| | Chernobog | Name: 'The Moai'
Age: Ancient
Sign: Unknown
Height: Between 7ft - 13ft
Weight: Between 4 to 12 tons each
Gender: None (Appears masculine)
Home: Subterranea
Heritage: The Aringa Ora
Living family: Several known to exist
Hair: None
Skin: Made of basalt stone
Speaking Font: UnZialish
First Appearance: Page 12
Physical conditions: Bodiless, nearly immobile.
Body Outline: A giant head consisting of a thick forehead, long sloping nose, taut cheeks, and a wide chin base.
Personality: Polite, cryptic, and sagely.
IQ: 270
Spirituality: None apparent.
Allies: None. The Aringa Ora are near perfectly neutral.
Enemies: Ahab is currently at odds with the Aringa Ora.
Summary:
The Moai, as Ahab calls them, refers to a group of unusual giant talking stone heads which appear exclusively within the Subterranea seemingly at will. They exist as a hive mind clan, each remembering Ahab although she rarely ever meets the same one and sometimes, she encounters a cluster of several. Strongly resembling the famous Easter Island stone heads, the Moai have a few differences, largely the lack of squat arms or a neck. Most do not demonstrate the presence of ears although they are not deaf.
The Moai function as oracles and personal advisers who seem devoid of any real personal ego. They appear silently, unconscious by appearance, until fed blood. This seems to 'awaken' them to answer questions and converse. How Ahab figured out to do this has never been explained as the story begins with her readily knowing and paying them respects. (pg.12) Zion indicates he, too, is familiar with them.
It is the Moai who have helped advise Ahab down her strange path and even help introduce her to her spiritual form as the demishamaness. (pg.13) It is likely from this even that Ahab long grew to listen to their words seriously. That said, she did not necessary understand what they meant as the Moai imply many things but directly say little.
Some time after, Ahab has since become disillusioned with the Moai's words and goes to confront them after sensing the presence of one in a pocket cavern. (pg.182) Thinking their words and her mysterious path as the demishamaness would bring her joy, the Moai corrects her by stating they never promised her happiness, only knowledge and her own personal truths.
Regarding a matter of one who would hold Ahab's heart, the Moai were vague on this too. Ahab thought it was Zygiella and in her quick death, felt cheated. The Moai states he did not know that would happen but also that neither the spideress, Zion, or Sina was who they envisioned. Thus far, they have only stated Ahab hasn't met whoever it is. Perhaps unwisely, the Moai unintentionally offends Ahab's sensibilities, regarding her interest in Zygiella as having been hormonal.(pg.184)
The Moai takes her anger calmly, but tells her something neither of them originally were aware of. Zygiella's venom would not have killed Ahab (given her built up poison tolerance from having been spider bitten so much in her lifetime), but a foreign unseen presence was responsible and filled with with shadow stuff by the time she revived. This dark revelation tells Ahab is neither alive or dead now, but a spirit. The true culprit then arrives... (pg.186)
Diagnosis: Ego-less, seemingly Utopian creatures that live within the very rock of the Subterranea, the Moai quietly offer their divining gifts for those who can pay them directly in blood. It is not clear if they ever hunt for their own blood, but that would probably be severely difficult for them given their lack of mobility.
Sexuality: Non-existent.
Skills: The Moai possess no mundane skills. They bear a hive mind and an oracle's power in which they can read some (or all) of a person's life and to some degree, their passage, within the Subterranea. Speaking these fortunes vaguely, it is up for the listener to interpret them. The Moai are not perfect, however. While they can 'read blood' and seem to be aware of many things in the caves, they are largely unaware of anything pertaining to the surface, as well as anything pertaining to shadow based elements, such as Black Hatter. At whim, they seem to be able to meld into the stone to travel. Combined with an incredible level of intelligence, crushing strength, and rock hard blood-less bodies, they are the target of nothing.
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