Chthon gd shares similarities with marvel's... chthon

Ceno · August 1, 2019, 3:30am

Maybe going too much into it, but this reminds me of a topic I brought up in the Lore Discussion thread about Ryloks. Are all Chthonians servants of Chthon (and if so, being as Chthon is a god, would they not be considered “angels” in that case?), or do some serve the raw notion of Chaos itself?

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SPOILER ALERT: Lore Discussion

And that’s all I really got. I don’t really know what to read into Ryloks, as the snippet of lore we’ve gotten in Misadventure 110 is fairly vague:

For here, in the deepest reaches of depravity dwell the masters of this hellish realm.

Known only as Ryloks, these terrifying brutes wield the powers of the void as if it were a plaything. They thrive upon darkness and flame, upon misery and death. They are the overlords of this black realm […]

Yet even among the Ryloks, a sort of hierarchy has naturally formed. Most have become crippled by vicious competitions for power, their back limbs torn off in symbolism of defeat to their greaters. They now exist only to serve those Ryloks that proved to be the victors in these brutal displays and it is the triumphant terrors that you must be certain to avoid should you find yourself traversing the Void’s Edge.

My guess is that they are also not direct creations of Ch’thon, but they seem too powerful not to be. Before I had the above theories, I was considering Ryloks to essentially be the ‘lieutenants’ of Ch’thon (as, in the Shar’zul excerpt above, Ch’thon’s legions are described as ‘infinite’, so he could have as many lieutenants as he wants). This may still be the case, though for it to be true even still, it seems likely that Ryloks would have had to have known and served Ch’thon from before the creation of the void, which presumably happened around the time of Ch’thon’s betrayal and ‘death’. Ryloks seem to have independent thought, as demonstrated by their own hierarchy.

Now a chunk of that is a bit inaccurate/invalid nowadays, what with very definitive and concrete definitions of “the void” being a plane of the Dead God’s “physical” form, but Ryloks seem to be described as having their own agendas/aspirations, if operating in parallel with Ch’thon.