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A wretched diviner of immense power, Kasta the Infinite (she/they/any) has innate awareness of every possible version of herself, and it has driven her mad. She is an extremely pathetic girlfailure. If you know the tumblr blog pjackk, give them cosmic horror powers for some godawful reason and watch them go.

Themes

Corruption vs. Redemption, Multiple Timelines, Apocalypse (in every sense of the word)

Player Testimonies

"Its really funny that in KSG both the player characters and the BBEG have a two way parasocial relationship to each other" —Clover, Eve’s Player
"Moral compass leaving my body when demon" —Knives, Odell’s Player
"who wants maze :)" —Jaych, Lime’s Player
"have you ever had a bbeg learn a dead language basically no one but your character knows and write a book in it that she'll find in a random library on a 36 investigation roll 400 years later" —Amber, Violet’s Player
"A series of terrible mistakes and desicions, and you can't really fix them because you are so broken and incapable of doing so, so you quintuple down on everything you've ever done knowing it is all wrong in the hopes someone with better sense will fix your mistakes and hopefully murder you. Its like... Metamorphosis, yes that one." —Zato, Barbera’s Player

Zato's Guide to Kasta

More often than not, Kasta is doing things for the bit.
As a demon queen, Kasta is an anarchist by principle. But she's also a monarch.
Kasta is kind of submissive and loves humiliation, just don't insult anything she cares about.
Empathize with Kasta at your own risk. It's better to just call her any creative insults to her person.
There's a reason we discussed KSG lore in Horny Jail.
Besides the search for knowledge, Kasta's main hobby is dropping exposition. She likes to share knowledge.
Kasta is a mid tier mom. Congrats to her.
Kasta, when around, likes to observe the party and is their #1 sub to their Twitch account. She is oddly helpful because of cosmic lore BS and can play the role of a patron well.
Because she can't do anything heroic, she relies on heroes and hopes for the best.
Kasta is a furry and a scalie, and her sexuality and gender is yes and all and whenever she can.
Kasta is, once again, doing things for the bit. This is very important.

Kingdom of the Soul Gate

Content Warnings

non-graphic sexual assault, toxic and parasocial relationships, demons and fiends, insanity, unreality, assisted suicide

Background

Kasta the Infinite was the BBEG of Kingdom of the Soul Gate (KSG). Before I explain KSG, you have to understand that it's a spinoff of a game that's currently on hiatus called Red Star Gestalt (RSG). RSG is a D&D 5e space opera game where we play as communists fighting fascists. KSG was a D&D 5e game set in a planet in the middle of assfuck nowhere in the RSG universe where a bunch of bounty hunters (the party) were branded as terrorists by an insane demon princess (Kasta) in a convoluted plot to prove to Demogorgon that Grimgog (the planet) was going to save itself. Background details of Grimgog were that one: Grimgog was basically Space Haiti because Kasta sold all its resources to the fascists and two: Grimgog had no moon because Kasta blew it the fuck up. So tl;dr life sucked in Grimgog.

Campaign Pitch

Deep in enemy territory, Grimgog is a rocky planet, 4th from its star, and with no moon, for it was destroyed long ago. The people of Grimgog tend to be xenophobic and isolationist due to decades of exploitation by the League of Brilliant Objectivists. The planet has 2 continents, the larger one is called Phargado, and the other is Rhymius.

Phargado is home to various disorganized city-states that used to be centered around the mining of orium. There is also a ruined kingdom near the center of the continent, called Old Temeria. Here lives a fearsome god-queen by the name of Kasta the Infinite. The locals blame her for everything bad that happens to them, but she hasn’t been seen in years.

Meanwhile, the inhospitable mountains of Rhymius are home to monks dedicated to the Gilded Spear. This artifact is said to seal away a great power, and when the day comes that the spearhead is pulled from its resting place, the people of Grimgog will be led to a thousand years of glory.

Dramatis Personae

Violet Ernault

Warforged Armorer Artificer (she/her) played by Amber

Captain of a bounty hunter group, Vi was a self-made warforged woman, quite literally. She found old texts that taught her how to transfer her soul to a mechanical core. Unfortunately, these texts were Phyrexian, which would cause problems later on.

