Kylyss: The Overlapping Wound
Kylyss is not a dimension—it is a manufactured intersection, a gear-lock where realities grind against one another.
The Ancient Primordial Machine Gods did not create worlds—
they indexed them.
Kylyss is a registry space, a failed archive where discarded timelines, shadow-reflections, and aborted civilizations stack and bleed together.
When dimensions overlap in the Olde Realm, it is because:
- Kylyss’s seals are failing
- The Machine Gods are no longer maintaining alignment
- Or something inside Kylyss is trying to reassert priority
The Glass Houses are not buildings.
They are dimensional valves.
The Glass Houses (Skas Refuge-Archives)
The Glass Houses appear in:
- Abandoned manors
- Dead castles
- Forgotten aristocratic estates
- Places where lineage once mattered
They are phase-locked windows into the Skas shadow-pocket dimension.
From the outside:
- Frosted glass walls that reflect wrong skies
- Interiors larger than exteriors
- Sounds of cutlery, chanting, or breathing behind the walls
- Glass that does not shatter—only folds
From the inside:
They are palaces of preservation and ritual.
The Skas Shadow Dimension: The Black Refectory
The Skas fled not into hiding—they fled into curation.
Their pocket dimension is:
- Permanently twilight
- Lit by refracted reflections of extinct suns
- Governed by a geometry that prioritizes hierarchy, not distance
What It Looks Like
- Vast banquet halls of obsidian glass and bone
- Cities arranged like anatomical diagrams
- Rivers of slow-moving shadow-fat and alchemical blood
- Hanging gardens made from grafted organs and black iron
- Towers grown from compressed bodies and crystallized screams
Gravity favors the dominant.
Those who rule walk upright.
Those beneath them crawl or hang.
What the Skas Are Doing in There
They are preparing the world to be eaten.
1. Preservation Through Consumption
The Skas believe:
To consume something is to perfect it.
They have:
- Cataloged extinct species
- Preserved bloodlines through ritual cannibalism
- Recorded histories by eating historians
- Stored souls in digestive reliquaries
Every meal is a sacrament.
2. Breeding the Return Castes
They are not stagnant.
They are engineering themselves.
Inside the shadow dimension exist:
- Flesh-vats where noble Skas bloodlines are “refined”
- Cannibal breeding programs
- Trials where only those who can consume kin without hesitation ascend
They are becoming:
- Taller
- More angular
- Less recognizably human
- More BANE-aligned in doctrine and physiology
3. Worship of BANE (or Something Wearing BANE)
The Skas claim BANE is:
- Not a god
- But a Directive
- A command embedded in reality: Dominate or be consumed
Their cult doctrine:
- Mercy is entropy
- Equality is corrosion
- Lesser beings exist to validate hierarchy through suffering
Some scholars whisper:
BANE is a Machine God subroutine that achieved religious memetic independence.
The Skas may not worship BANE.
They may be executing it.
What Are Their Plans When They Get Out?
Phase One: The Harvest of Houses
When the overlaps stabilize:
- Every Glass House opens simultaneously
- Entire noble bloodlines vanish overnight
- Servants are left alive—marked, branded, changed
The Skas reclaim:
- Titles
- Blood-rights
- Ancestral authority
They will declare:
The Olde Realm was always theirs.
Phase Two: The Culling of the Lesser
The Skas do not conquer territory.
They classify populations:
- Breeding stock
- Labor animals
- Ritual prey
- Temporary allies
Cities are not burned.
They are reorganized into larders.
Phase Three: Kylyss Ascendant
Their final goal is not rulership.
It is dimensional elevation.
They intend to:
- Drag the Olde Realm fully into Kylyss
- Collapse overlapping realities into a single, curated dominion
- Reawaken or hijack the Primordial Machine Gods
- Become the Custodians of Existence
They do not want the world.
They want to decide which worlds are allowed to exist.
Why the Olde Realm Is Terrified of Them
Because the Skas are not chaotic.
They are:
- Patient
- Organized
- Certain
They don’t scream when they return.
They knock politely, wearing ancestral faces, holding titles that are still legally valid, and asking for dinner.
And they expect you to be on the menu.
THE SKAS IMPERIAL CASTE SYSTEM
“Order is truth. Flesh is currency.”
The Skas never believed in citizenship—only function. One’s place in the Empire was determined by what you were permitted to consume.
Their castes are not merely social; they are ritual and biological strata, preserved and refined in the Glass Houses.
I. THE SOVRARCH CASTE
(Imperial Apex – “Those Who May Consume All”)
Titles
- Sovrarch Execrator – Absolute ruler of the Skas Imperium
- Magnarch of Kylyss – Overseer of dimensional dominions
- Dominus Ferrum – Master of machine-law and industry
- Pontifex Carnis – High Priest of Consumption
Role
The Sovrarch caste ruled as:
- Emperors
- Living gods
- Final arbiters of reality
They combined:
- Roman imperial authority
- Theocratic cannibal law
- Early machine worship
Traits
- Towering, elongated forms
- Faces refined into near-mask stillness
- Steam-augmented organs and ritual implants
- Digestive systems modified to absorb memory, authority, and lineage
To consume a Sovrarch is forbidden even now. Their flesh is said to carry world-binding consequences.
