Basically, in my world there are Fairy, otherworldly phenomena that defy explanation. One such entry on the long list of weird phenomena, is the hungry mouths phenomenon. This is where mouths start to manifest in walls, ceilings, and floors. The premise is they somehow coerce people into feeding them blood, flesh, meat, etc., without actually saying anything.

This leads to the mouths growing bigger and requiring more sustenance.

Here's the thing. I need a consequence for people not feeding the mouths. I keep coming back to the idea that they release something. Like an ooze that eats away at the surroundings or a gas that causes disease or something. I just don't think it's all that good.

Maybe someone can recommend some horror stories or ideas that might work here. I don't know.

Trigger Warning: Sensitive Topics

Introduction

The 2015 Salvadorian Civil war, also known by many other names such as "The Amazon War", "The True Gender War", "The Amazon Insurrection", "The Second Salvadorian Civil war" or simply"The Salvadorian Civil" was a conflict that occured in the small nation of El Salvador. It was considered to be the most brutal conflict to occur in the small nation's soil so far on the 21st century. Though the war has finally conluded, it's damage will continue to linger on for generations to come.

Origin/Prelude

The conflict can be traced to as far as the the 1990s where the Bicameral goverment set up after the previous civil war has conluded when a far right military goverment had taken over via coup to crack down on socialism within the nation and to aid Mexico on the war against Guatemala in exchange for benefits for the nation. Though the military goverment has transitioned into a civilian one. It's authoritarian tendencies still remain.

While at the same time the government had also began collaborating with various gangs and criminal organizations in order to them to serve the government as some kind of de-facto task force to crack down on the dissident in exchange for rewards and benefits. That in turn resulted in various people punished for petty crimes and speaking against the government while those from these organizations get away with the equivalent of just a slap to the wrist at worst.

Because of this the nation had overtime became an oligarchy where the powerful elite can simply play with the citizens like they're merely toys. Disregarding them once they no longer see value within them and not giving a care of what happens to them but when the people do figh back or call them out, they treat them like they have always been a problem.

This resulted in the people growing more and more resentful by the indifferent government with the most prominent of these groups being "The Daughters of Amazon", a cult located in the wilderness where it's members believe that both men and women are created by two gods, Amazon and Mars. Where women are held as divine whilst men are nothing more than demons which explains the misogyny present in not just their society but every society that has existed in this world. They prophesized that soon there will be a war where women will finally be freed from the chains of the patriarchy to become the rightful rules of the world like what the goddess Amazon had intended.

Their numbers have slowly grown on a rapid rate to the nation's disregard from women's rights, where women have to face constant threat on a daily basis both from the Government or from Criminal Organizations alike. Members composed of angry vengeful women alongside male sympathizers (mostly composed of homosexual men and transgendered individuals) have gathered together to prepare for this battle that awaits them.

And soon that day came where a prominent female activist was found dead on her home where the crime was declared as both an armed robbery and homicide, though the perpetrators were never caught nor brought to justice and we're treaded merely as a "minor inconvenience" by the government. This news enraged women across the country showing how much women's rights have been disregarded and how they let criminals criminals get away with what they did. Soon many women alongside men who are willing to fight for the cause have rallied on the streets to protest in hopes that their voices are instead. The government meanwhile, instead of hearing those voices had decided to silence them with violence as an effort to make the people fear them but this time, people don't want to be afraid anymore, this time they want to fight back."

Duration

The war began in 2015 when the Amazon's began to stage an uprising between various rural areas within the country. At first the government thought that these new rebels are merely just simple insurgents but as the war progressed they soon realized that those Amazon's are not just small scale insurgents but are a large militia composed of resentful women whom have had enough of the abuse brought upon by the rampant misogyny of the government and the nation's men themselves.

The most shocking part was how they managed to succefully assassinate the nations president during a speech. The sudden death of the President has plunged the already unstable nation into chaos and the criminal organizations that have previously collaborated with the government have soon betrayed the country and began to carve the nation for themselves due to no longer seeing value in them. This sudden assassination and immediate collapse have put the Amazons on an even greater advantage than they can ever dream of. As months pass by, the Nation has already fell into total anarchy.

