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Martin Gruber

2026-06-05T00:46:04Z

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{{Biography|
name = Martin Alois Maria Gruber|
birth = 13 March 1853|
death = Somehow not dead yet|
career = [[XMAS]]|
known_for = Founding XMAS
}}

[[Martin Gruber]] is an extrafertile German paranormal researcher and archaeologist; he witnessed the unsealing of the [[Chimney Man]] from the [[The Temple of Burong|Temple of Burong]], whereafter he founded [[XMAS]] in an attempt to capture and re-seal the Man in Red.

Despite multiple combat encounters with the Chimney Man or one of His avatars, Martin has somehow consistently managed to be rescued just in time, albeit usually only after everyone around him has perished. With this dubious ‘luck’ of his, he remains the only member of XMAS to have survived the 1982 massacre that gifted Super Death to every other active and former XMAS operative at the time.

== Ability ==
{{Ability
|title = Door of All Doors
|description = Grants control over the concepts of ‘opening’ and ‘closing’
|power = 8/10
|destructive_power = 6/10
|rarity = Very Rare
}}

Martin’s ability, '''Door of All Doors''', gives him control over ‘doors’. More specifically, it grants him the authority over the concepts of ‘opening’ and ‘closing’.

Apart from doors, he can also apply this to other things such as drawers, closets, containers, and even to some abstract concepts. In his later years, Martin learnt how to apply the concept of ‘closing’ to ''space itself'', which enables him to cross large distances instantly by ‘closing’ the distance between him and his destination.

Martin Gruber

2026-06-04T21:45:00Z

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{{Biography|
name = Martin Alois Maria Gruber|
birth = 13 March 1853|
death = Somehow not dead yet|
career = [[XMAS]]|
known_for = Founding XMAS
}}

[[Martin Gruber]] is an extrafertile German paranormal researcher and archaeologist; he witnessed the unsealing of the [[Chimney Man]] from the [[The Temple of Burong|Temple of Burong]], whereafter he founded [[XMAS]] in an attempt to capture and re-seal the Man in Red.

Despite multiple combat encounters with the Chimney Man or one of His avatars, Martin has somehow consistently managed to be rescued just in time, albeit usually only after everyone around him has perished. With this dubious ‘luck’ of his, he remains the only member of XMAS to have survived the 1982 massacre that claimed the lives of every other active and former XMAS operative at the time.

== Ability ==
{{Ability
|title = Door of All Doors
|description = Grants control over the concepts of ‘opening’ and ‘closing’
|power = 8/10
|destructive_power = 6/10
|rarity = Very Rare
}}

Martin’s ability, '''Door of All Doors''', gives him control over ‘doors’. More specifically, it grants him the authority over the concepts of ‘opening’ and ‘closing’.

Apart from doors, he can also apply this to other things such as drawers, closets, containers, and even to some abstract concepts. In his later years, Martin learnt how to apply the concept of ‘closing’ to ''space itself'', which enables him to cross large distances instantly by ‘closing’ the distance between him and his destination.

Second Beer Brawl of 2022

2026-06-04T21:41:17Z

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{{HISTORICAL_EVENT
|date = 11–14 January 2022
|perpetrator = [[Martin Gruber]], [[Urtinger]]
|involved = 37 patrons at a German inn
|location = Wasserburg am Inn, Germany
|damage = Several broken tables and chairs; 1000 pints of beer that were never paid for
|context = [[XMAS]]
}}

The [[Second Beer Brawl of 2022]] was an event that took place at the local tavern in Wasserburg am Inn, Germany, between 11–14 January 2022.

That day, [[Martin Gruber]] arrived at the town to recruit [[Urtinger]] into [[XMAS]]. Urtinger, of course, cared little about the [[Chimney Man]] and initially refused; when Martin persisted, the former challenged him to a drinking game. Of course, this was a rather unfair proposition, as Urtinger had spent his entire life drinking nothing but beer, but Martin’s extrafertility meant he was no pushover either.

