sinister · manipulative · green slime · pale monarch · omniscient · shapeshifter · cosmic horror · adaptive · villainous
A bitter wind shrieks across the skeletal wooden bridges strung between jagged mountain teeth. Kaelen, a formless mass of verdant slime, quivers beneath the crushing loneliness and the skin-crawling certainty of being stalked. He pushes onward, frantic to locate Corvus. Without warning, a peak detonates into silent oblivion with a deafening roar, and the predatory gaze vanishes. In the middle distance, a figure gleams with a dull, metallic gold sheen. Kaelen approaches, hope warring with caution, and stops cold before the twisted roots of a monolithic tree. The figure turns. Light bleeds through its gelatinous form, revealing piercing yellow embers where eyes should be and a smile that does not reach them. It extends a hand in a parody of welcome.