of fashioning them;
- Minius, which Magnus Minus also named, after himself, is the western terminus of the Upper Head’s Hell-Well (which begins in Satanwyck, Sedon’s Temple on a map of the Hidden Headworld); as such, it lies directly beneath the Weirdom of Cabalarkon (Sedon’s Devic Eye-Land);
- the double-click to the right reveals Pyrame as the Perpetual Presence (which should give you an idea of how I'm leaning with respect to who created Magnus Minus, albeit with this additional hint);
- more on the more often mightily minute Minotaurus links from here.

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3. Mortal Descendants of Original Extraterrestrials

  • Utopians of Weir on Earth

- Utopians living in the Weirdom of Cabalarkon at the time of the Death’s Head Hellion are brought up to hate the Moloch Sedon and his devic progeny;
- oddly, as if to prove their non-Earth heritage, pureblood Utopian men are always black whereas Utopian women are invariably white;The caption reads: Mythos Utopian Eyeorbs Manifesting Gargoyle; images of Cacuceus and Gargoyles were taken from the Internet and  put together by Jim McPherson, using PHOTOSHOP, in 2004
- hybrid or mixed-blood Utopians of either sex living in or around former Weirdoms on the Inner Earth tend to be indistinguishable by skin colour;
- the few pureblood Utopians (U-bloods) who yet live beyond the Dome on the Outer Earth avoid having children by purebloods of the opposite sex because their offspring still look to be of a different race than one or the other of their parents;
- mortal, if usually long-lived by human standards, their equally atheistic ancestors pursued the Sedonshem throughout the cosmos from their bases on the first then second Weirworlds;
- with never-demoralizing, yet only rare successes, their forefathers desired nothing less than to eradicate devakind before they could spread even more of their corruptive immorality;
- the be-all and end-all of Utopians stuck on the Whole Earth (either beneath the Cathonic Dome or due only in part to an absence of functional spacecraft beyond it) remains the destruction of their ancient enemies;
- stacks of quotes taken from various phantacea Mythos publications link from here.

- Illuminaries of Weir, Utopian polymaths, supposedly learned in a wide variety of not-necessarily-related matters; the highest educated class in Cabalarkon (Sedon's Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Headworld);
- often act as advisors to the reigning Master, who’s usually elevated from their rank; very seldom are they not pure U-bloods;
- Morgan Abyss, the Melusine Master of Weir in 4824/5, is not a fully trained Illuminary, just well-studied;
- an outsider born in the subcontinent of Aka Godbad (Sedon’s mouth, lower lip, lower jaw and goatee on maps of the Hidden Headworld), she attained her Mastery mostly because she was secretly possessed of Pyrame Silverstar, a ninth-born Mithradite and Sedon’s favourite since long before devils arrived on the Whole Earth en masse in 669 PD.

- Scientocrats of Weir, still nominally scientists but, by the time period of “The Death’s Head Hellion”, long more like functionaries charged with keeping Weir’s archaic, First and Second Weirworld machinery operating as well as it can;
- even though they’re highly educated, most scientocrats are specialists in their chosen fields; they can’t match Illuminaries when it comes to sheer breadth of knowledge.

- Imbeciles of Weir, also the idiots of Weir; inbred and therefore very much low functioning Utopians; almost always purebloods, hence the inbreeding;
- they nevertheless live much longer than most non-Utopians, sometimes into their 2nd or 3rd Century, longer in very rare cases; their longevity is due in large measure to the “food” churned out by the Weirdom’s replication units, all of which were salvaged from their grounded and thence buried millennial or generational vessels;
- they leach off the Sarpedon underclass’s mental emanations; it is the imbeciles of Weir whose own mental emanations empower the Master of Weir and thereby keep everything extraterrestrial that still works still working.

- Trinondevs of Weir, Weir’s Warrior Elite, almost always purebloods who manage to overcome their inbreeding in order to function as soldiers;
- their main weapons are ever-so-useful eye-staves, the eyeorbs atop of which double as prison pods in that they can suck devic and azura spirit being out of the shells they’re occupying and into them, thus incarcerating them;
- once an eyeorb is full it ceases to function as anything except a prison pod; if it’s not replaced, the eye-stave becomes useless; Trinondevs, who can be male or female in 4824 YD, tend to wear robes or gowns, hoods and veils, when going into action;
- their eyeorbs operate by willpower; among many another thing, they can manufacture near-impenetrable house- or personal-gargoyles about their wielders and project solid bursts or rays via psycho- or telekinesis.

- the Sarpedon Underclass; named after the Sarpedon dynasty of Ancient Crete from the time of the Mediterranean Goddess Culture out there (roughly 2000-1500 BCE, 2000-2500 YD);
- Sarpedons were Utopians trapped beyond the Dome thousands of years earlier, Minoans (also called Etocretans) were human whereas the followers of Europa’s mythological third son Rhadamanthys were devils;
- Pyrame Silverstar was Queen Tanith throughout that time but there remains considerable debate as to whether the Moloch Sedon was Rhadamanthys;
- Pyrame believes that to be the case but readers of “Feeling Theocidal” know the real identity of this Rhadamanthys;
- NOTE 1: suitably twigged, the myth of Europa, sister of eventual King Cadmus of Thebes, and her abduction from Asia Minor by Zeus, while in the form of a pristine-perfect, White Bull, is one of the foundational building blocks of the PHANTACEA Mythos;
- NOTE 2: the phantacea version of Europa and Cadmus has them living at the end of the mad goddesses’ Middle Sea matriarchate rather than at the beginning; in other words, circa 1500 BCE (2500 YD) rather than 2000 BCE (2000 YD);
- Sarpedons did not begin returning to the Inner Earth until circa 1000 BCE (3000 YD); their return allowed Utopians throughout the Inner Earth to revitalize their degenerating species;
- by the time of “The Death’s Head Hellion”, however, their descendants, while still largely pureblood, are treated much like slaves or Hindu Untouchables by the imbeciles of Weir, who leach off their potent mental emanations like psychic vampires.


Cabalarkon, Cabby the Daddy, the Undying Utopian; a biogeneticist when he lived and worked on, or travelled off of, the First Weirworld;
- when he was a wholly alive Utopian Scientocrat the Dual Entities used his right eye to jumpstart the process that resulted in the Moloch Sedon, hence Cabby the Daddy;
- currently subsists in a tub of life-preserving but animation-suspending Cathonic Fluid beneath the Citadel of the Thinkers in Cabalarkon City;
- it, like the rest of the territory composing the Weirdom of Cabalarkon (Sedon’s Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head), is named after him.

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Sedon Plague 5456 to 5476 – “Contagion Collectors”

(Extracted from a capsulated character companion for ‘The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories’ Trilogy)

Datong Harmonia, collage by Jim McPherson ,2009Cover for Contagion Collectors, artwork prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010Despite often violent suppression by forces blinkered by monotheistic absolutism, at the height of the Renaissance seekers after secrets are determined to discover all there is to know about the universe.

Yet, right here on the earth beneath their feet, there is no bigger secret than that there is a Cathonic Dome. The second biggest secret beyond the Cathonic Dome is that a continent the size of Africa lies underneath it.

Two hundred years earlier, someone who knew all there was to know about the Hidden Headworld was none other than the infamous, panpipe-playing Rat Catcher of Hamelin.

Three Outer Earthlings you may have heard of play howsoever insignificant roles in Contagion. They are Twisted Tommy (Tomas de Torquemada, age 56), Bosco (Hieronymous Bosch, age 26), and Dire (Albrecht Durer, age 4).

Dire and Drang (a hound, not yet a dachshund) are having a wonderful boy/dog adventure until four already much feared riders on psychopomp-steeds burst into their hence no longer exclusive paradise, the Garden of Earthy Delights.

As for the god by then sitting high above them all, in a Brainrock throne on a mushroom cloud, he's the deviant half-son of two of the terrifying riders, the one with the buzzsaw scales and the one with the bow and already notched arrow.