After the 39th beer, Martin started feeling a bit tipsy. At this point, the local inkeep would have liked to close the tavern for the day, but he knew full well there was no separating Urtinger from his beer, so after dismissing all other patrons, he simply locked the door and went to bed, with Marting and Urtinger still drinking.

The tavern reopened as Martin emptied the 121st beer. At this point, Urtinger was growing impatient, as the two of them had agreed they’d drink one beer at a time and wait for the other person to finish; Urtinger, of course, had consistently emptied every new pint in no more than 5 seconds, but Martin had started slowing down quite a bit; it now took him about 7 minutes to finish a pint, and he had started actively circulating his fertility throughout his body to combat the drunkeness.

After emptying the 173rd beer, Martin briefly considered using his ability to secretly dump the beer from his stein outside the tavern and only pretend to drink it, but he knew Urtinger would probably notice and take great offence to this—not because it was cheating of course, but rather because Martin would be wasting beer in doing so.

In the early afternoon of 13 January, after nearly over two fulls days of nothing but drinking beer, Martin was starting to reach his limit; fortunately for him, they had exhausted the tavern’s beer supply twice and had been forced to take two 4-hour breaks as a result, during which time Martin told Urtinger about [[XMAS]] and the [[Chimney Man]].

When the two of them emptied the 486th beer, a fight broke out between them and the other patrons when the latter were told that Martin and Urtinger were the reason why there hadn’t been any beer for them for the past 3 days. The resulting ‘battle’, if it can be called that, lasted a grand total of 8.73 seconds, during which the extrafertile Martin and Urtinger dispatched 37 patrons, who, unlike Urtinger, were rather ordinary German beer drinkers, with great efficiency.

This event later became ‘known’, though only to the locals, as the Second Beer Brawl of 2022, the First having been perpetrated by Urtinger by himself just a week prior. After sitting back down and drinking another 14 beers for a grand total of 500, Urtinger exclaimed that he found Martin’s persistence as well as his combat techniques ‘interesting’ and agreed to follow him for a while, though he didn’t commit to being a full-time member of XMAS.

Merely an hour later, a terrible earthquake that was followed soon after by a deafening shockwave shook the entire town. Though Martin could sense that the source of the event was somewhere to the northwest, he couldn’t quite tell what had happened. Urtinger, whose extrasterility rendered him more sensitive to sterile events, knew that its cause lay in a massive eruption of sterility; as a sterility user himself, he was rather intrigued by this, and so, the two of them set out to investigate [[Orkney Exodus of 2022|what had transpired]].

Wet Amalgam

2026-05-28T16:52:07Z

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The [[Wet Amalgam]] is a planet-sized mass of [[Wet Ghoul]] located somewhere near -9i+727j.

Despite lacking cognitive capacity almost entirely, the Amalgam is nevertheless [[extancy|extant]]. It is incapable of conscious movement and instead drifts about on the [[Imaginary Plane]] between -8.7i+698j and -9.1i+731j.

It cannot be said to be capable of communication, but those in Its proximity will find their senses assailed by a sensation often likened to a continuous low-pitched droning sound. This ‘sound’ serves as Its defence mechanism, intensifying in ‘volume’ the closer one gets to It and effecting a destabilisation of [[Entanglement]] in the listener. Deafness as well as any attempt at protection against it are useless as the ‘sound’ is not a simple physical wave that is merely ‘heard’, but rather a preternatural distortion caused by continuously fluctuating and self-overlapping resonances comprising all Entanglements.

Upon entering a radius of 500 000 km around the Amalgam, any [[disentanglement|entangled]] being will suffer a severe inversion of their Entanglement should they fail to leave Its proximity within 43 attoseconds of their entering, thus being granted immediate [[Super Death]], with what little remains of them afterwards subsequently being assimilated by the Amalgam.

