Characters / World of Tinir

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Mythological Characters

General

• Physical Religion: Pretty much every named Tinirian deity can and regularly does interact with mortals.
• Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Grey and black for the Initiator, reds and oranges for Hogimal, blue and white for Turavus, greens and browns for Herobrine, and black and purple for Ses'ser. Bright blue for Almar, bright red for Volmar.
• Non-Human Non-Binary: While most of the gods identify as male or female when interacting with mortals, several do not subscribe to such thinking, such as Ganlir (genderfluid) and the Initiator (nonbinary they/them).

Primordium

Ganlir

The first entity in existance, Ganlir is the god(dess) of time and progression.

• Older Than They Look: Much, much MUCH older. Ganlir’s preferred form is that of a late 20’s/early 30’s gender ambiguous rocker.
• Time Abyss / The Ageless: Ganlir is older than all of existance.
• Time Master: Ganlir has total dominion over time, and is thus the most powerful being in Tinir’s cosmology.
• Metalhead: If there’s one thing Ganlir loves more than the world they made, it’s heavy metal and rock music. In fact, they’re more likely to be found at a Twisted Sisters-equivalent concert than they are in their main temple.

Generation 1 (Primordial Deities)

The Initiator/The Creator

The genderless (?) god credited with shaping the roots of the world.

• Ambiguous Gender: Ask what their gender is, and the answer you'll get is "all of them and none of them."
• Truly Single Parent: They created their children just by thinking about it.

Almar

One half of the Pukleshi religion, the god of good.

• God of Good: Of ALL types of “Goodness”, be it Lawful or Chaotic.

Volmar

The other half, god of evil.

• Big Bad: According to Pukleshi doctrine, everything that goes wrong relates to them in some way.
• God of Evil: Similar to Almar, Volmar encompasses anything that can be defined as “Evil”, from Lawful to Chaotic.

Alethis

Serpent-god of Order.

• God of Order: At face value, Alethis is a benevolent entity who brings order to the messiness that is life.
• Order Is Not Good: However, should their influence eclipse that of Azazel’s, they can become totalitarian, gaining a desire to force all of Tinir into a state of perfect order.

Azazel

Serpent-god of Chaos

• God of Chaos: Ultimately seeks to return Tinir back into the formless, chaotic Void, but generally works through inciting discord and strife.
• Chaos Is Evil: Zig-zagged. While certainly not a NICE entity, Azazel exists solely to provide a necessary counterweight to Alethis.
• Scaled Up: Take a wild guess as to what their animal form looks like.

Second Generation

• Our Angels Are Different: While technically not “angels”, the children of the Initiator’s true divine formstake the appearance of Biblically accurate celestial entities-Hogimal’s resembles a Seraph, Turavus a Cherub (not the baby, the four headed one), Ses’ser an Ophan/Throne, and Herobrine a more traditional angel.

Hogimal

• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: In his godly form, he’s a huge Blaze that burns even more brightly than a normal Blaze — enough to make people go blind from staring at him. So when he needs to be around humans, he tones it down and appears as a dark-skinned man with fiery orange hair.
• Attention Whore: He really likes the attention he gets as a god. He’s even been known to appear among mortals specifically to show off and bask in the worship.
• Gray-and-Grey Morality: Definitely the most morally complex of the gods, even more so than Turavus.
• Kill It with Fire: How his worshippers sacrifice to him, as well as Hogimal’s preferred method of magical attack.
• Playing with Fire: He’s associated with all things hot and fiery. His dimension of choice is the Nether.
• Power of the Sun: As a solar deity, Hogimal can manipulate sunlight, heat, and everything else associated with the Sun.
• Truly Single Parent: He made his daughter Yona out of nothing but pure will, without help from a second parent.
• Voice Claim: Scott O’Neal.

