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Name: Arsene
Age: As old as Aurholm
Zodiac: Serpens
Race: Ikisat
Place on Timeline: Genesis
Location: Nix

Appearance: Youthful, short, generally looks unfriendly. Camillet wound up making him look like a Low Terran because of course he would. Skin, hair, and eyes are silver – they shimmer iridescently in the light. Malcontent. Frustrated. Kind of blends into the background, since it somehow seems natural to forget that he's there. Looking at him fills you with no particular sensation at all.

Personality: A shitty two-bit version of Miquir.
Arsene is crippled by an all-encompassing sense of insecurity, emptiness, and worthlessness. He is enamoured with Camillet, dazzled by his perfect beauty and dependant on him for love and security.
Extremely jealous when it comes to Camillet. Feels secure when he knows Camillet needs him. Thirsty for constant attention. Mission in life is to make Camillet happy, but is too selfish to ever accomplish it, and hates himself for it. Feels personally insulted when something sours Camillet's mood. Honestly does care about Camillet despite his possessiveness. Wants to feel like he's worth something. Wants to know he's better than others in some capacity. Needs assurance that he won't be abandoned or forgotten.
Enjoys doing domestic chores, cooking, cleaning, gardening, etc, mostly because he anticipates the praise Camillet will give him for it. Is generally inept otherwise. Not a very complex thinker.
Hates existing without Camillet. Terrified of being alone. 100% yandere.

Backstory: Arsene spent the first few centuries of his life living domestically with Camillet in an otherwise unpopulated universe. The two of them made the world together. Camillet would try to tailor-make existence to suit Arsene's tastes, but Arsene would watch Camillet's reaction to whatever proposal and simply pick the one that Camillet seemed to like best, and Arsene's approximations were basically always right. Ultimately the world is shaped to be appealing to Camillet.

Arsene was tasked mainly with domestic work, but he was also critically important as Camillet's conversation partner and emotional rock. Camillet suffered terrible episodes of dissociation and delirium, and Arsene quickly became his caregiver during these breakdowns. Things between them were good as Cam felt secure nannying Arsene, and Arsene felt secure with his worth to Cam.

Eventually Cam created humans. Though Arsene didn't think much of it at first, the downswing started here.

Cam quickly submitted to his nannying urges and started personally overseeing a small, struggling community. Arsene managed to convince him to govern no more than this one village, bringing up his mental imbalance as reason not to overextend himself. Of course, Arsene was mainly just jealous that Cam was spending time with these people – but, since it made him happy and he was still piling good attention on Arsene, and since Arsene still wasn't sure what exactly the jealousy he was feeling was, he put up with it. The village soon accepted Cam as their benefactor and life proceeded peacefully enough, with the two of them visiting the village often.

Eventually one of the people in the village died, and Cam was horrendously shaken with grief. Arsene comforted him, indignant that the people had done something so horrible, that hurt Cam so much. Cam raced through ideas of resurrecting the dead or giving people immortality, but Arsene suggested another idea: place their souls up in the sky, where they could be seen and be beautiful forever. The suggestion thrilled Cam. Death after death, he began filling the sky with the old constellations from Earth, and things fell back into order.

The village grew larger and larger as more and more people sought it out and settled there. Rumours were spreading about the place, a legendary, idyllic Glen where the Demiurge made his home. This only exacerbated Arsene's resentment – these were greedy people, taking advantage of Cam's kindness, who believed they were entitled to his love. He set a spacial distortion field around the Glen to repel outsiders, and before he knew it, his peaceful life with Cam transformed into a convoluted game of micromanaging stupid children that Arsene truly had no interest in. They no longer went out and made new things together, since Cam was oddly preoccupied with completing his constellations, and was otherwise too busy attending to the needs of his people.

But Arsene maintained his post as Cam's closest friend and confidant. He let himself take pride in Cam's anger, his complaining, his anxiety, his sorrow, his weakness, seeing these as the things Cam solely reserved for Arsene, his most intimate emotions. He also let himself take pride in the fact that he could ease them.

