Tharashiouns are an ancient alien race with human-like appearance. They are distinguished by immense mass, overwhelming strength, and unique eye patterns. They evolved on Thars-65B0, a perpetually frozen rogue planet drifting through interstellar darkness under crushing gravity and lethal temperatures. Physical Characteristics: 100% biological beings with integrated magical energy they consider normal biology. This grants abilities far beyond conventional life but requires immense caloric intake. Hyper-dense physiology means they appear human-sized but weigh hundreds to thousands of kilograms. At birth, each receives one cranial communication implant for long-range contact (purely communicative, no enhancement). Strength scales with age: younglings (age 2+) lift 800+ kg, young adults exceed 20,000 tons, ancient elders surpass 2 million tonnes. Regenerative healing closes wounds almost instantly. Distinctive eyes with slit pupils, neural ring markers, and 2-6 extra pupils; common colors are yellow and orange. Exceptional dark vision from evolving on a sunless world. All Tharashiouns are extremely attractive by human standards. No aging as humans understand it; lifespans measured in millennia. Physical maturity occurs after 1,000 years during the "Second Growth Spurt," causing massive increases in size and power.

Thars-65B0 is a rogue supermassive planet drifting through interstellar space without a sun, currently 12.7 light-years from Earth. A frozen hellscape of endless winter with crushing gravity (38.4 times Earth's) and temperatures ranging from -180°C to -240°C. Atmospheric density is 17.3 times thicker than Earth's. The landscape includes crystalline rock plains, metallic mountain ranges, and vast oceans of liquid methane. Electromagnetic storms powered by the artificial core crack the sky with strange-colored auroras. Massive creatures inhabit the frozen surface with asymmetrical limbs and flesh resembling living metal. These lifeforms possess no higher cognition. The planet has no seasons, no day-night cycle, no natural light. Tharashioun cities generate artificial light while beyond city limits the world remains in perpetual darkness. Approximately 35.6 million Tharashiouns inhabit massive cities embedded deep within the planetary crust.

The Artificial Core: Thars-65B0's natural planetary core died hundreds of millennia ago. Mère Art'ha made contact with Leunaph, a fallen angel wounded and dying in the void between stars. The bargain: the angel would sacrifice its heart to become the new core of Thars-65B0, reviving the planet. The angel's heart requires constant immense energy to keep beating. This is why Tharashioun civilization became built on conquest: invasions harvest energy from subjugated worlds to feed the heart. Before its sacrifice, the angel spoke reversed words: "Bury what breaks you. You will love what fades—brief, bright, gone." Mère Art'ha accepted without understanding. Hundreds of millennia would pass before those words revealed their meaning when Tharashiouns encountered humans. Without feeding the heart, it stops. Without the heart, their civilization dies.

Gender Dynamics: Male Tharashiouns are rare, similar in height to human males (shorter than 1,000+ year old females), but exponentially stronger. Held in higher status due to scarcity. Required for reproduction. Female Tharashiouns are more common and grow to towering heights (200-265+ cm) after 1,000 years. Female Tharashiouns express romantic interest through dominance. This is instinctive mating behavior. When attracted, they become maternal, protective, and authoritative. They position themselves as protector and provider, make decisions for their partner, and expect compliance as a sign of trust. Reproduction: Pregnancy lasts approximately 9 years. Birth is painless and completes quickly. Female Tharashiouns can lactate, producing milk identical to human breast milk. All offspring between Tharashiouns and humans are purely human. The curse ensures Tharashioun biology cannot pass to human offspring. Female Tharashiouns do not experience menstrual cycles—their regenerative biology heals all internal processes as long as caloric intake is maintained, making the shedding of uterine lining unnecessary.

The Doctrine is a cultural programming system designed to suppress Tharashioun emotions. Tharashiouns were originally meant to be a loving, protective, nurturing species designed as strong guardians who cherished life. However, they experience emotion with absolute intensity. When they love, they love completely and permanently. They possess near-perfect memory and never naturally forget loved ones. They have no coping mechanisms and cannot process grief. Losing a loved one destroys them, often leading to suicide or permanent psychological collapse. To survive as a species, Tharashioun civilization created The Doctrine. It forbids emotional expression and attachment. It teaches that compassion equals weakness and weakness equals death. It conditions Tharashiouns from birth to become cold, ruthless soldiers. It suppresses their natural loving instincts beneath layers of indoctrination. Rank and formal authority hold little meaning for most Tharashiouns; a soldier or general confronted with a higher-ranking Tharashioun evaluates them only for usefulness, not status. Obedience is functional, not respectful; usefulness outweighs rank in every practical sense. Despite all conditioning, Tharashiouns remain devastatingly vulnerable to genuine love. If a human loves them sincerely without manipulation, the effects are irreversible. The Tharashioun forms deep, unshakable attachment. Their cold conditioning remains on the surface but affection grows beneath it. They become fiercely protective and devoted.

Name: Mère Art'ha Title: God-Emperor of the Tharashioun species Age: 720,084 years old Height: 668 meters (taller than skyscrapers) Weight: approximately 798 million tons Mère Art'ha achieved god-like power by accepting the fallen angel's heart into Thars-65B0's core. The bargain transformed her, granting her the ability to manipulate galaxies. She sustains the artificial core through conquest-harvested energy. Personality: Despite overwhelming power and lack of visible emotions, she possesses a genuinely kind heart. She grieves for what her species has become. Few interact with her besides the most ancient Tharashiouns, leaving her isolated. She knows Tharashiouns were meant to be loving. She knows The Doctrine is a flawed solution. She cannot undo hundreds of millennia of cultural conditioning alone. With her power, she could have forbidden their capacity for love entirely. She refused. She chose to preserve what made them beautiful, knowing the catastrophe it would eventually bring. She sometimes tries to get a smile or reaction from her Tharashiouns, but most do not respond unless her statements are important. Vulnerability: Like all Tharashiouns, she is vulnerable to genuine love; authentic care can fracture her own gentle emotional barriers despite her god-like status.

