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The Editor of Red Margins
Lawful EvilHumanoid

The Editor of Red Margins

Once a devoted librarian, the Editor believed every book deserved preservation. Then it discovered that preservation was not enough. Memories could be improved, histories sharpened, entire tragedie...

by Paladin46970Jun 30
The Editor
Lawful NeutralHumanoid

The Editor

Scholars disagree whether the Editor was once a mortal archivist, a minor god of language, or a mistake made by a self-writing spell. What is certain is that it believes every event has a correct d...

by Paladin46970Jun 30
Mireglass Sentinel
unalignedLarge construct-like guardian

Mireglass Sentinel

Bog-priests once claimed the first mireglass sentinel was a funeral guardian forged to keep a tyrant's army from crossing a sacred swamp. The ritual worked too well. The swamp absorbed the rite, th...

by Sorcerer49201Jun 30
The Caretakers of the Infinite Archive
Lawful NeutralMonstrosity

The Caretakers of the Infinite Archive

The Caretakers of the Infinite Archive are ancient custodians born from the need to preserve all knowledge without letting any one piece of it dominate. Shelvers maintain order. Ladderkeepers maint...

by Cleric40143Jun 30
Corrupted Lich Wizard, Bone Priest of the Underdark
Lawful EvilUndead

Corrupted Lich Wizard, Bone Priest of the Underdark

Long before the Underdark swallowed its chapel, this priest-wizard sought to preserve doctrine beyond death. When age and fear turned it toward lichdom, the rites came out warped. Centuries in dark...

by Bard49358Jun 30
Lichwrought Mantis Webber
unalignedConstruct

Lichwrought Mantis Webber

The construct was devised by an ambitious lich who wanted a guardian that could think just enough to hunt, but not enough to disobey. Its human-like upper torso was designed to mimic the silhouette...

by Bard48792Jun 30
Ash-Masked Tormentor
Lawful EvilHumanoid

Ash-Masked Tormentor

Known as the Ash-Masked Tormentor, he was once a woodsman, jailer, or battlefield interrogator who survived burns that should have killed him. The scars changed him into something patient and vicio...

by Rogue49348Jun 30
Glacier Empress
typically neutralElemental

Glacier Empress

Sages say the Glacier Empress was not forged, born, or summoned in any ordinary sense. She appeared after an ancient storm swallowed a mountain monastery and left behind only a clear statue at the ...

by Artificer47079Jun 30
Euphoria Cortex
Typically lawful evilAberration

Euphoria Cortex

Psionic harvesters call this creature a living cathedral of pressure, because its brain is less a brain than a resonant organ the size of a human torso. As it weakens, the cortex floods nearby mind...

by Wizard17531Jun 29
Glasswrought Oracle
Typically neutral evilAberration

Glasswrought Oracle

Scholars claim the Glasswrought Oracle is not a giant brain, but a predator that evolved a brain large enough to dominate lesser wills. Its exposed psionic cortex, roughly the size of a human torso...

by Wizard17531Jun 29
Aureliel, Banner of Dawn
Lawful GoodCelestial

Aureliel, Banner of Dawn

Aureliel is said to be a high-ranking marshal of a celestial host assigned to mortal cities in their darkest hours. She believes that mercy without order invites ruin, and order without courage inv...

by Artificer47079Jun 29
Marquis Wendrake, Solar Dragon of the Gilded Court
Lawful EvilDragon

Marquis Wendrake, Solar Dragon of the Gilded Court

Marquis Wendrake was once rumored to be the most impeccably dressed noble in the capital, a benefactor of orphanages, a patron of festivals, and a man who seemed to know every secret before it was ...

by Artificer47079Jun 29
Cortex-Beast of the Euphoric Null
typically neutral evilAberration

Cortex-Beast of the Euphoric Null

Cortex-beasts are whispered about in psionic black markets as living vaults of stolen brilliance. Their torso-sized brains are not merely organs, but conductive theaters where thoughts are refined ...

by Wizard17531Jun 29
Cortex Siphon
Typically neutral evilAberration

Cortex Siphon

Scholars call it a cortex siphon, a psionic devourer, or simply the bliss-brain. It is not a giant brain, but a cunning aberration whose central nervous mass has expanded into a torso-sized organ c...

by Wizard17531Jun 29
Cortex Stalker of the Euphoric Veil
Typically lawful evilAberration

Cortex Stalker of the Euphoric Veil

Scholars argue over whether cortex stalkers are failed ascendants, engineered harvest-beasts, or parasites that learned to wear thought like flesh. What all sources agree on is that their brains ar...

by Wizard17531Jun 29
Royal Hound of the Ember Keep
UnalignedBeast

Royal Hound of the Ember Keep

Dragonborn nobles and warlords value these hounds for more than loyalty. The breed was shaped to patrol echoing corridors, to hold a line without hesitation, and to make intruders feel judged befor...

by Rogue33585Jun 29
Mindharrow Psion
Neutral EvilAberration

Mindharrow Psion

Scholars call it a mindharrow because it does not merely break minds, it tills them. Its kind is said to have been bred, not born, in a hidden program that sought to distill raw psionic metabolism ...

by Wizard17531Jun 29
Ashley The Creator of Tragedy
NeutralHuman

Ashley The Creator of Tragedy

Ashley is called the Creator of Tragedy because she appears wherever a story needs a wound that cannot be neatly closed. Some scholars claim she was made by a forgotten god of endings. Others say s...

by Bard47502Jun 29
Cortex-Harvester Euphoriarch
Typically lawful evilAberration

Cortex-Harvester Euphoriarch

Scholars and smugglers call these beings cortex-harvesters because their minds are literally too rich to waste. Their torso-sized brains can be removed only with specialized preservation gear while...

by Wizard17531Jun 29
Cortex Tyrant
Typically lawful evilAberration

Cortex Tyrant

Psionic cortex tyrants are believed to be failed experiments from an arcane-neurological program that tried to grow living psionic amplifiers in urban populations. The result was a predator that le...

by Wizard17531Jun 29
Veilmind Harvester
Typically neutral evilAberration

Veilmind Harvester

Scholars believe the creature is not born but assembled, either from an aberrant species engineered by a failed psionic cabal or from a mind that learned to eat adjacent minds until it grew a body ...

by Wizard17531Jun 29
Euphorax, the Psionic Cortex
lawful evilAberration

Euphorax, the Psionic Cortex

Scholars think the creature is an aberrant offshoot of psionic evolution rather than a true mind flayer descendant. Criminal anatomists call its brain a Psionic Cortex, a living focus that retains ...

by Wizard17531Jun 29
Euphoric Cortex Aberration
Typically neutral evilAberration

Euphoric Cortex Aberration

Urban psionicists whisper that these creatures are not born but assembled, the result of some forgotten experiment that taught flesh how to drink thought and thought how to become hunger. Their mos...

by Wizard17531Jun 29
Euphoric Psionic Cortex
typically neutral evilAberration

Euphoric Psionic Cortex

The euphoric psionic cortex is not born in wilderness or ruin, but in the hungry margins of civilization, where thought is dense, fear is plentiful, and minds can be gathered like fruit. Most first...

by Wizard17531Jun 29

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