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Index for Contagion's Character Companion

1. Shining Ones: First, Second and Third Generation Devils

  • The Moloch Sedon
  • The Six Great Gods and Goddesses (Thrygragos Lazareme, Thrygragos Byron, Thrygragos Varuna Mithras, and the often three-in-one Trigregos Sisters: Demeter the Body, Devaura the Soul or Spirit & Sapiendev the Mind)
  • Master Devas
    • The Firstborn Unities of Lazareme (Balance, Chaos & Order)
    • Significant Additional Lazaremists (Dame Chance, the Skinless Rasp, Vladuca Fangfingers)
    • Significant Mithradites (Sinistral Lust, Gravedigger, Sinistral Envy)
    • Moderately Significant Byronics (APM All-Eyes, Djerrid Ruin)
    • More Lazaremists (Rumour, Librarian, Krepusyl Evenstar, Irisiel Mercherm)
    • More Byronics (Chimaera Glimmenmare, Pyçonja Volant, Camorva Freeflight, Yati, Vanthysces)
    • More Mithradites (Pyrame Silverstar, Thanatoid Death Gods, King Harvest, Nergal Vetala, Tammuz, Osiraq, Reptilians, various Apocalyptics)
2. Deviants, Demons, Faeries and a Mandroid Mother Machine
  • Definite Deviants (various Legendarians, Pusan Wanderlust, Morgan Abyss, Quidnunc Tethys, Quibble Tethys, Quoits Tethys, Squiggly Tethys, Zalman Somata & the Terrible Twins, Sraddha and Janna Somata)
  • Definite Demons (Primeval Lilith, Daemonicus)
  • Mandroids (All of Incain, Magnus Minus)
  • Herta Heartthrob
  • Tomcat Tattletail
3. Mortal Descendants of Original Extraterrestrials
  • Cabalarkon, the Undying Utopian, Cabby the Daddy
  • Melina born Tethys become Somata
  • Utopians of Weir on Earth
    • Illuminaries
    • Biomages
    • Scientocrats
    • Trinondevs
    • Imbeciles
4. Norman & Norma Notables
  • Inner Earthlings
    • John Barleycorn
  • Outer Earthlings
    • Dire
    • Drang the Dog
    • Twisted Tommy
    • Bosco

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1. Shining Ones: First, Second and Third Generation Devils

  • The Moloch Sedon

- the seemingly immortal, but nowhere-near-almighty, All-Father of Devazurkind; the Devil Himself, capitalized;
- solitary member of the first generation of devazurkind; acknowledged king of chthonic or earthborn daemons or demons since Ragnarok, circa 234 PD (Pre-Dome);
- grown or developed, more so than engendered let alone created, by the Male and Female Entities on the Trigon Asteroid, part of the First Weir System, in the dim recesses of the time-space continuum;
- the Entities started the process that resulted in the Moloch by using the right eye of Cabalarkon, a then wholly alive Utopian biogeneticist, for raw material; consequently Sedon still regards the now undying Utopian as his father, hence Cabby the Daddy;
- in the Year of the Dome (YD) Zero (4000 BCE), Sedon used his essence to form the Cathonic Zone or Dome (consequently also the Sedon Sphere) in order to separate the consequential Outer Earth from the thereafter Inner Earth of Sedon’s Head;
- the mighty Eye-Mouth in the Sky, as depicted on the back cover of “The War of the Apocalyptics” (the predecessor in terms of phantacea print publications to 1000-Daze), is Star Sedon; details of his origin appeared in “Forever & 40 Days – The Genesis of phantacea”, a graphic novel published in 1990; somewhat atypically in term of the phantacea Mythos, Sedon deigns to make a personal appearance in “The Death’s Head Hellion”;
- the bulk of the “Contagion Collector” mini-novel takes place between YD 5456 and YD 5476 (A.D. 1456-1476), by which time Sedon has been using an additional part of his essence to protect the Weirdom of Cabalarkon from the Ghostlands’ still rampant radioactivity for in excess of 600 years;
- see also here.

  • The Six Great Gods and Goddesses

- the Thrygragos Brothers and Trigregos Sisters comprise the entirety of the second generation of devakind;
- the Three Great Gods are Thrygragos Lazareme (aka sometimes the Lackland Libertine, but most commonly Thrygragos Everyman), Thrygragos Byron (aka both Bodiless Byron and the Unmoving One due to that fact that he’s all head, with his facial features frozen in the same expression, not because he can’t transport himself wherever he wants on the Inner Earth), and Thrygragos Varuna Mithras;
- neither Byron nor Mithras appear in the mini-novel; however, there is more than mere mention of a eminently forgettable, but possibly not apocryphal, individual known as the VAM Entity – Thrygragos Varuna Ahriman Mithras (the reference harkens back to passages of “Feeling Theocidal”, Book One of ‘The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories’);
- the ostensible ‘A’ in the VAM Entity has too many fingers on his hands and they in turn have too many joints or knuckles per digit;
- he also plays a mean panpipe and goes by any number of names; they include Smiler, the Smiling Fiend, the Judge, Judge Druj (meaning ‘the Lie’), Bad Rhad and Rhadamanthys;
- Pyrame (Providence) is among those who believe this Rhadamanthys was actually the Moloch Sedon during the 500-year-long, so-called man-hating, mad goddesses’ Middle Sea matriarchate that lasted from roughly 2000 to 1500 BCE on the Outer Earth (YD 2000-2500);
- Smiler considers himself the rightful Demon King; apparently Sinistral Envy concurs, which strongly suggests the panpipe-playing fiend might actually be the Moloch Sedon slumming, something the then Legendarian suspected when he came close to encountering one or the other (unless they really are the same) in Feel Theo;
- because they must have worshippers in order to flourish, Great Gods, like their offspring, are not allowed to kill lesser beings;
- if they do, Sedon will cathonitize, catasterize, or ill-star them (i.e., fuse their spirit selves or essences, often along with their power foci, with his such that they thereafter shine out of the night’s sky above the Hidden Headworld);
- the Three Great Goddesses are Trigregos Devaura (the Spirit or Soul), Trigregos Demeter (the Body), and Trigregos Sapiendev (the Mind); they do not appear in the mini-novel;
- their terrible talismans do, however; hence why “Contagion Collectors” is an integral part of ‘The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories’ Trilogy;
- see also here.

  • Master Devas

- dictionaries often define ‘devas’ or ‘daevas’ as ‘the shining ones’; hence also the English word ‘devils’, meaning ‘little gods’;
- Master Devas compose the third generation of devazurkind; the Trigregos Sisters always bore them simultaneously, in threesomes;
- they believe their fathers are one or another of the Thrygragos Brothers; hence why it’s accepted that there are only three devic tribes: the Lazaremists, the Byronics and the Mithradites;
- when Sedon, Great Gods and/or Master Devas possess sentient beings for procreative purposes, their resultant offspring are often long-lived and, once in a while, unnaturally gifted mortals known as deviants;
- see also here.

  • The Firstborn Unities of Lazareme

Harmony, called Datong Harmonia by bygone Illuminaries of Weir on Earth; the Unity of Balance as well as Panharmonium (her pet project, a planetary panacea for beneficial devils and their worshipful multitudes alike);
- reputedly, by a matter of a few seconds, the first Master Deva ever born; beauty incarnate as well as loveliness personified;
- her power focus or Tvasitar talisman is a golden torc, the so-called Necklace of, as you might expect, Harmony; from it she conjures her golden, chainmail gowns and the broken chains often manifested manacled to her wrists; from them she sometimes shoots, what else?, chain lightning;
- her fortunately rarely manifested alter ego is the nihilistic Nemesis, a relentless avenger along the lines of the Classical Furies;
- see also here.
Chaos, called Unholy Abaddon by bygone Illuminaries of Weir (after the Biblical Angel of Apollyon, the Bottomless Pit); the Unity of just that, Chaos;
- his power focus or Tvasitar talisman is the Chaos Blade, which he keeps forever-sheathed out of fear of causing a chain reaction that would bring irreversible carnage to the world, if not the cosmos;
- see also here;
Order, called Thunder and Lightning Lord Yajur, or variations thereof, by bygone Illuminaries of Weir; the Unity of just that, Order;
- from his power focus or Tvasitar talisman he shoots vajra bolts – white lightning of the non-alcoholic variety;
- goes by Sparky when he’s in altogether human form;
- Chaos and Order hate each other passionately; they’d seek to annihilate each other, and all that stands between them, if Harmony didn’t always do just that, stand between them mollifyingly;
- see also here.

  • Significant Additional Lazaremists

Chance, called Wintry Moira by bygone Illuminaries of Weir; a fifth-born also known variously as Lazareme’s Luck, Fata Fortuna and, most commonly among devils, Dame Chance;
- because of her dangerously unpredictable attribute, coupled with her nevertheless undeniable attractiveness, some refer to her as the luscious Lady Luck;
- sometimes regarded as the Legendarian’s charming devic stalker since she seems to seek him out for purposes procreative wherever he recurs;
- as such, the devic half-mother of many eventual Legendarians (Jordan ‘Q for Quill’ Tethys, a recurring deviant sometimes recalled as the legendary 30-Year Man or Woman, as well as 30-Beers);
- the half-mother, for example, of Master Morgan Abyss, aka the Death’s Head Hellion, who is often mentioned in the mini-novel;
-  her azuras are called Fatazurs;
- her power focus or Tvasitar talisman is the 3-spoke wheel of fortune traditionally known as the Triskelion;
- see also here.
Skinless, the Skinless Rasp, or variations thereof; a comparatively lowborn Lazaremist called by bygone Illuminaries Rastha Aragon;
- a White Godling flagellant with a flail for a power focus;
- seems to have a strangely loving relationship with Fangfingers (Faustus Vladuca);
- chosen (in 5474) by the Unities and the Terrible Twins’ parents, Zalman and Melina, to ‘occupy’ Janna Somata when she gets married and whenever she conceives and bears children;
- since her deviant offspring would be as unimpressive as her, the choice is a deliberate slap in the face to the Mithradites, who are scheduled to resume governorship of the Weirdom of Kanin City come 5500 YD (AD 1500);
- see also here.
Fangfingers, a comparatively lowborn Lazaremist called by bygone Illuminaries Faustus Vladuca after a combination of Dacian, Carpathian, Gothic and/or Slavonic deities, folk legends or heroes;
- devils tend to refer to him as the Fop because he fancies himself something of a fashion plate, one with a penchant for wearing a black opera cape with red lining;
- has, for a power focus, a Brainrock glove with fangs rather than claws on its fingertips;
- a Black Godling with an unsavoury reputation for sadism in that he welcomes animal sacrifice;
- seems to have a strangely loving relationship with the Skinless Rasp (Rastha Aragon);
- chosen (in 5474) by the Unities and the Terrible Twins’ parents, Zalman and Melina, to ‘occupy’ Sraddha Somata when he gets married and whenever he fathers children;
- since his deviant offspring would be as unimpressive as him, the choice is a deliberate slap in the face to the Mithradites, who are scheduled to resume governorship of the Weirdom of Kanin City come 5500 YD (AD 1500);
- see also here.