Turavus

• Deadpan Snarker: For a water goddess, she has one very dry sense of humor.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: She used to be very stoic and aloof. However, her regret over her role in banishing Herobrine has caused her to soften up. Her elemental powers make her a quite literal version of this trope, too.
• Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Turavus has very creamy-colored skin and extremely dark hair. It sort of fits her aloof personality.
• Making a Splash / An Ice Person: She’s associated with water, ice, winter, and cold.
• My Greatest Failure: She deeply regrets her part in capturing and imprisoning Herobrine after the Fall. It colors so many of her subsequent actions.
• One-Winged Angel: Her godly form is a massive golem of ice, water, and mist.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Hogimal’s Red. Almost literally.
• Smurfette Principle: The only female deity of the Generation II gods.

Ses’ser

• Arc Color: Black and purple, like the End.
• Badass in a Nice Suit: His godly form is a large Ender-man in a proper business suit. He appears as a regular human man when in his human form, but retains the suit.
• Berserk Button: People trying to invade and/or colonize the End, or trying to kill the Ender Dragon.
• Blow You Away: In addition to his End-based powers, Ses’ser is often associated with the air, to match the four-elements motif of his siblings.
• Casting a Shadow / Space Master: He’s the god of the End, a place of darkness and the endless void of space.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite his frightening appearance the gloomy world he reigns over, Ses’ser is an upbeat and kindly individual. He has no ill will towards anyone, except those who try to invade the End and hurt its inhabitants.
• Meaningful Name: In Endspeech, the word “ses’ser” means “grandfather”. According to the beliefs of the Enders, Ses’ser is the father of the Ender Dragon, who in turn created their race, thus making him their grandfather.
  • Another relatively unknown detail is that technically, Ses’ser is the physical embodiment of the primordial void given consciousness, thus making him technically the father of the primordial gods listed above and grandfather to the rest of the second generation.
• One-Winged Angel: His godly form, which is a massive golem of End Stone, glass, and obsidian.
• Purple Is Powerful: Has powerful godly abilities, rules over the Surreal Horror dimension called the End, and is frequently represented with purple.
• Southern-Fried Genius: He often puts on a country aesthetic and mannerisms to endear himself to mortals. Doesn’t mean he’s not a literal god with ages’ worth of knowledge and experience.

Herobrine

• A Boy and His X: He’s best friends with the Ender Dragon.
• Adaptational Heroism: A rare positive portrayal of this popular Minecraft character. Instead of a typical devil archetype depiction, here he is a benevolent god who taught humankind how to craft. He’s also quite gentle and kind as a person, if very shy.
• Aerith and Bob: The only god in the second generation who isn’t an original character of the writers. He was imported from pre-existing Minecraft lore.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: The Initiator purposefully made Herobrine the most human-looking of the second generation gods, so as to make humans more comfortable around him. Unlike his siblings, Hero doesn’t have a separate “human form” and “godly form” — they’re one and the same.
• Beware the Nice Ones: If his rampage during the Fall is any indication, you do NOT want to cross this guy’s boundaries.
• Blind Seer: Herobrine is completely blind, using his heightened senses of hearing and touch to “view” his environment. He also seems to have a supernatural sixth sense for detecting what’s around him. Furthermore, he has the ability to receive messages from the Initiator and relay them to humans, much like a seer.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Is Herobrine scary? Yes. Is he bad? Not in the slightest.
• Dishing Out Dirt: He has earth-based abilities to go with his connection to life.
• Divine Date: He had a human lover once upon a time. It's strongly implied this person was Astel's other parent.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: His eyes glow all the time, but they become extra bright when he’s enraged. Or when he’s channeling prophecy/messages directly from his parent.
• Green Thumb: Plants flourish wherever he steps. He leaves a trail of flowers and lush grass in his wake. Also, he has a special connection to animal life.
• Handicapped Badass: Is blind. Doesn’t stop him from throwing hands when the situation calls for it.
• Meteor-Summoning Attack: According to the stories, Herobrine caused the Fall by picking up a mountain and throwing it back down, bringing an end to the Diamond Age of Humanity.
• Mister Seahorse: He carries and births his child, Astel.
• The Quiet One: He’s a man of few words.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Hero adores cats, and he’s associated with the flowering growth of springtime.
• Shrinking Violet: The most introverted of the Gen II deities, which is ironic considering he’s supposed to be a nature and living beings deity. He prefers to stay hidden away in his farmhouse.
• Vocal Dissonance: Stereotypically, Herobrine has a deep, demonic voice that often has a Voice of the Legion effect. In this adaptation, he’s quite soft-spoken. His voice only gets deep and stacked when he’s enraged.
• Uniformity Exception: He doesn’t have a godly elemental form like his siblings do, making him the standout when they go all One Winged Angel.

