Moreover, its legend drew forth a vestige: a spitting of the beast itself, whose figure appears distorted as if seen though a warped mirror.įlaw. Today, Vortirrackt’a foul name is synonymous with spells gone awry, the folly of mages, and the hideous things that lie beyond the stars. A hundred adventures entered the warded tower, which Vortirrackt had rigged into a fiendish dungeon, but only one, Carthin the Runebreaker, escaped the monster's deathtrap. With no other options, the archmagi concluded that they would widen the rift, swallowing the whole of the tower and the monster, before sealing it the rift beneath a great mountain. Gradually, it learned their names, their specialties, and what best to say to torment them. The creature mocked the wizards of the tower and their petty attempts to slay it. Thankfully, a powerful warding spell managed to seal Vortirrackt within, but it did not contain its telepathy. Bands of knights were sent to slay the beast and reclaim the tower, to no avail their heads were seen to be arranged at the tower’s windows mere hours later. Dozens of innocents perished, and the mages of the arcane university retreated from their great tower to regroup. It exchanged a long glance with those in attendance, then pounced, butchering any it caught in its elongated grasp. Vortirrackt stalked out of the dimensional pit in front of a gathering of wizards, researchers, and arcanists. Worse yet, this creature was no mere beast, as its frightful intellect would demonstrate. This creature, Vortirrackt, was unlike anything seen in the multiverse: it had pale, slimy skin, impervious to weapons, a long head which terminated in a circular mouth of razor-sharp teeth, and six sickeningly long limbs, each with one joint more than a terrestrial creature and a clawlike barb at the end. When the brilliant scientist Korine cast the fateful spell that thrust her to the Void, an eldritch, horrific thing crept through behind her in the dimensional hole to our world. A creature from beyond our multiverse, Vortirrackt warps his binders into a reflection of his bizarre anatomy.

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