Eventually, a man who I will now name Bartholomew, aka Bart, decided he would leave the Glen to explore the world. This inspired horrible anxiety in Cam that he would get lost or get hurt or get into some kind of accident and, after rounds of deliberation, he proposed that Arsene accompany Bart on his journey. Cam knew Arsene was capable, intelligent, and trustworthy – to his mind, there was no partner more reliable. Arsene initially protested – everything about the proposition terrified him. How was Cam meant to cope alone? But, thinking of how disappointed Cam would be if he declined, and proud Cam would be when they successfully made their return, Arsene folded on the condition that their journey last no longer than one year.

The year that followed was hell for Arsene. Though he maintained professionally cordial relations with Bart, he could not restrain the spite he felt for him. More offensive than Bart, however, was what he saw during their journey: old places, full of memories between himself and Cam, changed and defiled as people settled there or gouged them for resources. Arsene's simmering resentment finally escalated into genuine hatred for man. But Cam's overflowing pride and celebration of Arsene when the two of them did return safely made the whole awful year worth it.

Arsene finally told Cam about his discontent, and Cam heeded Arsene's complaints. Cam stopped including Arsene in anything that would mean interacting with humans, which backfired. Arsene now spent most of the day alone in their residence, and had to watch Cam come home upbeat and chipper. In fact if there was anything soiling Cam's mood, it was Arsene himself, and his concerning distaste for humanity. Frustrated with himself, but too jealous to stop, Arsene resolved to beg Cam to abandon these humans – when he got an unexpected guest.

It was Bart. He decided to check in after noticing Arsene's absence. Though Arsene wanted to kick him out immediately, he paused when Bart namedropped Cam, and accommodated him long enough to hear Bart half-jokingly-half-wistfully imagine what life would be like without being coddled by Cam. Arsene pounced on the statement and encouraged him to assert independence, exactly like the towns and cities they had seen on their journey. And, slowly but surely, Bart did.

Cam panicked as his babies started growing distant, which Arsene was happy for, if only because it gave him opportunity to ease Cam's panic. Arsene coaxed Cam into allowing them to govern themselves. But there was one point Cam wouldn't concede. If they were going to look after themselves, then they needed to prove they were capable of it. Someone had to step forth, challenge Cam's leadership, and prove themselves superior.

Of course this wound up being Bart, with some clandestine help from Arsene. A circus unfolded as the two exploited every advantage they could get to finally, finally best Cam in an authoritative bout. Cam acknowledged Bart's victory by teaching him the secret of gnosis, and promptly retired to live with Arsene. Happy end for everybody, surely!

...Except Bart wasn't ungrateful enough to forget Cam! To Arsene's horror, he continued to visit regularly to discuss with Cam about leadership, current affairs, philosophy, life in general – speaking to him like an honest-to-god peer, in topics that deeply interested him. In a panic, Arsene attempted to broach these same topics with Cam, only to fail miserably. Arsene simply didn't understand or care about this stuff.

Arsene scrambled to think of something, anything that he uniquely could do for Cam. Bart was a better conversation partner. Humans in general staved his loneliness. Domestic chores were a joke, Cam could easily attend to them himself. He could even manage his breakdowns on his own, considering that year they spent apart. Probably Arsene's only worth was as an emotional sounding board, to listen to him whine and vent. And though it was a flimsy position, Arsene was satisfied to have it. Because otherwise he was frankly pointless.

The world they made was beautiful, but ultimately Cam's creation.
The rising nations and civilizations were grand, but Arsene resented them.
Humans were Cam's masterpiece, but Arsene hated them.
And there was some great principle at play, some reason for their existence here, that Arsene couldn't care less about, and Cam frantically pursued in moments of lucidity. Talks with Bart left the current meaning of life as 'to die happy'. Arsene would've never thought of that.

Arsene just had the luck of being Cam's only available option, initially.
He needed to be the only other person in the world before he could hope to be anything to him.

Life could be a void and, so long as he had Cam, Arsene would be happy.
Clearly the same is not true for Cam.
Arsene could not be special to Cam the same way Cam was special to Arsene. And of course he couldn't. Cam was beautiful, while Arsene was disgusting. Manipulative, cowardly, constricting. Cam had misplaced his trust in him, and god, how vile was he, making Cam do something so stupid.

Such was Arsene's simmering emoangst mental state when Cam made an innocuously bitchy comment to Bart, and that was it. Arsene was done.