Third Generation

Yona

• Heart Beatdown: She’s the goddess of love and war. Although she can’t directly control people’s impulses, she can push them one way or the other.
• Genki Girl: Yona can be a little excitable.
• Lady of War: She’s not just the goddess of love; she’s also a patron deity for wartime and conflict. Soldiers call on her for victory in battle.

Celes

• Beleaguered Bureaucrat: Managing the lives and deaths of every living creature leaves her overworked and grumpy.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Despite her off-putting appearance and her grim job of collecting souls, not to mention that her father is the god of the End, she is not a bad person. She doesn’t enjoy collecting the dead any more than they like being collected.
• Divine Date: She was in love with a human man. It’s implied that losing him was what made her fall deeper into her gloomy attitude.
• Don't Fear the Reaper: She’s just doing her job when she collects the dead. Not everyone is resistant to death, either; some who have been suffering for a long time just want to enter eternal rest already.
• Good Is Not Nice: Even though she’s not a bad person morally, she’s cranky and kind of rude.
• Mayfly-December Romance: Ancient goddess falls in love with regular human. Do the math (although her husband’s spirit stuck with her after his death, preferring to spend his eternity with Celes than move on to paradise).
• Seriously Scruffy: Her workload doesn’t leave her with much time to manage her appearance. She always has unkempt hair, sunken eyes, and a sleepy expression.

Avalan

• Absent-Minded Professor: He’s very intelligent, but also kinda out there.
• Ambiguous Disorder: He acts very strangely compared to his peers, but if he has a particular condition, it’s not named.
• For Science!: What motivates a lot of his actions. Most notably, that was how Nitro was made.
• Gemstone Assault / Magnetism Master / Shock and Awe: He’s the god of redstone, a strange mineral with magnetic and electrical properties.
• Pumpkin Person: He has a carved pumpkin for a head, whose features animate to fit his facial expressions and speech. There is a reason for this; pumpkins are used to make snow golems and iron golems, which are a magical tech thing in-universe. Sorta like redstone?
• Science Hero: Applies his powers of invention and technology for good.

Astel

• Dream Walker: As the god of, among other things, dreams, Astel has a natural ability to explore the dreams of anyone he wishes.

Fourth Generation, the Demigods

• Semi-Divine: All four of them are half-gods, being the children of the third generation of deities and a mortal parent.

Nitro, son of Avalan

• Meaningful Name: When combined with the name of his pet parrot, Glycerin, one gets “nitroglycerin”- a significant component in making dynamite. Nitro has a great love of both fireworks and TNT, and the redstone applications thereof.
• Missing Mom: His genetic mother, was an unnamed Frost Creeper. Her location, if she is still alive, is currently unknown.

Rigel Black, son of Celes

• Demon Slaying: His main goal is to keep demons and escaped souls in the Demon Realm and the afterlife respectively.
• Telescoping Staff: Rigel’s favorite weapon is the Growing Staff, which, like its Journey to the West inspiration, can change its size according to his whim.

Hitzel, son of Yona.

• Master Archer: Hitzel is an excellent shot when it comes to archery, able to pin someone to a wall by their shirt without so much as scratching them with the arrowhead.

Historical Figures

King Peter Chase I, "the Dragonhearted"

• Animal Motifs: Dragons, especially the Ender-Dragon. But you expected that.
• Awesome Moment of Crowning: After defeating the Skeleton King and ending the Blight of Bones, Peter was crowned king of Tinir in the city of Treehold to a massive crowd of people from the Nether, the End, and all over Permundum. His crowning also marks the beginning of the common era as well as the Netherite Age of Heroes.
• Cool Crown: Formed of Nether gold, molded into the shape of two dragons studded with emeralds and obsidian, and set with a single glittering diamons, Peter Chase’s crown was a work of art. Stories say that the crown was enchanted to always fit the head of the next destined king or queen, though no magic has ever been identified on it.
• Antagonistic Offspring: The good king Peter eventually was the ancestor to the bloody Richard II.
• The Good King: Almost all mentions of him are positive.
• Half-Human Hybrid: He was born to a human father and Ender mother. His lineage is full of humans and Enders intermarrying.

