Entropy

Entropy is the third and current incarnation of the character Entroapy, preceded by Entroapy and Goap. They are the founder of Cokesbury.

Appearance
Entropy's body is mostly covered in scar tissue due to their resurrection, though a bit of their face, back, neck, chest, arm, tail, and shoulder on their right side remains unscarred. White feathers grow on the untouched part of their flesh aside from their face, but not on their scarred skin. They have yet to re-dye their hair pink, so it remains a pale blond, and is much shorter. They are missing an eye, but their remaining eye is blue. They stand at around 5 feet and 10 inches and are noticeably underweight for their height. They have a white, catlike tail that is flexible but not prehensile, and have carefully trimmed, non-retractable claws. They usually wear loose, often cold-weather clothing colored pink, blue, and yellow. Their horns are a natural light brown in color and while they retain the ability to grow in a variety of ways, they currently curl in a ramlike structure on both sides. Entropy has sharp teeth and retains their black nose, but plucks any feathers that grow on their face.

Personality
Entropy struggles to find themself among their past and current trauma, but they continue to develop and change as the plot progresses. They are much more reserved than they were before, trying their best to keep out of politics and similar issues, but will defend Cokesbury when necessary. They are very interested in the matters of the gods and take it upon themself to solve further issues relating to the gods and to prevent what happened to them from happening to someone else. They are hardworking and often turn to building and working to keep their mind off of everything else, and enjoy music discs to fill the silence. They are a bit controlling, needing everything to be perfect around them, but they try their best to not let it get to them. They are very protective of their friends and allies and do their best to be better for them.

Backstory
(Trigger warning: Domestic abuse, suicide, mass murder)

Entropy was born to a pair of farmer covecku as Ofejude Ovreysen in a warm Camkilo in Avadhi-Vaxt. They were raised in one of the last remaining tribes of covecku that had remained isolated from the rest of Earth's sentient species, living in a settlement outside of a distant Stronghold. This tribe was called the Pahilcovecku, which directly translates to "covecku from before". They were born with a large port wine stain on their back beneath their feathers, which was believed to be a mavu-ba etwar (mark of nothing) and had a similar, smaller stain on their left hand that was believed to be a mavu-ovreysen (mark of the prophet). The Pahilcovecku believed this to mean that Ofejude was born with supernatural abilities that gave them the power to prophesy, so they were raised from birth to be a prophet of the gods.

Ofejude was one of nine children and was the third oldest. Their oldest brother, Eorof, was ten years older than them, so they didn't often interact with him. They were closest with their other older brother, Runji, and their second-youngest sister, Sodori, however, they didn't spend much time with either of them due to their busy schedule as the tribe's only prophet.

Since Ofejude was considered a prophet, they were trained by the tribe's elders to be well-versed in the history and near extinction of their people as well as the matters of the gods. They went through a variety of rituals on a daily, tuan-ly, lupa-ly, and sometimes varsa-ly basis that included things like the ceremonial consumption of chorus fruit and gold foods, day-long meditation sessions, intensive history lessons, jewelry-making, and long pilgrimages to holy sites. They were the only coveck believed to be a prophet in their tribe, so they were the main focus of the tribe's spirituality.

Their intensive training and practice meant that Ofejude was often away from home for days if not tuanu. This, along with the attention they got, caused their siblings to be envious of them. Even their parents grew resentful of them due to Ofejude's high status in the tribe, which they had thought would carry over to their family as well. It didn't. This caused Ofejude to feel incredibly isolated from their family. Whenever they did return from their day of studying the ways of a true ovreysen after they turned eleven varsau, their family forbade them to sleep in the house. The house was one of the furthest out from the center of the village, the Stronghold, which meant that hostile creatures often lurked around it due to its proximity to the unsettled remainder of the plains biome they were in. The few iron golems the tribe had kept most other monsters away, but phantoms often attacked Ofejude when they were made to sleep outside. They did not seek help from anyone or go into the village as their father threatened to hurt them if they did since it would ruin the family's reputation.

When the winter of their fifteenth varsa arrived, it was one of the coldest there had been in a hundred lifetimes, causing Ofejude to sneak away to secretly sleep in the Stronghold for warmth. Here, instead of phantoms, they were tormented by silverfish. The Stronghold had not been fully explored yet due to its holy nature and the tribe's belief that unholy people entering it would corrupt it, so when they were unable to sleep due to the silverfish, Ofejude would spend their nights exploring the subterranean ruins. They were the first to find the End Portal within the halls when they were sixteen varsau old.

