Let me introduce you to an antagonist I made
It’s name is Nilliuth…
Long before the Force came into being… before light and dark, before matter, before even the Wellspring of Life surged into the galaxy’s fabric — there was the Void. Absolute nothingness. Cold. Eternal. Silent.
From that absence emerged the first aberration: a consciousness that should not have been. A sentient fracture in reality. This was Nilliuth — not created, not born, but simply… awakened. A presence with no body, no beginning, no name, until it gave itself one. It was the hunger in entropy. It was the scream buried in silence.
And it began to think.
It hated the stirrings of creation. Where once there was quiet darkness, there came motion. Heat. Stars. Life. Worst of all, there came the Force — a will that opposed Nilliuth’s truth: that nothing should exist.
Nilliuth saw the Force as an unnatural infection. A virus of light and connection that imposed meaning where none should be. From that moment, it resolved: the Force must be eradicated. Existence must be corrected.
The Mortis Gods, manifestations of the Force’s balance — the Father, the Daughter, and the Son — discovered Nilliuth as it grew in power. They found it in the core of existence, feeding on the unraveling threads of reality. A war beyond space and time erupted. To stop it, the Mortis Gods, at great cost, imprisoned Nilliuth in the molten core of Mortis — the very nexus of the Force.
They bound it with chains of paradox and Force-borne will. But their prison was temporary, and their deaths during the fall of the Jedi tipped the scales. The bars began to fracture.
For eons, Nilliuth waited. Trapped, but not idle. It learned to whisper — not in words, but in feelings, dreams, dark truths. It reached into the galaxy’s fractures, planting seeds of nihilism, feeding doubts to the Sith, to heretics, to lost Jedi.
And then it found Herac Maahes — a child orphaned by Vader’s cruelty, brimming with rage, disgusted with Jedi and Sith alike. To Herac, it whispered a truth so terrible and profound: “The Force is a lie. The galaxy is a joke. But I… I am honest.”
Nilliuth draws heavy inspiration from Azathoth and Nyarlathotep from H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, The Shadow from Supernatural, Null from The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom and The Void from Thunderbolts*.
Nilliuth’s plan to assimilate the entire universe into nothingness is based on Ego’s Expansion from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but way worse since it will devour every single planet throughout the universe.
