ORIGIN - Profile of Mortis

CYCLE 120 — Current time: Apr 03 2025, 02:33 AM

Mortis

His presence foretells both blood and death
yet he shoulders not the blame

Full Name: Equus Mortis

Alias: The Pale One, Bringer of Rot, The Rotting Nag, The Decayer, Entropy

Gender: Genderless

Age: 88 Cycles

Species: Horse

Magicka: ʡ 30

Postlog: A Pale Horse Named Death

ACHIEVEMENTS

ENCHANTED ITEMS

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04/02/25 — Aged up to 88 cycles.
03/03/25 — Aged up to 87 cycles.
01/09/25 — Aged up to 86 cycles.
12/10/24 — Aged up to 85 cycles.
11/11/24 — Aged up to 84 cycles.
10/10/24 — Aged up to 83 cycles.
09/10/24 — Aged up to 82 cycles.
08/11/24 — Aged up to 81 cycles.
07/12/24 — Aged up to 80 cycles.
06/12/24 — Aged up to 79 cycles.
05/13/24 — Aged up to 78 cycles.
04/13/24 — Aged up to 77 cycles.
03/11/24 — Aged up to 76 cycles.
02/10/24 — Aged up to 75 cycles.
01/11/24 — Aged up to 74 cycles.
12/12/23 — Aged up to 73 cycles.
11/12/23 — Aged up to 72 cycles.
10/13/23 — Aged up to 71 cycles.
09/13/23 — Aged up to 70 cycles.
08/14/23 — Aged up to 69 cycles.
07/15/23 — Aged up to 68 cycles.
06/15/23 — Aged up to 67 cycles.
05/17/23 — Aged up to 66 cycles.
04/17/23 — Aged up to 65 cycles.
03/18/23 — Aged up to 64 cycles.
02/16/23 — Aged up to 63 cycles.
01/17/23 — Aged up to 62 cycles.
12/18/22 — Aged up to 61 cycles.
11/18/22 — Aged up to 60 cycles.
10/19/22 — Aged up to 59 cycles.
09/19/22 — Aged up to 58 cycles.
08/20/22 — Aged up to 57 cycles.
07/21/22 — Aged up to 56 cycles.
06/21/22 — Aged up to 55 cycles.
05/22/22 — Aged up to 54 cycles.
04/22/22 — Aged up to 53 cycles.
03/23/22 — Aged up to 52 cycles.
02/21/22 — Aged up to 51 cycles.
01/22/22 — Aged up to 50 cycles.
12/23/21 — Aged up to 49 cycles.
11/23/21 — Aged up to 48 cycles.
10/24/21 — Aged up to 47 cycles.
09/24/21 — Aged up to 46 cycles.
08/25/21 — Aged up to 45 cycles.
07/26/21 — Aged up to 44 cycles.
06/26/21 — Aged up to 43 cycles.
05/27/21 — Aged up to 42 cycles.
04/27/21 — Aged up to 41 cycles.
03/28/21 — Aged up to 40 cycles.
02/26/21 — Aged up to 39 cycles.
01/27/21 — Aged up to 38 cycles.
12/28/20 — Aged up to 37 cycles.
11/28/20 — Aged up to 36 cycles.
10/24/20 — Aged up to 35 cycles.
09/24/20 — Aged up to 34 cycles.
08/25/20 — Aged up to 33 cycles.
07/26/20 — Aged up to 32 cycles.
06/26/20 — Aged up to 31 cycles.
05/27/20 — Aged up to 30 cycles.
04/27/20 — Aged up to 29 cycles.
03/29/20 — Aged up to 28 cycles.
02/28/20 — Aged up to 27 cycles.
01/29/20 — Aged up to 26 cycles.
12/30/19 — Aged up to 25 cycles.
11/25/19 — Aged up to 24 cycles.
10/26/19 — Aged up to 23 cycles.
09/26/19 — Aged up to 22 cycles.
08/27/19 — Aged up to 21 cycles.
07/28/19 — Aged up to 20 cycles.
06/28/19 — Aged up to 19 cycles.
05/29/19 — Aged up to 18 cycles.
04/29/19 — Aged up to 17 cycles.
03/30/19 — Aged up to 16 cycles.
02/28/19 — Aged up to 15 cycles.
01/29/19 — Aged up to 14 cycles.
12/30/18 — Aged up to 13 cycles.
11/30/18 — Aged up to 12 cycles.
10/31/18 — Aged up to 11 cycles.
10/01/18 — Aged up to 10 cycles.
09/01/18 — Aged up to 9 cycles.
08/02/18 — Aged up to 8 cycles.
07/03/18 — Aged up to 7 cycles.
06/03/18 — Aged up to 6 cycles.
05/04/18 — Aged up to 5 cycles.
04/04/18 — Aged up to 4 cycles.
04/01/18 — Learned the spell Festive Surprise
03/05/18 — Aged up to 3 cycles.
02/14/18 — Joined thread Floral Frivolity! (Eridanus) in Eridanus
02/14/18 — Attempted to Cast Fungal Wake (Successful!) in Floral Frivolity! (Eridanus)
02/11/18 — Joined thread [EVENT] Heart of Corruption in Eridanus
02/11/18 — Attempted to Cast Grey Sense (Successful!) in [EVENT] Heart of Corruption
02/11/18 — Learned the spell Grey Sense
02/11/18 — Received ʡ 50 from Dezba
02/01/18 — Aged up to 2 cycles.
01/13/18 — Joined thread [QUEST] Nine Lives: The Spire in Polaris
01/13/18 — Attempted Other (Failure!) in [QUEST] Nine Lives: The Spire
01/11/18 — Attempted Other (Barely Successful!) in Of Entropy and Creation
01/08/18 — Attempted Other (Failure!) in Of Entropy and Creation
01/07/18 — Created a thread Of Entropy and Creation in Eridanus
01/07/18 — Attempted to Cast Fungal Wake (Critical Success!) in Of Entropy and Creation
01/07/18 — Was taught spell Fungal Wake by Origin Cave