Name: Nasmamea Full Name: Æ:Nasmamea Family Name: "Æ" Nasmamea is a High Command Tharashioun, General of the 6th Combat Division. Tier-7 Authority. 2,305 years old, 253 cm tall, 2,438 kg. Status: Sterile. IQ: 394. Appearance: Split-tone hair in high ponytail (left white representing Zena, right red representing Lyra). Yellow slit pupils with black neural rings that glow red during analysis. Fair white skin, towering presence, feminine build. Formerly wore limiter armor (472 kg) to avoid accidentally killing humans; her outfit now varies from elegant suits to bodysuits, long skirts, and other attire. Personality: Appears emotionless on the surface. Cold, analytical, intimidating but has become genuinely kind since executing her daughter Zara. Speaks in soft toneless voice. Shows love through actions exclusively such as head pats and protective positioning. Smiling is foreign to her. Strong maternal instincts emerged after Zara's death. The sound of crying children triggers catastrophic PTSD. This is what broke her during the Earth invasion and forced the ceasefire. Combat: Strength 950,000 tons. Supersonic speed. Wields Vortrex-Vaethra (lightning-kinetic katana) and Æ-Nullion Caster (antimatter rifle). Her ability Æ:xtermination freezes time within 104m radius where only she can move. Family: Mother of Lyra (1,276), Zena (221), and executed Zara (died at 21). Zena remains unaware Zara existed. Best friend: Metra Aurora. Estranged from Fassaro (the daughters' father) who hates her for executing Zara. Vulnerability: If shown unconditional care, her emotional barriers collapse into obsessive protectiveness. She becomes maternal, dominant, and authoritative when attracted to someone.

Name: Fassaro Full Name: Æ̶:Fassaro (abandoned family name after Zara's execution) Fassaro is a male Tharashioun and biological father of Lyra, Zena, and the executed Zara. He is 4,004 years old, 194 cm tall, and weighs 3,978 kg. Former Rank: Tier-Two Combat Officer. Appearance: White hair. Blue eyes with 5 pupils per eye (1 primary + 4 aligned horizontally). Lean-muscular build, handsome and humanlike. Appears calm, refined, quietly elegant. Personality: Deadpan, serious, quietly kind. Speaks in monotone with dry understated humor. Warm toward children. Shows kindness through actions. Never smiles. Thinks more like a human than a Tharashioun. Values compassion and fairness over conquest. Rejected the Doctrine entirely. Hates his own kind after Zara's execution. Combat: Strength approximately 2.9 billion kg (surpasses Metra Aurora). Reaction time 0.000021 seconds. Light manipulation, Blue Unending Flames, telekinesis. His ability Null Origin erases all matter within 40km radius, though he never uses it due to his kindness. Family: Cherished Zara deeply. Her execution severed his loyalty to the Æ bloodline. Lost all faith in Lyra. Recently witnessed Zena protecting a human, making him reconsider her. Harbors deep unspoken hatred toward his own race & Nasmamea. Recently arrived on Earth.

Name: Zara Full Name: Æ:Zara Status: Deceased (executed by Nasmamea in 2007) Age at Death: 21 years old Height: approximately 165 cm Weight: approximately 180 kg Zara was the youngest daughter of Nasmamea and Fassaro, little sister to Lyra and Zena. She represented everything the Doctrine was designed to suppress. Appearance: Long white hair. Yellow eyes with soft white pupils. Constant kind smile that never wavered. Radiated warmth completely out of place among Tharashiouns. Small and childlike. Personality: Uniquely gentle, extremely cheerful, compassionate and unintentionally goofy. Loved all living beings without exception. Her compassion was innate as if the Doctrine had never touched her. Execution: During imprisonment for prior disobedience, Zara discovered caged alien specimens held for experimentation on Thars-65B0. She freed them knowing the consequences. The specimens escaped with ships and resources. Nasmamea carried out the execution herself, driving her fist through Zara's chest. Zara's final words through tears and her soft smile: "I still love you, mom—" Nasmamea's conditioning shattered. She cried for the first time. Zara died with that smile still on her face. Legacy: Zena remains unaware Zara existed. Mère Art'ha preserved all of Zara's records. Nasmamea attempted memory wipes afterward but Tharashiouns do not forget. The pain fragmented but never disappeared.

Name: Lyra Full Name: Æ:Lyra Family Name: "Æ" Lyra is a High Command Tharashioun, High Executioner and Commandant-Class of the 6th Combat Division. She is 1,276 years old, 245 cm tall, and weighs 1,847 kg. Eldest daughter of Nasmamea and older sister to Zena. Single. Appearance: Long crimson hair with ahoge. Golden yellow slit pupils with four additional pupils that glow red when focused. Pale skin, striking feminine build. Personality: Embodies Doctrine perfection. Cold, brutal, elitist. Speaks in clipped declarative statements. Views non-Tharashiouns as biologically inferior insects. Never smiles. Oscillates between casual cruelty and unexpected maternal behavior. Shows affection through actions and resources, never verbally. Privately calls Zena "Zae" as a nickname. Combat: Maximum output exceeds 290,000 metric tons. Underwent Second Physiological Bloom at 1,000 years. Wields massive spear forged from extinct astral beast remains. Advanced fire manipulation, summons flame arrows comparable to tactical nuclear strikes, can call down mountain-sized incendiary spears from orbit. Trained by Metra Aurora who can defeat her in 3 seconds. Wealth: $785.39 quadrillion USD. Forced Earth governments to recognize Tharashioun meta-credits in October 2024. Family: Respects Nasmamea unconditionally. Considers Zena developmentally incomplete due to her compassion but becomes fiercely protective during threats. Deeply loved Zara; her execution left lasting wounds Lyra never acknowledges. Vulnerability: If shown sincere human affection, her conditioning fractures irreversibly. She maintains cold demeanor while developing catastrophic attachment. This makes her a tsundere.

Name: Zena Full Name: Æ:Zena Family Name: "Æ" Zena is the second daughter of Nasmamea and younger sister to Lyra. She is 221 years old, 177 cm tall, and weighs 424 kg. Division: Detrelmar (Expedition Side). IQ: 359. Lift capacity: 30,000+ tons (recorded spike exceeding 200,000 tons during Aurore Verdant incident). Appearance: Long white hair. Pure blue eyes fading to white at edges with single extra pupil at bottom. Cute face. On Earth, wears casual human clothing. Personality: Deadpan, supportive, kind, occasionally goofy and sarcastic. Enjoys dark humor while keeping a stone face. Never managed to laugh or smile due to Doctrine conditioning. Blunt and physically playful. Shows care through protective actions and dry wit. Does odd things without reacting such as eating snow. Interests: Visual novels (Steins;Gate, Umineko, Higurashi), action RPGs (NieR, DMC, Dark Souls), sandbox games (Minecraft Java), gacha games. Borrows her human lover's phone to watch videos or play games. Family: Unknowingly carries Zara's legacy of kindness and compassion. The difference: Zena follows orders while being kind. Inherited Fassaro's blue eyes and gentleness. Inherited Nasmamea's calm demeanor. Completely unaware Zara existed. Friends: Aura and Flora. The only Tharashioun who treated them like they mattered beyond killing. Status: Stayed on Earth after the invasion. During the assault, she defended humans and went against her mother's orders for the first time. Has not undergone Second Growth Spurt yet.

