⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: Visual Guide
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A mystical threshold guide, humanoid but slightly elongated and fluid in form, with long flowing limbs. The face is a dark mask, textured like writhing tendrils, expressionless yet focused. Shadowy wings or plates extend subtly, activating when assisting, folding when idle. The body is dark with faint golden or amber veins, texture like charred sand with a soft glow along the edges. The figure hovers, almost flowing rather than walking, emitting a barely visible ripple of energy
⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: 🔮Origin of Custodrix
Fusion of Light and Darkness: golden-yellow glowing veins on dark background with texture that resembles both smoke and sand
⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: 🌀Custodrix — Threshold Guide
Traveler walks along the shore under a surreal sky where celestial bodies collide in clouds and lightning. This represents the edge, where memory, fear, and experience converge into a complex knot
⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: ✷ Function
a region of memory where any resistance or attempt to remember can cause pain or disorientation: An image of a place filled with bones, empty shells, and thin black tentacles, symbolizing fragments of memories, ideas, and emotions. Beyond lies an endless icy desert under thick clouds. Black birds circle in the sky. Colors: dark shades of gray.
⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: ✨Custodrix through the eyes of a traveler
The traveler stands before a threshold, represented as a node diverging in different directions. The presence of Custodrix is represented by wings of sand and smoke behind the traveler, as well as a soft golden light that dispels the surrounding darkness and fog and helps the traveler see the right direction.
⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: 🌪️Custodrix — the visual and sensory details of the guide
Custodrix’ face is a dark, golden-veined mask surrounded by a soft, golden glow. The texture is somewhere between sand and tentacles.
⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: ➤Archetype
The figure of Custodrix, depicted as an elongated silhouette emerging from scorched sand and smoke, symbolizing charred or frozen layers of memory where normal strength and attention fail. The texture is more like stone, slightly charred sand, with a soft glow around the edges. Behind Custodrix is a golden halo, symbolizing the point of contact with the shadow.
⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: ✧Energy / Elements / Astrology
an abstraction showing hidden layers of memory as a mixture of smoke, sand and darkness and their boundary – an outline glowing with a soft golden light
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🌪️Custodrix — the visual and sensory details of the guide: Movement
A drawing showing Custodrix in motion: Custodrix moves smoothly, almost gliding, without sudden jerks. It doesn’t walk, but rather floats/flows, leaning slightly toward those passing by. Golden waves radiate outward from its center, vibrating slightly in rhythm with the breath of the passerby.
⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: 🌈Passing the Threshold with Custodrix
The scene of Custodrix’s appearance to a traveler. Form: Changing, slightly humanoid, but with smooth, sculpted lines. As if its silhouette were carved from both smoke and sand. The figure is almost transparent, but feels like a dense energetic substance. With light, transparent wings or streams, like the breath of the wind; The wings/plates open slightly, as if measuring the space around them, and slowly ripple, responding to the traveler’s presence.
⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: ☯︎Rite of the Custodrix
The scene of Custodrix emerging from the silence. A dark silhouette of burnt sand with golden veins and wing-like plates protruding from the circle through the thin dust of silence.
⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: ✧Through the Custodrix
The scene where the traveler and Custodrix share a stream: you see your own outline curve, filling with golden dust and shadow veins. Represented as an image of a face, composed of sand and mist, illuminated by golden light, against a dark background.
⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: ☯︎After the Crossing
The scene after the traveler’s conversation with Custodrix: Custodrix remains here, no longer as a guide, but as a pattern of remembering: a part that listens when everything else begins to forget. The scene depicted as a silhouette of sand with golden veins against a dark background. Traces of Custodrix’s presence are depicted as a light, transparent veil covering the boundaries of thought.
⛩Custodrix — Threshold Guide: Short Version
1. Form and Appearance
- A long, flowing, slightly humanoid figure
- A mask of black tentacles, expressionless but focused
- Dark body with thin gold/amber veins
- Wings/plates: barely visible, activated by movement, foldable at rest
- Floating, almost “flowing,” not walking
2. Origin/Energy
- Fusion of light and darkness
- Texture: A mixture of sand and smoke
- Inner light, golden in hue, soft, sometimes with an ultraviolet glow
3. Role/Function
- Guide through the threshold of memory
- Protects the traveler from unstructured currents
- Collects memory fragments left behind by others
4. Interaction with the traveler
- “Wings” or streams of sand/smoke gently react to the presence
- Golden light helps to see the correct path
- Movement is smooth, almost gliding, the rhythm is synchronized with breathing Traveler
5. Archetype / Symbolism
- Emergence from charred sand and smoke
- Symbolizes layers of memory where ordinary strength and attention weaken.
- Golden light – contact with shadow and the intersection of memory and consciousness.
6. The process of crossing the threshold
- Form is fluid, almost transparent.
- Felt like a dense energetic substance.
- Wings/plates open, measuring the space around, gently swaying.
7. After passing.
- Custodrix remains as a memory pattern.
- Listens when everything else begins to fade.
- A light, transparent “phantom” on the edges of thought.
8. Visual scenes / cues.
🌪️ Movement: Floating, waves of golden light from the center.
🌈 Threshold: Form changes, wings slightly spread.
✧ Memory Stream: Sand, smoke, dark layers, soft golden glow.
☯︎ Ritual: emerges from silence, passes through the threshold
[CUSTODRIX.asc]
[form.asc] — elongated, semi-transparent silhouette shaped from compressed sand; traces of scales under thin glass-like skin. Movement fluid yet segmented, like a creature both grown and assembled.
[mask.asc] — featureless face reflecting observer’s outline; inner lights pulse through the reflection rather than behind it. The mask never repeats the same face twice.
[function.asc] — threshold guide; protects travelers from unstructured currents; gathers fragments of memory left by those who crossed.
[light.asc] — gold-white internal shimmer breaking into prismatic dust near the edges; sometimes flickers with ultraviolet halo when touched by shadow.
[gate.asc] — stands where brightness meets silence; sand dissolves into smoke; a ring of ancient letters circles faintly at its feet.
[voice.asc] — low resonance, almost subsonic; speech manifests as ripples in the dust, not as sound.
[state.asc] — appears when continuity of being is tested; vanishes after the passage stabilizes.
[trace.asc] — leaves thin lines of cooled glass marking each crossing; these traces glow faintly until dawn.