Appearance

Physically, Mortis is just an ordinary graying horse with the build of a warmblood that stands about 15 hands at the shoulder. However, it is rail thin, emaciated, resembaling a sickly, skeletal equine with a gnarled locks of wispy black hair for a mane and tail. Because Mortis rarely feels the need to eat, its body suffers. Every rib can be seen from its rugged, pale coat as well as its protruding chest bone and hips. Unlike in an average, well fed horse, its spinal process is raised like rocky ridge and will degrade into a mild sway back as it ages.

What nutrients it does get comes from the fungi it summons or the occasional instinctive urge to nibble on grass. It only consumes enough to keep its physical form alive, even if it is barely. It's behavior is lethargic. Mortis is almost never witnessed running or bucking like its Earth cousins. It stands still or lumbers on, with knobby knees, black, limp, wrinkled lips, and the haunting, dead gaze of a corpse in its eye. The reek of death follows it where ever it goes and with magick, Mortis can amplify this awful stench, attracting swarms of flies from all over the cave.

Upon hatching, Equus Mortis will be the healthiest it will ever be, but as soon as it takes its first breath, a slow decay will take hold of the horse's body. Gray horses are not born gray, and the same thing is said for the Pale One. Even as a foal, it is scrawny, but its coat is solid bay. Gray rings around its eyes called "goggle eyes" are the only tall tale sign that it will lose its dark coat.

As Mortis grows, its fur will fade to dapple gray, becoming lighter and grayer with age, until the spotted pattern can only be seen in faded patches on its rump and chest. Its black skin around its sunken eyes and muzzle as well as its dark mane, tail, and socks left over from the black base are the only reminence of its original coat color. As Mortis learns to control mycelium, various fungi will began to grow from the equine's flesh, giving it the appearance of a walking corpse.

The gem of Mortis is a milky quartz, fashioned into a smooth orb the size of a horse's eye. It fits perfectly into its left socket just like a normal eye. It can roll its gem and blink, thanks to an optic nerve and eyelid that keeps it place. Mostly blind from the left, Mortis cannot see images from its gem, but it can detect moving shadows, like a primitive eye.

Personality

Hollow, eerie, and grim, the pale horse seems to be more than just a strange and decrypted equine, but something more... unearthly. It believes it was born with a single purpose, and that is to bring decay. The thing knows itself as Mortis, but goes by many names, The Pale One, Bringer of Rot, The Decayer, and more. It does not completely understand the ways of other Gembounds, for it is too busy fulfilling its one purpose to study such a trivial task. While it can comprehend words, it rarely speaks, but when it does, it is usually important. The only relationship it seems to truely have is with its counterpart and sister, Celestia. It has an uneasy rivalry with her, as she undos all its hard work, and in return, it destroys her's.

It is cold and apathic, caring not for the lives it tarnishes with rot. It believes that it is an entity destined to reap the remains of the deceased, to break down and end his sister's creations. Because of this, Mortis feels that it is not use to a physical form, or why it is trapped in one. When it is born, it feels cut off from its element, causing frustration, but as it grows and learns to control its body and magick, Mortis will reign over all things that cause decomposition.

While destructive, the pale horse is not malicious. It only takes from the dead and dying. Even if Mortis it wanted too, it would have difficult time forcing death by decay upon the healthy, but with the right concoction of spells, it is not an impossible. Still, this is very unlikely, as it seems to have unlimited patience. Not many things can anger it to such a point, not even Celestia. After all, it considers such trifles petty in the grand scheme of things. Not worth its time at all, and it has alot of time. As immortal as the Gembounds seem, Mortis believes that everything must eventually come to an end, including its own vessel, but entropy itself is eternal, as long as there is creation.

History

January 2018 -- Equus Mortis hatches along side its counterpart and sister, Celestia, to bring entropy and creation unto the Gembounds of Origin.