Parnigus

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Argimus Elements

A discription of the Argimus elements:

Solid

Solid is the most immovable and sluggish of elements - the best way to describe it, is like marble pillars: a smooth inner texture that moves, and an immovable form.

Liquid

Liquid Argimus is well known for it's constantly flux nature - and it's constantly flux form. It has a tendency to flow upwards in a fourth-dimensional looping pattern: in less weird terms, it visually looks like it floats upwards, but isn't moving anywhere.

Vapor

Vapor Argimus is just about what it sounds like, appearing anywhere from a vague foggy shape, to a dense cloud of vapor Argimus. It's very easily moved, and often accidentally ingested.

Shadow

Shadow is the flattest and most strange argimus - in terms of appearance. It lays along the ground and attaches to seemingly physical silhouettes. Like naturally produced holograms, these silhouettes have no mass and no physical resistance. They can physically mess with your shadows to mess with you, but the projected "Hologram" gets a little weird at certain angles. It does not require light to appear.

Geomist

TBD

Flame

Flame Argimus looks strikingly like it's namesake, as it's constantly flickering upwards. It has no temperature difference, though, and is not restricted to flickering upwards as usual fire does. Flame argimus also can put off light - though this is not a trait held solely by this element.

Tendril

Tendril is probably the other most odd argimus element when it comes to it's appearance - however the name is an apt descriptor. Small forms mesh together and apart, often ending in small vine-like tendrils. These tendrils can wrap around objects to hold items, and can also combine into other tendrils to combine it's three-dimensional mass - or do the same within the unseen fourth-dimension with no visual change to it's shape. Even without a breeze and without any force, these tendrils will wave and bob back and forth slowly.

These tendrils can also have a fractional variant.

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The Amigus - Volume I

The Amigus and Bonds

Bonds are what keep an Amigus stable in terran geometry and physics. Due to (SOME REASON), they require sapient contact and interaction to remain stable - or fade into painful ghostly apparitions. These sapient lifeforms are referred to as Patrons, examples of what these Patrons do can be: having conversations with the Amigus, offerings and gifts, time spent with the Amigus, and requesting help and aid from the Amigus (even for menial tasks). It's entirely unknown why or how this works, and while it falls into different categories, they seem to differ depending on the individual Amigus(? still figuring out if its dependant on Argimus typing or individuals)

However, interaction can be dangerous and even deadly for these patrons - depending on an Amigus' element and special niche abilities, they can accidentally harm their Patrons if they do not take precautions. These damages can range from mental, to physical harm, or even disfigurement or complete accidental restructuring of bodies and biochemical reactions - which can lead to death, or worse.

In some amigus, some of these "side effects" can start as benign, but quickly escalate into seriously dangerous and deadly territory if not checked - especially since many of these can be addictive for pleasure-seeking individuals, which has caused many Amigus to become reclusive.

All Amigus can somewhat change their form. The detail and extent of which varies based on typing, but in short: any amigus could change entirely if they felt like it, but their original texture would show itself on close examination, and their colors cannot change. A host body (like found in reincarnated individuals, such as the infamous Pantheon) is the sole exception to this, as it is created outside of normal Amigus means; it also cannot be changed.

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A Short Intro to Parnigus

Hello there! My name is Jules, I run this blog and write Parnigus! If you're here, you're probably interested in my little web-comic story, or maybe. It's a alternate version of Earth, with aliens and magical sci-fi galore!

This Tumblr is specifically where I'm posting and jotting down information, as well as sharing story bits, and concept art! If you want to help me produce the comic faster, encouragement helps a lot! Whether it's questions about the world and it's characters, or fanart, or even just liking and reblogging my work - everything and every bit of interest means a lot to me! Thank you!

I'm currently working on art and such, so this blog may experience inactive spurts - I'll try to keep this place up to date (along with the twitter page and other accounts) if this project ever enters a hiatus going on longer than a month, and when I hope to return if I have any estimate.

As for what Parnigus is about: Parnigus is a long term web-comic about a version of Earth that experienced an alternate alien dimension ripping into it. As a result, the alien dimension - called Argimus - is now scattered across the known and unknown universe. It's effects on Earth documented so far are mutated life, alien monsters, and the few remaining alien lifeforms who remained intact: known as the Amigus. Due to the fact the Argimus was constructed from a different base energy type, it reacts very very differently here than our energy and mass types, and it's "elements" also work very differently. It often fuses with our dimensions' atoms and elements to create new matter - some of which is highly destructive, not to mention what it can and does do to wildlife.

The event that caused this was named "Astramortem", and occurred sometime around the fall of the Roman Empire; most of Parnigus' story takes place around that area, though is set some millennia in the future as of the start of the comic. The first few centuries - as humanity and Earth became warped by the Argimus - were referred to as "Terramortem", as humanity seemed to only narrowly evade being plunged into a new dark age. Civilizations are much smaller due to the amount of these monsters roaming the Earth, and humanity seems to lose more and more ground as years go by.