Arsene promptly challenged Bart to an authoritative bout and utterly beat his shit in. His methods were hideously violent, leaving Bart so crippled as to be temporarily bedridden. Bart went to Cam to dispute this, and also ask for healing, but Cam wouldn't hear a word of complaint against his perfect blameless peach Arsene. Instead he praised Arsene's beautiful technique, reaffirmed Arsene's right to stage a bout, and asserted that whatever happened to Bart next was Arsene's jurisdiction.

While personally overseeing Bart's convalescence, Arsene poisoned the spring of life (root source of all water in Aurholm. It's the lake that Cam and Arsene's house is on.) and corrupted the air with a soul-mangling rot. Arsene quietly went on an insane diatribe: Finally. Finally. He's been waiting so long to do this. If you have to know, all of this is your fault. For your knowledge. For your ambition. For coming. For leaving. For dying. For living. For ever existing at all. We never needed you. But now that you've been here, it's gone. I'm never getting back what you took from me.

Bart naturally had no idea wtf Arsene was going on about, because from his perspective this was coming entirely out of the left field.

Arsene continued: If we're here to die happy, then it's a mistake that I'm here at all. So watch. As your lives are made as empty and purposeless as mine.
I wanted to be happy.
I wanted to be happy with him being happy.
But I wasn't.

Screams begin to peal through the town as the poison takes effect. Arsene watches horrified realization dawn on Bart's face as he succumbs in agony, too. After confirming his death, Arsene returns to Cam, who has yet to hear the news. But will surely be irreparably hurt once he does.

Arsene reminisces with Cam about the old days before broaching the question: is Cam happy? And Cam confessed he is. Somehow, through every up and down, it feels like he's always been happy. Ever since he first met Arsene. And the feeling intensifies every time he sees him – his own power, his own brilliance, his own accomplishment, it all feels so vivid. Every time. And perhaps that phenomenon's been safeguarding Cam's fractured ego this entire time.

Arsene tells Cam to look at him. He does. His expression is relaxed, blissful, at peace. It fills Arsene with the determination he needs to tenderly snap Cam's neck.

Thank god. Thank god. Cam died happy. Thank god.
Arsene draws close to Cam's corpse to feel its warmth as it slowly began to fade. When BAZOOMBA guess who shows up and is fucking pissed? It's motherfucking Bart.

Turns out knowing the secret of the universe makes you slightly immortal. But only slightly. Seeing that Bart is barely more than a phantasm, Arsene smirks and pointedly ignores him. Well, is Bart's spiteful farewell, we don't need you either.

Bart cleaves the entirety of the Glen, including Arsene's spacial warp zone, from the rest of the world, which is a single flat continent suspended in space. A massive hole is left in the world as the Glen plummets into the void, splitting the world into four continents.

Arsene is hence banished to Nix, where he lives miserably in his old house with Cam's corpse, which eventually begins to rot. He buries the corpse and it sprouts into a golden camellia tree. It occasionally sheds a flower or two, which are carried from the lake up Nix's waterfalls to find their living recipient. Cam is still very vaguely conscious despite being dead. Arsene remains in Nix, guarding over this tree and their house, and has continued to do so eternally.

Immortality: Arsene/Miquir is the only true immortal in this setting except for Pleroma, and Pleroma is not a person. Arsene is a spiritual creature whose consciousness is not bound to physical matter. His soul is not a part of Pleroma, so he cannot be absorbed into it. He can manifest wherever he wants.
When his physical body dies, he simply sheds that skin and manifests again.

Powers:

Space Powers. Arsene has crazy insane universe-breaking space powers that I am too dumb to understand. Just trust that he can do things with space that would break our minds to think about. If you've ever gone to Glitch City in a gen 1 Pokemon game, Arsene can basically jumble reality in ways like that and reliably navigate the resulting mess. If you've ever seen one of those rom corruption videos, he can also make reality do that, with 'polygons' shooting everywhere and things moving in ways that make no fucking sense. Arsene can make it hard to do things like, say, walk, because you'll take one step and then find yourself standing five miles away upside-down with your 20-meter-long leg-elbows clipping through the ceiling. Basically things do not obey conventional rules of 3D form/motion/distance/physics if Arsene feels like breaking them.