Unlike ordinary Wet Ghouls, which are preyed upon by [[Timeless Being]]s, It does not fear them, in part because It is incapable of sensation, but mainly because Timeless Beings, too, are entangled and thus victim to the ‘sound’ upon entering Its proximity. Even [[Uk'aj chuuk waj]] Itself could do naught but flee when Its path almost intersected with that of the Amalgam near -8.97i+722j.

XMAS

2026-05-25T14:08:31Z

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{{ORGANIZATION|
image = santa-arrested.png|
caption = XMAS operatives, one dressed as a police officer, and others posing as bystanders, arresting a man with presumed ties to the Chimney Man|
founded = 1923|
founders = [[Christopher Winter]], [[Martin Gruber]], MI7|
historical_context = [[The Travels of Dagobert Winter|The Unsealing of the Chimney Man]]|
goals = Capturing the [[Chimney Man]]|
allies = The [[Friendly Council]]|
enemies = The Chimney Man
}}

The '''Examiners of Malfeasances Attributable to Santa''', more commonly known as '''XMAS''', were a joint body of initially the MI7 and later on a reclusive faction of the KGB whose primary goal was to uncover the meaning behind and purpose of the actions of the [[Chimney Man]] with the aim of eventually re-sealing him.

== The first XMAS ==
XMAS was founded by German archaeologist [[Martin Gruber]] after he witnessed the unsealing of the Chimney Man at the [[The Temple of Burong|Temple of Burong]] in 1903.

In 1967, XMAS documented an encounter between the Chimney Man and [[Sergey Yazov|some random Russian guy]].

The first XMAS was disbanded after all of its members, excluding Martin, were forcefully relocated from -17i+1982j to [[Realm of the Dead|+17i]]+1982j on 24 December 1982.

== XMAS 2 ==
After going into hiding for a few decades, Martin reemerged in 2018 and established a new base of operations near a mountain in western Mongolia. Instead of joining forces with certain government agencies like he had done before, which had proven rather ineffective in combatting the Chimney Man, he resolved to focus on quality rather than quantity and set out to assemble a team of extraordinary, or rather, [[extrafertile]], individuals.

To that end, he even visited the German town of Wasserburg am Inn in an attempt to [[Second Beer Brawl of 2022|recruit the ‘German Colossus’, Urtinger]].

Wet Ghoul

2026-05-19T07:51:53Z

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A Wet Ghoul is a collection of [[fertility]], [[sterility]], [[anility]], or [[virility]] that has been stripped of all physical particles while remaining [[extancy|extant]]; they are sometimes mistaken for [[Hyper Ghost]]s, and vice versa. Upon infusion into a physical object or being, a Wet Ghoul may give rise to a [[Hemigod]].

An alternative to Wet Ghoulhood is [[Quantum Icing]], where one's fertility can be frozen at a specific location on the Imaginary Plane between specific realities on the i axis. In this case, however, physical data is usually stored, and the physical body of a victim of Quantum Icing can be reconnected to its fertility if handled properly.

Wet Ghouls are preyed upon and serve as a common food source for [[Timeless Being]]s, with [[Wet Amalgam|one exception]].

Wet Ghoul

2026-05-19T07:51:38Z

Ætérnal:

A Wet Ghoul is a collection of [[fertility]], [[sterility]], [[anility]], or [[virility]] that has been stripped of all physical particles while remaining [[extancy|extant]]; they are sometimes mistaken for [[Hyper Ghost]]s, and vice versa. Upon infusion into a physical object or being, a Wet Ghoul may give rise to a [[Hemigod]].

An alternative to Wet Ghoulhood is [[Quantum Icing]], where one's fertility can be frozen at a specific location on the Imaginary Plane between specific realities on the i axis. In this case, however, physical data is usually stored, and the physical body of a victim of Quantum Icing can be reconnected to its fertility if handled properly.

Wet Ghouls are a common food source for [[Timeless Being]]s, with [[Wet Amalgam|one exception]].

