void
19/May/2023
In an ocean full of sulphuric death
Lies a dark bottomless void, where no ray of sunlight ever reaches the bottom or anything there.
Where the powerful hadopelagic pressure crushes the gravel together to stone.
A depth so deep, the sulphurus water floats on top of millennia-old seawater so clean and pure, it allows mighty creatures to flourish in the deepest of depths.
The sulphurus water is held up by the heat of the earth, spilling out of vents, dividing the two.
This is the Abyss.
The layer in which the Abyss' darkness really starts, where the gravel loose enough to be called such, right beneath the sulphuric sea above is the highest. The smallest and weakest creatures can nearly thrive here, in the friendliest depth. Where light is bright enough to see, even for us, the weak humans.
Where small Laserfish embark in an everlasting battle for life with Giant Squids.
Where Toxic Minnows compete with Luminous Corvinas for their continued survival.
The middle layer is full of volcanic activity, heating water enough for life blossoming here.
The most diverse creatures live and thrive there, in the layer of R'yleh.
Illusion-creating Mirage Jellys,
Volcanic Pufferfish with molten rock in their skin,
armored Devilfish nearly invincible
and Gulper Eels devouring anything in their way.
None of this heat reaches the lowest layer,
the void.
The void is so pure and untouched by currents, no sediments have ever settled down to build up any structures. Completely empty and devoid of any light, the true mightiest monsters and creatures live under nature's true rule; the right of the stronger.
A layer where coldness and darkness rule absolute. The void where the mightiest of creatures live in their deep, deep, endless, empty abyss. Most lie in hibernation, most are nearly immortal, as no life ever falls down into the purest depths of any ocean water, to nourish these beasts.
This is where majestic Eidolon Wyrms, both juvenile and the one legendary, storied and feared Adult Eidolon Wyrm, the most powerful being in all of Terraria, known to have surpassed deities, lie dormant.
This is where the feared Collosal squids slaughter anything too stupid to touch their pale tentacles.
This is where the terrifying Reaper sharks rip apart anything that draws too close to them.
This is where the bobbit worms strike with blinding speeds.
This layer projects strength, it projects power, the emptiness, the black, filled with silence.
Like one, harmonic, powerful musical chord the silence will resound in your ears. The story of no man has led them here before, and none will lead them out again.
Death unending cannot scratch the purity of this water. No amount of blood can taint the ancient gigalitres of the oldest, emptiest, coldest, densest water in Xeroc's creation.
This is the void, a layer of most certain death. The cold grave of anyone longing to feed the beasts...
...with themselves.