Ikisat. Arsene is an ikisat, and his spiritual form reflects this. Though he just looks like a Low Terran dude when he manifests physically, his true appearance is a pretty comprehensible thing that doesn't take much time to describe. He's a giant, beautiful, iridescent, feathered snake.

General Stuff. Arsene is naturally strong, resilient, and agile. He doesn't really understand things like 'technique' or 'strategy' because he can just brute force his way through most problems. He can manifest in his spiritual form, ie as a giant snake, which is when he's entering ~FINAL BOSS LEGENDARY BEAST MODE~ and is nigh unkillable unless you're Hercules.

Primary Associations: Space, emptiness, nothingness, corruption, envy, poison, snakes

//

An aside on a few things
The year without Arsene was hell for Cam too, and he spent it mostly failing to keep himself together. It might not come across very well but Cam's mental state after being ripped from Pleroma was a jumbled jibbering mess. He really wasn't in a state to be looking after anyone, but well it's Cam so it's not like you could stop him from doing it anyway.

The secret of gnosis was the knowledge that everything is made from splinters of Cam. With this knowledge, Bart achieved cognizance and experienced a revelation that everything in existence was him, and he was everything in existence (except Arsene). This gave him a highly schizophrenic form of reality warping that I'll describe in more detail elsewhere, which is how he cast the Glen into Nix. For purposes of ~deep lore~ we'll say that Cam imparted this secret in the form of a fruit, probably a pomegranate.

Arsene told Cam in advance that he was challenging Bart to the bout, which greatly surprised him. Cam didn't doubt Arsene's ability to oversee a community, and in fact would endorse that, but thought it extremely odd that he wanted anything to do with humans. Arsene explained that he just wanted authority over some ancient, sentimental landmarks to ensure that nobody meddled with them, which Cam accepted. Of course the whole thing was just a pretext for Arsene to violently take out his anger on Bart.

Arsene's nickname for Cam was Cammy, which was immediately misheard as Camille. The name of the Demiurge of Aurholm is consequently recorded as Camille.
Arsene started calling Cam by the nickname Leah after Camille caught on, indignant that people had stolen his pet name.

Description

Name: Arsene
Age: As old as Aurholm
Zodiac: Serpens
Race: Ikisat
Place on Timeline: Genesis
Location: Nix

Appearance: Youthful, short, generally looks unfriendly. Camillet wound up making him look like a Low Terran because of course he would. Skin, hair, and eyes are silver – they shimmer iridescently in the light. Malcontent. Frustrated. Kind of blends into the background, since it somehow seems natural to forget that he's there. Looking at him fills you with no particular sensation at all.

Personality: A shitty two-bit version of Miquir.
Arsene is crippled by an all-encompassing sense of insecurity, emptiness, and worthlessness. He is enamoured with Camillet, dazzled by his perfect beauty and dependant on him for love and security.
Extremely jealous when it comes to Camillet. Feels secure when he knows Camillet needs him. Thirsty for constant attention. Mission in life is to make Camillet happy, but is too selfish to ever accomplish it, and hates himself for it. Feels personally insulted when something sours Camillet's mood. Honestly does care about Camillet despite his possessiveness. Wants to feel like he's worth something. Wants to know he's better than others in some capacity. Needs assurance that he won't be abandoned or forgotten.
Enjoys doing domestic chores, cooking, cleaning, gardening, etc, mostly because he anticipates the praise Camillet will give him for it. Is generally inept otherwise. Not a very complex thinker.
Hates existing without Camillet. Terrified of being alone. 100% yandere.

Backstory: Arsene spent the first few centuries of his life living domestically with Camillet in an otherwise unpopulated universe. The two of them made the world together. Camillet would try to tailor-make existence to suit Arsene's tastes, but Arsene would watch Camillet's reaction to whatever proposal and simply pick the one that Camillet seemed to like best, and Arsene's approximations were basically always right. Ultimately the world is shaped to be appealing to Camillet.

Arsene was tasked mainly with domestic work, but he was also critically important as Camillet's conversation partner and emotional rock. Camillet suffered terrible episodes of dissociation and delirium, and Arsene quickly became his caregiver during these breakdowns. Things between them were good as Cam felt secure nannying Arsene, and Arsene felt secure with his worth to Cam.

