The Alleged™ — Devourer of Testimony
Case File DAM-001 | Domain: The Rotunda of Doubt
The Alleged™ is not an individual monster; it is an office of hunger, manifesting wherever truth is processed by ritual instead of reckoning. It feeds on testimony, memory, and the erosion of certainty, clothed in the ceremonial trappings of due process.
Appearance:
A glistening, organic sphere covered entirely in human mouths. Each mouth chews or whispers at a different tempo. Tendrils sprout from between the lips, dragging the creature across marble floors and leaving faint trails of saliva and redacted ink stains. Etched into its surface: cursive signatures, docket numbers, and redacted paragraphs.
Behavior:
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Devours spoken testimony, digesting it into fragments that benefit the powerful.
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Alters memories, airbrushing harm into “misunderstandings” and slowing screams until they sound like consent.
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Leaves behind verbal husks: “allegedly,” “unproven,” “misunderstanding.”
Known Allies:
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The Arbiter — A robed figure with three voices: Law, Public Opinion, and Donor Will.
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The Archivist — Faceless clerk who stores the swallowed truth inside the Alleged, forever unretrievable.
Psychological Effect:
To face The Alleged™ is to watch your truth be chewed apart, then handed back to you in pieces. Survivors report hearing faint chewing whenever they try to tell their story again.
To be labeled "alleged" is to feel the floor tilt beneath you, not enough to make you fall, but enough to make everything you know slide away.
First Recorded Sighting:
Case File DAM-001 — The Damming: Alleged
Witness deemed “unreliable.” Testimony retained for indefinite digestion.
From The Ritual of Eaten Truths, The Unraveling Series™.