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LUDECTROPHOBIA BRAINSTORMING 1, ENDINGS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - What exactly are the Avatars of Fear?
        
        The Avatars are the primal forces which govern this world.
        
        What is Blight?
        
        Blight is the oldest and most powerful Avatar. It's the Avatar of creation and destruction, existing before organic matter and thus before Death, its first sibling? child? something like that. Thus, Blight can only mimic life and sentience and must instead use a Vessel to grow stronger, harnessing the material it destroys to build itself up. This is also why its strength resets between Vessels: it cannot hold onto the life it's absorbed without something living to inhabit, and the power it does wield must be channeled from another source or location - its true being - separate from the realm of life.
        
        Do the other Avatars need Vessels too?
        
        The idea we have currently is that Avatar can't die, and they can influence the living, but their full power can only be used through a Vessel - a prophet, in this case. Prophets give up all, if not a sizable portion of their autonomy and free will so the Avatar can act through them overseeing their realm. When a prophet is killed, the Avatar must find a new one to exact its full power. Unlike Blight, the Avatars of Fear are living, sentient beings, and they don't draw their power from an alternate plane. Thus, Prophets gain full access to the Avatar's power immediately, and the Avatar can have full control over the Prophet.
        
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        Where does Blight reside or draw its power from?
        
        Blight existed before Death, and thus before life and living beings. In Blight's realm there was only destruction and creation. Life was unable to live in this primitive, immaterial realm, and so a new realm was created for it to thrive in, shutting Blight out. Thus, when Blight channels its power through a Vessel, it's drawing that power from its true form in the original realm of existence.
        
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        What is Blight's goal?
        
        Blight should remain an entity without a real personality. The most it should have in common with humanity is perhaps the remnants of the souls of Vessels that have died while inhabited by Blight. This could tie into The Silence's collection, and Ava might be able to have brief interactions with these souls in the form of ambiguous conversations or horror imagery. Aside from that though, Blight sees life as an inconvenience. It can't use its power in the realm of the living, and is forced to use human life as a tool to exert its power. So perhaps that's its goal? To channel its full power into the realm of the living? Perhaps when Blight has drawn its entire store of power into the realm of the living, it will be able to stay there without a Vessel.
        
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        How did the Avatars come to be?
        
        The fears the Avatars embody are born of humans, and their personalities are influenced by their current Prophets. It's known that life was born of the Avatar of Death, and Death was born of Blight, the Avatar (?) of creation and destruction. This means Blight is the only Avatar not derived of humans, hence its inability to have emotions or a true means of consciousness. As for the rest of the Avatars, they were born as humanity developed.
        
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  - - - What is the world in relation to reality?
        
        The world is a pocket dimension that is loosely connected to the minds of all mortals, fueling their fears and anxieties. It’s not exactly real, as the Avatars cannot directly influence the people of Earth, but it's not exactly imaginary either, as Blight can transport people there somehow. It could be something more abstract like a collective headspace, or something more fantastical like a sort of junction for supernatural fears. Obviously none of this will be directly explained since that's bad storytelling, but lore nerds will get it if they dig and that's the point.
  - - - I like the word "team." it makes us feel small and independent: Team Cherry, Team Salvado, etc. I also don't think we should make up any words or change them too much, as that'll make us less accessible. Compound words are cool but can sound pretentious: SkullFruit, DimSunSet (yes thats a name suggestion i like it), BlueKraken, etc. Inserting "Games" into the name might be nice, but it also limits us if we ever publish other things (soundtrack, bonus stories, comics, etc). Something like "Productions" might work instead, but that seems broad. "Entertainment?" No, stealing from Blizzard. It's probably best to stick with no suffix.