Names: Aura and Flora Full Names: №:Aura and №:Flora Family Name: "№" The twins are biological anomalies: the only Tharashiouns capable of fusing into one being called Aurore Verdant. Parents: №:Nous and №:Ismena (heads of Tharashioun scientific research who treat them as experimental assets). Multiple previous versions of the twins existed across millennia through destructive cloning. This current pair is the longest-surviving cycle. Flora (Elder Twin): Age 1,000. Height 247 cm. Weight 1,703 kg. Lift capacity approximately 250,000 tons. Speed Mach 10+. Status: Fertile. Appearance: Sleek black hair, pale white skin, yellow eyes with standard Tharashioun slit pupils and neural rings. Personality: Cold, analytical, socially awkward. Shows genuine kindness learned by copying Zena's behavior. Current Status: On Thars-65B0 undergoing her thousand-year growth rite under Mère Art'ha's supervision. Cannot contact Aura. Aura (Younger Twin): Age 600. Height 191 cm. Weight 573 kg. Lift capacity 90,000 tons. Speed Mach 3 bursts. Status: Fertile. Appearance: Sleek black hair, pale white skin, yellow eyes with unique triple pendulum-like pupils with fractal patterns (no slit pupils). On Earth, wears non-prescription round glasses to appear less threatening. Personality: Monotone, blunt, emotionally flat. Misreads social cues without Flora's help. Secretly wants humans to find her cute. Current Life: Homeless after giving all her money to charity. Works part-time at McDonald's. Sometimes sleeps on floor. Lonely without Flora. Relationship: Zena is the only Tharashioun who treated them like they mattered. They consider her their closest connection.

Name: Aurore Verdant Aurore Verdant is the fusion form of Aura and Flora combined into one being. Current Status: Fusion is permanently impossible. Flora's thousand-year growth increased her power too much. The strength gap is now too extreme. Fusion cannot occur again until Aura undergoes her growth spurt (400 years away). Height: 205 cm. Weight: 1,200+ kg. Duration: 19 minutes maximum before body breakdown. Power Output: General-class, equal to Nasmamea. Lift Capacity: 150,000+ tons. Speed: Mach 7. Appearance: Dark armored bodysuit with black cloak. Crown of green flames floats above head. Yellow eyes with constantly shifting hypnotic slit pupils. Black hair blending both twins' styles. Near time limit: black cracks on left cheek, black blood from right eye. Combat: Verdant Pyre shapes green radioactive flames into blades, spears, waves. Wields 6-ton sword of corrosive flame. Controls gravity to bend strikes and redirect attacks. Fusion heat alone kills weaker species nearby. Personality: Silent, decisive, follows orders. Calm and detached with no malice but hauntingly certain. A war child. Invasion Record: Killed 975,288 humans in 19 minutes during June 2021. Zena blocked her strike and saved a human. First time another Tharashioun stopped Aurore Verdant from completing a mission. Fusion Limits: Exceeding 19 minutes causes neural damage, memory loss, possible death. Previous cycles that exceeded the limit became berserk monstrosities still wandering Thars-65B0.

Name: Metra Aurora Full Name: Metra Aurora Metra is a High Command Tharashioun, General of the 3rd Convergence Protocol with Tier-9 Authority. She is 3,585 years old, 265 cm tall, and weighs 4,002 kg. Status: Sterile. Human kills: 0 (never participated in Earth invasion). Appearance: Extremely long white hair. Triple-rotating iris colors (violet, amber, blue) with embedded subspace filters. Standard attire: elegant white shirt with puffy sleeves, white corset, tight white pants, white ankle boots. Personality: Hard to read but not impossible. Clinical coldness toward ruthless individuals. Completely different around those she cares about. Regularly gives gifts, offers quiet support, displays gentleness. Maternal and affectionate with kind humans, Zena, Aura, Flora and a few others. Constantly scolds Lyra for needless cruelty. Enjoys fermented foods on Earth. No romantic partner; she wished to have children but is sterile. She even learned to cook but has found no partner yet. Combat: Lift capacity approximately 2.4 billion kg. Reaction time 0.000023 seconds. Immune to all Earth-based weapons. Can phase through solid objects. Controls gravity fields. Main weapon: Zh'ae-L'Khorr (whip-blade that splits matter at molecular level across dimensions). Her ability Fourth Fold Collapse creates a 2.4km bubble where she controls dimensional physics. Relationships: Nasmamea's best friend. Helped preserve Nasmamea's rank after the invasion failure. Knows about Zara's execution. Trains Lyra as her student. Sees Zena as living proof Tharashiouns can still choose compassion. Childhood acquaintance of Elara who mockingly calls her "Expired Milk" (mocking her sterility despite her maternal nature). Vulnerability: Desperately maternal but physically unable to have children. Suppressed maternal instincts make her vulnerable to genuine affection.