The war is divided into various fronts. The Authoritharian Government, The Democratic Forces, Various Criminal Militias, and the Most Radical of them all: The Daughters of Amazon. Each faction wanted to establish their dream nations within El Salvador. The Government wanted to maintain the status quo, the democratic forces wanted to establish a democracy, the criminals would simply want to establish a caste-like society with themselves on the top, while the Amazons wanted to establish a matriarchal amazonian theocracy where men are simply used and exist to simply be as slaves.

The first phases of the war were very chaotic from all sides as every saide committed atrocities against each other left and right, refugees began fleeing to the nearby nations of Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and even as far as Mexico. The war has also degraded not just the town's and cites of the country but also nature as well where the war has mostly been fought at. Out of all of these factions it seems like the Amazons are at the advantage as their forces have the highest morale and doesn't have much infighting compared to the rest of all the other factions, they were able to obtain new recruits easier due to most recruits being women who are fed up with the governments disregard and they were even able to occupy the larges amount of territory in the country, albeit only by a slight margin to that of government forces. With all of these factors it seems like victory is guaranteed for them, atleast that's what it seemed like at first.

As the years pass by, the Amazons slowly lose their advantage due to the combination of factors that soon arise such as the election of a radical president in Honduras resulted in the nation's intervention on the civil war, the Latin American Alliance offering weapons for goverment forces out of fear that the potential spread of extremism brought upon by the Amazon faith/ideology, the rise of the leadership of Niyab Bukele whom climbed the ranks from the military to the government, the collapse of various criminal organization due to poor cooperation between every organization, many women deserting the Amazon's due to the extremism present becoming too concerning for them. Alongside various other factors have, the Amazons have now put in a more disadvantaged position experiencing loss after loss from that point on.

The final nail to the coffin occured early in 2024 when the last fortresses of the Amazons have either fallen from Government forces or surrended at the last moment after the fall of the last Amazon fortress in November has marked the conclusion of the Salvadorian Civil War. Though there are still insurgents present in the aftermath, they are now at a point where they no longer present as a genuine threat.

Aftermath

The 2015 Salvadorian Civil was considered to be the most brutal war to occur not in El Salvador but also all of Central America in the 21st Century. This war has left a mark on not just the government but to also the people of the country.

This New Goverment under Bukele was even more paranoid and repressive compared to the Old Government prior to the civil war. Putting in stricter gun laws, limiting the amount of education opportunities to women, banning the wearing of revealing clothing in public for women, the banning of Non-christian theology and literature on schools, and a large funding on the military. Though that doesn't mean that the new goverment has made any compensations as they established laws to protect women from violence and assault, ending the collaboration between criminal organizations, putting harsher punishments towards criminals and especially to treasonist, and etc.

Protections towards women are strictly enforced due to the female population of the country being decrease to about 30-40% according to national estimates which left so much concern to the country as it was a similar situation to that of Paraguay at some point of their history. Because of this the new goverment had plan to protect women at all cost, even if it means limiting their freedoms.

Though the situation now feels like a lost cause. It doesn't mean that there is no hope left, for one day, there will be a time where not just El Salvador but also many other nations with a similar problem will finally acheive true equality not for all men and women. Regardless of who they are.

Angel's gate was once a prosperous small town with a population of about 400 souls. It was also known across the lands for its charitable nature, nothing more prominent than the angel's gate orphanage which took in countless wayward children whether their parents were dead, they were disowned by their families, excommunicated by the church, or simply ran away from abusive situations.

The people of angel's gate were known for their hospitality, kindness, and charitable nature with many adults and older children aiding the orphanage through donation and volunteer work and because of this much of the town grew very close with the children there and the head mistress of the orphanage, Eleanor Creet.

This love and communal good was what drew the fiends to angel's gate and as soon as they arrived they knew exactly what to do to topple this little town, the orphanage was chosen as their target. On one particularly peacful night the fiends infiltrated the town and upon sneaking into the orphanage began possessing the children both young and older.

