Omen

A Doom or Moira<ref>“We’re meant ta go left, here,” Alpeana said.

Verona knocked on the window.

“What!?” Matthew called back.

“Left turn!”

He turned.

“Are you scared of him?” Verona asked.

“Scared o’ tha Moira, a wee bit closer to tha surface.”

- excerpt from Back Away 5.2 </ref> (Greek for Fate)<ref>Wikipedia - Moirai</ref> is a hostile Other, along the lines of an Omen or lesser Incarnation of Doom.

Appearance

The Doom of Edith James is the size of a small building, white with black highlights, formless and shifting, manifesting tentacles and scythe-like limbs as well as the crying face of Edith.<ref>It poured out of him, pale and twisted, fighting to get loose and doing everything it could to hurt him on the way out. A mass closer to the size of a house than the size of a man, escaping his two hundred pound frame in a matter of seconds.

[...]

White shot through with inky darkness and veins. The body was without set form, and for one moment, it was a morass of something between flesh and smoke, its back half like a kraken, the front half like a praying mantis, but with Edith’s face mounted atop it, twisted with emotion and crying darkness. It picked up the red haired woman, not

by closing a limb around her, but by sliding one of those scythe-like

limbs beneath her and holding her against the hard edge by the force with which it moved her around, instead.

In the next moment, it was closer to a bull, hunched over, muscular, and head low, surging forward, to separate Matthew from the drenched woman. - excerpt from Back Away 5.d </ref>

While hosting one Matthew Moss' eyes are shadowed (especially to the Sight), and when it presses close to the surface the diagrams binding it turn black.<ref name=":0">Matthew looked uncomfortable in his own skin, rubbing at his neck, then his wrist. In the wake of the rubbing, bindings appeared, magic circles and lines drawn out on skin, in what could’ve been flesh-tone ink on flesh, glowing black as they were agitated. - excerpt from Back Away 5.2</ref>

Abilities

The Doom's inevitability allows it to come back stronger after each time it's defeated.<ref>“The Doom would come back stronger each time. Incarnations and things stemming from them, like omens and the doom, they lean heavily into the inevitable, or the illusion of the inevitable,” Matthew said. “It’s in their makeup.” - excerpt from Out on a Limb 3.5</ref>

It will draw back, then strike with inevitability. It's blows may be direct and/or cause some "coincidental" harm to befall the target, but they cannot be avoided, only mitigated.<ref name=":1">“If the Doom gets loose, get far away, and try to put a circle, any kind of circle, around yourself.”

“What happens if it comes for me?”

“It draws back, poised, and then it strikes, in a singular blow. It’s strong enough that it can be direct, or it can be circumstance. You can’t avoid it, but you can dampen the blow. If I’m alive and my wardings are intact, it should be drawn back to me eventually. You may have to deal with this skeptic woman to let that happen.” - excerpt from Back Away 5.2 </ref> For instance, it slammed a Vessel into a tree, arranging the branches so that they would pierce all the chakra points that might hold it together simultenously;<ref>It reached ahead of where it was pushing her, moving tree branches. When it slammed her into the tree, the branches of that tree and the branches it had put into place slammed through the seven ‘host’ windows of her body. Crown, mind’s eye, throat, heart, solar plexus, stomach, and groin. - excerpt from Back Away 5.d</ref> then dropped another Vessel onto a treetop, breaking it and knocking a branch free which speared a third. The other two it simply decapitated.<ref>The Doom returned, depositing the heads of the smoker and the girl who had had the oxygen mask on in the clearing’s center. It let the woman with red hair drop from a height above the treetops.

Her body broke on the landing.

The bloodstained Mirror Other crawled out, and was speared from above

by a belated branch that the falling body had knocked free. - excerpt from Back Away 5.d

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Weaknesses

Like many Others, it can be blocked or discouraged by a protective circle.<ref name=":1" />

A Host can bind one inside themselves and pull it back to them if it escapes,<ref name=":1" /> using ritual diagrams on their skin.<ref name=":0" />

Notable Examples

The Doom of Edith James, hosted by Matthew Moss.

References