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Minor Hounds of Tindalos Additions

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So I just read "Hounds of Tindalos" by Frank Belknap Long and there's a few things that the profile needs to be added with (I'll be posting the Quotes from the story for the justification of the abilities):-


Non-Corporeal: "Beyond life there are"—his face grew ashen with terror—"things that I cannot distinguish. They move slowly through angles. They have no bodies, and they move slowly through outrageous angles." / "All the evil in the universe was concentrated in their lean, hungry bodies. Or had they bodies? I saw them only for a moment; I cannot be certain." / "You have a shrewd but prosaic mind, and you cannot conceive of an entity that does not depend for its existence on force and matter. But did it ever occur to you, my friend, that force and matter are merely the barriers to perception imposed by time and space? When one knows, as I do, that time and space are identical and that they are both deceptive because they are merely imperfect manifestations of a higher reality, one no longer seeks in the visible world for an explanation of the mystery and terror of being."

Resistances to Matter and Energy Manipulation: ^


Enhanced Senses: "They scented me in time." he moaned. "I went too far."

Abstract Existence: His voice had risen to a scream. "Frank, Frank, a terrible and unspeakable deed was done in the beginning. Before time, the deed, and from the deed—" He had risen and was hysterically pacing the room. "The seeds of the deed move through angles in dim recesses of time. They are hungry and athirst!" / "But they scented me. Men awake in them cosmic hungers. We have escaped, momentarily, from the foulness that rings them round. They thirst for that in us which is clean, which emerged from the deed without stain. There is a part of us which did not partake in the deed, and that they hate. But do not imagine that they are literally, prosaically evil. They are beyond good and evil as we know it. They are that which in the beginning fell away from cleanliness. Through the deed they became bodies of death, receptacles of all foulness. But they are not evil in our sense because in the spheres through which they move there is no thought, no morals, no right or wrong as we understand it. There is merely the pure and the foul. The foul expresses itself through angles: the pure through curves. Man. the pure part of him, is descended from a curve. Do not laugh. I mean that literally."

Immortality (Types 1, 4, 5, 8, 9): "What if, parallel to the life we know, there is another life that does not die, which lacks the elements that destroy our life? Perhaps in another dimension there is a different force from that which generates our life." / "Perhaps this force emits energy, or something similar to energy, which passes from the unknown dimension where it is and creates a new form of cell life in our dimension. No one knows that such new cell life does exist in our dimension. Ah, but I have seen its manifestations. I have talked with them. In my room at night I have talked with the Doels. And in dreams I have seen their maker. I have stood on the dim shore beyond time and matter and seen it. It moves through strange curves and outrageous angles. Someday I shall travel in time and meet it face to face."
 
Everything seems fine, but I'd tweak the immortality, a bit. 1 and 5 are definitely justified. I don't think 4 or 8 are ever implied in the main story. Don't know about 9. Seems too vague.
 
8 because of being reliant on the Dimension beyond Time imo

4 and 9 because of being an Avatar/aspect of Mithira or that outer god of Hounds maybe?
 
Also should the Hounds get Non-Existent Physiology for being part of the "deed" before creation and that they are after their preys for they have something which the hounds lack and also for being above the concepts of Force and Matter????

Edit: Also shouldn't Acausality be listed on their pages for transcending the very Concept of Time and being Immeasurable????
 
I believe their Profiles should state that they're 5D beings considering they're from a realm that exists beyond Time and they themselves are above the Concept of Time.
 
Anyways, if everything is good then the changes should be made.

• Non-Corporeal

• Immortality Types 1,5 (Possibly also 4, 8, 9)

• Resistances to Matter and Energy Manipulation

• Enhanced Senses

• Acausality

• Abstract Existence

• Non-Existent Physiology

• 5D beings + At least High 2-A
 
Bumping this. If everyone is okay with the proposed additions as well as the "Possibly At Least High 2-A", then edits should be done.
 
I think that Azathoth only agreed with the changes suggested in the first post, not an "At least High 2-A" rating, but I will temporarily unlock the page, so you can apply what he accepted.
 
I have done so. Tell me here when you are done.
 
Well, you should change back the High 2-A rating to what it was before, as Azathoth has not accepted it.
 
If you read the story, it blatantly states that they Transcend the dimensions of Space and Time and comes from a realm beyond them. But like Azzy said, it's vague to what degree do they Transcend 4D and even if they have any AP/DC abilities as they are entirely beyond the concepts of Matter, Energy, Force, Space, and Time.
 
So should we close this thread?
 
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