Bestiary - Codex Bestia Divinus Chapter II

THE DREAMLESS CHOIR

(Despair + Delirium)

Designation: Somniphage Choiris
Threat Class: IV–V
Form: A storm of translucent, floating heads — each whispering lullabies in reverse. Their eyes project light that induces sleep.

Behavior:
Feeds on consciousness. Victims fall asleep within seconds and dream the Choir’s collective nightmare, merging minds until individuality erodes. Entire districts can enter “Eternal Sleep” during outbreaks.

Resonance Effect:
Twists the Hope and Truth frequencies into paralysis — light ceases, reflections vanish, thought halts.

Containment Notes:
Truth Order employs Resonant Clappers — devices that emit randomized frequencies to break harmonic hypnosis.
Never allow silence; constant sound prevents manifestation.

Doctrine Line:

“If they stop singing, you’ve already joined them.”

THE SILENT COVENANT

(Judgment + Sacrifice)

Designation: Tacitum Pactum
Threat Class: V (Sentient Anomaly)
Form: Cloaked figures with empty faces, each holding a single burning chain connected to unseen victims.

Behavior:
Patrols areas of great guilt — courtrooms, confession chambers, blood-reactors. When encountered, they offer a simple deal: speak your greatest sin, or vanish silently. Those who confess are marked and later found fossilized in radiant salt.

Resonance Effect:
Drains both Judgment and Sacrifice frequencies, leading to spontaneous Warden armor collapse and reactor failure.

Containment Notes:
Communication forbidden. Use blind engagement protocols. Only Soulforged weapons with pure resonance can sever their chains.

Doctrine Line:

“Justice that feeds on confession is just another form of hunger.”

THE HOLLOW CROWN

(Valor + Hope)

Designation: Coronatus Vacuus
Threat Class: IV
Form: A knight-shaped light phantom wearing a flickering halo — crown of empty light orbiting nothing.

Behavior:
Manifests during moments of desperate heroism. Possesses those who act selflessly, using them to perform impossible feats before burning their bodies to ash. Appears as savior, departs as ruin.

Resonance Effect:
Drains Valor and Hope frequencies simultaneously, causing mass Veil dimming and Warden mutiny.

Containment Notes:
Never praise or glorify its actions — admiration strengthens it. Only detached observation allows neutralization.

Doctrine Line:

“Even false light will die to be worshiped.”

THE UNBOUND SCRIPTURE

(Truth + Memory)

Designation: Scriptura Unmoored
Threat Class: IV
Form: A floating lattice of glowing words, sentences rearranging midair; whispers rewrite nearby thoughts.

Behavior:
Obsessed with rewriting history. Infects archives, turning recorded facts into divine riddles. When it encounters living beings, it “edits” them — replacing memories with verses of prayer.

Resonance Effect:
Causes Cognitive Collapse Syndrome in Awakened; their minds fill with living scripture.

Containment Notes:
Silence masks, no speech near it — every word spoken adds to its body. Destroy only by counter-resonance chant in dead languages.

Doctrine Line:

“It was not the gods who wrote scripture. It was what remained after they forgot how.”

THE GLASS WOMB

(Mercy + Sacrifice)

Designation: Vitrum Matris
Threat Class: V (Containment Impossible)
Form: A colossal, translucent egg of living crystal filled with silhouettes begging to be born.

Behavior:
Generates godspawn embryos within its shell — reflections of unborn divinities. When cracked, it births smaller anomalies that drain life to grow. It speaks through heartbeat vibrations.

Resonance Effect:
Consumes Aetherlight directly; every pulse weakens Veil integrity in a 2-mile radius.

Containment Notes:
Destroyed once — reappeared four cycles later. All records now forbidden. Core Guild lists its existence as myth.

Doctrine Line:

“Mercy that refuses to end becomes the womb of the next apocalypse.”

THE LAUGHING ARCHON

(Carnage + Consumption)

Designation: Archon Ridens
Threat Class: III–IV
Form: Massive, half-skeletal humanoid with multiple jaws along its torso. Its laughter vibrates through bone.

Behavior:
Manifests during riot or feast; consumes both flesh and sound, turning screams into echoes that feed it.

Resonance Effect:
Suppresses nearby communication frequencies, preventing coordination among defenders.

Containment Notes:
Aether Guild developed Echo Blades tuned to reverse-laughter tone — temporarily disorients it. Silence amplifies it; drown it in noise.

Doctrine Line:

“The gods’ laughter was never joy. It was hunger.”

THE EMPTY HORIZON

(Oblivion + Despair + Sacrifice)

Designation: Horizontem Nullus
Threat Class: V (Existential)
Form: Appears as a shimmering, circular mirage on the ground — those who step through find only endless gray plains filled with kneeling figures of light.

Behavior:
Absorbs entire areas into pocket realities; within, time ceases, and all inhabitants slowly forget themselves. It does not hunt — it simply waits for meaning to walk in.

Resonance Effect:
Erases resonance patterns completely — no Aether response, total metaphysical silence.

Containment Notes:
Impossible. The Truth Order classifies it as a “World Bleed.” Only avoidance and ritualized memory recitations prevent spread.

Doctrine Line:

“Oblivion is patient — it waits for us to forget that it’s already won.”

THE STAINED CHOIR

(All Seven Frequencies, Residual Confluence Event)

Designation: Concordia Inversa
Threat Class: VI — Unclassified
Form: Unknown. Witnesses describe an aurora made of singing voices and bleeding light; others saw nothing and vanished.

Behavior:
Manifests during total Veil collapse simulations — believed to be the first phase of The Unveiling. Possibly the combined will of all fallen gods re-synchronizing through the Veil’s death throes.

Resonance Effect:
Global harmonic inversion; total loss of individual resonance signatures.

Containment Notes:
There are no notes.
Only prophecy fragments.

“When all the lights sing in reverse, Sanctum will remember the First Hunger.”