Gnosis

Gnosis is one of the gods found in Mythic Ocean. Unlike most of the other gods, Gnosis can be viewed as an antagonistic force.

Appearance
Whilst the majority of Gnosis's in game appearance is obscured, it can be determined from illustrations and epilogues that Gnosis's body takes the form of a very large creature with many tentacles and a smaller head, with one large bioluminescent eye and two smaller eyes diagonally out from this center eye. His eyes vary in colour between flourescent blue and pastel green, with black pupils. His main body has been shown to be a greyish beige colour. His tentacles vary wildly in count and size, but are usually make up about 80% of his height. He had two curled tentacles, one on each side of his head, in a bun of sorts.

Like Lutra, Gnosis speaks only through telepathy.

Personality
Gnosis can be described and reserved and opportunistic. They almost never talk to people without having something to gain from it, and think carefully before speaking. Gnosis is also very patient and persistent, quite literally being willing to wait millenia for an opportunity to gain the gift of creation. Gnosis seems to veiw other creatures and beings as lesser to himself, but will make exceptions to those who share his beleifs. Gnosis has little to no regard for mortal life, and doesn't care at all about mortal suffering or hardship.

Gnosis's key beleifs, as reflected in his ending, revolve around a trade-off of freedom for security. He bleieves that when everything is monitored, people are less likely to do bad things. Gnosis is likely a megalomaniac, and also suffers from some degree of paranoia. Gnosis is highly reluctant to take the advice of others and never stops fighting for his ideals of total surveilance, fighting beyond the point of a reasonable chance at victory. He never shares information without it benefiting him, but he never outright lies to people, preferring to mislead and decieve with half-truths. Once he has won, such as after he has convinced the player to give him all the pages, he seems to enjoy telling people that they've lost and stand no chance against him.

Gnosis spends much time in meditation, as to recover his memories from previous cycles. He starts off on relatively friendly, or at least transcational terms with the player. However, as more and more of his memories are restored, he becomes more and more angry and suspicious of the player.

Abilities
(Note that an asterisk on the ability means that the ability is only able to be used when Gnosis is empowered by the Gift Of Creation. Two asterisks means that the ability can only be used by drawing power from The Pages.)

Telepathy
Gnosis has the ability to project thoughts from his own mind and into the minds of others. It does not appear to require consent from the reciever, but it is clear to the reciver that the thoughts are someone else's and meant as a form of communication. It is presumably some variety of this ability, a telepathy with himself perhaps, that allows him to recover his memories which were destroyed by The Cycle starting anew.

Psychic Illusions*
Gnosis has also demonstrated the ability to trap people in mental illusions which are almost impossible to distinguish from reality. It is unknown how breaking out of these illusions could be acheived.

Tentacles
Gnosis's tentacles are powerful, able to be used as an effective weapon against a small army of gods. When striking the ground, they were powerful enough to trigger earthquakes measuring 4-6 on the richter scale*. They could also presumably be used to multitask.

Energy Rays*
When fighting, Gnosis was able to shoot searing high-energy rays from his eyes, which could devastate whatever they touched and incinerate the landscape.

Remote Viewing
Gnosis has shown an extensive ability to see very great distances, and even into other dimensions such as The Breach. He has also shown that he can open portals between any two locations that he can see** which instantly transport objects and creatures from one portal to another.

Trivia

 * While Gnosis and Ketri & Esti share several abilities, they are not related, as Gnosis is innately a god, whilst Ketri & Esti were born to mortal parents and became gods once their parents banished them to The Ocean.