Eventually Cam created humans. Though Arsene didn't think much of it at first, the downswing started here.

Cam quickly submitted to his nannying urges and started personally overseeing a small, struggling community. Arsene managed to convince him to govern no more than this one village, bringing up his mental imbalance as reason not to overextend himself. Of course, Arsene was mainly just jealous that Cam was spending time with these people – but, since it made him happy and he was still piling good attention on Arsene, and since Arsene still wasn't sure what exactly the jealousy he was feeling was, he put up with it. The village soon accepted Cam as their benefactor and life proceeded peacefully enough, with the two of them visiting the village often.

Eventually one of the people in the village died, and Cam was horrendously shaken with grief. Arsene comforted him, indignant that the people had done something so horrible, that hurt Cam so much. Cam raced through ideas of resurrecting the dead or giving people immortality, but Arsene suggested another idea: place their souls up in the sky, where they could be seen and be beautiful forever. The suggestion thrilled Cam. Death after death, he began filling the sky with the old constellations from Earth, and things fell back into order.

The village grew larger and larger as more and more people sought it out and settled there. Rumours were spreading about the place, a legendary, idyllic Glen where the Demiurge made his home. This only exacerbated Arsene's resentment – these were greedy people, taking advantage of Cam's kindness, who believed they were entitled to his love. He set a spacial distortion field around the Glen to repel outsiders, and before he knew it, his peaceful life with Cam transformed into a convoluted game of micromanaging stupid children that Arsene truly had no interest in. They no longer went out and made new things together, since Cam was oddly preoccupied with completing his constellations, and was otherwise too busy attending to the needs of his people.

But Arsene maintained his post as Cam's closest friend and confidant. He let himself take pride in Cam's anger, his complaining, his anxiety, his sorrow, his weakness, seeing these as the things Cam solely reserved for Arsene, his most intimate emotions. He also let himself take pride in the fact that he could ease them.

Eventually, a man who I will now name Bartholomew, aka Bart, decided he would leave the Glen to explore the world. This inspired horrible anxiety in Cam that he would get lost or get hurt or get into some kind of accident and, after rounds of deliberation, he proposed that Arsene accompany Bart on his journey. Cam knew Arsene was capable, intelligent, and trustworthy – to his mind, there was no partner more reliable. Arsene initially protested – everything about the proposition terrified him. How was Cam meant to cope alone? But, thinking of how disappointed Cam would be if he declined, and proud Cam would be when they successfully made their return, Arsene folded on the condition that their journey last no longer than one year.

The year that followed was hell for Arsene. Though he maintained professionally cordial relations with Bart, he could not restrain the spite he felt for him. More offensive than Bart, however, was what he saw during their journey: old places, full of memories between himself and Cam, changed and defiled as people settled there or gouged them for resources. Arsene's simmering resentment finally escalated into genuine hatred for man. But Cam's overflowing pride and celebration of Arsene when the two of them did return safely made the whole awful year worth it.

Arsene finally told Cam about his discontent, and Cam heeded Arsene's complaints. Cam stopped including Arsene in anything that would mean interacting with humans, which backfired. Arsene now spent most of the day alone in their residence, and had to watch Cam come home upbeat and chipper. In fact if there was anything soiling Cam's mood, it was Arsene himself, and his concerning distaste for humanity. Frustrated with himself, but too jealous to stop, Arsene resolved to beg Cam to abandon these humans – when he got an unexpected guest.

It was Bart. He decided to check in after noticing Arsene's absence. Though Arsene wanted to kick him out immediately, he paused when Bart namedropped Cam, and accommodated him long enough to hear Bart half-jokingly-half-wistfully imagine what life would be like without being coddled by Cam. Arsene pounced on the statement and encouraged him to assert independence, exactly like the towns and cities they had seen on their journey. And, slowly but surely, Bart did.

Cam panicked as his babies started growing distant, which Arsene was happy for, if only because it gave him opportunity to ease Cam's panic. Arsene coaxed Cam into allowing them to govern themselves. But there was one point Cam wouldn't concede. If they were going to look after themselves, then they needed to prove they were capable of it. Someone had to step forth, challenge Cam's leadership, and prove themselves superior.