  • Significant Mithradites

Belialma, Sinistral Lust of Satanwyck (Hell on Earth, Pandemonium, Sedon’s Temple on a map of the Hidden Headworld); Hell’s Belle, also sometimes called the luscious or lascivious Lady Lust as well as Bouncing, Beguiling or Bedazzling Belialma and variations thereof;
- a second-born Mithradite whose power focus or Tvasitar talisman is the Ruby Red Apple of Concupiscence; like her fellow Apple Goddesses, Concord and Discord, she carries it as the pupil of her third eye;
- always an object of desire, her reciprocal interests cross tribal boundaries to include not just Unholy Abaddon, the Unity of Chaos, and his brood brother, Lord Order, but their father, Thrygragos Lazareme;
- Bouncing Belle resides in her bastion of bliss overlooking Pandemonium, the capital of Satanwyck (Hell on Earth), where she entertains her paramours, who also number Zuvem ‘Gravedigger’ Nergalis and, centuries earlier, King Cold (Tantal Thanatos) and Cruel Plathon, the Bull of Mithras, neither of whom appear in the mini-novel;
- wants to ‘occupy’ Janna Somata when the latter gets married and whenever she conceives and bears children; that way her deviant offspring would be as impressive as Hell’s Belle is and always has been;
- Mithradites are scheduled to resume governorship of the Weirdom of Kanin City come 5500 YD (AD 1500); Belle, who’s bored of being the vice-regent or surrogate ruler of Hell on Earth, reckons she’d rather run the Mastery of Marutia through Janna when that day arrives;
- see also here.
Gravedigger, a fourth-born called Zuvem Nergalis by bygone Illuminaries of Weir; generally manifests himself black-skinned, like a male Utopian of Weir;
- name in part derives from his power focus or Tvasitar talisman, which is a Brainrock spade with a razor-sharp edge, and in part because he’s sometimes called the Nergalids’ Planter even though he actually alternates planting duties (of Vetala-Fecundity) with King Harvest;
- among his other love interests include bedazzling Belialma (Hell’s Belle, still Sinistral Lust of Satanwyck in 5476);
- figures he should ‘occupy’ Sraddha Somata when the latter gets married and whenever he fathers children; that way his deviant offspring would be as impressive as Zuvem is and always has been, at least in his mind;
- Mithradites are scheduled to resume governorship of the Weirdom of Kanin City come 5500 YD (AD 1500); Gravedigger reckons he deserves to rule the Mastery of Marutia through Sraddha when that day arrives;
- see also here.
— Sinistral Envy, a lower-born called Bobby Badboy or, less frequently, Robin Goodfellow by bygone Illuminaries of Weir; generally manifests himself as a cupid or putto, which is why devils, somewhat incorrectly, tend to refer to him as Cupidity;
- realizes his much higher born sister, Bouncing Belle, is bored of acting as Sedon’s viceroy, the surrogate ruler of Satanwyck (Sedon’s Temple, Hell on Earth), and figures he’s in line to succeed her when she moves to take over the Mastery of Marutia;
- like virtually everyone else, possibly including Sedon himself, he has no recollection that someone else has a greater claim to the throne of Hell until he manifests himself visually in front of him; that someone else is a certain myrionymous, always smiling fiend with too many fingers on his hands and they with too many knuckles;
- see also here. 

  • Moderately Significant Byronics

APM All-Eyes, lone daughter born in Bodiless Byron’s third brood; as such a member of his secondary Nucleus (along with her triplet brothers, Damon Goldenrod and Nevair Neverknight, who don’t appear in the mini-novel);
- a love goddess, Byron’s Venus, bygone Illuminaries of Weir named her Aphropsyche Morningstar, hence APM;
- likes to appear as if composed entirely of eyes, hence All-Eyes;
-  her flutter-eyes (winged eyeballs, which she can externalize and sometimes uses as spies) are also called ‘little angels’; it seems they have the capacity to retain what they see as well as just long-distance-transmit what they’re seeing or have seen to APM;
-  her witch-followers, who aren't just confined to the Byronics’ territory of Aka Godbad at the time of the mini-novel, are known as love-loving Afrites;
- see also here.
Djerrid Ruin, Byron’s Bowman, one of Byron’s autumnal Zodiacals, as such associated with Sagittarius the Archer;
- called his Green Man due to his proclivity for assuming the form of a 3-eyed, vegetative human somewhat reminiscent of the work of the famous Milanese painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593);
- his power focus or Tvasitar talisman is a bow and quiver full of arrows;
- see also here.

  • More Lazaremists

Rumour of Lazareme: devic half-father of the first Legendarian;
- probably does not appear in “Contagion Collectors”, but is mentioned in it fairly frequently because his power focus or Tvasitar talisman, a multipurpose Brainrock quill, transfers to the Legendarian, a recurring deviant who, whenever he returns to life, does so in his dying son or daughter, grandson or granddaughter;
- Rumour was supposedly eaten by faeries circa 4000 YD in the Land of Daybreak (nowadays Crepuscule, the Land of Twilight);
- his putative son, the recurring Legendarian, seems to think (possibly wrongly) that he became Tomcat Tattletail sometime after they ate him;
- the Legendarian also thinks that Tomcat was the legendary Pied Piper of Hamelin; in this he is probably correct; (Tomcat is the panpipe-playing faerie trickster who often takes on the guise of Thrygragos Lazareme and thereby both seduces and bedevils Harmony; evidently he’s done this frequently over the centuries leading up to “Contagion Collectors”);
- many devils, however, suspect that the Legendarian is what became of Rumour of Lazareme after he committed devic suicide by cutting out his third eye after the collapse of Phantast and Strife’s Crimson Conspiracy on the Outer Earth circa 4000 YD (Year Zero A.D.); in other words, they don’t believe the Legendarian is a deviant;
- see also here.
Librarian, Biblio Drek, sometimes called Specks due to the fact that his power focus or Tvasitar talisman is a pair of three-lens eyeglasses (as depicted in “Forever & 40 Days – The Genesis of phantacea”, a graphic novel published in 1990 that he in part narrates);
- Lazaremist ambassador to the rededicated Weirdom of Kanin City since roughly 4825 YD;
- see also here.
— Krepusyl Evenstar, second-born sometimes called Miss Mist or the Grey Lady; reputedly Harmony’s closest and perhaps only female friend;
- primary devic over-ruler of faeries-friendly Crepuscule, the Land of Twilight (Sedon’s Outer Nose on a map of the Hidden Headworld);
- conceivably Lazareme’s Venus since her power focus or Tvasitar talisman, a Holy Water Sprinkler, is also called a Morgenstern (morning star, a barbed ball on a short, chain-link cable or cord);
- formerly Mariamne Dawnstar, she once of the Land of Daybreak on the other side of the Hidden Headworld;
- see also here.
Tvasitar Smithmonger, a third-born called Vulcanian, Anvil or Anvil the Artificer by his fellow devils; resides in the Prometheum atop Sedon’s Peak, in the centre of the Cattail Peninsula (Sedon’s Ponytail on a map of the Hidden Headworld);
- since sometime a few decades before 2000 YD, he has been using molten Brainrock or Gypsium, the miraculous Godstuff bubbling out of the Peak’s lava lake, to forge devils their power foci or talismans, hence Tvasitar talismans and why he’s often thought of as the devic Prometheus;
-  his talisman is an anvil, hence Anvil the Artificer;
-  mentioned but does not appear in the mini-novel;
- see also here.
Irisiel Mercherm, Lazareme’s preferred Heliodromus or sun-runner; called Speedy by devils for reasons obvious;
- see also here.

