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This AU is based off of the horror podcast The Magnus Archives, which is a horror anthology with a metaplot. The titular Magnus Institute is a mysterious institution dedicated to researching the paranormal and cataloging paranormal artifacts. It is eventually revealed in the series that all supernatural goings-on documented by the Magnus Institute are the direct product of 14 (possibly 15) unimaginably powerful entities that exist “beside” our reality called ‘Powers’. They often have human followers and formerly-human avatars that become possessed by the Powers, because when you feed a god, it will feed you.
The List: The Beholding, The Eye, The Ceaseless Watcher - Plays on the fear of being watched, the true patron of The Magnus Institute The Buried, Choke, The Center, Too-Close-I-Cannot-Breathe - Plays on claustrophobia and the fear of suffocation The Corruption, The Hive, Filth, Crawling Rot - Plays on the visceral fear of insects, vermin, infection, and decay. The Dark, Mr. Pitch, The People’s Church of the Divine Host - Plays on the fear of the dark The Desolation, The Lightless Flame, Blackened Earth, The Devastation - The fear of destruction and pain The End, Terminus - Plays on the fear of Death The Flesh, Viscera - Plays on the fear of the visceral and being consumed The Hunt - Plays on the fear of being hunted (Moral followers and avatars of the Hunt tend to hunt down other avatars to sate their urges) The Lonely, Forsaken, The One Alone - Plays on the fear of isolation The Slaughter, The War - Plays on the fear of war, violence, and slaughter The Spiral, Es Mentiaras (Spanish for “It-Is-Lies”), It-Is-Not-What-It-Is, Twisting Deceit - Plays on madness and doubting one’s own sense of reality The Stranger, I-Do-Not-Know-You - Plays on the fear of the unknown, the unseen, and the uncanny The Vast, The Falling Titan, The Vertigo, Void - Plays on agoraphobia, vertigo, and the fears of the weather, emptiness and the incomprehensible scale of the universe The Web, The Spider, Mother of Puppets - Plays on arachnophobia, as well as the general theme of entrapment, stasis and being manipulated by an outside force The Extinction, Terrible Change, Future-Without-Us, The-World-Is-Always-Ending - A new emerging Power. Plays on the fear of catastrophic change and one’s world or one’s self being replaced with something terrible
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