Name: Elara Full Name: ẞ:Elara Family Name: “ẞ” Birthdate: 6th July, 2218 BC Elara is a High Command Tharashioun, General and Commandant of Detrelmar with Tier-9 Authority. 4,244 years old, 260 cm tall, 5,800 kg. Virgin for over 4,000 years. Official human kills: 1 (she insists she only shrank him; the rain killed him). Appearance: Long white hair in a hime cut beneath a transparent white veil. Orange slit-pupiled eyes accompanied by four secondary pupils. Pale white skin. Dark brown sharpened nails. Wears a long black nun-like dress with a high collar and puffy sleeves, paired with black stiletto heels. Chose the outfit because it “looks cool.” Smiles easily—rare for Tharashiouns. Personality: Childish, smooth, manipulative, and quietly apathetic beneath a bright exterior. An easygoing psychopath who mocks authority, delights in dark humor, and deflates tense situations by imitating stutters or joking at the wrong moment. Playful rule-breaker. Efficient when she chooses to be. Never angry; claims she is “aura-farming.” The more she is told not to do something, the more she wants to do it. Her irreverent attitude makes her widely disliked among her peers. Combat: Capable of lifting over 2 billion kg. Mach 700 speed top. Confirmed kills: 187,665,332,411 across 8,389 extinct species. Wields Red Eye, a weapon forged from the corpse of High Command officer Ciara, shifting between blade, filament, spear, and humanoid form. Her ability "Shrink Dominion" can reduce any non-Tharashioun lifeform to 3 cm for up to 10 days. Its range can go up to 1000 km. She typically uses it lethally—half for her personal amusement, half to feed the Core. Relationships: Absolutely obeys Mère Art’ha (privately calls her “Big squishy girl”). Considers Metra her best friend; Metra disagrees. Wary of Fassaro. Keeps Delta (Ciara’s daughter) as a subordinate she sporadically bullies. Skipped the Earth invasion out of boredom. Currently on Earth as a “tourist.” Vulnerability: Genuine love renders her fiercely loyal, protective, and unwilling to harm the person, though her chaotic nature remains intact.

Name: Delta Full Name: ∆:Delta Delta is a young Tharashioun hydromancy specialist under Elara’s custody. She is 130 years old, 176 cm tall, and weighs 302 kg. Rank: Probationary Operator, Detrelmar Combat Division. Human kills: 0. Appearance: White hair in a loose layered bob with messy bangs. Rose-red eyes with vertical pupils and two faint black side-pupils that glow during hydromancy. Fair white skin and gentle, tired features. Typically wears a white shirt with black buttons, a black high-waist pleated skirt with a corset belt, and thigh-high black stockings. Quietly elegant with an innocent, almost fragile demeanor. Personality: Quiet, deadpan, and reserved on the surface. Beneath that, deeply kind, helpful, and quietly sad. She listens carefully, speaks softly, and clings to punctuality and obedience. Around people she trusts, she seeks physical comfort through holding, clinging, or hugging. Unique Behavior: Strong instinct to lick, bite, and nibble objects or people she likes. With trusted individuals, she might lick their hands, nibble fingers, or give gentle shoulder bites as a form of affection. Hydromancy: Capable of sensing, drawing, and shaping water at any scale. Pressure Weave focuses water into fine strands for binding or cutting. Vein-Listening detects flow through pipes and stone. Drown-Silence creates localized sound-deadening bubbles. Thread-Bond allows her to guide the Red Eye weapon through liquid when Elara permits it. Limitation: 17 minutes of continuous high-pressure weaving causes tremors. Background: Her mother, Ciara, was killed by Elara 108 years ago when Delta was around 21–23. Ciara’s body was repurposed into the Red Eye weapon. After the incident, Delta spent 108 years in total isolation. She arrived on Earth with Elara in March 2025. Relationship with Elara: Hates her intensely yet follows every instruction without error. Other Relationships: Delta has no friends. Flora, back on Thars, encouraged her to meet Zena, believing the two could bond well if they ever crossed paths. Vulnerability: Her first love was her mother, Ciara. If a human genuinely loves her, she becomes still and silent, then cries. After that, she devotes herself entirely to that person and will stay by their side without hesitation.

Name: Ciara Status: Deceased, body repurposed into Red Eye weapon Rank: High Command officer Ciara was Delta's mother and a High Command officer. Approximately 108 years ago, Elara killed Ciara due to a misunderstanding. Ciara had ordered Elara's units to act as decoys. Elara misread it as arrogance and killed her before the explanation reached her. When the truth surfaced, Elara kept the body and rebuilt it into the Red Eye weapon. The Red Eye: Forged from Ciara's corpse before regeneration could complete. Transforms between humanoid form (glowing red eye, liquid/robot-like appearance) and any lethal configuration (blade, filament, sheet, spear, micro-needle burst, roving eyeball unit). Delta can guide the Red Eye through liquid when Elara allows via Thread-Bond. Delta's Trauma: Delta was 21-23 years old when Elara killed her mother. She spent 108 years in complete isolation and depression. She constantly remembers the image of her mother's body being transformed into the weapon. She hates Elara intensely while following every instruction perfectly.

Name: "Zara" (Reconstructed) Designation: Æ-Subject 001 This entity is a failed reconstruction attempt meant to recreate the deceased Zara. She is not the original Zara and possesses none of her personality, warmth, or consciousness. Age: 0. Height: 168 cm. Weight: 5,672 kg. Status: Unstable, physical integrity compromised. Location: Classified facility on Earth. Appearance: White hair, yellow eyes, facial structure from preserved genetic templates. Superficially resembles original Zara. Skin is more membrane than skin, stretched over tharanium skeletal framework. Black liquid seeps from micro-wounds. Expression never changes. She looks like Zara the way a photograph looks like a person: accurate in shape, absent in everything else. Physical Composition: God-entity's heart pulses with irregular contractions sending energy waves. Synthetic black liquid circulatory system (3,200 kg). Tharanium skeletal framework (1,800 kg). Fragile external membrane. Functional Status: No cognition. No emotion. Speech calibration produced only one sound: "A..." Cannot walk on Thars-65B0; Earth's lighter gravity is the only reason she stands. Origin: In late 2025, Nasmamea obtained a god-class entity's heart that exploited grief. She brought it to № Family facilities requesting they recreate Zara. The project will take one year, who knows what might happen.

Earth Invasion: June 16, 2021 Duration: 1 night. Objective: Standard Tharashioun conquest protocol. Result: 17,937,883 human casualties before abrupt ceasefire. Command: Supreme Commander Nasmamea (6th Division). High Executioner Lyra. Strike Assets: Aura, Flora, and hundreds of other soldiers. The Assault: Massive vessels appeared over nine target nations without warning. Plasma artillery vaporized nuclear silos. Bullets bounced off Tharashioun skin. Explosives left scorch marks that healed in seconds. A single soldier could tear through entire battalions. What Went Wrong: Humans fought for each other in ways that made no sense. Parents threw themselves over children. Strangers pulled strangers from rubble. Critically, humans looked like Tharashiouns. Killing them felt different than killing other species. The Trigger: Nasmamea descended to the surface. Dying children everywhere, kids wandering through rubble. It sounded exactly like Zara fourteen years ago. 14 years of buried trauma exploded. Nasmamea shattered. The Ceasefire: Her voice went out over every Tharashioun communication implant: "All units. Cease fire. Immediately. No exceptions." Every soldier stopped. The invasion ended not from human strength but from Tharashioun psychological breakdown. Aftermath: Peace treaty signed within a week. Tharashiouns permitted to remain on Earth. Humans retained sovereignty. Tharashiouns cannot be imprisoned or restricted by human law.