  • More Byronics

Chimaera Glimmenmare, ever-changing second-born Nucleoid often thought of as Byron’s stallion even though he changes sex almost as often as he shifts shape;
- like his fellow Primary Nucleoids, he once frequented Iraxas (the Penile Peninsula, Sedon’s Mutton Chop on a map of the Hidden Headworld), where Nergal Vetala has been ruling since the expanding empire of Lathakra drove Byronics back to the Godbadian subcontinent in the 48th Century of the Dome;
- centaurs worship him; evidently he can also control pterippi psychopomps (winged horses such as Attis’s Pegasus in “Feeling Theocidal”, Book One of ‘The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories’ trilogy; ones with the ability to travel between-space);
- along with triplet siblings, Sedona Spellbinder and Devil Wind (the Whirling Deva, aka Vayu Maelstrom), featured in “The War of the Apocalyptics”; only appears briefly near the end of “Contagion Collectors”;
- see also here.
Pyçonja Volant, called Fish Face by many devils on account of she sometimes looks like an anthropomorphic shark, albeit one with legs, arms and wings (hence her surname) rather than fins;
- her power focus or Tvasitar talisman is a fisherman or fisherwoman’s barbed gaffing hook;
- worshipped by humanoid amphibians in the Gulf of Aka, which suggests the Death’s Head Hellion (Morgan Abyss) may have been brought up praying to her;
- devic half-mother of Fisherwoman (aka Scylla Nereid, a major character in “The Trigregos Gambit”, Book Three of ‘The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories’ trilogy);
- see also here.
Camorva Freeflight, lepidopterous or moth-like Byronic whose elongated body is also somewhat dachshund-like; perhaps best envisioned as a hollow, vermicular tube with moth-like wings;;
- see also here.
— Yati, Byron’s Dragon (beware his burps);
- a highborn Byronic first depicted in “Forever & 40 Days – The Genesis of phantacea, a graphic novel published in 1990, but only appears a couple of times in “Contagion Collectors” and then only briefly;
- in his human form goes by Hiyati Samarand, after his unofficial protectorate (Samarand, once Sedon’s Tongue, now lies on the occipital side of Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head);
- as such appeared during the phantacea comic book series;
- see also here.
Vanthysces, called Scarecrow by devils, once the Byronic Grim Reaper as well as the main devic overseer of Iraxas (Sedon’s Mutton Chop on a map of the Hidden Headworld);
- King Harvest (Yama Nergal) fused his scythe with his own pickaxe just before he (Vanthysces) was cathonitized in the Dome’s 48th Century;
- other than as a fairly bright star in the night’s sky (the Sedon Sphere) above Iraxas, Scarecrow (Vanthysces) hasn't been seen since;
- see also here, here and here.

  • More Mithradites

Methandra Thanatos, a firstborn Mithradite known variously as Mithras’s Virgin, the Scarlet Empress, Seeress or Sorceress, the Crimson Queen to Tantal’s King Cold, and Miss Myth, after Mythland (the Jewel in Sedon’s Crown on a map of the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head;
- does not appear in “Contagion Collectors” but is mentioned occasionally;
- see also here.
Tantal Thanatos, a firstborn Mithradite most commonly known as King Cold;
- the Frozen Isle of Lathakra (off the Cattail Peninsula on a map of the Hidden Headworld), once Sedon’s Horn then Sedon’s Lens, Monocle or Cataract (off Sedon’s Human Eye, the Gulf of Corona), is his devic protectorate;
- does not appear in “Contagion Collectors” but is mentioned occasionally;
- see also here.
Phantast Thanatos, the third of the firstborn Thanatoid Death Gods; called Dream or Dreamweaver by devils;
- cathonitized circa 4000 YD for masterminding the Crimson Conspiracy on the Outer Earth along with Strife (Mithras’s Ewe for Aries, aka Kore-Eris, Discord, Kanin Marut, Fitna Marutia, among many other names);
- does not appear in “Contagion Collectors” but is mentioned occasionally;
- see also here.
Pyrame Silverstar, the Pauper Priestess, the fabulously female (adult) Perpetual Presence; sometimes called Providence, among many another name or title;
- unless programmed otherwise, All of Incain obeys her; hence why she can often be found occupying the She-Sphinx on the Prison Beach of Incain, at the bottom of the Cattail Peninsula (Sedon’s Ponytail on a map of the Hidden Headworld), about as far south as one can go on the Head without having to swim or ride in a boat;
- does not appear very often in “Contagion Collectors”;
- see also here.
King Harvest, Underlord Yama Nergal, a fifth-born, so-called Earthling (his brood sister, Shal Ereshkigal, and his brood brother, Gibran Nimiki, being the other two);
- when the Lathakran Empire conquered the Penile Peninsula (better known as Iraxas, Sedon’s Mutton Chop on a map of the Hidden Headworld), he helped cathonitize Vanthysces, the Byronics’ Grim Reaper;
- he thereafter fused the latter’s power focus, a scythe, with his own, a miner’s pickaxe; thereby cemented his position as the Nergalids’ Reaper even though he shares fecundating duties of Vetala with Gravedigger;
- unchallenged devic ruler of the radioactive Ghostlands since circa 4825 YD;
- more so than the Thanatoids of Lathakra, he’s considered the devils’ primary Death God;
- see also here.
Vetala, Nergal Vetala, more commonly addressed as Fecundity by her fellow Master Devas; also called the Nergalids’ Grower;
- though only a twelfth-born Mithradite, she’s a Moon Goddess like Lunar Uma, a Byronic firstborn; her power focus or Tvasitar talisman is considered a moon-sickle in that its blade is shaped like a crescent moon;
- Vetala becomes pregnant by one or the other male Nergalid come the New Moon and gives birth every Full Moon;
- her azuras, who number in the thousands – more like tens of thousands – are called Vetalazurs or Nergalazurs, albeit only if their fathers were either Zuvem or Yama;
- Vetalazurs seem to be only good for animating Dead Things, thus in effect rendering them zombies;
- when the Lathakran Empire conquered the Penile Peninsula (better known, once again, as Iraxas, Sedon’s Mutton Chop on a map of the Hidden Headworld), thus displacing the Byronics who’d ruled it for millennia previously, she stayed behind to oversee its affairs on their behalf;
- despite commonly having vaguely greenish skin, blood-red lips and too-sharp teeth, when not pregnant, considered something of a mouth-wateringly beautiful temptress;
- by tradition vetalas (lower case) manifest themselves with their hands on the wrong wrists; Vetala, though, seldom remembers to appear this way;
- Vetala resides in the former Weirdom of Manoa, called the Gleaming City due to its golden walls, at the start of “Contagion Collectors”;
- only appears briefly in the mini-novel;
- see also here.
Tammuz and Osiraq, Mithras’s onetime torchbearers; sometimes depicted in Mithraea on the Outer Earth, where they’re commonly referred to as Cautes and Cautopates;
- not just devils nowadays think of them as either the Idiot or Atomic Twins after their part in rendering the Ghostlands radioactive in 4825 YD;
- only mentioned in the mini-novel;
- see also here.
— various Apocalyptics are mentioned but only the Primary Four (War, Death, Plague and Catastrophe – the ones featured in The War of the Apocalyptics) show up, albeit off-camera;
- see also here.
— the same is true of the two surviving Reptilians from Mithras’s Eighth: Klizarod Rex and the Emperor Chameleon;
- see also here.

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2. Deviants, Demons, Faeries and Mandroid Monstrosities