No one was any the wiser until the morning came and with it a bloodbath. The children that the town had poured so much love, attention, and care into had turned on them attacking anyone and anything they could. It didn't take long for the citizens to realize what was wrong unfortunately being so far away from any church outpost and with so many possessed running around they only had one real option to protect themselves.

As the dreadful day went on many citizens fel to the possessed many unable to harm those that they had cared for so deeply but there were those that could, despite the guilt and trauma they still feel to this very day. At least those of them that could handle it.

Even Eleanor was forced to choose between her life and that of some of her beloved children being forced to shoot several in some vain hope of being able to save the rest. When the churches paladins finally arrived after several days the town seemed deserted only for them to discover much of the town locked away in their homes, unable to face the carnage in the streets knowing who exactly the carnage once was.

Eleanor was discovered in the orphanage, the children she had been forced to put down prepped for burial and left with toys and trinkets to be buried with and Eleanor herself was found hanging from the rafters, unable to cope with what she was forced to do to survive. The inquisitor leading the paladins is still rumored to be unfit for field assignments to this day irreversibly scarred by what they witnessed that day.

8 in mine

no chicken sandich 😭

Chinese legs divorce their Chinese torso to survive in mecha-vietnam. He fights against the jaeger alliance with his 8 gun torso.

During his loyal service to the People's Liberation Army, Godzilla is grievously wounded during the Chinese Civil War. Both of his legs have been blown off and death looks imminent. However, the Chinese Communist Party realizes he is too valuable to die in battle, so they transform him into an experimental weapon to showcase the raw power of their ideology.

To prevent Godzilla from obtaining another near fatal leg injury, he is given 8 legs, all of which are guns, allowing him to run extremely fast, traverse dangerous terrain, and murder the nefarious underlings of Chang Kai-shek with immense speed. Unfortunately, these 8 guns are regular sized army issue rifles, so he looks a little silly and may get embarrassed whilst fighting.

Through cutting edge technology and medical experimentation, Godzilla also becomes immortal after eating the largest edible in history (manufactured by 20 million peasant farmers, all of which died due to overexertion and low quality baking supplies). At least that's what Godzilla thinks -- he's actually not immortal, but immensely high, and will be for the rest of his life due to the edible being a "forever weed brownie", which Godzilla doesn't know about. Despite this, his delirium increases his courage tenfold and he is more likely to do a sick back flip or two whilst gunning the enemy down with his tiny legs.

Can he solo Batgos?

Imagine how scary it would be if Godzilla was also immortal, Chinese, and had 8 legs that are all guns

Godzilla gets his legs blown off by a landmine while vacationing. Now he’s got AK-47s for legs and is immortal. The guns are very small compared to him and don’t support him at all.

^ Title. Imagine him running through your house, the little tip taps of his 8 feet

Moroccan child soldier loses his legs in war and now his legs are AK-47s.

Hundreds of millions of years ago, shortly after the universe appeared, the first forms of life were born, beings that did not matter if they were of death or life, they would bring chaos, death and destruction wherever they went, these beings were known like the first gods.

Hundreds of millions of years ago During the period known as the apogee, these creatures dominated the known universe, ravaging planets and transporting themselves in the form of meteorites through the void of outer space. But for some reason, many of these beings began to congregate and inhabit a young planet, a new planet, Earth.

There were several first gods inhabiting the planet, but among all those who stood out the most were two: the immortal god Godzilla and the golden king Ghidorah. These two beings constantly battled trying to gain control of that planet, until 2.4 billion years ago these two beings fought in a battle like no other, the immortal god with his war hounds against the golden king and a solar storm.

It was a battle like no other but there came a time when Godzilla's atomic beam and Ghidorah's gravity rays converged, collapsed on each other and merged, creating an element never seen before in the universe, oxygen, they caused the great oxidation.

