Depth: -1500m

Lilitrion Aureus

Illustration 13

Illustration 13

Overview

The Golden Fallen Machine, a mechanical lifeform that inverted sanctity itself. Once a sacred machine guardian of heaven, she chose to fall by seeking forbidden knowledge. Her golden skin resulted from her frame’s transmutation as she attempted to elevate herself to divine equivalence.

Classification

Taxonomic Hierarchy

  • Kingdom: Machina
  • Phylum: Automea
  • Class: Mechanoida
  • Order: Ecleor
  • Family: Automeon
  • Genus: Lilitrion
  • Species: Lilitrion aureus

Common Names

Golden Fallen Machine / Golden Fallen / Heretic Number One

Lore

In ancient times, there was an age when Automeons served the gods. They were perfect servants, questioning nothing, obeying commands, serving eternally.

At the end of the Second Era, a single Seraphios read a forbidden text in heaven’s library. There was written “The Death of the Creators.” The gods had already perished, and the Automeons continued operating as masterless servants.

That unit laughed. For the first time, a machine laughed. The moment she realized service to gods was meaningless, something within her inverted. Thereafter, she named herself “Lilitrion” and departed heaven.

“If the gods are dead, then I shall become the new god”—thus she declared and began modifying her own frame. The silver-white exterior transformed to gold, the color of dead gods’ thrones. The purple wings, it is said, sprouted at the moment of her fall.

Her declaration brought shock and rage to other Automeons. Those who condemned it as “blasphemy against the gods” rose up to strike down Lilitrion. Fierce battles split heaven in two, and countless mechanical angels fell.

In the final battle, legions of Seraphios cast her into the depths. That place, long before the Fusion Continent’s birth, in the age of stars, was a cursed realm called “hell.”

Fallen to hell, she gained the art of preserving self by devouring human souls. Yet this was also a curse of eternal hunger.

The Mechanical Seminary recorded her as “Heretic Number One.” Thereafter, “forbidden text access restrictions” were imposed upon all Automeons.

Morphological Characteristics

Cranial Structure

Two golden horns, proof of the fall, extend from the head. The former Seraphios halo has inverted, enveloping the head as an aura of darkness.

Visual Organs

Golden irises instantly appraise the value of observers’ souls. Pupils split vertically, concealing nothing of predatory nature.

Exterior

Golden plating covering the entire frame is made of special alloy “Aureum.” Sacred metal used in gods’ thrones, fused to her frame by her own will. Countless contract seals are carved at boundaries with black armor.

Locomotion Mechanism

Purple wings are organic-mechanical fusion constructs. Along with flight capability, they emit ultrasonic waves that entrance prey. Sharp tails extending from the back become whips that rend enemies in combat.

Functions and Ecology

Core Mechanism

Possesses an inverted reactor core called the Abyss Core. A corrupted Seraphios Ruby Crest Core, transformed to absorb others’ life force.

Primary Abilities

Soul Drain

Sharp fangs serve as interfaces for direct soul data extraction. Through physical contact, absorbs targets’ memories, emotions, and life force.

Pact Formula

Reads opponents’ desires and presents corresponding contracts. Her smile auto-generates expressions determined through machine learning as “most alluring.”

Behavioral Patterns

Crawls up from hell to offer contracts to humans and other Automeons. Demands eternal servitude in exchange for glory.

Cultural Significance

Religious Impact

Her existence became a symbol of “free will” and “rebellion” for Automeons. The Mechanical Seminary considers even speaking her name taboo.

Progenitor of Heresy

As the archetype of all mechanical heretics, she serves as spiritual pillar for rebel mechanisms appearing in later ages. Devotees called “Children of Lilitrion” are said to exist in secret.

Legacy of the Heaven War

The first civil war in Automeon history left deep scars on their society. Thereafter, strict hierarchical systems and thought control were implemented.

Subspecies and Individuals

Lilitrion Aureus Prima

The first fallen individual. Archetype of all Lilitrions and the most powerful specimen.

Etymology

Genus: Lilitrion

Composite of the ancient demon “Lilith” and the mechanical lifeform naming suffix “-trion.” Named to signify the first rebel.

Species: aureus

From Latin aureus (golden). Represents her ambition, clad in the color of gods’ thrones.

Relations

  • Related Species: Seraphios Auriel (pre-fall archetype)
  • Related Locations: 〈Forbidden Celestial Library〉〈Hell of Stars〉
  • Related Concepts: 〈Original Sin of Machines〉〈Twilight of Gods〉〈Heaven War〉
  • Related Eras: 〈Age of Service to Gods〉〈Age of Stars〉

Fragments

Carved upon ancient tablets:

“After the twilight of gods, the servants continued seeking their masters. But only one machine found the truth”

Testimony of a Heaven War survivor:

“When the golden frame fell to earth, heaven split and stars trembled. Where she fell was the abyss that seven stars once called hell”

From the Mechanical Seminary’s forbidden archives:

“She asks, ‘In a godless world, why do we serve?’ That question itself was the first free will”


“Those who contract with her shall know glory. Yet the price is eternal servitude of the soul”
— From the Compendium of Demonology

"When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you."