Godmen

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“I am a creature, like you, but I am not of this world of yours. And while you are submerged completely under it, I stand with one foot in it and with the other outside. ”

—Rahm-Umbra, AKA Six

Godmen are a race of advanced beings from another planet, though they keep a significant stake in this one. They possess potent psionic powers and cybernetic augments that make them invincible in combat, as well as the means to traverse the In-Between freely. Only two Godmen can be encountered in Underrail, those being Six and Hadrian Tanner.

Background

Very little information about the Godmen's history is given directly, the main source being the psionic monoliths found in the underrail and Deep Caverns. They seem to experience time non-linearly, seeing it as a series of "frames" where outcomes are certain but events leading up to them are not, similar to how Dude experiences visions.

The pillars in Deep Caverns offer an assumed "starting point" for the Godmen lore; the Chosen sought a way to travel through the black sea of infinity (assumed to the In-Between) without dying, so they sought the blessing of the "Machine God". This was presumably when they received their cybernetic enhancements, allowing them to survive the physical trials of rift-walking.

The Crystal Mainframe and Core City pillars describe the next age, wherein they use their advanced technology to defeat their Leviathans, proclaiming and end to the Eon of the Beast and the beginning of their reign of the galaxy. They expand their domain, constructing immensely powerful energy sources to fuel their machines. At some point they learn of their unspecified doom, but are drawn by curiosity to descend all the same, leaving three.

The chronology of the remaining pillars is unclear, but can be speculated; the Intitute monolith shows the Godhead being woken by news of his children's "sickness", possibly referring to their morbid curiosity and placing it during or after the descent. The Jaws monolith is also vague, but describes more than three participants, placing it before or during the descent. It is also the only implied conflict between Godmen, the aggressor possibly being Tanner.

In-Game

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