Lime

Warforged Divine Soul Sorcerer (he/him) played by Jaych

An old warforged with forbidden religious imagery that Vi found lying around one day, Lime had a penchant for healing and arson. He was named as such because he ate a lime once and liked it. :)

Odell Knyethson

Tabaxi Echo Knight Fighter (he/him) played by Knives

Odell was a high-ranking member of the Knyethson Group, a family-run business based in Uqabah, one of the main planets in RSG. He went to Grimgog to find his missing boyfriend, Aladross, who was accused of murder right before their wedding.

Barbera H. Renault

Riktavi Oath of Devotion Paladin (she/her) played by Zato

Barbera was a riktavi, a mongoose-person, native to Old Temeria, Kasta’s domain. She was devoted to Ilmater, one of the few good deities that the natives of Grimgog were allowed to worship freely. An avid cook, Barb lamented the state of the rice fields and Grimgog in general.

Eve R. Silverman

Changeling College of Eloquence Bard and Aberrant Mind Sorcerer (she/they) played by Clover

A late addition to the group, Eve Silverman started as a recently-demoted member of the League of Brilliant Objectivists, or LOBO for short. It was by her hand that Grimgog was in such a sorry state, but we might get to that eventually.

Synopsis

The group had just come off a bounty when Vi saw a strange vision of a woman appearing on the horizon. She didn’t have time to dwell on it because there was another job coming up. An outlaw by the name of Bronson Lonehell had evaded the Old Temerian authorities. Once the group caught up to them, Bronson revealed that he stole the Infinite Dagger, Kasta’s most prized unholy artifact. Given that the bounty hunters were of generally good disposition, they agreed to hide Bronson and his crew for the time being. Vi also had a dream, which was odd because she was a robot, but not too odd because she used to be human. This one was a vision of Kasta destroying the moon.

Other bounty hunting groups were already on the move, such as Vi’s own parents, who informed the party that Bronson had a dragon in his crew. It turned out this was true, as Bronson’s first mate, Klav, confirmed that he was one. That said, the two bounty hunting groups had a scuffle on the way to Pinnacle, the Seat of the Gilded Spear. In this fight, there was a Gilded Spear monk named Flavia, a new addition to the elder Ernault crew. The party also had a scuffle with gnolls, which were Kasta’s favored people.

The party met with Pope Marcus XIII, who showed them around. Unfortunately, the Cult of Zarus were tearing it down for human supremacist reasons. After murdering the racists, the Pope thanked the group and allowed them to go into the restricted area. There, Vi found a 300 year old book written in Phyrexian, a dead language that only she knew. It was a genealogy of the Old Temerian royal family, along with Kasta’s plan to use the souls of Grimgog to fuel a spell called Apocalypse. This spell forces all creatures in the Material Plane to experience all possible realities at once. Also, Lime got a vision from Sonngrad the Wing saying that he was the Sublime Vessel of Bahamut.

Consulting with the local history nerd, Klav, the group decided to go to the Mu jungle, where the Orium Dragon Ostiarius could help. Unfortunately, Vi’s family was kidnapped by the Old Temerian government and held for ransom by Viggo of the Infinite, Kasta’s adopted son. He sent Eve to report on the party’s activities and gave them the ultimatum to hand over the Infinite Dagger in a month or he would kill off Vi’s family.

At the Mu jungle, the party discovered that Aladross was working with the Legion of Liberation, the group in opposition to LOBO. Aladross explained that Bronson is actually a Knyethson and that he needed to give the Dagger to the proper authorities so it could be destroyed. Also they found out that Bronson and Klav were romantically involved, and killed a bunch of racists that were also homophobic. Also Ostiarius was a little bitter over his son, Klav, hanging out with Bronson and other humanoids. After dropping off Bronson and the Infinite Dagger with the Legion of Liberation agents, Sonngrad urged the terrorists to look for Katherine Esposito, an agent of Bahamut on Grimgog, which they did.

In the meantime, Eve kept getting left on read by Kasta so the changeling sent a spicy letter of resignation. Afterwards, Kasta appeared on live television and declared Vi’s bounty hunter crew a terrorist organization. As the party were planning to save Vi’s family, Kasta appeared behind them, beginning the trend of the “white woman jumpscare.” She revealed that she was a girlfailure, mazed Barb, and fucked off, leaving the Maze spell up for the full ten minute duration.

