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This category enumerates Strange Gods associated with the Obyrith.

Eldritch Gods (Commonspeak), also , are a class of godlike phenomena associated with the Strange Realm known as the Horizon. Integral scholarship recognizes exactly seven such entities, a number understood to be mandatory rather than coincidental, though the underlying principle enforcing this limit remains unknown. This constraint is commonly referred to as the Law of Seven, and it appears consistently across all manifestations of Strange divinity.

Integral authorities classify Eldritch Gods as godlike phenomena rather than true gods. Unlike the Gods of the Integrum, Eldritch Gods do not appear to govern Grand Designs, enforce universal laws, or exercise consistent intentional agency. Their power is vast, but it manifests indirectly, through distortion, influence, and symbolic resonance rather than obvious command.

Eldritch Gods originated during the Shattered Age, immediately following the catastrophic destruction of The Orrery, the Grand Design of Destiny. Prior to this event, they were not gods at all, but rather Servitors of Destiny, known as The Fates, immortal automata bound to The Apparatus and tasked with maintaining causal coherence across time and outcome.

When the Orrery was destroyed, the Fates suffered total functional collapse. Their defining purpose ceased to exist, and their internal logic became irreparably contradictory. In the chaos that followed, the Fates were violently drawn into the emerging Strange, becoming the first known components of the Integrum to transmute into non-Integral beings. This transition is regarded as the first true Eldritch emergence.

Integral records indicate that there were always seven Eldritch Gods from the moment of their transformation. Early scholarship, however, failed to recognize this, often conflating multiple entities or assuming the destruction of others. Only with the later articulation of the Law of Seven did historians retroactively identify these errors and reconcile fragmented accounts.

Throughout the Dark Age, Eldritch Gods were not active conquerors or architects of empires. Instead, they functioned as metaphysical anomalies. Cult movements, disasters, prophetic outbreaks, and mass madness events consistently clustered around their indirect influence. In rare cases, an Eldritch God appeared to take a focused interest in a specific outcome, but no consensus exists as to whether these moments represented intention or mere narrative coincidence.

By the Dawn Age, Integral civilizations had developed improved methods for detection, containment, and remediation of Eldritch incursions. These advances have not diminished the Eldritch Gods themselves, but they have reduced the long-term damage of their influence. Despite this, many authorities remain concerned that a sufficiently severe manifestation could overwhelm existing safeguards.

Eldritch Gods are a specific category of Strange Gods. As creatures of Strange, they do not fit any rational definition by Integral measures. Moreover, Eldritch Gods are all associated strongly with incoherent madness, and the corruption of both mind and flesh.

Eldritch Gods, like the Obyrith, are obsessed with perception and cognition, presumedly in an effort to understand their place in a universe that no longer has a place for them. They seem to believe that through unravelling the mystery of perception and cognition that they do not comprehend, they will regain what was lost to them in The Shattering.

If there is an association of Eldritch Gods, it is not known.

If there are ecological qualities to Eldritch, they are not known.

Like many Strange species, there are seven unique Eldritch Gods.