In my campaign, the party discovers evidence of beings older than the gods, known as Avatars. The Avatars are entities that embody a concept (i.e, Avatar of Chaos, Avatar of Energy, etc). If a mortal or deity tries to speak their real name, they suffer mentally or physically (deities suffer more, and they loathe their lesser origins).
I should also note that there is a "King of Avatars" called Omnikron, Avatar of Creation.
So if you have an idea for an Avatar, make sure to have their name, their concept, their appearance, and what happens when something other than Avatars speaks their name
There are Gods and there are their lessers -- the immortals. You seem to be homebrewing a third element or a custom aberration.
The worlds of DnD are embedded in an immense cosmos. Most play is contained within the Prime Material plane or the adjacent Feywild or Shadowfell planes. Outside of this, there are other planes of existense as documented in the DMG. To my knowledge, the only place outside of the multiverse is the Far Realm. So I imagine that these Avatars are embedded in that Far Realm. What resides in the Far Realms is rumored to be Aberrations such as Beholders and Mind Flayers. There are tools online to list monsters by type. Get a list of all aberrations sorted by CR. Outside of this you are homebrewing -- anything goes. The homebrewing challenge is to keep it playable, engaging and balanced. Congratulations. Now you are a game designer. Good luck sir!
To me 'energy' is not a concept. It is physical. I like your creation avator idea. After that would be chaos and peace. Chaos could look like a black ball of energy swirling around of course, chaotically. His name Khaos. Avatar of peace (calmness), well the gently old man in white robes. Her name, Eirene.
Go watch Sandman on Netflix. Some good ideas the Sandman is God of dreams. His siblings Destiny, Desire, Death, Despair, Destruction, and Delirium. Their parents are Mother Night and Father Time.
To me 'energy' is not a concept. It is physical. I like your creation avator idea. After that would be chaos and peace. Chaos could look like a black ball of energy swirling around of course, chaotically. His name Khaos. Avatar of peace (calmness), well the gently old man in white robes. Her name, Eirene.
Go watch Sandman on Netflix. Some good ideas the Sandman is God of dreams. His siblings Destiny, Desire, Death, Despair, Destruction, and Delirium. Their parents are Mother Night and Father Time.
There are Gods and there are their lessers -- the immortals. You seem to be homebrewing a third element or a custom aberration.
The worlds of DnD are embedded in an immense cosmos. Most play is contained within the Prime Material plane or the adjacent Feywild or Shadowfell planes. Outside of this, there are other planes of existense as documented in the DMG. To my knowledge, the only place outside of the multiverse is the Far Realm. So I imagine that these Avatars are embedded in that Far Realm. What resides in the Far Realms is rumored to be Aberrations such as Beholders and Mind Flayers. There are tools online to list monsters by type. Get a list of all aberrations sorted by CR. Outside of this you are homebrewing -- anything goes. The homebrewing challenge is to keep it playable, engaging and balanced. Congratulations. Now you are a game designer. Good luck sir!
Imma be real with you, the Avatars exist in a place outside of the Far Realm called The Foundation
To me 'energy' is not a concept. It is physical. I like your creation avator idea. After that would be chaos and peace. Chaos could look like a black ball of energy swirling around of course, chaotically. His name Khaos. Avatar of peace (calmness), well the gently old man in white robes. Her name, Eirene.
Go watch Sandman on Netflix. Some good ideas the Sandman is God of dreams. His siblings Destiny, Desire, Death, Despair, Destruction, and Delirium. Their parents are Mother Night and Father Time.
There are Avatars of water, fire, shadow, and more. The Avatars make sure that their respective concepts exist, if a Avatar is ever killed (an impossible feat) that concept ceases to exist
I'm not going to name them because I'm terrible at names but I'd be inclined to design the avatars around balance, if you've got an Avatar of Chaos there's also an Avatar or Order, an Avatar of Light and an Avatar of Darkness, Avatar of Fire and one of Water etc. That way you really easily get double the number and you have a built in lore reason why the entire universe hasn't spun out in one direction or another
Kítrinos is the concept of literally yellow that is in everything, from the colour of a stone to the slightest light from the sun. It would likely manifest as fat moulded into a human form, along with being made up of lemons, yellow leafs and sulphur ore. The light of the sun would emanate from behind them. If anyone says it’s true name, every part of them that aren’t partially yellow would be temporarily disappear from reality, their perspective would completely remove all non-yellow objects and cause them to be unable to focus on anything else.
In my campaign, the party discovers evidence of beings older than the gods, known as Avatars. The Avatars are entities that embody a concept (i.e, Avatar of Chaos, Avatar of Energy, etc). If a mortal or deity tries to speak their real name, they suffer mentally or physically (deities suffer more, and they loathe their lesser origins).
I should also note that there is a "King of Avatars" called Omnikron, Avatar of Creation.
So if you have an idea for an Avatar, make sure to have their name, their concept, their appearance, and what happens when something other than Avatars speaks their name
There are Gods and there are their lessers -- the immortals. You seem to be homebrewing a third element or a custom aberration.
The worlds of DnD are embedded in an immense cosmos. Most play is contained within the Prime Material plane or the adjacent Feywild or Shadowfell planes. Outside of this, there are other planes of existense as documented in the DMG. To my knowledge, the only place outside of the multiverse is the Far Realm. So I imagine that these Avatars are embedded in that Far Realm. What resides in the Far Realms is rumored to be Aberrations such as Beholders and Mind Flayers. There are tools online to list monsters by type. Get a list of all aberrations sorted by CR. Outside of this you are homebrewing -- anything goes. The homebrewing challenge is to keep it playable, engaging and balanced. Congratulations. Now you are a game designer. Good luck sir!
Why not conjure an Aberrant Spirit? They exist in the Far Realm.
https://www.aidedd.org/monster/aberrant-spirit
This sounds like a homebrew setting they're going for.
To me 'energy' is not a concept. It is physical. I like your creation avator idea. After that would be chaos and peace. Chaos could look like a black ball of energy swirling around of course, chaotically. His name Khaos. Avatar of peace (calmness), well the gently old man in white robes. Her name, Eirene.
Go watch Sandman on Netflix. Some good ideas the Sandman is God of dreams. His siblings Destiny, Desire, Death, Despair, Destruction, and Delirium. Their parents are Mother Night and Father Time.
Imma be real with you, the Avatars exist in a place outside of the Far Realm called The Foundation
There are Avatars of water, fire, shadow, and more. The Avatars make sure that their respective concepts exist, if a Avatar is ever killed (an impossible feat) that concept ceases to exist
Reality -- what a concept.
How would the manifestation of a concept have any causation outside of reality?
I don't know how to respond to that
I'm not going to name them because I'm terrible at names but I'd be inclined to design the avatars around balance, if you've got an Avatar of Chaos there's also an Avatar or Order, an Avatar of Light and an Avatar of Darkness, Avatar of Fire and one of Water etc. That way you really easily get double the number and you have a built in lore reason why the entire universe hasn't spun out in one direction or another
Ironically there is a Avatar of Balance. I also like that idea
Kítrinos, avatar of Yellow
Kítrinos is the concept of literally yellow that is in everything, from the colour of a stone to the slightest light from the sun. It would likely manifest as fat moulded into a human form, along with being made up of lemons, yellow leafs and sulphur ore. The light of the sun would emanate from behind them. If anyone says it’s true name, every part of them that aren’t partially yellow would be temporarily disappear from reality, their perspective would completely remove all non-yellow objects and cause them to be unable to focus on anything else.