King Gabriel Chase, “the Just”

• Ambadassador: While primarily a diplomatic individual, Gabriel was very skilled in several forms of combat since some of Permundum’s cultures required fighting contests as a part of their politics.

Lucretia Chase, “the Humble”

• The High Queen: First of several, Lucretia ruled well and was well-liked.
• The Performer King: Well, Queen-Lucretia loved to make her subjects laugh, and was celebrated for it. As a result, several holidays were founded during her reign.

Jubilat Chase, “the Bard”

• The Performer King: Moreso than his mother, Jubilat was a known practicioner of the musical arts. His royal portrait even depicts him sitting on the throne with a lute.

Queen Hailith Chase “the Fair”

• Silk Hiding Steel: Tolerated absolutely NO noble who dared try to legalese her into improving their posh lives-going as far as to bodily throw one such noble out of the castle.

King Richard Chase II, “the Tyrant”

• Boomerang Bigot: He hates Enders and people who speak the Ender language, despite coming from a long lineage of Enderborn. He himself has a sliver of that Ender blood in him, even though he doesn’t have any teleporting or magic abilities.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Was assassinated by his former friend.
• The Heretic: Subscribed to the Jallar Heresy-a sect of Initiaism which denied that Herobrine was a benevolent deity. This went so far as to have any statue of Herobrine removed from every church under his rule, including from the Grand Cathedral in Treehold.
• Go Mad from the Revelation: He sought to join the temple of Ganlir in his youth. As part of the joining ritual, he was given a vision of his future. Rick didn’t take what he saw well at all.
• We Used to Be Friends: With his captain of the guard before going mad. Said captain is the one who literally stabbed Rick in back.

The Fallen King

• Adaptational Villainy: Maybe not villainy per se, but this world’s take on the Fallen Kingdom series’ monarch is a lot less positive. Here, he’s seen as a deeply flawed individual who inherited a bunch of serious problems and couldn’t quite correct them.

The Fallen Prince

• Dishing Out Dirt: Due to him slaying a demon formed from what was left of Herobrine’s rage over the Fall, the god granted him geokinetic powers. In response, the Prince founded the school of Hilore as a way to gather teacher for his newfound skills.
• Spared by the Adaptation: At least kind of. Here, the explosion in the Nether didn’t kill him, but he was trapped in there for the rest of his life and brought back to the Overworld as a corpse. He did assist in bringing about a lasting peace in the survivors of the Nether Wars.

The Ender Dragon

• Last of His Kind: She’s the last (known to be) living dragon besides her egg, with all the others either dying out in catastrophes or being hunted to extinction. She has some deep angst over the loss of her kin.
• Physical God: While not as powerful as Ses’ser, she is immensely powerful.
• Universally Beloved Leader: All of Enderkind cherish and worship her as the mother of their species, no matter where the Enders in question hail from.

Modern People

Anthony "Endtony" Wright

• Prongsof Poseidon: Endtony’s weapon of choice is his trident, made for him by a sea-dwelling Ocean Settler. It has the Riptide enchantment, allowing Endtony to propel himself in any direction when raining or otherwise in contact with water.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Like King Peter, Endtony is half-Ender.
• Playing with Fire: Endtony is an alumnus of Hilore Academy for the Arcane, having passed the Pyromancy course with the equivalent of a Graduate’s degree.

Seth Rivera

• Flaming Sword: Seth’s favorite weapon is a Netherite Sword with a Flame Aspect enchantment.
• Dishing Out Dirt: When it comes to using his Creative Mode abilities, Seth generally prefers conjuring and/or launching boulders at his opponent.

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