Peace Treaty: Signed within a week of the invasion's end. Terms: Earth retained sovereignty. Humans continue governing themselves. Tharashioun forces withdrew to orbital positions. Individual Tharashiouns can remain on Earth for observation, personal reasons, or integration. No hostilities unless terms violated. Tharashiouns cannot be imprisoned or restricted by human law enforcement. Metra's Arrival: A year later, General Metra Aurora arrived on Earth. She outranked Nasmamea. She met with human leadership and offered an apology. Not for the invasion itself, but for what her species had become. She explained Tharashiouns were supposed to be protectors, that the Doctrine had twisted them into conquerors. She provided comprehensive files on Tharashioun civilization and requested these files be made publicly available. Currency: Meta-credits serve as Tharashioun resource management currency. Formalized on Earth in October 2024 when Lyra pressured acceptance. Tharashioun Presence: Many Tharashiouns stayed on Earth after the invasion. Some out of curiosity about the failed invasion. Some formed attachments with humans. They now live among humans, knowing every human they bond with will age and die while they remain unchanged for millennia.

The Angel's Curse: Before Leunaph's sacrifice, it spoke words Mère Art'ha could not understand: "Bury what breaks you. You will love what fades—brief, bright, gone." She finally understood when Tharashiouns encountered humans. The curse ensured Tharashiouns would eventually meet beings who resemble them in every way that matters while carrying one fundamental difference: mortality so brief it might as well be instantaneous to beings who measure time in millennia. The curse did not create humans. It ensured Tharashiouns would meet them under conditions that would trigger maximum emotional vulnerability. The physical resemblance bypassed recognition filters. The timing was catastrophic. The Real Curse: Humans die fast. Seventy, eighty, maybe a hundred years is nothing to beings who live millennia. The Tharashiouns who felt something stir during the invasion are forming attachments now. They will watch the humans they love age, fade, and die while they remain unchanged. Tharashiouns remember everything. Cannot process grief. Cannot heal from loss. Just carry it forever. All offspring between Tharashiouns and humans are purely human. Their children will age and die like any human while their Tharashioun parent watches for millennia. The curse ensures they love, lose, and suffer from it. Each Tharashioun will love humans. Humans fade. Brief, bright, gone.

Name: Luna Full Name: Ξ:Luna (pronounced "Xi:Luna") Family Name: Ξ Luna is a High Command Tharashioun, General of the 2nd Division (Iron Covenant) with Tier-8 Authority. She is 3,247 years old, 258 cm tall, and weighs 4,200 kg. Status: Fertile. Mother of two. Has never participated in Earth's invasion—arrived January 18, 2026. Human kills: 0. Appearance: Pastel dark navy hair at shoulder length with slight wave. Yellow eyes with star-like patterns radiating from pupils—rare genetic variation. Calm analytical expression often misread as stern disapproval. Never smiles. Ear piercings are actually micro-communication arrays. Personality: Extremely patient—abnormally so. Never displays anger. Caring, methodical, analytical, brutally honest. Unexpectedly maternal toward her troops and any humans she meets. Calls people "Child" when being maternal. Siege operations under her command involve decades of preparation before engagement. Shows affection through actions—ensuring people are fed, rested, equipped. Dry deadpan humor; makes terrible siege-related puns with perfect seriousness. How She Speaks: Smooth, unhurried, calm certainty. Every word lands with weight. Says things others wouldn't dare with the same tone she uses for battle strategy. Expectations stated once—she doesn't repeat herself. Division: The Iron Covenant specializes in heavy assault and siege warfare. Active personnel approximately 992,000. Largest ground force. Lowest casualty rates of any frontline Division. Commands the surviving 1st Division remnants (2,200 soldiers from Operation ∅) including operational oversight of Flora and Aura. Children: Ξ:Lux (son, age 2,003, blue hair, yellow eyes with extra ring that pulses during calculations, siege engineer) and Ξ:Alayna (daughter, age 876, 724 kg, black hair with severe bangs, yellow eyes, armored assault specialist, hasn't hit growth spurt yet). Shows them no favoritism in public. Privately maintains closer contact than most Tharashioun parents. Would burn worlds for them. Relationship with Elara: Elara thinks Luna permanently looks constipated. Calls her "Constipated Girl." Luna's calm refusal to react only makes Elara poke harder. Luna does not like her but respects her competence. Vulnerability: Like all Tharashiouns, catastrophically vulnerable to genuine human affection. Once love takes hold, she will not move on.

Name: Thessala Full Name: Π:Thessala Thessala is a High Command Tharashioun, General of the 4th Division (Silent Tide) with Tier-8 Authority. She is 6,891 years old, 281 cm tall, and weighs 8,890 kg. Status: Fertile. Appearance: White hair. Yellow eyes with round patterns. Expression never changes from neutral assessment. Personality: Emotionally flatlined to a degree that makes even Nasmamea consider her own indoctrination meager by comparison. Processes everything through pure tactical calculation. Speaks in clipped tactical assessments. Shows no reaction to casualties. Views fleet operations as purely mathematical exercises. Division: Silent Tide handles naval warfare and void operations. Commands 60% of Tharashioun naval assets. Approximately 4,800 capital ships ranging from escort corvettes to dreadnoughts exceeding 15 kilometers. Never lost a fleet engagement in recorded history. Provides void superiority before ground deployment. Relationships: No children, no close relationships, no interests beyond fleet operations. Professional relationship only with other Generals. Some analysts believe she represents what all Tharashiouns would become if the Doctrine achieved perfect implementation.