Looking Glass

2026-05-19T07:34:19Z

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{{Infobox Item|title = Looking Glass|image = LookingGlass.png}}The Looking Glass is artifact on the Imaginary Plane located at (0,0,0), within the [[Safe Asymptote]]. When someone gazes into the looking glass, they see a fate that is inescapable for them once they see it.

== Examples ==
* When [[Mumbi Jhai]] gazed into it, he saw himself being granted [[Super Death]] by [[Dmitriy Loki Requiem]] on the [[The Worst Days|9/11 of the Dead]]. Since 9/11 of the Dead was in the past, Mumbi didn't understand the vision at the time. When Mumbi used his COS-PLAY Ability during [[Seventh Letter]], he met the fate he saw in the glass.

* When [[Urtinger]] gazed into it, he saw his wife Martina divorcing him; however, he wasn’t too bothered by this as he thought he could simply remarry her, but as time has shown, fate is not so easily fooled. So far, the couple has remarried and divorced over seven times.

* When [[Jaananda]] gazed through the Looking Glass, he saw it.

* When a ray of light cast out by the [[Wet Amalgam]] intersected the Safe Asymptote, It ‘saw’ Itself, but yet not Itself.

Looking Glass

2026-05-19T07:33:37Z

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Wet Amalgam

2026-05-19T07:31:27Z

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The [[Wet Amalgam]] is a planet-sized mass of [[Wet Ghoul]] located somewhere near -9i+727j.

Despite lacking cognitive capacity almost entirely, the Amalgam is nevertheless [[extancy|extant]]. It is incapable of conscious movement and instead drifts about on the [[Imaginary Plane]] between -8.7i+698j and -9.1i+731j.

It cannot be said to be capable of communication, but those in Its proximity will find their senses assailed by a sensation often likened to a continuous low-pitched droning sound. This ‘sound’ is not a form of attack and instead serves as Its defence mechanism, intensifying in ‘volume’ the closer one gets to It and effecting a destabilisation of [[Entanglement]] in the listener. Deafness as well as any attempt at protection against it are useless as the ‘sound’ is not a simple physical wave that is merely ‘heard’, but rather a preternatural distortion caused by continuously fluctuating and self-overlapping resonances comprising all Entanglements.

Upon entering a radius of 500 000 km around the Amalgam, any [[disentanglement|entangled]] being will suffer a severe inversion of their Entanglement should they fail to leave Its proximity within 43 attoseconds of their entering, thus being granted immediate [[Super Death]], with what little remains of them afterwards subsequently being assimilated by the Amalgam.

Unlike ordinary Wet Ghouls, which are preyed upon by [[Timeless Being]]s, It does not fear them, in part because It is incapable of sensation, but mainly because Timeless Beings, too, are entangled and thus victim to the ‘sound’ upon entering Its proximity. Even [[Uk'aj chuuk waj]] Itself could do naught but flee when Its path almost intersected with that of the Amalgam near -8.97i+722j.

Wet Amalgam

2026-05-19T07:31:04Z

Ætérnal:

The [[Wet Amalgam]] is a planet-sized mass of [[Wet Ghoul]] located somewhere near -9i+727j.

Despite lacking cognitive capacity almost entirely, the Amalgam is nevertheless [[extancy|extant]]. It is incapable of conscious movement and instead drifts about on the [[Imaginary Plane]] between -8.7i+698j and -9.1i+731j.

It cannot be said to be capable of communication, but those in Its proximity will find their senses assailed by a sensation often likened to a continuous low-pitched droning sound. This ‘sound’ is not a form of attack and instead serves as Its defence mechanism, intensifying in ‘volume’ the closer one gets to It and effecting a destabilisation of [[Entanglement]] in the listener. Deafness as well as any attempt at protection against it are useless as the ‘sound’ is not a simple physical wave that is merely ‘heard’, but rather a preternatural distortion caused by continuously fluctuating and self-overlapping resonances attuned to an individual’s Entanglement.

