The Grue

"Long Arm Glided" by Neuville, Alphonse de

It’s limbs wrap around the pillars of the surface. Shaking them to move the earth and seas. It came from black sea or is black sea itself. The moon is it’s shell. The moon is it’s child. The moon is it’s eye.

Purviews.
Earthquakes, Cave-ins, Fissures, Holes, Depths, Darkness, Tsunamis, Sea, Cephalopods, Anti-Magic, Moon, Space, Curse

Known Rituals.
Ward/Invoke Earthquakes
Ward/Invoke Cave-Ins
Ward/Invoke Fissures
Ward/Invoke Holes
Ward/Invoke Tsunamis
Invoke New Moon
Invoke Full Moon
Make Water into Sea Water
Safe/Unsafe Passage Through the Blue Sea
Safe/Unsafe Passage Through the Black Sea
Ward Brain Deterioration
Preserve Brain
Appease Cephalopods
Awaken Psychic Powers
Become a Cephalopod
Protection in Darkness
Ward against Magic
Inflict/Remove Curse
Remove Magic

Worshipers.
Adventurers that frequent the underworld or sea, seaside residents, sailors, miners, those that live where earthquakes are frequent, space travelers, psychics, nocturnals, & cephalopods.

Cephalopods.
They weren’t born from the lovemaking of Mort and Erodo. Nobody really knows how they came about. The only ones most people see are the ones that go to the surface to die. The ones that can barely communicate and resigned themselves to death after passing on their knowledge to their kin. 

World Pillars & Mort
Mort see The Grue as a weird creature that lives in her attic. She doesn’t mind it living there and finds it cute. Has a good laugh seeing it shake the pillars that separate the surface and the underworld, causing earthquakes, fissures, holes, tsunamis, etc. Keeps the roof dwellers on their toes. Babel hates it due to it destroying his architecture and it being unable to speak “normally”. Erodo as usual found it fascinating, one of her work in process projects is a full sketch of it.

Anti-Magic.
Magic relies on written, spoken, and signed language. Cephalopods (and presumably The Grue) use psychic and emphatic connections to communicate with each other. Through this specialization they awaken to more powers, the ability to create curses, and gain an innate resistance to magic. This lack of language is reflected in the rituals of the grue as they only require one to think and visualize in their head in order to complete them.

Deep Silver.
A type of silver that can only be found in the abyss of the sea. A chalky and marble texture that glows pure white. Associated with The Grue due to it’s anti-magic properties. A full plate armor set made of deep silver is said to make you immune to magic. Weapons plated with deep silver can devour any magic it touches. Curses are unaffected due to them being based in raw emotion rather than the imaginary of magic.

Moon.
Some people speculate that moon is made of deep silver due to a visual resemblance. There’s a big perfect circular hole on the surface visible on full moons. Some say it’s an egg The Grue laid to give birth to original cephalopods. Some say it's the remains of the egg that The Grue itself was born from. While more fringed group says it’s the eye of The Grue, implying it might be much much larger than anyone realizes. The more visible the moon is the more powerful psychic powers and curses becomes, while magic gets weaker (and vice versa).

Space.
Black Sea. Darkness. Void. When the observer in the sky rests, the black sea lowers onto the surface. It’s a sea made of air but one that can be swam through by certain means. On full moons, cephalopods migrate between the blue and black seas. Fishers & Sailors who go out on a full moon and never come back are said to have been lost in the black sea.

 

Author's Note.
Another old thing I found. It was an attempt to write up a god/spirit people would worship for a world building project that got abandoned. Rereading it looks like I wanted to do some writing that implies a deeper world. I quite like how it came out.

"Fear of Big Things Underwater" by Jacob Gellar, is where I'm pretty sure I got idea to go with cephalopods. That vid I'm pretty sure talked about how the only giant squids we see on the surface are the ones who are already dying.

Garl Vinland of Demon's Souls Fame and his bitchin armor set was the direct inspiration for Deep Silver. His armor gives a massive defense bonus against magic and his shield can completely negate magic. I also remember one of the merchant lady in the valley of defilement described him as a "squid-headed knight" which played into making connections lel. 

I don't particularity remember why I made curses and magic work that way. Regardless still like it. Always a fan of being able to get psychics into a setting. Should say I'm pretty sure I wrote this before reading anything from Jujutsu Kaisen (Hell think it didn't have any fan TLs were out yet).