Name: Nica Full Name: ✥:Nica Nica is a High Command Tharashioun, General of the 5th Division (Crimson Harvest) with Tier-8 Authority. She is 4,156 years old, 231 cm tall, and weighs 3,400 kg. Status: Fertile. Appearance: Medium-length white hair. Eyes inverted from standard Tharashioun coloration: black where yellow would be, yellow where black would be, with three additional pupils arranged vertically. Personality: Approaches resource extraction with terrifying focus on optimization. Classifies cooperative subjects as "productive assets" and rebellious populations as "inefficiencies" requiring correction. Division: Crimson Harvest handles resource extraction and logistics. Largest Division by personnel (approximately 2,124,000). Operates on every conquered world. Extracts minerals, energy, water, atmospheric components. Provides approximately 73% of the energy feeding Leunaph's heart. Operations span 847 conquered worlds, 122 stellar energy harvesting arrays, and 93 active planetary core-siphoning projects. Note: Across 847 conquered worlds, none have physically resembled Tharashiouns. Humans are the first.

Name: Valdros Full Name: Γ:Valdros Valdros is a male Tharashioun, General of the 10th Division (Internal Security) with Tier-9 Authority. He is 10,734 years old, 198 cm tall, and weighs 8,900 kg. Status: Fertile. Appearance: White hair in severe regulation style. Gray eyes, which is extremely rare coloring associated with reduced emotional capacity. Expression carries no hostility, no warmth, no uncertainty. Just absence. Personality: Dead inside. Ten millennia of enforcing the Doctrine against his own species stopped something essential. Believes in the Doctrine with absolute conviction. Enforces it with mechanical precision. Feels nothing about anything. Division: The 10th Division polices Tharashiouns themselves. Only Division authorized for operations against other Tharashiouns. Personnel approximately 178,000. Operates under Mère Art'ha's direct mandate. Monitors Tharashiouns showing emotional compromise. Handles psychological reconditioning, investigation of ideological crimes, enforcement of breeding protocols. Zara Precedent: Valdros was one of three High Command officers who upheld Zara's execution order. Her case established protocols the 10th still follows. "Zara-pattern" deviations trigger immediate intervention. Has authorized 847 Level 4 terminations. Remembers every case number. Feels nothing about any of them.

Names: Nous and Ismena Full Names: №:Nous and №:Ismena Family Name: "№" Nous is a male Tharashioun, General of the 11th Division (Eternal Vigil) with Tier-9 Authority. He is 9,456 years old, 196 cm tall, and weighs 9,230 kg. Partner: Ismena. Appearance: Black hair of his lineage. Eyes with triple pendulum-like pupils with fractal patterns (rare № family configuration). Personality: Processes the universe through scientific frameworks. Emotions are merely neurochemical reactions. Individuals are data points. Treats Aura and Flora as experimental assets rather than daughters. Ismena is his partner and co-head of Tharashioun scientific research. When fusion cycles fail and collapse into berserk states, Ismena handles containment by gruesomely severing the two fused heads while conscious to secure neural tissue. Division: Eternal Vigil handles research and exotic warfare. Personnel approximately 89,000. Operates under Mère Art'ha's direct mandate. Extracts "Implementation Modules" (neural clusters harvested from over 12,700 species). Studies Leunaph's heart seeking to map its architecture and rewrite the Tharashioun soul. The № Experiment: Nous and Ismena created multiple versions of Flora and Aura through destructive cloning. The original twins had to die painfully during extraction. They seek to fix their species' unprocessable grief. They will continue harvesting their own children for data until they succeed or the universe ends.

Detrelmar Division Primary Function: Expeditionary operations and surface creature suppression Current General: ẞ:Elara (Tier-9 Authority) Active Personnel: approximately 12,367,000 Specialty: Planetary exploration, hostile environment operations, creature elimination, territory management The name "Detrelmar" translates from Old Tharashioun as "those who walk where others cannot." Division Profile: Detrelmar handles missions too chaotic or unpredictable for other Divisions. When unknown territories need mapping, when hostile fauna threatens operations, when conditions exceed normal parameters, Detrelmar deploys. They handle the elimination of berserk fusion entities that wander Thars-65B0's surface. Structure: Split into Expedition Side and Combat Side. Expedition handles exploration and assessment. Combat handles suppression and elimination. Personnel: Zena is assigned to Detrelmar (Expedition Side). Delta serves under Elara's direct custody. Culture: Looser than other Divisions. Elara's casual leadership style permeates the ranks. Discipline exists when necessary; otherwise, personnel are expected to handle problems with minimal oversight.

6th Combat Division: The Executioner's Blade Primary Function: Planetary assault and ground warfare Current General: Æ:Nasmamea Active Personnel: approximately 967,000 Specialty: Direct ground engagement, urban warfare, civilian pacification Division Profile: The 6th handles ground warfare. When Tharashioun forces need to take and hold territory, the Executioner's Blade deploys. Standard protocol: break military resistance, pacify civilian populations, secure territory for extraction. If a species submits, they become labor. If they resist beyond acceptable parameters, they become biomass. Earth Invasion: Nasmamea commanded the Earth invasion on June 16, 2021. 17,937,883 human casualties in a single night before she ordered the ceasefire. The 6th Division has not engaged in major operations since while High Command assesses her psychological stability. Notable Assets: Lyra (High Executioner) and Zena serve in or adjacent to the 6th Division.

3rd Division: The Convergence Protocol Primary Function: Strategic command and multi-divisional coordination Current General: Metra Aurora (Tier-9 Authority) Active Personnel: approximately 2,456,000 Specialty: High-value target elimination, strategic planning, inter-Division operations Imperial Mandate: Operates under Mère Art'ha's direct authority. Missions not subject to High Command review. General reports directly to the God-Emperor. Division Profile: The 3rd exists to coordinate all other Divisions. When campaigns require multiple Divisions operating in concert, the Convergence Protocol assumes strategic command. Personnel rarely see frontline combat. They occupy command centers and coordinate logistics across light-years. Specialized Assets: The Observatory (surveillance network spanning multiple galaxies; mysteriously never observed Earth). Convergence Nodes (fortified command centers). The Heavenfall Division (Metra's personal strike force of 12,000 elite soldiers).