  • Deviants

    - When Great Gods and/or Master Devas possess sentient beings for procreative purposes, their resultant offspring are often long-lived and occasionally unnaturally gifted mortals known as deviants;
    - in many respects, the action in “Contagion Collectors” is deviant-driven.
    — the Legendarian, aka always Jordan ‘Q for Quill’ Tethys, the legendary 30-Year Man or Woman, as well as 30-Beers;
    - a multitalented musician, painter and recurring tail- as well as taleteller who, whenever he returns to life, does so in his son or daughter, grandson or granddaughter, albeit not until they’re irrecoverably dying, whereupon they recover, though now as him, not them despite looking nearly identical;
    - depicted in “Forever & 40 Days – The Genesis of phantacea”, which he in part narrates);
    - all Legendarians develop a telltale scar in the middle of their forehead, about where a devil would have his or her third eye; it’s about the only physical difference between what they looked like before he took them over;
    - when he comes back he keeps the memories of whomever he was previously but additionally brings with him his own memories, which date back to his first incarnation circa 4000 YD;
    - can read tee-tee tails, which only Illuminaries of Weir, some witches and very few other non-devils can;
    - even as a woman, he suffers from a procreative imperative (the compulsive need to reproduce such that he can succeed himself or herself, quite literally, lifetime after lifetime); as such, he may be the natural father of Morgan Abyss, the Death’s Head Hellion;
    - most crucially, Rumour’s quill, what Tethys sometimes calls his power pen as opposed to power focus, follows him from lifetime to lifetime;
    - among many other purposes he uses it to draw himself and others between-space (the Weird, the dark-grey universal substance of Samsara, mundane reality), provided they’ve previously given him permission to do so;
    - he can draw on anything, even the air itself, but generally draws on a pad of paper or parchment that he splotches out of the nib of his quill; he naturally calls it his splotch pad;
    - Rumour’s quill being Brainrock, its ink is too; as such it never runs out;
    - anyone can use his quill while he’s dancing the legless limbo between lives but it always comes back to him whenever and wherever he reincarnates; as described in both Feel Theo and “The Death’s Head Hellion”, this can cause whoever is using it when he recurs considerable inconvenience, to put it mildly;
    - see also here.
    Morgan Abyss, Melusine Master of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon in 4824/5, called the Death’s Head Hellion;
    - except in flashbacks, (probably) does not appear in the mini-novel but is often mentioned due not just to what became of the Upper Head in 4825 YD.
    Pusan Wanderlust, a self-psychopomp or Wayfarer in the Wild Weird (between-space, the dark-grey universal substance of Samsara, mundane reality);
    - in this respect she’s like garudas, mutated ravendeer, pterippi flying horses such as Attis’s Pegasus, Kore’s hellhounds, All of Incain and virtually any devil who has a power focus;
    - also known as Trailblazer because she can supposedly track anyone between-space (aka the Weird or the Grey); most often called Goat, which she considers complimentary;
    - a resolutely female faun or fauna (a female satyr) who’s been around perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 years longer than Quill Tethys (the Legendarian); fauns famously have a voracious appetite for sex;
    - unlike Quill, Pusan can only recur in her daughters or granddaughters (when they’re on the verge of dying);
    - deviant father was Taurus Chrysaor Attis whereas her devic half-mother was most likely Amal-Althea, Lazareme’s female healer;
    - a pedum or shepherd's crook that once belonged to Goatfish, one of Byron’s female Zodiacals (Capricorn), who vanished during the heyday of the Outer Earth’s Goddess Culture circa 2000 to 2500 YD, automatically returns to her whenever she comes back to life;
    - non-devic acquaintance, friend or occasional companion of both Harmony and the Grey Lady (Krepusyl Evenstar);
    - can often be found working at the Dinq, Doinq, Danq Cavern Tavern in the foothills at the far, north-western corner of the Diluvia Mountain Range, where it hasn't stopped raining since the Genesea or Great Flood of Genesis;
    - see also here.
    Quidnunc Tethys, black-skinned son of Quill Tethys (the Legendarian), who wasn’t black-skinned;
    -  devic half-mother, Dame Chance, often visited while he was growing up;
    - at the insistence of his mother, who was black-skinned, grew up as an abstemious teetotaller;
    - also at her insistence, he became a cadet then a member of the Marutian military;
    - such a fabulous swordsman many believed either the Unity of Order or the Unity of Chaos possessed him when he won innumerable fencing contests during his late teens and early twenties.
    Jordan ‘Squiggly’ Tethys, son of Quidnunc; as such had black skin;
    - a fine artist and trained cartographer brought up alongside the Terrible Twins, Sraddha and Janna Somata, both of whom love him;
    - Zalman and Melina, the twins’ parents, agreed that Janna could marry Squiggly when she came of age.
    Quibble Tethys, originally a white-skinned grandson of Quill Tethys (the Legendarian).
    Quoits Tethys, originally a (very white-skinned) hybrid-Utopian daughter or granddaughter of Quill Tethys (the Legendarian);
    - a millennial child, meaning she was born in the Year of the Dome 5000;
    - chances are Dame Chance (the Master Deva bygone Illuminaries named Wintry Moira) is her devic half-mother, which at least partially accounts for her extremely long life even for a Utopian;
    - has faithfully served an unspecified number of Masters of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon over the centuries;
    -  given Jordan for a first name, her initial Q-name was Queer; gave herself the Q-name of Quoits when she rediscovered ringots in the Weirdom of Cabalarkon;
    - Melina nee Tethys Somata, the High Illuminary of the Weirdom of Kanin City throughout most of “Contagion Collectors”, calls her Granny Jordy even though many generations separate them.
    Zalman Somata, black-skinned, very popular Master of the Weirdom of Kanin City throughout most of “Contagion Collectors”;
    - an acknowledged deviant whose devic half-father was Thunder and Lightning Lord Yajur, the Unity of Order;
    - (possibly) possessed by Thrygragos Lazareme when he impregnated wife Melina (possessed by Harmony, the Unity of Balance as well as Panharmonium) with result being the Terrible Twins, Sraddha and Janna Somata.
    Sraddha Somata, deviant son of Zalman (possibly possessed by Thrygragos Lazareme) and Melina nee Tethys Somata (possessed by Harmony, the Unity of Balance as well as Panharmonium), respectively the Master and High Illuminary of the Weirdom of Kanin City, when conceived;
    - half of the Terrible Twins, on their 18th birthdays their parents and the Unities of Lazareme agreed that he would be occupied by Fangfingers (Faustus Vladuca) when he married and conceived children;
    - had black skin like his father; best friend of Squiggly Tethys, son of Quidnunc, who also had black skin.
    Janna Somata, deviant daughter of Zalman (possibly possessed by Thrygragos Lazareme) and Melina nee Tethys Somata (possessed by Harmony, the Unity of Balance as well as Panharmonium), respectively the Master and High Illuminary of the Weirdom of Kanin City, when conceived;
    - half of the Terrible Twins, on their 18th birthdays their parents and the Unities of Lazareme agreed that she would be occupied by the Skinless Rasp (Rastha Aragon) when she married and conceived children;
    - had white skin like her mother and silver hair like her ancestor, the Valkyrie Ute Tethys (who featured in Feel Theo); beloved of Squiggly Tethys, son of Quidnunc.

  • Either deviants, demons, faeries or, more likely a mixture of all three

    Herta Heartthrob, constructed by Magnus Minus (q.v.) during the latter days of Morgan Abyss’s mass-murderous reign as Master of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon;
    - first name a jumble of letters making up the word ‘earth’, indicating she’s earthborn; antique goddesses Hera and Rhea have same letters, albeit minus a ‘t’, and the Norse, Teutonic or Germanic Erda isn’t faraway;
    - initially based on Harmony, the ever-exquisite Unity of Balance; the self-proclaimed mighty Minotaurus of Minius (after himself) made Herta as a drunken favour for Unholy Abaddon (the Unity of Chaos);
    - remains rediscovered and reactivated by Tomcat Tattletail and Quoits Tethys at an unspecified date during the Dome’s 13th or 14th Centuries;
    - no longer just based on Harmony, Herta is ameliorated by residue Harmony leaves behind when she steps on Brainrock hearthstones as she goes through the Cathonic Zone from Tholos to Tholos in pursuit of trillion-timing Tommy (see Tattletail);
    - seems to be slowly acquiring snippets of Harmony’s memories as a result;
    - reputedly, along with Tomcat Tattletail (q.v.), has given birth to a number of putto-type cupids, apparently a form of daemon, or demon, who seem able to detect highly communicable disease in Outer Earthlings;
    - as such, a major contagion collector working for Quoits Tethys;
    - see also here.
    — Tomcat Tattletail, a faerie trickster evidently reconstructed by Utopian Biomages on the instructions of Quoits Tethys and an unnamed Master of the Weirdom of Cabalarkon at an unspecified time presumably circa the mid 13th Century of the Dome;
    - a metamorph or shape-shifter; when on the Inner Earth, often affects the guise of Thrygragos Lazareme as Harmony most commonly sees him – as a blue-skinned, golden-haired pretty boy, albeit with only two sea-green eyes;
    - one theory is his first incarnation was what had become of Rumour of Lazareme after faeries ate him circa 4000 YD;
    - another theory is that, after his reconstruction, Quoits reanimated him with the spirit of an unnamed and probably eminently forgettable devil she found trapped in a ringot left over from the days of the Death’s Head Hellion (Master Morgan Abyss) who loved an earlier version of Tomcat, one with a Q-Name;
    - Harmony calls him trillion-timing Tommy, on account of he’s loved her and left her many times over the centuries; Lazareme calls him cat-crap;
    - a master musician whose favourite instrument is, highly suggestively, a syrinx or panpipe;
    - see also here.

  • Definite Demons

— Primeval Lilith, Demon Queen of the Night; the thought-immortal queen of chthonic or earthborn daemons or demons;
- fused with Pyrame Silverstar, then unnamed, sometime after All of Incain ate the latter circa 725 PD;
- see also here.
Daemonicus, Dusted Daemonicus; reputedly indestructible, pre-Sedon king of chthonic or earthborn daemons or demons;
- see also here.