Upon entering a radius of 500 000 km around the Amalgam, any [[disentanglement|entangled]] being will suffer a severe inversion of their Entanglement should they fail to leave Its proximity within 43 attoseconds of their entering, thus being granted immediate [[Super Death]], with what little remains of them afterwards subsequently being assimilated by the Amalgam.

Unlike ordinary Wet Ghouls, which are preyed upon by [[Timeless Being]]s, It does not fear them, in part because It is incapable of sensation, but mainly because Timeless Beings, too, are entangled and thus victim to the ‘sound’ upon entering Its proximity. Even [[Uk'aj chuuk waj]] Itself could do naught but flee when Its path almost intersected with that of the Amalgam near -8.97i+722j.

Wet Amalgam

2026-05-19T07:30:25Z

Ætérnal:

The [[Wet Amalgam]] is a planet-sized mass of [[Wet Ghoul]] located somewhere near -9i+727j.

Despite lacking cognitive capacity almost entirely, the Amalgam is nevertheless [[extancy|extant]]. It is incapable of conscious movement and instead drifts about on the [[Imaginary Plane]] between -8.7i+698j and -9.1i+731j.

It cannot be said to be capable of communication, but those in Its proximity will find their senses assailed by a sensation often likened to a continuous low-pitched droning sound. This ‘sound’ is not a form of attack and instead serves as Its defence mechanism, intensifying in ‘volume’ the closer one gets to It and effecting a destabilisation of [[Entanglement]] in the listener. Deafness as well as any attempt at protection against it are useless as the ‘sound’ is not a simple physical wave that merely ‘heard’, but rather a preternatural distortion caused by continuously fluctuating and self-overlapping resonances attuned to an individual’s Entanglement.

Upon entering a radius of 500 000 km around the Amalgam, any [[disentanglement|entangled]] being will suffer a severe inversion of their Entanglement should they fail to leave Its proximity within 43 attoseconds of their entering, thus being granted immediate [[Super Death]], with what little remains of them afterwards subsequently being assimilated by the Amalgam.

Unlike ordinary Wet Ghouls, which are preyed upon by [[Timeless Being]]s, It does not fear them, in part because It is incapable of sensation, but mainly because Timeless Beings, too, are entangled and thus victim to the ‘sound’ upon entering Its proximity. Even [[Uk'aj chuuk waj]] Itself could do naught but flee when Its path almost intersected with that of the Amalgam near -8.97i+722j.

Wet Amalgam

2026-05-19T07:29:16Z

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The [[Wet Amalgam]] is a planet-sized mass of [[Wet Ghoul]] located somewhere near -9i+727j.

Despite lacking cognitive capacity almost entirely, the Amalgam is nevertheless [[extancy|extant]]. It is incapable of conscious movement and instead drifts about on the [[Imaginary Plane]] between -8.7i+698j and -9.1i+731j. It cannot be said to be capable of communication, but those in Its proximity will find their senses assailed by a sensation often likened to a continuous low-pitched droning sound.

This ‘sound’ is not a form of attack and instead serves as Its defence mechanism, intensifying in ‘volume’ the closer one gets to It and effecting a destabilisation of [[Entanglement]] in the listener. Deafness as well as any attempt at protection against it are useless as the ‘sound’ is not a simple physical wave that merely ‘heard’, but rather a preternatural distortion caused by continuously fluctuating and self-overlapping resonances attuned to an individual’s Entanglement. Upon entering a radius of 500 000 km around the Amalgam, any [[disentanglement|entangled]] being will suffer a severe inversion of their Entanglement should they fail to leave Its proximity within 43 attoseconds of their entering, thus being granted immediate [[Super Death]], with what little remains of them afterwards subsequently being assimilated by the Amalgam.

Unlike ordinary Wet Ghouls, which are preyed upon by [[Timeless Being]]s, It does not fear them, in part because It is incapable of sensation, but mainly because Timeless Beings, too, are entangled and thus victim to the ‘sound’ upon entering Its proximity. Even [[Uk'aj chuuk waj]] Itself could do naught but flee when Its path almost intersected with that of the Amalgam near -8.97i+722j.

