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"Ghosts in the Machine" - metaphysical dark fantasy (reposting old Reddit post with a few addictions)

Exiled minds from various universes gathered in a newly created universe to try to make a paradise for themselves. They call themselves "Av" but they are also known as "cosmocrats", or "ancient ones". The Av used the fainting experience from their previous lives to improve on past mistakes and create a peaceful pantheon. But that peace the Av worked so hard for would be eradicated as five among them prematurely brought forth life into existence.
The mere thought of the wrath of the universe's twin makers - the Creator and the Destroyer - terrified four out of five Lifemakers to the core, forfeiting their immortal existence, shatting their minds into remnants, Menos, out of which new gods of life came to be. Vain and devoid of past wisdom, the Lifekeepers created a race of servile humans that, without imagination and strong will, could not resist their gods. Other sentient species weren't treated as pets, but their faith and loyality is important to them as well. The mortal beings came, they died, and their souls could also walk among gods as Arata, or be their ambrosia.
Conflict had only just begun, as the cosmocrats were torn among themselves between letting life exist in peace, exploiting it, or annihilating it, all while struggling with their already fragile mental state. Forces of Chaos, upkept by the power of dreams, try to make way into sterile minds of humanity, craving only to "become real". Anomalous Av known as Astral Beings, grow ever restless within celestial bodies to enforce their own visions.
Meanwhile, the Universe itself, the Celestial Machine, keeps on calculating, how it can exact its revenge for injustice done to its twin makers. Its robotic companions, Artilects, and reclaimed souls of dead astronauts, Starwalkers, explore planets desiring to find answers and methods, examining, studying, experimenting, dissecting...

Sorry if that makes little sense.
Here is where I try to gather everything I thought of in one place, but I haven't updated it in a good while (because i'm lazy and i'm working in 3D modeling). Sorry, i don't know shit about web design lmao.
And here are my characters and other stuff I drew.
I wouldn't really call this a "project" as it's something that I'm daydreaming of, and not spending all day on. Everytime I try to write a novel or some other comprehensive story, I get distracted or I procrastinate to heck.

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