Our main protagonist, Issac, hopes to change this - a small, studious, and young adult working on unraveling the history of the world around him. His studies lead him to an ancient ruin, where he uncovers something that could help change the fate of humanity yet again.

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The Argimus - Volume II

Types of Argimus

There are many different kinds of Argimus, much like there are many different kinds of matter. There are nine elements in all, as follows:

Liquid

Vapor

Solid

Ooze

Tendril

Flame

Shadow

Shapestone

Geomist

Each type of Argimus interacts with "terran" (our world and universe) matter differently, and their visual appearance differs greatly as well; colours, on the other hand, seem to be determined by a currently unknown factor. The known interactions and general appearances are as follows:

Liquid - Appears like a moving fluid, which can move at a variety of speeds. Often somewhat transparent and shimmering. Can alter the state of Matter, usually it's shape or it's material; transmutation is a good example of this.

Vapor - An almost completely transparent mist, which can densen to become more opaque; usually very shimmery or iridescent.

Solid - Completely flat and hard edges, looks very polygonal - but can be 2 dimensional shapes stacked into each other. Usually appears as unshifting, floating, solid 3d shapes. Can alter some laws of physics, such as time or dimensional placement in a small area.

Ooze - Can alter its own matter into other matter, and can shift it's own matter into other dimensions, causing it to seemingly phase in and out of reality. It is similar to Liquid, having a clearly fluid state, but appears and moves more like the contents of a Lava Lamp. It can envelop an object and likewise change it's matter, or put it in an enveloped pocket dimension.

Tendril - Appears often as wispy tendrils, that shimmer with a gentle misty shape. Can alter the state of dreams and sleep-states, or enter sleep-states. Can tie other dreams together, like a dream server. Often has a paralysis effect on the waking mind, or can cause hallucinations or "waking dreams."

Flame - Often appears as vivid flame-like flickering forms. It's not entirely solid on its own, but still has enough resisting force to slow down or hold objects from falling. Usually objects of this type also have a ‘protective’ layer of something else to better hold objects. Flame phases in and out of our plane into a 4th dimension, giving it its strange appearance of fire. This Argimus element affects memory and the mind.

Shadow -

Shapestone - Similar to Flame, it fades in and out of our plane along the 4th dimension, causing it to have an illusion of movement but having no physical momentum. It may look like it’s moving, but close inspection shows it’s texture and form don’t actually move, just change shape.

Geomist - Can alter perceptions and fool the senses, or create pictures or holograms from mental visions - the quality of which depends on the mind the images are from. As its physical mass is projected along its light rays, creating multiple “mirage” forms is not uncommon. Some of these contain sound, or 3D mist objects, or a physical form, but never all three.

Fused Argimus cannot and should not exist in a sapient Amigus. They create instability, and unbound creatures who tear themselves apart, and tear the space around them apart. They are very dangerous and should not be attempted under any circumstances.

Dalphix + Iskris are not an example of a full Fused Argimus, but of a kind of "rubbing off" on each other. They literally have found a way to swap certain aspects of their physiology to meld in a unusual way. This still has negative side effects if they leave one another too long. Unlike other Amigus, without their "bond" (see “The Amigus - Vol. I), they will entirely cease to exist, being destroyed permanently.

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The Argimus - Volume I

A Short History

Long ago, thought to be 250 BC, another universe parallel to our own began experimenting with dimensional technology to improve its Civilization. The universe in question, we now call the Argimus; and it's sole inhabitants were the Amigus - beings of pure Argimus (the base 'energy' of their universe) who were sentient and capable of altering their environment.

These entities attempted to explore beyond their universe, and use another dimension to shorten travels, but over a short period of use, it tore a hole into the dimension. This hole spread its way across the entirety of the Dimension, causing it to be completely unraveled into our own dimension.

The only survivors known to Earth, as of this writing, are the seven Amigus known as the Pantheon. In early depictions, they are shown to be often shapeless and devoid of expression - due the extreme difference in our dimensions. The other Amigus had been torn to shreds or shattered when they fell through the threshold between universes, leaving only small parts of themselves that could never be patched together.

Due to the amount of difference in the two dimensions, depictions of what the Argimus Universe could have looked like vary widely. Most agree that it was what we now call a "Hyperbolic Space" - having more area in it than our Euclidean space - to a degree that matter from one space cannot be safely taken into another without completely altering it. The small amount of art that has survived this amount of time - supposedly made by the Amigus or those who were close to the Amigus - depicts very colourful and bizarre landscapes, with what appears to be no horizon, no clear sky, and strange shapes all around.