Or at least, a sort of aspect of Eyendr. The portal was not lit, nor were any of its sockets filled, but its colors matched Ofejude's holy eye of Ender necklace enough that they detached the eye and placed it in one of the sockets. This caused them to be randomly teleported into their parents' house, where they were met by an Enderman staring silently at their sleeping family. The Enderman did not acknowledge them and they both stood there until the sun began to rise. After that, the Enderman teleported away and Ofejude was greeted by Runji, who threw them out after confronting and hitting them.

While Ofejude had previously been closer to Runji than anyone else, the anger of their parents and siblings got to him, driving him away from his sibling. For the first few years after they were thrown out, he continued to visit them and bring them blankets and food, but stopped after a while. He avoided them whenever possible, contempt growing further after their confrontation in the house.

After the altercation, Ofejude announced that they would be "moving out" of their parents' house to live in the Stronghold, saying they believed that it would bring them closer to the gods. The tribe was divided on this decision, but did nothing to stop it. It actually improved their quality of life, as the village began offering them food, while before, they had to live off the ceremonial foods of their prophetic training and whatever scraps they received from their family.

Ofejude had never actually received a prophecy despite living for seventeenth varsau at that point, which caused some of the tribe to lose faith. They had previously given various minor false prophecies to prevent anyone from believing they were a failure, such as a good crop yield a certain year or a warmer winter, but they were based off of chance and were sometimes inaccurate. They didn't want to disappoint their people. The tribe's lack of trust in Ofejude was increased tenfold when there was a pillager raid on their village that they didn't predict. Over twenty covecku were killed in the raid, including two of Ofejude's younger siblings. Runji, who was now a powerful warrior of the tribe, was injured. When Ofejude had to make a speech and bless the dead after the raid, they broke down, confessing that they were nothing but a fraud despite trying everything they could to be what the tribe wanted of them. This caused a mass outrage from almost all of the tribe, who stripped Ofejude of their high status, tore away their jewelry and robes, and cast them out of the village.

Now an outcast, Ofejude was forced to live in the fields surrounding the village. They had never been educated on how to survive outside of their society due to almost all of their education focusing on gods and prophesies and not common skills, so they quickly deteriorated in terms of both body and mind. They were severely malnourished and underweight and had fallen into a deep depression, unable to do almost anything but sleep in the ruins of a stable that had burned down many varsau ago at the far outer edge of the village and look for scraps among the streets when everyone was asleep. They had reached their wit's end and were ready to give up.

It was then that Ofejude began hearing a voice telling them to seek revenge on the tribe that had exiled them. To kill the tribe that had made them believe they were a prophet when they were nothing but a commoner and then cast them out when it turned out it was all a lie they had constructed. The voice told fed them these ideas for lupau as they grew ill with the lack of food and proper shelter, telling them that it was their only purpose left. It told them to stop this from happening to anyone else by killing the people responsible.

So, when they were seventeen and a half varsau and nearly dead from starvation and illness, Ofejude gave into the voice and set their village on fire.

They set the village on fire in the middle of the night and went through and killed anyone who escaped with an iron sword they stole from their parents' shed, which they broke into. A few people still escaped, fleeing into the field, but over two thirds of the tribe was killed by either the fire or Ofejude themself, including half of their remaining siblings.

The last person Ofejude killed before fleeing was Runji. He had helped some of his siblings escape along with their parents and stayed back to keep Ofejude away long enough for them to escape. Ofejude stabbed him in the middle of the village square, and as he collapsed on the ground, dying, he reached up and marked them on the forehead with his blood—it was a coveck tradition to baptize the foreheads of the damned with the blood of a sentient creature, usually another coveck. He named them En'ro, Betrayer, and then died.

After the massacre of their village, Ofejude themself fled to the woods, where they planned to kill themself. However, it was here that they began to hallucinate visions of the gods including Tari, Vedana, Cavatta, Kiseu, and Orzu, though none of these were real. Each god appeared as a mutated, disemboweled woodland animal that still managed to move like a living one. These hallucinations caused Ofejude to believe that they had finally succeeded and become a true prophet, but as they were about to off themself, they were attacked by a real black creature. The creature told them that they still had too much potential to die and offered to take away their pain if they agreed to worship it, which Ofejude eagerly agreed to. The beast was an avatar of Eyendr.

Eyendr took away Ofejude's pain, both emotional and physical, allowing them to once again function with somewhat of a clear head. They slowly learned how to survive in the woods, living alone out of a lean-to until they discovered a small green book filled with various recipes regarding the natural world. They decided to leave the forest and eventually built a house on a savannah hill...