what precisely is The Thing With Many Bodies? My PC's clan has this as their ancient enemy and it sounds pretty ominous.
/// The only place I've seen it detailed is in "GATHERING THUNDER", an older book about Sartar;, an perhaps in the Dorastor book, much older still. So I'll mix what is written in there and what I make up.
The thing of many bodies (no capital letters) is PREDARK. It means CHAOS. It means a thing outside the worlds, a perversion, an horror which must be exterminated. Nothing is worse than chaos. All sane men must destroy it. The lunars worship it and that's one of the reasons they must be destroyed themselves.
Specifically, this "thing" cannot hold a specific shape for more than a certain time, perhaps only a few minutes or hours. It switches back and forth between shapes, many of which I suspect are a twisted mixture of its previous victims. Some of your clan's ancestors probably fell victim to it and your clan want to free them for eternal torture as part of the thing. It's not easy - so far the clan has failed and its heroes die everytime they try.
In battle, the Thing switches from a writhing mass of tentacles to a single giant flailing tentacles. It regenerates like crazy. It would make a more interesting long-term ennemy with some form of intelligence. I suggest it uses part of your ancestors' intelligence and is drawn back from time to time to your clan lands. It takes an innocent, harmless-looking shape and tries to infiltrate the clan. Being a chaotic thing, it's often discovered and hacked to bits before it destroys the whole clan. But it takes new victims every time.
What do you think ?
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