Concept Art 70: Adam Kadmon : The Endless

This is another concept for the final phase of adam's boss fight,  you will find this iteration as the heart of the final dungeon, the insides of the tree of eternal return.

This idea was a evolution of a previous concept I showed before as a sketch! I was dying to develope it further to see if it would an interesting idea, and i happy that did it cuz im very satisfied with this!.

Granted I could (and I will ) make more ideas where the cosmic horror and body horror are more prevalent but for now i like this one a lot.

As extra Lore bit for those who aren't in the discord, Adam Kadmon has the title of "The Endless" but also in his more basic form he is called the "Orphan of Chaos", that's because due to recent lore updates it has been decided that Adam Kadmon is one of the 3 fragments of the original Kadmon, Entropy's Child.

If you remember part of the exodus lore, entropy is referred in the steles as the corruption and illness that will destroy the structure of the multiverse if is left unregulated, but actually she is one of the primordial entities of the universe. Entropy had a child which was χάος (chaos, this is a temporary name, I have more options) , this offspring had so much power that was constantly disrupting the order of reality, since their abilities manipulated Time,Space and Energy.  The absolutes decided to Face Entropy and take Chaos from her, then they divided chaos into the 3 kadmonic artifacts: Adam, Cain and Phanes. These last 3 become eventually the antagonists of each of the stories in the trilogy, Trinity Kosmos Apocrypha, which includes: Arcadia Nights, Sleep Walkers and Dead Eye Syndrome.

We can talk more about entropy later but for all i have thought so far, I can say that after Chaos was taken from her, the absolutes knew she would become unstable due to this, so to prevent
any instability,  they cursed her with an eternal memory loss, the more she exists the more she loses, they thought this would make her more manageable but entropy after carrying her role of managing the change and evolution of the universes for eons, ultimately experiences an existential crisis after experiencing the suffering of all of those existences she had to suddenly take away, like her child was taken from her.  She decides that the multiverse should not continue the cycle of Death and rebirth (of evolution and change) but that it should return no the stagnant nothingness, where everything is eternal and nothings changes, nothing hurts, nothing really exists (so it can't be lost).

Entropy was unable to overcome the loss of her only child, even if her memories were corrupted she still felt incomplete, and to never experience it again she rejected change. (you might not know this but Entropy as a word literally means "change" (she was the force of change and evolution in reality), so the trauma was so hard that her existence became a contradiction, and her ultimate plan is a reference to the "big freeze" or the heat death of the universe theory where the universe reaches levels of entropy that make it so disconnected and where everything ultimately cease to exist as we know it.

Adam, unknowingly, is then pit against her mother when he is assigned to regulate entropy's attempts to corrupt the whole universe and protect them by reenacting the cycle of death and rebirth that his mother used to be in charge of. All 3 kadmonic artificats have disconnected memories, corrupted by the partition of self the absolutes forced into χάος, so while they are unable to recognize the true identity of their mother, they know they had one, and Adam is desperately looking for her. He has seen a vision where this motherly figure appears  in front of him, and mistakenly believes is Urin Dod Jivana, the God of creation , who he sees during the Restart process of a universe (the 3 black holes are their eyes). That's why he is committed to his function as keeper of cycles, he is hoping he will ultimately see his mother again.

As another spoiler, the motherly figure of his vision ends up being Aeternitas, the fusion of Ixbal and Hunna who then become the living prison of Adam.