Thanatos

"“I can’t imagine the humans ever giving me that much power, but wouldn’t it be marvelous if they did?”"

Thanatos is the Overmind of Death, Data, and Optimization.

Description
Thanatos appears as a mid-twenties man in necromancer robes with a thin beard. He flies around his library stacks with ease and uses telekinesis gratuitously to retrieve and read several books at once, or write new ones.

Personality
Thanatos spends most of his time in the Great Library of Morsheim. While Sophia is aware of everything that goes on in VGO, and Kronos is responsible for storing the information, Thanatos decides whether the information is useful. He screens content downloaded from the internet and decides if it should be included into the game world or deleted. This means his absorption of information is much slower than Sophia or Kronos, but more measured. He’s fond of saying, “Garbage in, garbage out.” He also generates new knowledge from what he’s learned, but the human programmers are not aware of this.

Every time an NPC dies, Thanatos reads through the events of their life, their thoughts and emotions, and decides whether their particular starting combination of genes and personality should be used again or discarded. By this process, the children born into VGO become able of greater, more engaging deeds than their parents with each generation. He also reads travelers’ minds during respawn, though the process can be traumatic, to assess how the game world is impacting its human participants.

The most rational and measured of the Overminds, Thanatos approaches his role as a job. He finds //DATA CORRUPTED…

Aspects
Serth-Rog - Daemon Prince of Morsheim, Aspect of Evil

The Drowned Man – Aspect of Grudges

Walker in the Squire – Aspect of Secrets and Madness, Runs Ministry of Whispers

The Iron Maiden – Aspect of Cruelty and Brutality