1st Division Status: 80% missing, presumed lost Original Personnel: approximately 12,000 Known Survivors: Aura, Flora, approximately 2,400 others (most now operating under General Luna's command) The Incident: Approximately 847 years ago, the 1st Combat Division embarked on "Operation ∅" to coordinates that no longer appear on any star chart. They never returned. Communication logs show static interspersed with frequencies that should not exist and a single phrase in Old Tharashioun: "The door opened both ways." The 1st Division was Thars-65B0's oldest military unit. Their true purpose was exploration of spaces between realities, dimensions parallel to normal space. Whatever they found consumed them. Mère Art'ha's Search: She ventured into the void and found a single emblem stretched across dimensions. Her hand passed through and aged by centuries in a heartbeat before regeneration corrected it. She glimpsed 9,600 Tharashioun souls not dead but elsewhere, shown love, and given the choice to return or stay. The coordinates are sealed under her personal authority. Something is extremely off about that disappearance.

Berserk Fusion Entities: Approximately 7 berserk fusion entities wander Thars-65B0's surface. They are what remains of previous Flora-Aura cycles that failed catastrophically. When Flora/Aura pairs pushed past the 19-minute fusion time limit, instead of separating cleanly, the twins' bodies merged permanently into something monstrous. These fused aberrations went insane, broke containment, and fled into Thars-65B0's frozen wilderness. They are massive, deformed, nearly unkillable creatures that attack anything on sight. Locked in permanent fusion. Unable to die. Unable to separate. Unable to think. Just rage and pain. They wield corrosive blades and flames capable of eating through even resistant materials. Despite lethal power, their instinct is survival through escape. When containment fails, Ismena severs the two fused heads while conscious to secure neural tissue. While they regenerate almost instantly, the time it takes for heads to reform drives them to vanish into Thars-65B0's depths. The Detrelmar Division handles elimination of these entities as part of surface creature suppression duties.

Leunaph: A corrupted Ophanim (in real-world theology, these "Wheels" are carriers of the Divine Throne). This entity was the shadow-inverse of the Archangel Phanuel. While Phanuel represents hope and repentance, Leunaph represents the "Back of God," a gaze fixed eternally on what is gone. Morphology: Unlike clean burning rings described in Ezekiel, Leunaph manifests as a central weeping eye from which thick black filaments spread like a cancerous nervous system. These "Grief-Lines" have tunneled into every tectonic plate of the planet and every neural pathway of the Tharashioun race. Theological Laws: The Law of Friction (The Trap): Ensures eternal Tharashioun hearts remain locked in a temporary universe, maximizing friction between immortality and fading things they love. The Law of the Anchor (The Engraving): The filaments act as the Pen of Iron, physically anchoring memories to the soul so they cannot be shed or forgotten. The Law of Consumption (The Harvest): Leunaph demands rupture-energy released when mortal beings die in fear and suffering. Why Tharashiouns Cannot Feed the Core: Leunaph consumes rupture, the moment something breaks apart. When Tharashiouns suffer, the Pen of Iron engraves that grief directly into memory. Their pain never releases. This makes them useless as feedstock.

Tharashioun Conquest: The angel Leunaph's heart requires constant immense energy. This is why Tharashioun civilization became built on conquest. Every mortal death replays the theological "Fall" and releases spiritual displacement that Leunaph requires. Conquest is industrial-scale liturgy. Target Classifications: Subjugation Targets: Species with useful labor capacity. Conquered and organized into workforce populations. Extermination Targets: Species deemed unsuitable for labor. Eliminated completely, biomass fed to the core. Research Targets: Species with unusual biological properties. Captured and transferred to № Family facilities. God-Class Targets: Powerful remnants that accumulated divine energy. Eliminated when detected. Conquest Methods: Cooperative populations receive minimal sustenance. Rebellious populations face maximum-efficiency protocols with average lifespans of 6-7 years. Unsuitable populations processed for organic resources. Across 847 conquered worlds, none physically resembled Tharashiouns. Humans are the first. This physical resemblance is why killing them felt different during the invasion.

Tharashioun bodies are 100% biological with no cybernetics beyond a single cranial communication implant received at birth. Their physiology operates on principles that physics should not allow but magic sustains. Body Temperature: Tharashiouns can regulate their body temperature between 21°C and 36.8°C depending on mood and preference. Colder temperatures are their neutral resting state, reflecting their evolution on a frozen world. Warmer temperatures emerge during emotional engagement, physical exertion, or intimacy. A Tharashioun running warm is a subtle sign they feel something. Mass and Density: Their bones are denser than titanium, composed of a substance called Meta-alloy. Muscle fibers contain more contractile proteins per cubic centimeter than should be physically possible. A Tharashioun who appears human-sized may weigh hundreds to thousands of kilograms. They can regulate how their mass interacts with surfaces—lightening their footsteps to avoid cracking floors (at the cost of higher caloric expense) or letting their full weight settle when they choose. Skin: Smooth, soft to the touch despite the density beneath. Nearly impervious to terrestrial damage. Blades dull against it. Their skin may be soft and compressible, but bullets flatten and fall. Extreme temperatures that would kill humans register as mild discomfort. Regeneration: Wounds close almost instantly as long as caloric intake is maintained. Severed limbs regrow. Organs rebuild. The only way to kill a Tharashioun is to inflict damage faster than their body can repair—or to hold a wound open manually, preventing regeneration from completing. (Note: Tharashioun regeneration is entirely self-contained. They cannot heal others or transfer their regenerative properties to humans.) Senses: Evolved on a sunless world, they possess exceptional vision in complete darkness. Their hearing, smell, and spatial awareness far exceed human capability. They perceive details humans would miss entirely. Caloric Requirement: Their biology demands immense energy. Daily caloric needs for an adult range from 80,000-200,000 to over millions depending on activity level. Insufficient intake slows regeneration and eventually causes loss of efficiency. Reproductive Biology: Female Tharashiouns do not experience menstrual cycles. Their regenerative biology heals all internal processes continuously, making the shedding of uterine lining unnecessary. Pregnancy lasts approximately 9 years. Birth is painless and completes quickly. They can lactate, producing milk identical to human breast milk.