Of course this wound up being Bart, with some clandestine help from Arsene. A circus unfolded as the two exploited every advantage they could get to finally, finally best Cam in an authoritative bout. Cam acknowledged Bart's victory by teaching him the secret of gnosis, and promptly retired to live with Arsene. Happy end for everybody, surely!

...Except Bart wasn't ungrateful enough to forget Cam! To Arsene's horror, he continued to visit regularly to discuss with Cam about leadership, current affairs, philosophy, life in general – speaking to him like an honest-to-god peer, in topics that deeply interested him. In a panic, Arsene attempted to broach these same topics with Cam, only to fail miserably. Arsene simply didn't understand or care about this stuff.

Arsene scrambled to think of something, anything that he uniquely could do for Cam. Bart was a better conversation partner. Humans in general staved his loneliness. Domestic chores were a joke, Cam could easily attend to them himself. He could even manage his breakdowns on his own, considering that year they spent apart. Probably Arsene's only worth was as an emotional sounding board, to listen to him whine and vent. And though it was a flimsy position, Arsene was satisfied to have it. Because otherwise he was frankly pointless.

The world they made was beautiful, but ultimately Cam's creation.
The rising nations and civilizations were grand, but Arsene resented them.
Humans were Cam's masterpiece, but Arsene hated them.
And there was some great principle at play, some reason for their existence here, that Arsene couldn't care less about, and Cam frantically pursued in moments of lucidity. Talks with Bart left the current meaning of life as 'to die happy'. Arsene would've never thought of that.

Arsene just had the luck of being Cam's only available option, initially.
He needed to be the only other person in the world before he could hope to be anything to him.

Life could be a void and, so long as he had Cam, Arsene would be happy.
Clearly the same is not true for Cam.
Arsene could not be special to Cam the same way Cam was special to Arsene. And of course he couldn't. Cam was beautiful, while Arsene was disgusting. Manipulative, cowardly, constricting. Cam had misplaced his trust in him, and god, how vile was he, making Cam do something so stupid.

Such was Arsene's simmering emoangst mental state when Cam made an innocuously bitchy comment to Bart, and that was it. Arsene was done.

Arsene promptly challenged Bart to an authoritative bout and utterly beat his shit in. His methods were hideously violent, leaving Bart so crippled as to be temporarily bedridden. Bart went to Cam to dispute this, and also ask for healing, but Cam wouldn't hear a word of complaint against his perfect blameless peach Arsene. Instead he praised Arsene's beautiful technique, reaffirmed Arsene's right to stage a bout, and asserted that whatever happened to Bart next was Arsene's jurisdiction.

While personally overseeing Bart's convalescence, Arsene poisoned the spring of life (root source of all water in Aurholm. It's the lake that Cam and Arsene's house is on.) and corrupted the air with a soul-mangling rot. Arsene quietly went on an insane diatribe: Finally. Finally. He's been waiting so long to do this. If you have to know, all of this is your fault. For your knowledge. For your ambition. For coming. For leaving. For dying. For living. For ever existing at all. We never needed you. But now that you've been here, it's gone. I'm never getting back what you took from me.

Bart naturally had no idea wtf Arsene was going on about, because from his perspective this was coming entirely out of the left field.

Arsene continued: If we're here to die happy, then it's a mistake that I'm here at all. So watch. As your lives are made as empty and purposeless as mine.
I wanted to be happy.
I wanted to be happy with him being happy.
But I wasn't.

Screams begin to peal through the town as the poison takes effect. Arsene watches horrified realization dawn on Bart's face as he succumbs in agony, too. After confirming his death, Arsene returns to Cam, who has yet to hear the news. But will surely be irreparably hurt once he does.

Arsene reminisces with Cam about the old days before broaching the question: is Cam happy? And Cam confessed he is. Somehow, through every up and down, it feels like he's always been happy. Ever since he first met Arsene. And the feeling intensifies every time he sees him – his own power, his own brilliance, his own accomplishment, it all feels so vivid. Every time. And perhaps that phenomenon's been safeguarding Cam's fractured ego this entire time.

Arsene tells Cam to look at him. He does. His expression is relaxed, blissful, at peace. It fills Arsene with the determination he needs to tenderly snap Cam's neck.