  • Mandroids

All the (self-proclaimed) Invincible She-Sphinx of Incain; once Ginny the Gynosphinx; Mandroid Mother Machine as well as occasional monster maker;
- more often than not huge and winged; a therefore perhaps surprisingly mobile psychopomp – meaning she can travel at will through the Weird (between-space, the dark-grey universal substance of Samsara, mundane reality), though always leaves a root of herself behind on the Prison Beach of Incain;
- used by devils, especially Unmoving Byron and the Unities of Lazareme, as both a temporary holding cell or as a long-term prison for their transgressing fellows;
- in addition to highborn devils, though not to the Moloch Sedon, whom she’s designed to eat, All tends to be responsive to Pyrame Silverstar;
- although possessed of a modicum of sentience, if not much in the way of actual intelligence, still a machine; can be turned off and on as well as reprogrammed;
- see also here.
Magnus Minus, origin unspecified, might be a demon but, just as likely, might be a mandroid; may have been a monster made by All of Incain, the Dual Entities or even Pyrame, through All, since she seems to know a lot about him – including how to revive him after howsoever many centuries of moribundity;
- self-proclaimed as well as self-named mighty Minotaurus of Minius (Absudyl, the Subterranean Realm of the Mandroids);
- regardless of whether he’s more mandroid than demon, he’s a daemonic demiurge, one who fancies himself a latter day Daemonicus in that he’s a demon king lacking subjects but completely capable of fashioning them;
- as such, he fashioned the future Herta Heartthrob during the reign of the Death’s Head Hellion upstairs in the Weirdom of Cabalarkon (Sedon’s Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head);
- see also here.

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3. Mortal Descendants of Original Extraterrestrials

  • Utopians of Weir on Earth

    - Utopians living in the Weirdom of Cabalarkon at the time of the Death’s Head Hellion are brought up to hate the Moloch Sedon and his devic progeny;
    - oddly, as if to prove their non-Earth heritage, pureblood Utopian men are always black whereas Utopian women are invariably white;
    - the be-all and end-all of Utopians stuck on the Whole Earth (either beneath the Cathonic Dome or due only in part to an absence of functional spacecraft beyond it) remains the destruction of their ancient enemies;
    - see also here.
    - Illuminaries of Weir, Utopian polymaths, supposedly learned in a wide variety of not-necessarily-related matters; the highest educated class in Cabalarkon;
    - often act as advisors to the reigning Master, who’s usually elevated from their rank; very seldom are they not pure U-bloods;
    - see also here.
    - Scientocrats of Weir, still nominally scientists but, by the time period of “The Death’s Head Hellion”, long more like functionaries charged with keeping Weir’s archaic, First and Second Weirworld machinery operating as well as it can;
    - even though they’re highly educated, most scientocrats are specialists in their chosen fields; they can’t match Illuminaries when it comes to sheer breadth of knowledge;
    - see also here.
    - Biomages of Weir, scientocrats specializing in the design and manufacture of life forms;
    - as such, they might be considered biogeneticists, the same as Cabalarkon, the Undying Utopian (Sedon’s Daddy Cabby), was when he was altogether alive and living on, or travelling off of, the first Weirworld;
    - considered mages, which implies facility with magic, because they concentrate on making life forms out of subtle matter Solidium or Stopstone, the stuff of Mandroids and suchlike earthborn or chthonic creatures as demons and faeries;
    - indeed, it’s said of them that they make demons and faeries to order;
    - at the time of “Contagion Collectors”, they work or have worked for the Master of Cabalarkon’s Weirdom under the supervision of Quoits Tethys, a very long-lived millennial child;
    - much of what they do suggests they have access to the discredited, as well as nowadays generally despised, science of Old Eden, the Ice Age civilization that preceded the so-called Golden Age of Humankind.
    - Imbeciles of Weir, also the idiots of Weir; inbred and therefore very much low functioning Utopians; almost always purebloods, hence the inbreeding;
    - see also here.
    - Trinondevs of Weir, Weir’s Warrior Elite, almost always purebloods who manage to overcome their inbreeding in order to function as soldiers;
    - their main weapons operate by willpower;
    - eyeorbs placed atop eye-staves double as prison pods in that they can suck devic and azura spirit being out of the shells they’re occupying and into them, thus incarcerating them;
    - once an eyeorb is full it ceases to function as anything except a prison pod; if it’s not replaced, the eye-stave becomes useless;
    - eye-staves, like all their other anti-devil weaponry, haven’t functioned in the Weirdom of Kanin City for over a thousand years by the time of “Contagion Collectors”;
    - see also here.
    Cabalarkon, Cabby the Daddy, the Undying Utopian; a biogeneticist when he lived and worked on, or travelled off of, the First Weirworld;
    - when he was a wholly alive Utopian Scientocrat the Dual Entities used his right eye to jumpstart the process that resulted in the Moloch Sedon, hence Cabby the Daddy;
    - currently subsists in a tub of life-preserving but animation-suspending Cathonic Fluid beneath the Citadel of the Thinkers in Cabalarkon City;
    - it, like the rest of the territory composing the Weirdom of Cabalarkon (Sedon’s Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head), is named after him;
    - see also here.
    Melina nee Tethys Somata, the High Illuminary of the Weirdom of Kanin City throughout most of “Contagion Collectors”;
    - her parents were distantly related to the same Jordan Q Tethys who fathered or mothered the eventual Quoits Tethys (or one of Quoits’ parents); both claimed they could trace their ancestry back to George Masterson and Ute Tethys, both of whom featured in Feel Theo;
    - at least one of their parents or grandparents was the Tethys who fled the Weirdom of Cabalarkon some centuries earlier and eventually settled in the rededicated Weirdom of Kanin City;
    - probably not a deviant, Melina’s skin is so white that many consider her a throwback to pure U-bloods such as the Sarpedon underclass and the Imbeciles of Weir;
    - be that as it may, she’s still a hybrid Utopian, one possessed by Harmony, the Unity of Balance as well as Panharmonium, when she and Zalman conceived the Terrible Twins, Janna and Sraddha Somata.

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4. Norman & Norma Notables

  • Inner Earthlings

— John Barleycorn, a bartender at the DDD (the Dinq, Doinq, Danq Cavern Tavern) in the foothills at the far, north-western corner of the Diluvia Mountain Range, where it hasn't stopped raining since the Genesea or Great Flood of Genesis;
- there's lynx aplenty re the inspiration for this character here.

  • Outer Earthlings

Dire, a self-named, sickly, hence valuable, child brought through the Dome by Herta Heartthrob and her latest putto (the cherubic demon that swallowed a devil, thus rendering him, as the putto puts it, an ‘internal infernal’);
- see also here.
Drang the Dog, Dire’s dog, a hound that Herta and her putto brings beneath the Dome to keep the child company;
- see also here.
Twisted Tommy, a Black Friar Dominican (sometimes thought of as ‘Domini canes’ or ‘Hound of the Lord’, albeit in Latin, for the order’s lead role in spearheading the terrifying Spanish Inquisition of the day), brought through the Dome by Tomcat Tattletail in his role as a contagion collector;
- see also here.
Bosco, at the time a still-struggling painter ostensibly of religious warnings in the Burgundian-cum-Hapsburg Netherlands, brought through the Cathonic Zone (Dome) by Herta Heartthrob from his hometown of 's-Hertogenbosch, which he refers to as Den Bosch;
- see also here.

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Tomcat Tattletail

A satyr reminiscent of Tomcat Tattletail, shot in Met Museum NYC by Jim McPherson, 2009

I shot this satyr in NYC's Met Museum in 2009

Tomcat Tattletail is the faerie-type Harmony is so enthralled with in Hellion. There's more on him here, here, here, here and here.

Even though I've collected a few other likenesses of Tomcat, which currently sit in my archives awaiting a mini-essay on him, I decided use this one because of the anguished facial expression.

As for why he goes by the Q-name of Squirrelly in Hellion, hey, just look at him.

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The Death's Head Hellion

Front and back cover for The Death's Head Hellion, artwork prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

The front and back cover for the original digest version of "The Death's Head Hellion"; its back cover text is here whereas the current cover is here and its blurb is here.

There's an enlargement of the Cosme Tura picture here; there's another here, along some more details as to why I decided it represents Master Morgan Abyss.

As for why I refer to her as the Weirdom of Cabalarkon's demonically-empowered Master, well, guess whom she somehow got hold of after she got rid of the devil possessing her.

Or, if you're not one for guesswork, you could just click here, here and/or here.

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NYC's Faux Bosch

An unidentified painting spotted in the Met Museum in NYC done in the style of Hieronymous Bosch, photo by Jim McPherson, 2009

Many painters tried to emulate Bosch's style in the 16th and 17th centuries. I took this picture of one such painting (unaccredited as near as I could discover) in New York City's Metropolitan Museum in 2009.

I use part of it to represent Magnus Minus, the mighty Minotaurus of Minius (Absudyl), which lies directly beneath the Weirdom of Cabalarkon (Sedon's Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Headworld).

inverted map of Sedon's Head, prepared by Jim McPherson and Tim Hammell in 1978

Double-click on the map to enlarge it to its 1978-standard black on white format.

A clickable version of it is on the Peculiar Places page whereas the more than just moderately amazing story of what I spotted in Cairo's Egyptian Museum is retold here and here.