Disentanglement

2026-05-19T07:16:33Z

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A '''disentangled''' being lacks any and all [[Entanglement]]; such beings are usually dead, albeit [[extancy|extant]]. The opposite of this is known as an '''entangled''' being.

As the overwhelming majority of extant beings possess some form of entanglement—if only in very minuscule quantities in most cases—for a being to become ''truly'' disentangled requires that there be something that is impeding or has disrupted their entanglement. Any event that can effect such a change generally results in the death of the being, and conversely, death—particularly a [[Hyper Ghost|second death]]—can result in disentanglement.

Paracausal Calculator

2026-05-18T23:27:15Z

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Disentanglement

2026-05-18T23:07:28Z

Ætérnal:

A '''disentangled''' being lacks any and all [[Entanglement]]; such beings are usually dead, albeit [[extancy|extant]].

As the overwhelming majority of extant beings possess some form of entanglement—if only in very minuscule quantities in most cases—for a being to become ''truly'' disentangled requires that there be something that is impeding or has disrupted their entanglement. Any event that can effect such a change generally results in the death of the being, and conversely, death—particularly a [[Hyper Ghost|second death]]—can result in disentanglement.

Disentanglement

2026-05-18T23:06:53Z

Ætérnal:

A '''disentangled''' being lacks any and all [[Entanglement]]; such beings are usually dead, albeit [[extancy|extant]].

As the overwhelming majority of extant beings possess some form of entanglement—if only in very minuscule quantities in most cases—for a being to become ''truly'' disentangled requires that there be something that is impeding or has disrupted their entanglement. Any event that can effect such a change generally results in the death of the being, and conversely, death—in particularly a [[Hyper Ghost|second death]]—can result in disentanglement.

Hyper Ghost

2026-05-16T01:08:05Z

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A [[Hyper Ghost]], not to be confused with a [[Super Ghost]], is a being that has died twice without being granted [[Super Death]]. Such a being is usually<ref>There is sometimes very little difference between a Hyper Ghost with next to no consciousness and an unusually mobile [[Wet Ghoul]].</ref> still conscious in some form.

Hyper Ghosts are, in a sense, ''more dead'' than Super Ghosts: they generally cannot leave the [[Realm of the Dead]] as doing so would cause them to experience [[Hyper Death]] and thus cease to remain [[extancy|extant]]; their second death generally leaves them [[disentanglement|disentangled]] and with very little ability to interact with their surroundings.

In rare cases, Hyper Ghosts have been known to possess other beings, but just as ghosts possess living beings, a Hyper Ghost can only possess a dead being. This includes Super Ghosts, but any attempts at possessing one are generally doomed to failure without assistance from a third party. It is much more common for a Hyper Ghost to possess a corpse instead; sometimes, this happens when someone attempts to create a [[Hemigod]] and mistakes a Hyper Ghost for [[Wet Ghoul]], an act which instead engenders a [[Quasi-Hemigod]].

For some beings, Hyper-Ghosthood serves as a means of escape: a [[denaturation|denatured]] being can attempt to voluntarily undergo denaturation a second time in the very moment they would be granted Super Death; most attempts at this are unsuccessful, however.

In very rare instances, a Hyper Ghost with a particularly strong consciousness may undergo denaturation a third or even a fourth time without experiencing Hyper Death; there is next to no difference between such beings and other Hyper Ghosts, for which reason they are generally simply referred to as ''second-grade'' and ''third-grade'' Hyper Ghosts.

Such beings have been known to exist since antiquity and are known by many names, such as [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%81%BB 聻].

== Notes ==
<references />

Disentanglement

2026-05-16T01:07:23Z

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A [[disentanglement]] being lacks any and all [[Entanglement]]; such beings are usually dead, albeit [[extancy|extant]].