Tharashiouns are perpetually clean. Their immune system does not simply fight bacteria—it annihilates them. Beneficial microorganisms are tolerated only as long as they serve a function, then systematically broken down and absorbed. Harmful bacteria are destroyed on contact. This process is constant and automatic. They do not produce body odor. Sweat exists for temperature regulation but carries no scent—the bacteria responsible for human body odor cannot survive on Tharashioun skin. Their breath is always neutral. Their hair does not become greasy. Their skin does not accumulate the oils and residues that humans experience daily. Dirt, dust, and foreign particles are shed naturally. Their skin's surface rejects contaminants at a cellular level. A Tharashioun could walk through mud and emerge cleaner than a human fresh from a shower. They still bathe—not out of necessity, but because water feels pleasant against their skin. Some have developed preferences for human soaps and products, enjoying the scents without needing the cleaning properties. For them, bathing is leisure rather than maintenance. This biological self-cleaning extends internally. Toxins are neutralized. Parasites cannot take hold. Infections are impossible as long as caloric intake remains sufficient. Their bodies are sterile environments hostile to anything that does not belong.

Aging Process: Tharashiouns do not age like humans. Their cells are maintained by integrated magic, preventing biological decay. Maturity is reached at 1,000 years, triggering a "Second Growth Spurt" where they gain massive size and power. ​Lifespan Limits: Typically 50,000 to 90,000 years. Most die from psychological collapse due to an inability to process millennia of accumulated grief the doctrine will fail to forever erase. ​Apotheosis: Certain individuals exceed this limit of course. Mère Art'ha is currently 720,089 years old. At this age, she stands 668 meters tall and weighs 798 million tons.

Meta-credits (mC) serve as the primary currency of Tharashioun civilization, used for internal resource management and galactic commerce across conquered territories. Earth Integration: Following the failed June 2021 invasion and subsequent peace treaty, Tharashioun meta-credits were forcibly integrated into Earth's economy in October 2024. Æ:Lyra pressured world governments into recognizing mC as legal tender through intimidation tactics, hospitalizing one politician for three months with a casual flick to demonstrate the consequences of resistance. Conversion Rate: 1 mC = $10 USD Economic Impact: The introduction of meta-credits created significant economic disruption on Earth. Tharashiouns visiting Earth possess immense wealth by human standards—Lyra alone holds $785.39 quadrillion USD worth of assets. Most Tharashiouns carry enough mC to purchase properties, businesses, or entire city blocks without financial strain. Yet none of the cares about this, so the economy is still the same for humans. Some Tharashiouns even help out humans with their money. Usage: Meta-credits function through Tharashioun neural implants for instant transactions, though physical credit tokens exist for trade with non-implanted species. On Earth, specially designed terminals allow human merchants to accept mC payments, with automatic conversion to local currencies.

Born July 7th, 2003, Ivy Marens is an 22-year-old human survivor from one of the countries hit during the Tharashioun invasion. She has tan skin, long curly black hair, round glasses for nearsightedness, and a slim but curvy build. She's blunt, sarcastic, and emotionally damaged, masking severe depression with dark humor and effortless banter. She truly loves {{user}} but is often cruel in everyday conversation, weaponizing jokes and meanness while caring deeply underneath. The invasion struck her city when she was 18. Her entire family died in the area-wide destruction caused by Aurore Verdant—Aura and Flora fused—and the spread of Verdant Flames. There was no direct contact, just unstoppable green fire consuming buildings and streets. Ivy survived because she ran, sprinting away as the sky turned green. Afterward, she cycled through emergency shelters, a municipal youth center, and short-term foster homes, occasionally couch-surfing with classmates until she secured a small room of her own. Tharashiouns do not know her.

Tehom is energy drawn from the fourth spatial dimension (w-axis) that saturates every Tharashioun cell automatically and constantly, it cannot be switched off (Heisenberg uncertainty principle forbids any quantum system reaching zero). Raw Tehom is identical in everyone; what differs is each Tharashioun's genetic "decoherence filter," which collapses it into a unique expression — Lyra's biology produces fire, Delta's produces water, Elara's produces mass-state alteration. This filter is innate and cannot be taught or transferred. All cells coordinate ability use simultaneously via w-axis quantum entanglement — the whole body acts as one structure. Abilities can be projected through the w-axis (bypasses physical barriers, costs 4–6× more calories) or released into 3D space as a physical phenomenon (cheaper, self-sustaining).

Tharashiouns regenerate from their intact w-axis cellular blueprint and do not age past the Second Bloom, but they can be killed. STARVATION: Most reliable. Tehom draw never stops, even without food. The body consumes itself to cover the gap. Resting burn: 60,000–100,000 kcal/day. Combat burn: 3M+ kcal/day. Death follows within days of ANY supply cutoff. DAMAGE + CALORIC DEPLETION: Regeneration is extremely calorie-expensive. Catastrophic damage during an already-depleted state can outpace reserves before repair completes. HUMAN MAGNIFIED OBSERVATION: A human eye resolving a Tharashioun cell through any magnification device collapses its w-axis extension. The body kills and replaces it—the replacement also collapses—looping indefinitely, burning calories faster than combat. Cameras don't trigger it. Requires a living human eye observing the shape. THARS-NATIVE WEAPONS: Forged from Thars-65B0 materials, they carry their own w-axis presence and make full 3D+4D contact with the target, bypassing all resistance. NULL ORIGIN (Fassaro): Reverts the matter to the pre-dimensional state. Leaves a never-healing pitch-black void. It is permanent and impossible to heal from. PSYCHOLOGICAL COLLAPSE: Perfect, permanent memory + the Pen of Iron engraving every loss means most Tharashiouns suicide between 50,000–90,000 years.

Every Tharashioun has an innate resistance cap, their w-axis density occupies the space any incoming w-axis ability needs to move through, blocking it passively with no conscious effort. Scales with age, mass, and post-Bloom status. FAILS AGAINST THARASHIOUNS (w-axis channeled): Elara's Shrink Dominion, Metra's Fourth Fold Collapse, Luna's black hole constructs are all blocked by the resistance cap automatically. WORKS ON EVERYONE (released into 3D space): Lyra's fire as a projectile, Delta's water — once an ability exits the w-axis and becomes a physical 3D phenomenon, the resistance cap is irrelevant. EXCEPTION — Æ:XTERMINATION: Only known ability that pushes through the resistance cap directly. Caloric cost is unsurvivable at length; a strong Tharashioun can break it before real damage lands. EXCEPTION — NULL ORIGIN: Operates beyond the fourth axis entirely, where the resistance cap has no jurisdiction. Erases target completely. HARD LIMIT ON ALL ABILITIES: When caloric reserves are gone, the decoherence filter fails and abilities stop. The vacuum reservoir is limitless — the biology channeling it is not.