Aru'Nash

Visual Description

Aru’Nash’s original form is a breathtaking paradox of stillness and motion. Its body is a lattice of translucent mineral and pale crystal, through which slow rivers of liquid light flow like veins. From afar, it appears as a colossal figure sculpted from living quartz, yet its surface ripples faintly, as if water moves beneath its skin. Where it walks, the ground glistens as if newly washed by rain, and faint echoes like the sighing of tides follow in its wake.   Its face is featureless save for two deep hollows glowing with shifting hues - sometimes blue as glacial water, sometimes green as jungle pools. Within its chest, faintly visible, beats a radiant heart of Ossaline crystal, pulsing in rhythm with the leylines of the world.  

Powers

Aru’Nash commands the hidden waters that thread through the bones of the world. It can call rivers from barren stone, still the fury of the seas, or drown entire valleys in silence. Its power seeps through the ground rather than bursts upon it - reshaping landscapes through pressure and flow.   The Titan can infuse the very soil with vitality, coaxing fertility from deserts or turning corruption to salt. Yet when enraged, those same waters can rise in unstoppable force, liquefying mountains and reducing cities to sediment. In its presence, all water - rain, river, or tear - answers to its will.  

Goals

Aru’Nash once served as the Balancer of Currents, ensuring that the lifeblood of the world flowed evenly through its crust. It sought harmony between drought and flood, between what grows and what withers. But as the ages passed and mortal empires rose, it grew disillusioned with the scars carved into its rivers and the poisons poured into its veins.   Now, in its long slumber, Aru’Nash dreams of renewal through reclamation - of washing the slate clean. Its awakening would not be an act of vengeance, but of restoration, purging all that is stagnant or corrupted so that the world might begin anew.  

Secrets

The Veinwork of Aru’Nash: Hidden beneath Alana’s continents runs a vast network of Ossaline channels - remnants of Aru’Nash’s veins. Druids who meditate deeply enough can sometimes hear these subterranean waters whispering its name.   Dreams Beneath Phlox: The Ossaline Stone beneath Phlox is Aru’Nash’s crystallised heart. Its pulse is faint but constant, and through it, the Titan’s dormant consciousness still touches the world.   The Drowning Promise: Some forbidden texts in the vaults of the Enigma Society suggest that Aru’Nash made a pact with one of The Old Gods at the end of the Titan Wars - to flood the world should the balance of nature ever be irreparably broken. Whether this was myth or prophecy remains uncertain. Some ancient documents make believe this happened, and that is why Alana is mostly covered by water.