Aeon
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Overview
Aeon (Feytongue) is named for being the founder of destiny.
Lore about Aeon is rare and incomplete. It was destroyed before the The Shattering, so it is beyond the living memory of the gods. Its servitors vanished after The Shattering, so they can offer no information. The only creatures that can be said to have first-hand knowledge of Aeon is Pendulum and the demons, and information from the former is very incomplete, while information from the latter is very unreliable.
History
Aeon arrived with the rest of the founders at the beginning of the First Age. It participated in the Foundation War and built the grand design of destiny during Integration.
At the end of the Gilded Age Aeon was destroyed. It is believed that the celestial dragon, Astarael laid a trap for Aeon using The Anomaly. When Aeon encountered The Anomaly, something about it drove the founder mad. The devastation was so severe that it led to [[The Shattering], ending the idyllic Gilded Age.
The rest of the founders had to unleash a special servitor called The Oathbound, specifically capable of destroying a founder, to stop Aeon before its destruction. Aeon's body crashed through the Great Barrier where it lay at the bottom of the Abyss for the entire Shattered Age and Dark Age.
However, even its destroyed body was far from harmless. From it sprang the powers of the Void. Aeon's nightmares took shape in the demons and archdemons, creatures bent on infiltrating the universe and ending it forever.
At the end of the Dark Age, the archdemon Lascivia was able to successfully resurrect Aeon through a powerful ritual of shadow magic. Thankfully the heroes of Unnecessary Evil were able to repair the Abyss, restoring the Great Barrier and sealing Aeon in the Void, safely outside of the Integrum.
There the mad founder Aeon waits for a way to destroy his creation.
Cosmology
Little is known about founders relationship to cosmology except that they are alien to the universe, arriving from outside and usurping the Contest Eternal for their own aims in the Integrum.
Founders are, individually, the most powerful creatures in the universe, and as the last founder in existence, Aeon is the most powerful creature in existence.
Description
Aeon has many forms, as much of his body is concealed in the ethereal realm that is The Apparatus. In his naked form, which he holds in the Void, disconnected from The Apparatus, he appears as an unimaginably massive clockwork man, with skin of Truecrystal and clockwork gears of silver and gold Truemetal. It speaks with a voice that is felt more than heard, grinding the bones and causing intense discomfort.
Personality
Aeon is consumed by madness. How much of his madness is still the result of his encounter with The Anomaly and how much of his madness is the result of his centuries in the Void or his nightmare resurrection are not known. But in any event he is a godlike intelligence that is bent upon the destruction of the entire universe.