Lonely Hollow

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Lonely hollow cannot fit through the tunnels of its realm and must transform to liquid to travel far.

Overview

Lonely Hollow (Commonspeak) also , Ninhursag (Furyspeak \ˈnɪnhɜrsɑɡ\ for lady of the sacred mountain), is one of the Titans of the Lost Age. It has been known by many names, including The Cave that Keeps, Blackheart Earth, and Her Below. While composed of many concepts, its strongest theme is fear of loss. It is the embodiment of the premise that to have is to survive and to lose is to die.

History

Lonely Hollow was a Titan in the Lost Age who was subsequently imprisoned by the Founders, like all Titans, in the Foundation War during the First Age. It has remained imprisoned ever since.

Description

Like all Titans, Lonely Hollow is an amalgamation of numerous abstract concepts, living beings, and physical essences.

Conceptual Existence

Lonely Hollow is comprised of the following abstract concepts:

• Fear: the instinct to withdraw, hide, listen, and survive unseen
• Greed: the belief that possession is safety
• Secrecy: the belief that things which is hidden are safe
• Debt: the belief that nothing given is truly gone, all things remain reclaimable
• Trespass: the belief that no one is welcome and every entry an invasion
• Suffocation: the knowledge of too little space, too little air, no escape
• Burial: the belief that to cover is to claim, to bury is to keep

Living Forms

• People
  • Underkin

• Monsters
  • Tar Troll

• Fauna
  • Salt Lizard
  • Rats
  • Bats
  • Cave insects
  • Blind fish

• Flora
  • Mushrooms
  • Fungus
  • Molds
  • Lichens
  • Rootless cave blooms

• Realm Form: An network of caves with traits based on core aspects, such as:
  • Crystal cities grown instead of built
  • Tar grottos, lakes, and rivers
  • Ring vaults, civilizations hiding feared artifacts
  • Mushroom forests
  • Voiceless Halls where screaming causes you to lose your voice
• Avatar Form: A massive creature of crystal and tar. Its head, shoulders, rib cage, hips, and left arm are made of jagged, cracked crystal that glows slightly. The rest of its body is formed of viscous tar connecting the crystal parts.

Personality

Lonely Hollow was regarded as an desperate Titan. It is said it feared even itself, forever alone fearing its own company.

Aspects

• Realm: Caves
• Core Aspects: Fear
• Bone: Crystal
• Breath: Echoes
• Blood: Tar
• People: Underkin (Gulakku)
• Symbol: Ring
• Flora: Mushrooms
• Fauna: Vermin