Vargeriant the Purger

LET IT BE KNOWN THAT IT IS NOT THE ONE YOU KNOW AS "THE CUSTODIAN" WHO IS DICTATING THIS. IT IS I, VARGERIANT THE PURGER... THE MASTER OF PURGATORY. I KNOW NOT HOW IT IS THAT WE ARE COMMUNICATING, AND PERHAPS IT SHOULD NOT BE THOUGHT INTO TOO DEEPLY, LEST THIS SURELY TENUOUS APPARENT CONNECTION WE SHARE FOR THIS MOMENT BE SEVERED.

 

MY REALM AND I HAVE EXISTED FOR ALL OF TIME AS IT CAN BE FATHOMED. THE ONE YOU MOST LIKELY KNOW AS "GOD" CREATED ME WITH ONE SOLE, SINGLE, SOLITARY PURPOSE FOR EXISTING: TO JUDGE AND TEST THE SOULS OF THOSE AMONG THE RECENTLY–DECEASED WHO IN LIFE HAD DONE COMPARABLY GREAT MEASURES OF BOTH GOOD AND BAD. IN MY REALM, PURGATORY, THEY WOULD BE MADE TO FACE THEIR INNER DEMONS AND ATONE FOR THEIR SINS IN ORDER TO ACHIEVE SALVATION... IF THEY COULD NOT, THEY WOULD BE FOREVER CAST DOWN INTO THE FIERY UNDERWORLD. THIS IS THE WAY IT WAS, IS, AND, AS LONG AS THERE IS MORAL CONFLICT WITHIN THE SOULS OF MORTALS, ALWAYS SHALL BE HERE IN PURGATORY, WHERE I AM THE ONE AND ONLY SOURCE OF AUTHORITY AND POWER.

 

I AM A BEING HALF–ANGELIC AND HALF–DEMONIC IN NATURE... A PROSPECT THAT YOU LIKELY FIND ALIEN. MY PHYSICAL FORM, IN THE MOST BASIC SENSE, IS THAT OF A GIGANTIC, DARK–BODIED, WINGED HUMANOID. THE TRUE EXTENT OF MY FORM, HOWEVER, IS ALMOST CERTAINLY INDESCRIBABLE AND INDECIPHERABLE TO YOU, WHOEVER YOU ARE. LET IT SIMPLY BE SAID THAT MY BODY IS AMORPHOUS, NONLINEAR, AND UBIQUITOUS WITHIN PURGATORY.

 

THE NATURE OF MY OMNIPRESENCE AND LIMITLESS POWER HERE IS IN ALL LIKELIHOOD BEYOND COMPREHENSION TO YOU AS WELL. NEVERTHELESS, I WILL TRY TO EXPLAIN IT IN SIMPLE TERMS. IN THIS DESOLATE, NEBULOUS REALM, ALL TIME IS SUSPENDED, AND I, VARGERIANT, CONTROL ALL MATTER AND SPACE AS IT CAN BE PERCEIVED BY THE SPIRITS OF MORTALS. IN PURGATORY, I AM EVERYWHERE AND EVERYTHING. I CAN TEND TO AN UNLIMITED NUMBER OF SOULS AT ONCE, CONJURING FOR THEM LIMITLESS TESTS, TRIALS, TRIBULATIONS AND OTHER ENTITIES REFLECTING THE NATURE AND SEVERITY OF THEIR SINS AND UNRESOLVED INTERNAL CONFLICTS FROM NOTHINGNESS. WHEN A SOUL HAS EITHER CONQUERED ALL OF THE TRIALS PRESENTED IT OR PROVEN ITSELF UTTERLY INCAPABLE OF DOING THAT VERY THING, IT FACES FINAL JUDGMENT FROM ME, AND LEAVES PURGATORY FOREVER... WHEREUPON ITS EVERY MEMORY OF IT AND ME ARE ERASED COMPLETELY.

 

FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THE REST OF THE UNIVERSE, WHEN A MORTAL INDIVIDUAL DIES, THEIR SOUL FACES JUDGMENT IMMEDIATELY AND IS SENT TO EITHER HEAVEN OR HELL... AND FOR MOST, THAT IS INDEED THE CASE. BUT IN THE CASES OF THOSE RARE YET NUMEROUS INDIVIDUALS WHOSE HEARTS CONTAIN SUBSTANTIAL AMOUNTS OF BOTH ACTIVE GOODNESS AND OUTRIGHT WRONGDOING, THEIR INITIAL FATE IS TO BE SENT TO MY REALM, WHERE THEY MAY SPEND UP TO WHAT WOULD APPEAR TO BE SEVERAL YEARS' TIME... BUT IS IN FACT NO AMOUNT OF TIME WHATSOEVER AS FAR AS THE OUTSIDE UNIVERSE IS CONCERNED.

 

NOBODY KNOWS OF MY EXISTENCE SAVE GOD HIMSELF AND THOSE WHOSE SOULS PRESENTLY RESIDE IN MY REALM... AND WHO WILL FORGET OF ME AS SOON AS THEY LEAVE THEIR TEMPORARY STATE OF PURGATORY AND ARE SENT TO THEIR FINAL DESTINATION. NOT EVEN THE ONE YOU CALL THE "CUSTODIAN", WHO CLAIMS TO BE ALL KNOWING, IS AWARE OF MY EXISTENCE OR THAT OF PURGATORY ITSELF. I HAVE LONG SINCE CEASED ATTEMPTING TO SOCIALLY INTERACT WITH THOSE WHO ENTER MY REALM, FOR I HAVE COME TO ACCEPT THAT TRYING TO DO SO IS MEANINGLESS FOR ME. I AM PURGATORY'S ONLY PERMANENT RESIDENT. I HAVE NO "MINIONS"; ANY SEEMINGLY LIVING ENTITIES THAT I CONJURE ARE MERE EXTENSIONS OF MY OWN BEING AND NOTHING MORE.

 

I AM, FOR ALL INTENTS AND PURPOSES, COMPLETELY AND ETERNALLY ALONE, MY DUTIES AND CONSTANT HARD WORK ENTIRELY UNAPPRECIATED AND UNACKNOWLEDGED... AND I DESPISE MY CREATOR FOR CURSING ME WITH SUCH AN EXISTENCE, ALONG WITH ALL THOSE TO WHOM HE HAS GIVEN THE GIFT OF MEANINGFUL INTERACTION! AND YET, I AM POWERLESS TO EXERT MY WRATH...

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