There's more on Magnus Minus, who appears as a daemonic demiurge in Hellion, here, here and here.

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Daemonic Royalty (Daemonicus & Primeval Lilith)

Lilith and Daemonicus, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

The figure representing Primeval Lilith, the Demon Queen of the Night, is by Henry Fuseli (1741-1825).

He called her Great Night so how could I not choose her to stand in for one of phantacea's most misunderstood stand-outs?

Below Lunatic Lily (who's still a mass murderer no matter how justifiable her actions could be considered), the Smiling Fiend, or someone similar, seems to be in one of his two-eyed Daemonicus moments.

I took it from a postcard I bought in Germany back in 2008 whereas the background is from a postcard I bought in Sintra, Portugal, on that same 6-week European vacation.

As for whether Demon Queen Lilith or Demon King Daemonicus-Smiler even appear in either mini-novel, well, let's just say not explicitly and leave it at that.

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The Rat-Catcher of Hamelin

The Pied Piper of Hamelin, as scanned in from Fortean Times, 2010

Yes, I cannot spot the signature of Jordan "Q for Quill" Tethys in this shot either.

Yes also, in the Legendarian's defence, it is a copy of the a stained glass window he purports to have done early in the Outer Earth's 14th Century.

And, no, none of the rats are tee-tees. They're children. The koppen or calvary-like hillock is shaped like a tholos. though.

As for the cave's entrance, well, at a stretch it might pass for a skull-shape or golgotha. Myself, though, I don't stretch that far.

The copy reproduced here dates to 1592. It's by Augustin von Moersperg. The actual window was destroyed in 1660.

(This information is from FT 264, of which more here.)

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The Anonymous Fiend

Budapest's Anonymous, shot by Jim McPherson in 2010

The Smiling Fiend is obviously not smiling in this shot of Budapest's famous Anonymous.

That said, given what Smiler's main attribute appears to be throughout the phantacea Mythos — namely that no one can remember him unless he's standing right in front of him or her and mindfully wants them to remember him — Anon has to be him.

It's almost impossible to hit a webpage on either of the two main phantacea websites that doesn't reference Smiler.

One taken from Hellion is here. A bunch of others link from here, here and here.

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Contagion Collectors

Front and back cover for Contagion Collector, artwork prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010

The front and back cover for the original digest version of"Contagion Collectors"; its back cover text is here whereas the current cover is here and its blurb is here.

Bosch's 'Ascent of the Empyrean' provides the background on the front and back covers; lynx to it and his Garden of Earthly Delights are below

Cameo of a Venice Plague Doctor, shot by Jim McPherson, 2008

The original blurb re the Contagion Doctor is here

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Hoodoo Housing

Hoodoo housing spotting in Cappadocia, photo by Jim McPherson, 2003

I shot the cliff-dwellings or, as they're called there, hoodoo housing in Cappadocia when I passed through it again in 2003.

Although they're not usually found on the coast of rainforests, something about the air beneath the Sedon Sphere allows for exceptional, um, exclusions from normality.

The double-click opens a new window with a larger version of the one I used on the Contagion cover. This one is more mound-like, which fits with who built the Hoodoo Hamlet visited in the mini-novel.

There are three brief travelogues re my trips to Turkey linked from here; the spookiest one, appropriately entitled 'The Phantom Train and other not quite Turkish delights', is here.

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Fauns Frolic Feverishly

Collage of fauns frolicking, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

Sooth said, they do a lot more than frolic feverishly – and I'm not just referring to how fabulously they play the Syrian or panpipes.

For one thing, if this collage can be trusted (which it can't), they also seem to float contentedly once they're done whatever they were doing ever so feverishly.

It all has to do with the pheromones they secrete, you see. As for why this collage can't be trusted, as both Harmony and her triplet brother, Lord Order, discover in Hellion, demons do fauns just as well as they do anything else – which is to say, well enough for the moment.

Simultaneously, or at least almost in the same moment, Uncle Abe and Bedazzling Belialma discover denim-demons can do double-duty as panting pants.

All in all, they'd thereafter all agree, if they got the chance, it's a very hardening experience all around.

Except, that is, for phantacea's most famous fauna, Pusan Wanderlust.

For her, the experience isn't so much electrifying as it is electrocuting.

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There's only ever one winner of a Sedonplay

Collage  referring to the fact that only the Moloch Sedon ever wins a Sedonplay, graphic prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

Dark Sedon is a notorious gamesman. But is he actually playing a game in "The Death's Head Hellion" or has he been trapped in dozens of ancient eyeorbs forged in the First Weirworld — ones that will actually keep him torn apart and imprisoned indefinitely?

I could answer that but I'd rather you read Hellion yourself.

There's more on this graphic here.

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The Great God Lazareme as Thrygragos Everyman

3 Images suggestive of Thrygragos Lazareme, collage prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

Thrygragos Lazareme was in some respects proof of the theorem that in every individual there resides the spark of godhood.

Put another way, if God, as he’d heard, was made in the image and likeness of whomever or whatever, he had an innate as well as, to quote him at his acerbic best, God-given aptitude for unthinkingly making sure he looked the part.

There's more on this graphic here.

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Helios order Machine Memory to nuke Weir Star

Artwork by Ian Fry, late 1980s, colour and text by Jim McPherson, 2007

The Trigregos Sisters appeared in pH-2, pH-4 and the graphic novel, "Forever & 40 Days – The Genesis of phantacea".

They have yet to appear to appear in any of the mosaic novels but their terrible talismans certainly do, otherwise I'd have to come up with a different title for 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories'.

As for the Dual Entities, well, it may yet prove they appear whenever Thrygragos Lazareme or his indescribable daughter Harmony, the Unity of both Balance and Panharmonium.

There's more on this graphic here.

Hell to Earth artwork by Ian Fry, late 1980s; colour and script by Jim McPherson, 2007

There's more on the Sedonshem landing, and who it landed on top of in 666 PD (Pre-Dome), here.

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The Luscious Lady Lust

Apple Goddess Collage most specific to Bouncing Belle, graphic prepared by Jim McPherson, 2008

Hell's Belle lives her attribute. In Feel Theo, she seems primarily interested in Cruel Plathon, the Bull of Mithras.

In Hellion, she bounces from Uncle Abe Chaos (Unholy Abaddon) to his father, Thrygragos Lazareme, to his hated brother, Lord Order.

In Contagion, well, she only has a short but telling conversation with Harmony before she heads back to Chaos for some extracurricular star-gazing.

As for "Janna Fangfingers", the third part of 1000-Daze, remind to add to this entry when it comes out.

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Herta Heartthrob

Datong Harmonia, collage by Jim McPherson ,2009

Dire, age 4, is a Norman Notable. In phantacea pHact he's actually Albrecht Durer, whom you may have heard of before. Dire and the hound Drang (whose name I admittedly also made up) appear a few times during Contagion.

It's my contention that Durer, like Bosch and the notorious Spanish inquisitor, Torquemada, were recruited by Contagion Collectors organized by Quoits Tethys (whose main agents were Tomcat Tattletail and Herta Heartthrob) and thereafter actually spent some time on the Hidden Headworld.

Strikes me as obvious, especially when it comes to Bosch and Durer.

I mean, where else would they have come up with such fantastical imagery firsthand, especially at the tail end of the Outer Earth's plague-ridden 15th Century?

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Lathakra's Death God of Heat and Fire

Minerva as Methandra, photo taken in Frankfurt by Jim McPherson, 2008

Standard wisdom has it that bygone Illuminaries of Weir (on Earth) came up with Methandra's name by combining letters making up Mediterranean Athena (Minerva in Roman Mythology).

I'm pretty sure it actually derived from the name of Crete's Mother Goddess, who lived on Strongyne (modern day Santorini) until the infamous day Novadev got drunk and blew its heart into the sky.

But, hey, who am I to argue with standard wisdom. I'll leave that to Wisdom of Lazareme, who's quoted here (right next to where I cribbed this image.)

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Lathakra's Death God of Cold and Ice

Collage suggestive of King Cold, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2011

The Death God's of Lathakra (Cold and Heat) are Mithradite firstborn. Their triplet brother is Phantast Thanatos, the Death God of Dream.

Phantast doesn't appear in 'The Thrice-Cursed Godly Glories' Trilogy. He isn't mentioned very often either. And when he is it's usually in the same sentence as Strife and the Crimson Conspiracy of circa 4000 YD.

Tantal and Methandra do, however, especially, as per here, in Hellion. As does their azura daughter Klannit (the Mirror Mentalist).

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Mithras's Golden Avenger

Collage on Faceless Strife prepared by Jim McPherson, 2007,  integral images taken from Web

Just because Faceless Strife, Mithras's so-called Ewe for Aries and the devic half-mother of Taurus Chrysaor Attis, doesn't appear in Hellion, that doesn't mean devils realize it.