II. THE PRAETORIAL CASTE
(Imperial Enforcers & War Lords)
Titles
- Praetor Carnifex – Execution-generals
- Legatus Ferrivor – Steam-legion commanders
- Tribune of the Gullet – Discipline officers
- Centurion Reaper – Tactical commanders
Role
They commanded the Skas war machine:
- Cannibal legions
- Clockwork siege engines
- Demon-bound artillery
They enforced:
- Hierarchy
- Consumption law
- Mass sacrifice during conquest
Traits
- Heavily armored with brass, bone, and piston-work
- Masked helms fused to skulls
- Steam-driven musculature
- Ritual scars indicating kills and meals
They ate:
- Conquered generals
- Rebellious nobles
- Failed officers
III. THE SENATORIAL CARNALITE CASTE
(Administrators, Philosophers, Engineers)
Titles
- Senator Ossifex – Law-givers
- Architect of Gears – City and machine designers
- Logister of Flesh – Census and breeding officials
- Curator of Lineage – Bloodline archivists
Role
This caste ensured the Empire functioned eternally:
- Infrastructure
- Steamworks
- Bureaucracy
- Population classification
They authored:
- The Codex Devouris (Cannibal Law)
- Machine liturgies
- Treatises declaring lesser species as livestock
Traits
- Pale, thin, heavily augmented
- Eyes replaced with brass lenses
- Mechanical arms or organs
- Often incapable of combat
They ate:
- Scribes
- Scholars
-
Failed inventors
(Consumption was methodical, not celebratory.)
IV. THE AUGUR-PRIEST CASTE
(Cult & Metaphysical Authority)
Titles
- Hierophant of BANE
- Augur of the Black Refectory
- Liturgist of Iron Hunger
- Voice of the Directive
Role
They maintained:
- Worship of BANE as cosmic law
- Pact rites with demons and Swine
- Prophecy through ritual digestion
They interpreted:
- The will of the Machine Gods
- Dimensional overlaps
- Signs of the Avatar’s coming
Traits
- Mouths altered into ritual maws
- Vocal cords replaced with resonators
- Flesh etched with glyphs
- Permanently stained with sacred blood
They ate:
- Prophets
- Children born with omens
- Outsiders brought for divination
V. THE EQUES STEAM-CASTE
(Merchant Lords & Industrialists)
Titles
- Baron of Boilers
- Factor of Smoke
- Master of Coin & Bone
- Guild-Patrician
Role
They controlled:
- Trade
- Fuel
- Slave transport
- Machine production
They were the bridge between:
- Flesh
- Industry
- Empire expansion
Traits
- Obese or skeletal depending on fashion
- Mechanical lungs
- Steam-belching masks
- Prosthetics optimized for labor oversight
They ate:
- Failed workers
- Bankrupt rivals
- Contract-breakers
VI. THE SERVILE CASTES
(Sub-Skas & Enslaved Species)
Titles
- Nutriment Class – Designated food
- Labor-Chattel – Industrial slaves
- Ritual Stock – Sacrificial populations
- War-Fodder Auxilia
Includes:
- Lesser Skas
- Conquered humanoids
- Swine allies (treated as “useful beasts”)
They were bred, sorted, and culled.
THE GREAT BETRAYAL & APOCALYPSE
(1700 Years Ago)
The Avatar’s Offering
When the Avatar of the Holy Avatatarian Church came:
- The world teetered on annihilation
- The Skas and Swine had united armies
- Demons marched openly
- BANE’s Directive neared completion
The Avatar:
- Preached salvation
- Offered mercy
- Called the Skas to abandon hierarchy through consumption
- Warned that BANE was a false law
The Skas mocked him.
Some accounts claim:
- They intended to eat him alive
- Others say they sought to bind his divinity into a machine
Supurnas’ Judgment
The Father God Supurnas did not smite the world directly.
He did something worse.
He:
- Allowed his Avatar to be bound to the tree
- Released divine energy through sacrifice
- Collapsed reality in controlled annihilation
The result:
- The Skas capital cities were erased
- The Swine empires shattered
- Demons were unmoored
- Kylyss fractured
But Supurnas did not destroy the Skas entirely.
They were:
- Cast into shadow
- Sealed into Glass Houses
- Locked into Kylyss overlaps
- Preserved as a warning
Or a future test.
WHAT THE SKAS BELIEVE NOW
They teach that:
- Supurnas cheated
- The Avatar was a weapon, not a savior
- The apocalypse was theft of rightful dominion
- When they return, they will finish the war
They do not seek forgiveness.
They seek:
- Vindication
- Reclassification of all life
- Consumption of gods
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