As the overwhelming majority of extant beings possess some form of entanglement—if only in very minuscule quantities in most cases—for a being to become ''truly'' disentangled requires that there be something that is impeding or has disrupted their entanglement. Any event that can effect such a change generally results in the death of the being, and conversely, death—in particularly a [[Hyper Ghost|second death]]—can result in disentanglement.

Disentangled

2026-05-16T01:07:09Z

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Disentanglement

2026-05-16T01:07:09Z

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A [[disentangled]] being lacks any and all [[Entanglement]]; such beings are usually dead, albeit [[extancy|extant]].

As the overwhelming majority of extant beings possess some form of entanglement—if only in very minuscule quantities in most cases—for a being to become ''truly'' disentangled requires that there be something that is impeding or has disrupted their entanglement. Any event that can effect such a change generally results in the death of the being, and conversely, death—in particularly a [[Hyper Ghost|second death]]—can result in disentanglement.

Hyper Ghost

2026-05-16T01:03:44Z

Ætérnal:

A [[Hyper Ghost]], not to be confused with a [[Super Ghost]], is a being that has died twice without being granted [[Super Death]]. Such a being is usually<ref>There is sometimes very little difference between a Hyper Ghost with next to no consciousness and an unusually mobile [[Wet Ghoul]].</ref> still conscious in some form.

Hyper Ghosts are, in a sense, ''more dead'' than Super Ghosts: they generally cannot leave the [[Realm of the Dead]] as doing so would cause them to experience [[Hyper Death]] and thus cease to remain [[extancy|extant]]; their second death generally leaves them [[disentangled]] and with very little ability to interact with their surroundings.

In rare cases, Hyper Ghosts have been known to possess other beings, but just as ghosts possess living beings, a Hyper Ghost can only possess a dead being. This includes Super Ghosts, but any attempts at possessing one are generally doomed to failure without assistance from a third party. It is much more common for a Hyper Ghost to possess a corpse instead; sometimes, this happens when someone attempts to create a [[Hemigod]] and mistakes a Hyper Ghost for [[Wet Ghoul]], an act which instead engenders a [[Quasi-Hemigod]].

For some beings, Hyper-Ghosthood serves as a means of escape: a [[denaturation|denatured]] being can attempt to voluntarily undergo denaturation a second time in the very moment they would be granted Super Death; most attempts at this are unsuccessful, however.

In very rare instances, a Hyper Ghost with a particularly strong consciousness may undergo denaturation a third or even a fourth time without experiencing Hyper Death; there is next to no difference between such beings and other Hyper Ghosts, for which reason they are generally simply referred to as ''second-grade'' and ''third-grade'' Hyper Ghosts.

Such beings have been known to exist since antiquity and are known by many names, such as [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%81%BB 聻].

== Notes ==
<references />

Hyper Death

2026-05-12T05:30:19Z

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The term [[Hyper Death]] refers to any event that effects the cessation of [[extancy]] in a [[Hyper Ghost]].

A Hyper Ghost most commonly experiences Hyper Death via disconnection from the [[Realm of the Dead]]. However, they can also be granted [[Super Death]] or even various forms of normal death, but the former is only possible if the Hyper Ghost has not yet been fully [[disentangled]], and the latter may be ineffective and cause it to remain hyper-dead.

Hyper Ghost

2026-05-12T05:28:24Z

Ætérnal:

A [[Hyper Ghost]], not to be confused with a [[Super Ghost]], is a being that has died twice without being granted [[Super Death]]. Such a being is usually<ref>There is sometimes very little difference between a Hyper Ghost with next to no consciousness and an unusually mobile [[Wet Ghoul]].</ref> still conscious in some form.

Hyper Ghosts are, in a sense, ''more dead'' than Super Ghosts: they generally cannot leave the [[Realm of the Dead]] as doing so would cause them to experience [[Hyper Death]] and thus cease to remain [[extancy|extant]]; their second death generally leaves them [[disentangled]] and with very little ability to interact with their surroundings.