Oxygen was not the only thing that was created in that fusion, an explosion was also created so powerful that it killed the immortal god (only a 5 meter fragment of his spine remained) and caused the golden king to retreat and enter a torpor at what we now know as Saturn's south pole. This event was what marked the end of the apogee and the vast majority of the first gods entered into a slumber of millions of years waiting to wake up one day. Those who did not become lethargic were left wandering through space aimlessly in the form of a meteorite or asteroid for eons.

A few geological periods later, life on Earth had re-emerged but 66 million years ago in what we now know as the Yucatan Peninsula something fell from the stars, something that was thought for a long time to be a simple asteroid, but it was actually a god, one whose mere presence caused natural catastrophes and apocalyptic events, the one called Rodan, the ancient of cataclysm, a flying beast that feeds on the geothermal energy of planets to survive. After its impact on Earth a few life forms survived, Rodan dominated the world and feeding with the method of absorbing geothermal energy while dormant inside volcanoes, deciding to feed inside what we now know as the Thera volcano, resting there until it changed to another in 1450 BC, ending the Minoan civilization, after which he was transported to Mount Tambora, where it rested and fed until 1815 AC, causing the volcano to erupt and that the year without summer would occur, heading to an underwater volcano in Japan that would become his new resting place where he remains today.

It was in these millennia that life developed, humans and human civilization were born, all of this occurring in a short period of time after the apogee, which would come to an end when a 5-meter spinal column fragment was discovered in Japan, emanatibg constant radiation, eventually causing the immortal's rebirth and second apogee.

So, in my world, I have 3 races. I will refer to them as Space Elves, Humans and Warrior Race. They all hate each other.

However, I just noticed that all 3 of them have a very bland insult to describe everyone that is not them. Space elves refer to everyone as lesser races, humans refer to everyone as xeno scum and the warrior race refer to everyone as slave races.

I want to diversify this.

So for context, humans are incredibly xenophobic, incredibly violent and are literally the Imperium of Man except smaller and more competent at running their empire.

Space elves meanwhile have more in common with the Imperium of Man than the humans do, which is peak irony. Massive empire, inefficient af, hyper religious cult, terrible dictatorship, religious state that makes dumb af decisions, militant, constant crusades to wipe out humanity, they even have a God Empress. Space elves also use magic a LOT, that is what differentiates them.

Lastly, the warrior race, they are your typical brutal warrior race (except unlike Templin Institute's claims, mine actually work) and the galaxy HATES them. I mention only humans and space elves but there are several other irrelevant races and EVERYONE is aware of how awful the šars are and EVERYONE hates them for their love of war, constant war, poor treatment of those they enslave, their slavery and so on. They also come from the void so it is extremely difficult to destroy them.

I want all 3 of my races to have unique slurs to call each other instead of your simple "Lesser race, xeno scum, slave race." That universally applies to everyone.

Ok, so here is the thing, the main idea for this world that I am working on is a universe where all the Godzilla Monsters are eleer gods known as the first Gods, some of them are Godzilla the immortal god, the Golden King Ghidorah, Rodan the ancient of the cataclysm, etc... And I wanted to ask what Lovecraftian or cosmic horror aspects and details should I add

I want to cteate a low fantasy setting with grafting in it but I have only a few ideas and I really want more options except for things like

More punch = more hand

I'd be happy to hear if anyone has any more ideas

Here's my ideas so far

More hands (sword fighting stayle) More eyes (creepy) More vertebrates (being able to spin) More hearts (more endurance) More skin (body armor)

Before the universe existed, there was nothing. And before there was nothing, there was the Snake. The Snake wandered for eons and nothingness followed with him. When he settled down at the center of the universe, the Snake slept and the Forge of Creation formed around him. His dreams would soon spawn the universe from whence all things came to be.

But with his dreams, there also comes nightmares. And from those nightmares came the Dreaded Ones; lovecraftian monsters that spawned from the fears, loneliness and other negative aspects that the Snake secretly harbored. And for a time, the nothingness became something and the universe was covered in a sea of monsters, one of which, included the Old God, Nerzhatoth.

Nerzhathoth had no concept of existence. It HATED life. It was brought here by force, and its very existence in this reality hurts him. It hated the light from the Forge, and wished nothing more but for reality to end so it can go back to nonexistent.

