“Betrayer of four,
A wicked being,
Ascend yourself,
Unto me.”
Yamas Kalimera, The Psychopomp Hoax
Cameos
To call these individuals “people” would be an insult to all of us, and it would be more accurate to term these beings as “sentient monsters” instead. Cameos are “people” who’ve been seduced by the power of godhood and immortality. This is something that shouldn’t be obtained by any normal means, as they are reaching a mockery of a world where they would imitate god. By taking the so-called meaning of “truth” and twisting it to a perversion that can only be described as untold hubris.
These beings are characterized by their pale, yellowish skin, deep violet eyes, and snow-white hair. Cameos are a failed mockery of Hours; they were created by Yamas Kalimera, The Psychopomp Hoax to spite Forge and to spit in the face of the Hours. The means of how far one would go to create an artificial Hour, to peer into “the truth” and twist it in a form to imitate God speaks volumes of the untold amount of pride and lack of humility one has as their place as a mortal.
Cameos were created by an artifact, made by none other than Yamas Kalimera, The Psychopomp Hoax. This artifact as described, is an amulet that glows a radiant and incandescent white. A curse it truly is, to be drawn in and take four of those who you would hold most dear, clutch the amulet, and utter the words
“I sacrifice.”.
Those who do sacrifice the ones that they hold most dear do obtain many boons as a result of their treachery. They never need to eat, never tire, obtain superhuman strength, become immortal, and can revive on the spot from death. This ability is a sort of failed immortality. Their second coming allows them to tirelessly fight until they reach their final death, and burn to ashes on the spot, or retreat and lick their wounds to fight another day.
To become a Cameo is to forcibly use the souls of others to elevate your own, and wear your very own soul to it’s breaking point. And to utterly destroy the souls that are used.
This sort of failed divinity doesn’t come without a cost. Aside from the fact that your immortal soul is forfeit in exchange for an immortal body, They are rejected, an empty husk that can merely Just live. Despite the fact that their body turns immortal, their souls becomes broken.
Because what does it mean, to sacrifice others in a cause that we can deem "for the greater good?" Not all are seduced by immortality, but many by power. To take power from a heretical source, to use it in desperation, to take power from others, is the height of either insolence, or ignorance.
By robbing others, one will never grow internally. But we are not perfect beings, nor will we ever be. Becoming a Cameo, even with noble intentions will still boil down to a wrongful attainment of "Truth", or perhaps an abstract concept of control.
Instead of taking strength from others, standing on a pedestal and learning nothing, one should show humility and instead borrow strength from others - that is the essence of humanity. Becoming a Cameo means reaching a state where one is merely a proud rooster, and with their regal acts they are blind to see that the post where they stand upon is little more than a pile of manure.