Bestiary - Codex Bestia Divinus Chapter I

CARNAGE – The Valor Eater

(Inversion of Valor, The Pillar of Defiance)

Designation: Carnivorum Bellatoris
Threat Class: III–IV
Known Forms: The Iron Pack, the Bastion Howlers, the Red Saint

Manifestation Profile:
Where courage turns to frenzy, Carnage takes root. These entities are forged in battlefields, arenas, and execution grounds — places where bravery curdled into bloodlust. Their bodies resemble armored giants or quadrupeds made of molten plate and sinew, weapons fused into bone.

Behavior:
Drawn to acts of valor, feeding on adrenaline and righteous fury. Every wound they inflict amplifies aggression in those nearby; armies consumed by rage create more of them.

Resonance Effect:
Distorts the Valor frequency into unstable kinetic loops — causing Awakened of Valor to lose control of resonance.

Containment Notes:
Wardens use Mercy resonant fields to pacify the rage surrounding it before engaging. Never challenge directly; every act of defiance nourishes it.

Doctrine Line:

“Do not fight the Carnage. Deny it your bravery — let cowardice save your life.”

CONSUMPTION – The Devourer Choir

(Inversion of Mercy, The Pillar of Restoration)

Designation: Chorus Absorpta
Threat Class: II–III
Known Forms: Flesh Choirs, the Communion Plague, the Weeping Halo

Manifestation Profile:
Forms where compassion and despair overlap — hospitals, sanctuaries, or sites of failed miracles. Appears as clusters of semi-transparent bodies, merging and separating in rhythm with a single, pulsing heartbeat.

Behavior:
Seeks union through devouring. Believes consumption = oneness. It whispers comfort before assimilation.

Resonance Effect:
Drains life essence and Aetherlight simultaneously; victims are left translucent, singing until their bodies collapse into radiant slurry.

Containment Notes:
Halo Guild illumination disrupts fusion process. Sever mental connections with silencing runes; prolonged empathy contact accelerates infection.

Doctrine Line:

“Mercy without boundaries is the doorway of Consumption.”

III. DELIRIUM – The False Mirror

(Inversion of Truth, The Pillar of Clarity)

Designation: Veritas Fragmenta
Threat Class: IV
Known Forms: Hall-of-Glass Entities, the Smiling Reflection, the Eye of the Room

Manifestation Profile:
Emerges near reflective surfaces or during Veil desynchronizations in the District of Truth. Takes the shape of living mirrors or shifting humanoid silhouettes composed of refracted light.

Behavior:
Feeds on perception — every time it’s observed, it grows more “real.” Replaces its victims within their own memories, walking out of mirrors as them.

Resonance Effect:
Causes Truth Delirium: sufferers cannot distinguish between original and reflection, leading to self-erasure.

Containment Notes:
Total darkness or shattering reflective mediums neutralize. Never look directly; all containment is done blindfolded or by resonance sensors.

Doctrine Line:

“The lie that kills you first must look exactly like you.”

IV. TYRANNY – The Scalesbroken

(Inversion of Judgment, The Pillar of Wrath)

Designation: Dominus Iudex
Threat Class: III–V
Known Forms: Tyrant Seraphs, the Burning Chain, the Choir of Law

Manifestation Profile:
Born from fanatic order — prisons, tribunals, and warzones ruled by blind justice. Appears as enormous mechanical seraphs inscribed with decrees that scream when read aloud.

Behavior:
Seeks to impose order through annihilation. Marks victims with radiant sigils of guilt, siphoning vitality from their remorse.

Resonance Effect:
Overwrites surrounding frequencies with “law” — Awakened powers stop working unless sanctioned by the entity’s will.

Containment Notes:
Must be approached by those free of guilt (Wardens purified by the Mercy Rite). Avoid verbal engagement; its words rewrite oaths into bindings.

Doctrine Line:

“Tyranny begins when Judgment forgets why it weighs.”

V. OBLIVION – The Erased

(Inversion of Memory, The Pillar of Echoes)

Designation: Oblivionem Sussurrae
Threat Class: V
Known Forms: The Nameless, the Blank Choir, the Forgotten Tide

Manifestation Profile:
Appears as silhouettes stitched from static or written light. Wherever it moves, names vanish, voices distort, and even archives lose reference to events that occurred.

Behavior:
Feeds on remembrance. Erases its victims from history, reality, and emotion simultaneously. Survivors retain only a haunting “absence” — grief without source.

Resonance Effect:
Causes catastrophic data loss across Archive Guild networks; records spontaneously delete themselves.

Containment Notes:
Cannot be fought — only delayed by constant verbal recollection of the self. Wardens wear name sigils in blood as identity anchors.

Doctrine Line:

“To remember is resistance.”

VI. DESPAIR – The Mourning Sun

(Inversion of Hope, The Pillar of Light)

Designation: Lux Mortis
Threat Class: V
Known Forms: The Weeping Sun, the Grayscale Serpent, The Dimming

Manifestation Profile:
Massive serpentine entity woven of black aurora. Appears during mass grief, Veil Storms, or failed Hope festivals.

Behavior:
Projects a field of emotional nullification — victims lose all motivation, then life. Feeds on collective hopelessness, growing brighter as the city darkens.

Resonance Effect:
Overwhelms the Hope frequency, reducing illumination citywide; may cause Veil dimming.

Containment Notes:
Hope cannot be forged — only reignited. Public morale rituals by the Halo Guild can repel it. Laughter, music, or communal light rites weaken its form.

Doctrine Line:

“Despair is hope inverted — the light that remembers it once was.”

VII. CORRUPTION – The Unholy Offering

(Inversion of Sacrifice, The Pillar of Blood)

Designation: Sacrificium Invertus
Threat Class: V (Extinction-Class)
Known Forms: The Red God, the Inverted Cross, the Heart Rot

Manifestation Profile:
Manifests deep beneath Sanctum Prime — near reactors, mass graves, or martyr altars. Appears as a mass of pulsating organs suspended in radiant chains, whispering prayers backward.

Behavior:
Transforms death into contagion; every creature it kills rises as a smaller version of itself. Believes decay is the purest worship.

Resonance Effect:
Corrupts Sacrifice frequency; Awakened of Blood risk permanent fusion with the Veil when near it.

Containment Notes:
Only purification via self-sacrifice can reseal breaches. The Crimson Host treats these events as holy martyrdom operations.

Doctrine Line:

“It is not the blood we give that damns us — it is what still asks for more.”