Basically, she used to be Ingrid Temeria, the crown princess, but during a war against the forces of Tenebrous, she befriended and fell in love with a blackguard of Demogorgon. He ultimately killed her father, and in grief she killed him as well. She became Kasta while being subjected to sexual horrors by his compatriots. Apocalypse would turn all creatures in the Material Plane into beings like her.

Then the terrorists rescued Vi’s family in Old Temeria with the help of the revenant of Gunhild, the first Temerian Queen, but not without Flavia dying and being revivified in the process. It turned out that death didn’t work properly, that beyond was just conscious nothingness. This was horrifying enough to put Flavia on permanent retirement. It was also a side effect of being trapped on the Soul Gate, the device used to fuel Apocalypse. Gunhild also gave the terrorists a way to sneak into the palace in Hozor, the capital of Old Temeria.

The terrorists dropped off Flavia at Pinnacle. That being said, the human supremacists were hot on their trail. There was a snowstorm from nowhere and they were sucked into a strange pocket dimension full of Kasta statues that they could communicate to via touch. They figured this was a way to keep track of her and then left the space. It happened to be contained in a magic snow globe.

In the snow globe, Kasta revealed that the whole Apocalypse plan was a ploy to get Demogorgon to give up her boyfriend’s soul by proving to him that there’s a timeline where the terrorists can inherit Grimgog without becoming her. She spoke to the group with genuine affection, and the snowglobe would be used to consult Kasta about many things.

The terrorists then started doing a public relations campaign to get their reputation up. During this campaign, they killed more racists and robbed a bank. Kasta gave this idea to the group as a way to acquire more funds. This was notably the only time Kasta the Infinite ever lied during the campaign. (They had asked for her credit card information, and she gave them the security activation code. Like… she already set up this heist, she was not going to make it THAT easy.) Eventually, during a massive racist raid, Bronson returned.

Viggo tried to mount an assault on Pinnacle that was prophesied to get him killed, and Kasta called the squad to inform them of the situation. He pulled the Gilded Spear, releasing the dormant dragon god within. The party averted the prophecy by stopping him without killing him. In gratitude, Kasta gave them Dearly Beloved, a legendary whip made for her dead boyfriend. Barb used the whip wisely, because the DM begged the player to not abuse the OP hax weapon.

More public relations campaigns happened, in an intent to unite the planet vs Kasta. Using Barbera as the face, due to her kindness and virtue they were successful in changing minds; even though Eve’s past and Violet’s dubious nature was a problem. The terrorists got a taste of what it’s like to live anywhere other than a shithole in a side quest, they found a traitor in their midst, and got invited to a debate where Kasta murdered a whole bunch of racists. Violet got un-compleated and Odell assured to protect his fiancee and his fiancee’s home. The team also had to kill so many racists, as it was revealed they were being manipulated by Demogorgon.

Then Kasta declared martial law, and the terrorists, now freedom fighters, knew it was the endgame. Eve and Barb tried to reason with Kasta one last time, but their pleas were of no avail. And so they confronted Kasta the Infinite, first in her palace, and later in her own layer in the Abyss, and killed her. She was freed of her karma, allowed to start anew.

Other Universes

In the snow globe, Kasta revealed that she was a Loud Silence, a Thing That Should Not Be, called Infinite Cater, and that she was reflected infinitely across multiple realities.

Kasta, or rather Kaspar, told Vi how to make mage quartz because they thought Violet was a moth from another universe.
Kasta also appeared in Eschaton Denial Ministry and made a Steven Universe reference, unfortunately.

Understanding Infinity

There are a few things to know about Kasta the Infinite, or at least the specific branches of them that might be interesting to explore with Infinite Caster as a GM.

Kasta is pathetic. The PCs will either love to hate her or hate to love her.
Kasta is honest. There is no reason to lie about things when the truth is harder to swallow.
Kasta is irredeemable. She is evil, and everyone knows it, most of all her.
Kasta will be as much of a help to the party as she is a detriment to.
Kasta does things for the bit.

Limits of Infinity

Kasta is very far from infallible. She operates on too much knowledge and not enough common sense. There are timelines that Kasta is not aware of, or timelines that she is aware of but not to a full extent.

She is also not always Infinite. This means that a GM can present a pre-Infinite Kasta in their world, perhaps as an origin story for that version of Kasta.