Malfeas...In SPACE! (As Space? Resembling Space?)

Persell

Ten Thousand Club
So, that Exalted + Mass Effect on White Wolf got me thinking: Since the Big Angry Demon Planet and Pals are pretty fundamental parts of the setting, I began to think: Since Malfeas is already noted as probably being bigger than Creation, what would happen to him if Creation was a galaxy?


Since the population is going to be bigger-a lot bigger-and the local sorcerers are going to need a steady supply of demons to summon and/or be corrupted by, he needs to still have that relative size discrepancy. Which means, he needs to be a galaxy too.


Now, while it's easy to imagine Cecelyne as the vast and empty regions of space beyond he brother's stars (barring the dying ones Orabilis makes when someone learns too much, which would be really cool to visit), and their siblings as various soft-scifi astrological phenomenon (Isidoros as a sapient black hole, Adorjan as the Silent Nebula, Szoreny doing his best Crystalline Entity impersonation, etc.), Malfeas himself is a bit harder to imagine.


Obviously, even the ability of Ligier to be in multiple places at once, he's still going to have a hard time being every sun, and the whole "crushes layers together to make room for new buildings" thing ain't quite as pretty when the "layers" are planetoids. This is the easy part, since now we get to the fact that many Demon Princes are places and the Descending Hierarchy's social structure...


Yeah, it's a bit of a mental limbo dance.


So, anyone got ideas on how to make the Demon City the Demon Cosmos?
 
In my Exalted, that's what Creation was during the Primordial War. What SWLN destroyed with the three spheres catasclasym was space.


Edit Expand: Malfeas didn't crash against his layers during this time. He does that because he's in eternal crazy pain, not because it's his nature. Another pet theory of mine is that Malfeas used to be Yu Shan - but the Exalted flayed him and kept his skin as the city of the gods. This means that Heaven is the cold, still, beautiful corpse of the former king of the universe, while Malfeas is his ugly, bare, exposed internal organs.
 
If I were going to make Malfeas sci-fi, I'd make him an expanding superstructure. A massive tarnished city powered by Dyson Spheres around green suns, with hordes of mechanical demons building it ever outward or repairing the damage caused when solar system-sized sections collapse into each other. Like Blame! but bronze.
 

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