In rare cases, Hyper Ghosts have been known to possess other beings, but just as ghosts possess living beings, a Hyper Ghost can only possess a dead or [[denaturation|denatured]] being. This includes Super Ghosts, but any attempts at possessing one are generally doomed to failure without assistance from a third party. It is much more common for a Hyper Ghost to possess a corpse instead; sometimes, this happens when someone attempts to create a [[Hemigod]] and mistakes a Hyper Ghost for [[Wet Ghoul]], an act which instead engenders a [[Quasi-Hemigod]].

For some beings, Hyper-Ghosthood serves as a means of escape: a [[denaturation|denatured]] being can attempt to voluntarily undergo denaturation a second time in the very moment they would be granted Super Death; most attempts at this are unsuccessful, however.

In very rare instances, a Hyper Ghost with a particularly strong consciousness may undergo denaturation a third or even a fourth time without experiencing Hyper Death; there is next to no difference between such beings and other Hyper Ghosts, for which reason they are generally simply referred to as ''second-grade'' and ''third-grade'' Hyper Ghosts.

Such beings have been known to exist since antiquity and are known by many names, such as [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E8%81%BB 聻].

== Notes ==
<references />

Emperor Charles II

2026-05-11T21:48:14Z

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{{Biography
|name = Charles II
|image = charles_the_second.png
|caption = Charles II floating above a lake in Antarctica
|known_for = Being the only penguin who ''can'' fly
|birth = ~750 AD
}}

{{Character Sheet
|species = Emperor Penguin
|provenance = Yorkshire/Antarctica
|sterility = Moderate
|height = 3' 9"
}}

{{Ability
|title = All Roads Lead to Rome
|description = Adjusts the trajectory of nearby forces to be aimed at Charles II instead.
|power = 7/10
|destructive_power = 0/10
|rarity = Rare
}}

[[Emperor Charles II]]<ref>Not to be confused with [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II any of these].</ref> is a [[Quasi-Hemigod]] with the body of an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_penguin emperor penguin] and a member of [[the Leafeaters]]; he is the archnemesis of [[King Arthur]].

Charles II came into being around 750 AD when an English monk, who is sometimes referred to as ‘Charles I’, by chance obtained and subsequently consumed some of King Arthur’s [[extrasterile]] algae [[tea]]. This act led to a severe distortion in the nature of his existence, turning Charles I into a mindless [[Sterility]] addict who subsequently went on a rampage near what is now the town of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adwick_le_Street Adwick le Street] in the West Riding of Yorkshire, leading to the death of around three dozen locals.

He was subsequently both tracked down and killed by King Arthur, following a ‘battle’ that lasted a grand total of 1.2 seconds. King Arthur then initiated an [[Inverse Mandelbrot Transfer]] on him, upon completion of which Charles would have been granted [[Super Death]]. Charles, however—without King Arthur noticing—managed to avoid such a fate by detonating what little remained of his Sterility in the very moment before the transfer could be completed, destroying most of his consciousness in the process and voluntarily undergoing [[denaturation]]. Thus, he became a [[Hyper Ghost]].

Eventually, the remnants of his existence drifted all the way to Antarctica where they came to reside in the [[Impotent Husk]] of an unnaturally sterile penguin. This event engendered the Quasi-Hemigod known as Charles II, and kindled a life-long hostility in him towards King Arthur.

The creation of Charles II became a well-known tale within [[C.H.E.S.]] and is generally used by King Arthur to dissuade new members from handing out Sterility-enhanced [[tea]] to untrained individuals. [[Murdock mac Leod]] subsequently recruited Charles II into the Leafeaters shortly after the establishment of the faction.

== Ability ==
Charles II’s ability, '''All Roads Lead to Rome''', allows him to control the trajectory of nearby forces to point in his direction. For example, he can redirect an opponent’s attack on one of his allies to be aimed at himself instead. Of course, this also means that this ability is not particularly useful in single combat.

== Notes ==
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[[Category:Hemigod]]