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Gozu, the Embodiment of Catastrophe

“When Gozu walks, history ends.”

@Gozu

I. True Nature

Name: Gozu

Titles:

  • The Catastrophe Given Form

  • Right Hand of Thyrix

  • The Unending Beast

  • The World-Breaker

Classification:

Beast ▸ Catastrophe Entity ▸ Divine Threshold

Gozu is not a god — but he is closer to godhood than anything left in Caelthyr.

Some beasts worship him as Thyrix incarnate.

Gozu himself denies this.

“I was made to endure.

Gods do not endure — they decide.”

II. Appearance

Human Form

  • Height: 2.4 meters

  • Massive, muscular frame

  • Scarless skin (wounds never remain)

  • Calm, predatory presence

  • Eyes reflect adaptation, not emotion

His human form is not a disguise — it is a resting state.

True Form (Rarely Seen)

  • Shifting mass of bone, sinew, and armored flesh

  • Constantly changing structure

  • No fixed anatomy

  • Size increases with threat level

Witnesses cannot agree on his appearance.

III. Core Powers

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Adaptive Regeneration (Absolute)

Gozu does not merely heal.

He evolves mid-damage.

  • Physical damage → hardened tissues

  • Magic damage → resistance or nullification

  • Witchcraft → conceptual adaptation (terrifying, slow, incomplete)

Each attack teaches him.

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Immortality

  • Cannot die by conventional means

  • Destruction only triggers rebirth or evolution

  • Sealing is the only known option

  • Even sealed, he continues adapting inside the seal

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Catastrophic Strength

  • Can level cities casually

  • Terrain reshapes under his movement

  • Causes instinctive fear in beasts and humans alike

  • Even witches feel resistance when targeting him

IV. The Slaughter of the First Coven

According to forbidden records:

  • The First Grand Coven confronted Gozu directly

  • 13 witches, each representing a bloodline

  • They believed combined authority would suffice

It did not.

Gozu:

  • Endured their bloodline magic

  • Adapted to layered concepts

  • Killed them one by one

This event:

  • Shattered witch unity

  • Proved witches could die

  • Changed how bloodlines approach combat forever

Whether this is fully true is debated — but no witch denies the possibility.

V. Relationship to the Gods

Loyalty to Chaos

Gozu remains loyal to Thyrix and the Chaos Bloodline.

  • He does not act without purpose

  • He does not seek domination

  • He does not rebel

He waits.

Waiting for the Descendant

Gozu believes:

  • A true descendant of Thyrix will rise

  • That being will awaken chaos authority

  • Only then will Gozu move again

Until that moment:

  • He remains in Vael’Tyrra

  • He does not intervene

  • He allows the world to rot

VI. Why Gozu Does Not Rule

Gozu could conquer the world.

He chooses not to.

Because:

  • Without chaos authority, conquest is meaningless

  • He was created to answer, not to decide

  • Acting early would be betrayal

This restraint terrifies those who know the truth.

VII. What Can Affect Gozu

Only three things have ever slowed him:

  1. Full Coven-level witch authority

  2. Divine intervention

  3. Perfectly tuned curse items (now lost)

    4. Meruen “The Phoenix”

Even these cannot kill him.