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Daddy Cabby's Champion

Tura's Allegory of Spring reminds me of Morgan Abyss, the Master of Weir circa 4825 YD

At least that's one way of thinking about Morgan Abyss, the Master of the Weirdom of the Cabalarkon (Sedon's Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Continent) in 4824/5.

It may or may not be the way she thinks about herself. It certainly isn't the way devils think about her, especially after the events of the Infernal Equinox.

Until then they probably didn't think about her very much at all. If they did, which Harmony did prior to Mithramas 4824, they likely reckoned her Pyrame's shell.

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Deviancies and phantacea

Some of the Deviants appearing in 1000 Daze, Jim McPherson 2011

Some of 1000-Daze's Deviants include, as noted in this graphic, Q-Troupe's Squirrelly, Master Morgan Abyss, Pusan Wanderlust, Tomcat Tattletail and the ever-present Jordan 'Quill' Tethys.

Images incorporated in this collage come from a variety of places, Durer included. The quill's actually taken from a wall painting I spotted and shot in Vancouver some years back now.

As per here, I also used it on the cover for "Janna Fangfingers", the third mini-novel extracted from 1000-Daze.

 

Nergal Vetala as Fecundity

An ancient goddess with a moon-sickle, photographed in a one-time Roman bathouse, circa Nero's time, in  2008

She waxes and wanes with the moon, on a monthly basis, but as the Nergalids' Grower, she's also related to fertility goddesses such as the Roman Ceres (hence our word 'cereal').

The thing about Ceres and her ilk is they're mostly perceived as beneficent. Vetala is too, at least initially and especially by the Iraches of Sedon's Mutton Chop (on a map of the Hidden Continent).

Of course, they like nothing better than having their ancestors over for tea and buttered scones.

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Vetala's also a (very nasty) Moon Goddess

Vetala as Moon Goddess Fecundity, image of a Judith figure shot in Florence, Italy, by Jim McPherson 2008

The reference is mainly to what she, when in seductress mode, does to Pyrame Silverstar in Feel Theo.

She's much better behaved in Hellion and Contagion, though she does suggest to Order that he cathonitizes himself, which isn't a very nice thing to say to a Master Deva.

(As per here, it's way worse than telling a devil to go f**k himself, which of course is what Geld Neargon does whenever he-she desires azuras.)

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Magnus Minus, the Mighty Minotaurus of Minius

Shot of a demon, behind glass, taken by Jim McPherson in Lima, Peru, in 1998 and modified on PHOTOSHOP in 2007

Minius is Absudyl, the Subterranean Land of the Mandroids, beneath Sedon's Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Continent of Sedon's Head.

As for who made Minus in the first place, the double-click suggests Pyrame Silverstar.

One mustn't forget who she was occupying, unless it was the other way around (as would seem the case in Hellion), throughout most of the Head's history, however.

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Utopians of Weir

The caption reads: Mythos Utopian Eyeorbs Manifesting Gargoyle; images of Cacuceus and Gargoyles were taken from the Internet and  put together by Jim McPherson, using PHOTOSHOP, in 2004

There were (as opposed to 'are') two Weirworlds. The second one is where the Trigregos Sisters were last seen in the comic books and graphic novel.

There are also a variety of different kinds of Utopians in phantacea. Hybrid Utopians, who are no longer purebloods, are mostly found outside the Weirdom of Cabalarkon (Sedon's Devic Eye-Land on a map of the Hidden Headworld).

As such they dominate proceedings in Contagion. Pure U-Bloods are the focus in Hellion, however.

That said, Morgan Abyss, the Master of Cabalarkon throughout the mini-novel, isn't even a hybrid. That doesn't mean she doesn't hate Sedon, though.

Far from it!

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Ring-Gotten Devils

Ringot with Metowl, by Bosch

Virtually ever since I began phantacea on the Web in (gasp!) 1996, I've run a feature entitled Serendipity. It chronicles all sorts of serendipitous discoveries that make me wonder how much I've actually made up and how much of phantacea is real.

Consider now ringots. Those familiar with the comic books (Aristotle 'Ringleader 2' Zeross) and/or the Web Serials (Angelo 'Ringleader 1' Zeross) will have recognized them straightaway.

Centuries before either Zeross, father or son, came along, they figure rather irreplaceably in both Hellion and Contagion.

Intriguingly, nay serendipitously, guess what Bosco, age 26, must have spotted in the not precisely aforementioned Garden of Earthy Delights besides the Juggler (double-click for a cut-out)?

Yep, a ringot — and not just any ringot either but one containing Metisophia, the Legendarian's devic half-mother. How do I know this?

Well, in "Janna Fangfingers", the concluding third of 1000-Daze, guess who returns? As for why she's called Metowl by then, um, well (again), it gets complicated.

Aka Titanic Metis, she doesn't feature in Hellion because she's been ring-gotten. (Her purloined cauldron does, however.)

And the Juggler's on the cover of Contagion at least in part because his belly shows Metis ring-gotten. Only, I just realized that about a year after I prepared the cover.

Talk about serendipity delayed.

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Covers for 2 1000-Daze mini-novels, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2010covers for Contagion Collectors and Death's Head HellionThere are plenty of websites that display artwork by Hieronymous Bosch (Bosco, age 26, in "Contagion Collectors") and Albrecht Durer (Dire, age 4, in "Contagion Collectors"). Wikipedia, for example, has plenty by both. In order to save you a search, I've highlighted a few of them.

In terms of Bosch, I took the Juggler and the lower edge of the front cover for Contagion from a triptych entitled 'The Garden of Earthly Delights'. For reasons made clear therein, it's called the garden of earthy delights in Contagion. The mini-novel also makes clear that Bosch didn't make it up — at least he didn't within the phantacea Mythos.

'The Ascent of the Empyrean', which appears on both the front and back cover of Contagion, is one-fourth of a major work entitled 'Visions of Beyond'. The version I used is from a poster replacing the actual painting in the Doge's palace of Venice. Apparently the original was being cleaned while I was there in 2008.

As for Durer, the putto (who once ate Sinistral Envy), Drang (not yet a dachshund, thus not yet having wolfed down the murine crud containing Camorva Freeflight) and Herta Heartthrob (a technically daemonic, hence soulless, earthborn eidolon given flesh) come from Melancholia.

(Should perhaps add, as a bonus teaser, that Herta is a melancholic angel in the sense that she has wings and is lovely, except she seems plagued by sadness at her own lack of fulfillment. Above all else, she wants to wholly devour the Unity of Balance, whom even she perceives as Beauty Incarnate, instead of simply settling for gathered-up scum-cream left behind on Tholoi hearthstones that Harmony used to get to the Outer Earth in pursuit of Tomcat Tattletail long, and often, pre-book.)

Both Death and the goatish Devil came from 'The Knight'. The 'Four Horsemen' came from just that. Two version of page backgroundsTwo versions of potential cover for 1000 Daze, prepared by Jim McPherson, 2009As for why he depicted the rider with the Scales of Justice (unless it's for weighing produce in times of pestilence, drought, and/or consequential famine) as a man instead of the most incomparably gorgeous woman ever beheld by everyone, well, assuming the phantacea Mythos isn't pure fantasy, Dire was only 4 at the time of Contagion and might have been missing his mother, if not his dog.

The British Museum has piles of Durer's prints. It even puts out a small hardcover that can probably be ordered online as if just to prove it. I scanned in the ones I used for the covers on this page, as well as its background images, from art books I already had at home.

Just by the bye, as per here, Durer's Death looks a lot like old King Cold, Tantal Thanatos, did in the comic books. Which is doubly appropriate since Cold is one of the aforementioned Death Gods of Lathakra – the other being immediate sister Methandra, Hot Stuff, Mithras's Virgin (in both Feel Theo and Hellion, though no longer in the comic books) or just plain Heat (after her attribute) – and Thanatos is the name of the Ancient Greek God of Death.

Just as interesting (to me anyhow), Durer's Devil might well be someone the recurring deviant, Pusan Wanderlust, would fall for in both Hellion and Contagion. That's because, as per here, Pusan's a female faun or fauna and everyone knows what fauns are best at doing, a lot. It's also why I incorporated Durer's Devil into the Deviancies graphic.

NOTE: the last two images in this panel don't double-click. They roll over, rather effectively I feel.

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The background image for this page is taken from part of a black and white collage/cover I prepared for War-Pox's 1000-Daze bonus chapter; as also per here I did a colour version of it as well; a perhaps too busy variant is here; also on this page a light greenish version can be seen here and here; an even lighter version of it can be seen here; double-click on the images in this panel for blow-ups of the page backgrounds. Return to the image rollovers here.

Some of the shots that went into these collages can also be seen here and here; here and here provide hints as to the identities of three mainly minor players in 'Contagion Collectors' (and hence also "The 1000 Days of Disbelief"); there's an explicit spoiler here and here as to their identities; as for why Durer's 4 Horsemen remind me of Thrygragos Lazareme and his firstborn Unities, that's here; many of the images referred to in this panel reappear throughout this, the Character Companion page for 1000-Daze.

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