Eldritch Guidance

“Outsider. When that term is used in the context of talking about planes of existence, it has a very different meaning. Outsiders, in simplest terms, are any beings that are born and exist outside of our world. These entities are exceptionally powerful.

“The exact number of outsiders that exist outside of our reality is unknown.

“Due to existing beyond our reality, outsiders can not freely enter our existence. Our world creates a sort of natural barrier that prevents such entities from manifesting on our plane. However, using special summoning rituals, that natural law can be circumvented to a degree.

“As of the year 3134, there are three categories of outsider: hostile, indifferent, and unknown. Each of those categories is based on the outsider's general temperament towards life on our plane, and thankfully the majority of known outsiders seem to fall under the category of indifferent.

“Such entities as demons are classified as hostile. A powerful type of outsider believed to be born out of malice. They often take the form of humanoid beings with wings and horns. These entities seem to hate all life and will tempt people with promises of power to actively ruin lives. All known records on how to summon these types of beings have been destroyed thousands of years ago in both the West and East in what is known as the Lix Purge. Demons have not been seen on the western continent since then.

“Another type of outsider is the whispers, who are classified as indifferent. These entities take the form of something that looks like flowing black cloth that is vaguely in the shape of a humanoid. These creatures are not hostile and relatively harmless, but become hostile when people attempt to summon them. They show no interest in our world and don’t want to be on our plane, but people have still attempted to forcefully summon them as a means to gain knowledge, as these entities are thought to know all secrets.

“Then there are the most widely known of all the outsiders, the Nameless Gods. They are of the unknown class, but it has been debated that they may be of the hostile variety. There is no information on what these entities look like, as there are no known summoning rituals to summon these entities, and what is known of them is only tangential. These beings have never manifested on our plane of existence and any communication made with them was through a cultist, whose claims are unreliable. The motivation of these beings, if they have any, is unknown. So, while people might have heard about them, they might be the least understood of all the known outsiders.

“While these three types of outsiders are confirmed to exist, they are far from the only. There are still reports and claims of countless other types of outsiders. In the coming years, more types of outsiders will likely be identified.

“Knowledge on how to summon outsiders is extremely restricted and illegal, due to the danger these creatures pose to everyone.”