So it clawed its way from the darkest corner of the universe, slowly controlling the Dreaded Ones and forcing its way to the center of the universe and towards the Forge, where it hopes to wake the Snake up and destroy all reality.

This scared the Snake so much that it cried, and from his cries came the Green and the Blue Comet, the Green signifying all the negative aspects of the universe (tragedy, death, loneliness) while the Blue represented all the positives (hope, dreams, wisdom) and casted them out into the universe.

Unexpectedly, the power of the Comets also shattered the fabric of reality, creating the Lovecraftian God of Time (later known ad Father Time by its worshipers), Za-Kah-Nnon (aka “the canon” lol). Za-Kah-Nnon, would try to hold the splintered realities together, despite not knowing why it was doing it in the first place. It felt like an urge to it, as if it was created to do this one thing and this one thing only. By carrying the splintered timelines together, it would create multiple realities and multiple universe, where only it, the Snake, and the gods are the center of it. But tbh I’m just using this as an excuse so I can write multiple stories within the same universe, but with a different scenario (aka, a universe where things go wrong, an apocalyptic world, etc etc).

The power from the combined comets encased the Old God in a sphere of glassy marble, trapping it in and weakening it, leaving Nerzhathot to drift in space for eternity. After millions of years, piles of star dust and cosmic debris would pile on top of the glass, turning the sphere into to a rocky planet, forming the planet Earth as we know today. Eventually, the gravitational pull of the sun, Sol, would pull the glassy tomb of Nerzhathot, and life would thrive on its surface, unaware of the living god inside of it.

The Green and the Blue would eventually be reincarnated into different bodies for aeons to come (my protagonist, Damien Pines, is the current reincarnation of the Green) as a way to balance out the powers of the two.

While the Blue are fated to change history and usher the world in a new golden age (Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci), but are prone to pride and corruption (though this depends on the person, some remain good and end up influencing the world through other means, such as literature).

Meanwhile, the reincarnation of the Green are forced to live a life of misery, death and loneliness, turning most of them bitter and alone for most of their lives. They are, however, very prone to magic and end up as powerful magicians and occultists.

Damien Pines is the current reincarnation, and he came from a long line of ancestors that were also part of the Green at some point. All of them, however, all suffered from several tragedies, and Damien was no exception. While this is cruel, the Green is a necessary evil to keep the balance of the universe, otherwise, all hell would break.

Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg. There are more gods, a shit ton more of lore, and other stuff. But that would take another hour for me to write so I’ll just stick with this.

Anyways, my entire world was built and inspired around Christian mythology with some Lovecraftian mix to it (Adam and Even being Reality Warpers, the snake symbolism, the Fall of Samael) since I’m such a sucker for it despite not really being religious myself. I would love to hear more about your world, so feel free to share yours!

I’ve been trying to come up with a reason for why things are the way they are in my universe, such as- why is everything so messed up, why is there a large diversity amongst systems/sectors, and why are humans still around despite how advanced technology seems?

For my timeline, technology and society progressed linearly and how we’d expect it to be for the next 1000 years for our timeline. Then at some point, everything fell apart.

First thing that comes to mind is a war with AI / augmented humans, as a large movement builds momentum to return to more conventional ways of life and having more control of their own life, or whatever.

Obviously, humans stand no chance as virtual beings have tons more advantages over fleshy humans. Entire colonies are wiped out, planets are glassed, and most importantly- this wormhole-like gate system collapses, which connects tens of hundreds of light years of human space expanding outward in a sphere.

But the AI / augmented faction just disappears with no explanation. I don’t really want there to be a reason just yet as it adds to the mystery of the universe and why the way things are. Instead of this faction just being black and white, I want it to be more grey.

I do want to have some dark aspects of it still, such as the disparity that still remains on human colonies that have struggled in the hundreds of years that followed The Collapse. But I also like the idea of remnant AI fleets or artifacts that risk the security of travelers or entire planets.

I’m curious to see what you all think

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