Thank god. Thank god. Cam died happy. Thank god.
Arsene draws close to Cam's corpse to feel its warmth as it slowly began to fade. When BAZOOMBA guess who shows up and is fucking pissed? It's motherfucking Bart.

Turns out knowing the secret of the universe makes you slightly immortal. But only slightly. Seeing that Bart is barely more than a phantasm, Arsene smirks and pointedly ignores him. Well, is Bart's spiteful farewell, we don't need you either.

Bart cleaves the entirety of the Glen, including Arsene's spacial warp zone, from the rest of the world, which is a single flat continent suspended in space. A massive hole is left in the world as the Glen plummets into the void, splitting the world into four continents.

Arsene is hence banished to Nix, where he lives miserably in his old house with Cam's corpse, which eventually begins to rot. He buries the corpse and it sprouts into a golden camellia tree. It occasionally sheds a flower or two, which are carried from the lake up Nix's waterfalls to find their living recipient. Cam is still very vaguely conscious despite being dead. Arsene remains in Nix, guarding over this tree and their house, and has continued to do so eternally.

Immortality: Arsene/Miquir is the only true immortal in this setting except for Pleroma, and Pleroma is not a person. Arsene is a spiritual creature whose consciousness is not bound to physical matter. His soul is not a part of Pleroma, so he cannot be absorbed into it. He can manifest wherever he wants.
When his physical body dies, he simply sheds that skin and manifests again.

Powers:

Space Powers. Arsene has crazy insane universe-breaking space powers that I am too dumb to understand. Just trust that he can do things with space that would break our minds to think about. If you've ever gone to Glitch City in a gen 1 Pokemon game, Arsene can basically jumble reality in ways like that and reliably navigate the resulting mess. If you've ever seen one of those rom corruption videos, he can also make reality do that, with 'polygons' shooting everywhere and things moving in ways that make no fucking sense. Arsene can make it hard to do things like, say, walk, because you'll take one step and then find yourself standing five miles away upside-down with your 20-meter-long leg-elbows clipping through the ceiling. Basically things do not obey conventional rules of 3D form/motion/distance/physics if Arsene feels like breaking them.

Ikisat. Arsene is an ikisat, and his spiritual form reflects this. Though he just looks like a Low Terran dude when he manifests physically, his true appearance is a pretty comprehensible thing that doesn't take much time to describe. He's a giant, beautiful, iridescent, feathered snake.

General Stuff. Arsene is naturally strong, resilient, and agile. He doesn't really understand things like 'technique' or 'strategy' because he can just brute force his way through most problems. He can manifest in his spiritual form, ie as a giant snake, which is when he's entering ~FINAL BOSS LEGENDARY BEAST MODE~ and is nigh unkillable unless you're Hercules.

Primary Associations: Space, emptiness, nothingness, corruption, envy, poison, snakes

//

An aside on a few things
The year without Arsene was hell for Cam too, and he spent it mostly failing to keep himself together. It might not come across very well but Cam's mental state after being ripped from Pleroma was a jumbled jibbering mess. He really wasn't in a state to be looking after anyone, but well it's Cam so it's not like you could stop him from doing it anyway.

The secret of gnosis was the knowledge that everything is made from splinters of Cam. With this knowledge, Bart achieved cognizance and experienced a revelation that everything in existence was him, and he was everything in existence (except Arsene). This gave him a highly schizophrenic form of reality warping that I'll describe in more detail elsewhere, which is how he cast the Glen into Nix. For purposes of ~deep lore~ we'll say that Cam imparted this secret in the form of a fruit, probably a pomegranate.

Arsene told Cam in advance that he was challenging Bart to the bout, which greatly surprised him. Cam didn't doubt Arsene's ability to oversee a community, and in fact would endorse that, but thought it extremely odd that he wanted anything to do with humans. Arsene explained that he just wanted authority over some ancient, sentimental landmarks to ensure that nobody meddled with them, which Cam accepted. Of course the whole thing was just a pretext for Arsene to violently take out his anger on Bart.

Arsene's nickname for Cam was Cammy, which was immediately misheard as Camille. The name of the Demiurge of Aurholm is consequently recorded as Camille.
Arsene started calling Cam by the nickname Leah after Camille caught on, indignant that people had stolen his pet name.