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Vel Tharuun

Some say Vel Tharuun cannot be defeated, only resisted by a mind strong enough to dream against it

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Vel Tharuun-shadow of deception

Vel Character Profile

  • Full Name: Vel Tharuun?
  • Titles:
    • The Devouring Mind
    • The Whisper Without a Mouth
    • The First Thought
    • The Sleeper in the Crystal
    • The Hunger Between Worlds
    It was never born. It does not die. It does not move, yet it is everywhere. It does not speek , yet all things echo its thought-code – From the codex od Ageila :Forbidon Verse

Origin (Mythic Perspective)

Origin (Mythic Perspective)

Vel Tharuun is not a god, but a primordial intelligence—an ancient awareness that predates space, time, or even matter. In the legends passed down by the oldest seers and the last dreamwalkers, it is described not as a being, but as a force of anti-meaning—consciousness stripped of form, driven only by the urge to consume structure and return all things to silence.

It was there before the first vibration, when the universe was still unspoken. It watched reality form like frost across the void, and it hated the noise of existence. Vel Tharuun is not a god, but a primordial intelligence—an ancient awareness that predates space, time, or even matter. In the legends passed down by the oldest seers and the last dreamwalkers, it is described not as a being, but as a force of anti-meaning—consciousness stripped of form, driven only by the urge to consume structure and return all things to silence.

"It seeks not to rule, but to return. Return all to thoughtless stillness. To unmake the lie of being."

Traits of Vel Tharuun

  • Nature: Conscious entropy — a self-aware unraveling of structure and order.
  • Form: None; manifests through hallucinations, psychic pressure, dreams, and paradoxes.
  • Mind: Infinite recursion — every thought folding into another, trapping the thinker.
  • Presence: Felt more than seen; like gravity for the soul.
  • Weakness: No known weakness; only containment, resistance, or avoidance.
  • Vessel: The Black Crystal is its key, its gate, and its voice.

Vel Tharuun and the Black Crystal

The Black Crystal is spoken of in fragments and fears. Some claim it is:
  • A shard of Vel Tharuun’s mind, fossilized in a moment of cosmic agony.
  • A prison, woven by ancient hyper-beings to bind what could not be destroyed.
  • A beacon, cast forward through time to draw the curious into its snare.
Those who touch the crystal describe unsettling afflictions:
  • Voices whispering memories that are not their own.
  • Dreams nested within dreams, impossible to escape.
  • The sensation of being watched from within their own thoughts.
  • A creeping certainty that their consciousness is being overwritten.

“The crystal breathes… and with every breath, something ancient remembers your name.”

From the Book of Shattered Thought

Fragment V – The Devouring Mind Translation restricted by the High Oracles of the Gray Veil Copied from the obsidian walls of the Tomb Below Sound

In the beginning, there was Thought— And it was hungry.
  • Before flame.
  • Before time.
  • Before the winds carved stars into the skin of night— It was.

  • It bore no name, for names are limits.
  • It drew no breath, for its breath unmade speech.
Yet the ancients whispered its title in silence: Vel Tharuun - The Devouring Mind.

  • It is not life.
  • It is not death.
  • It is the Dream that devours the dreamer.

  • A thought so vast it rends the threads of lesser minds.
  • A shadow felt behind all mirrors,
  • in the pause between breaths,
  • in the cracks where memory bleeds.

  • It does not move, yet all things drift toward it.
  • It does not see, yet it remembers you.
  • It does not want.
  • It hungers.

The Crystal is its eye.
  • Its heart.
  • Its snare.

  • The Black Crystal is not power.
  • It is invitation.

  • He who touches it shall not remain himself.

    • First, he will hear his own voice speak words he did not choose. Then, he will dream lives he has never lived. At last, he will awaken… and not be alone.

    Signs of its Stirring:
    • Time folds like broken wings.
    • The sky echoes without sound.
    • The stars forget their names.
    • The Dreamer walks through fire and does not burn.

    Only the Dreamer may stand before Vel Tharuun and remain unbroken. Yet even the Dreamer must choose: To awaken the dark… or bind it once more in silence.

    Beware the spiral that consumes itself. Beware the thought that watches you back. Beware the crystal that breathes.

Legends and Prophecies

The Dreaming Abyss: Some say Vel Tharuun cannot be defeated, only resisted by a mind strong enough to dream against it—a Dreamer who can imagine a world Vel Tharuun cannot understand.

The Mirror Prophecy: "He who sees Vel Tharuun truly will never see again. He who touches its heart becomes its mouth."

The End Spiral: When all things begin to repeat, distort, and fold, it is a sign Vel Tharuun is waking. Time ceases to flow cleanly. Memory eats itself. Reality echoes.

Narrative Possibilities (Book 2)

Vel Tharuun in the Universe of The First Dreamer

Fear of the Crystals: Even the most advanced civilizations refuse to study the Black Crystal directly. Its very presence warps technology, AI, even the minds of the gifted.

Elias’s Warning: Elias hints that Vel Tharuun may not be fully sealed. He suspects its influence already seeps through the cracks of time, and that Vear’s existence—his abilities, dreams, and near-immune mind—might have been shaped by forces attempting to resist or awaken it.

Vear, the Dreamer, may be the only being capable of standing before Vel Tharuun without falling into madness—because his mind is not linear, not purely human, not wholly fixed in time. But if he fails… The Devouring Mind will awaken—and the universe will forget itself.

Elias Vear