Showing posts with label black magic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label black magic. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 9, 2019

Fire Imps


Fire Imps are elemental creatures made of living flame. They are created by higher level mages by funneling the disembodied souls which dwell on the astral plane into bodies of mystical fire.

Saturday, June 8, 2019

Skuttler


Skuttlers are semi-autonomous creations, animated by arcane occult magics to be used as servants. They have a small modicum of free will, but are unable to make anything but the simplest decisions.

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Pyramid Walker


Strange pyramid shaped creatures that should not exist. It is theorized they are the result of an experiment in black magic gone wrong.

Friday, January 4, 2013

Vertigo, Goddess of insanity


Vertigo is a human sorceress who mastered the art of transformation, millions of years ago she was imprisoned within the moon by the mad wizard Balsafas, until the great cataclysm finally released the mystic bonds that held her fast and enabled her to engage the other gods of the new Urth head to head in a beast form of her own. She plans to enslave the entire human race by stripping all of their free will.

Vertigo is a character from the video game Primal Rage. (c) Atari Games.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Morticadeus


A Morticadeus is a necro-construct, an artificial creature pieced together from the enchanted parts of other dead things. As such they can be made in any number of shapes or configurations. They are utilized by powerful sorcerers to perform simple tasks, such as guarding a specific place or to retrieve an item.

Friday, September 9, 2011

Sckivarp

Sckivarps are artificial creatures, created through dark magics and alchemical formulas from multiple ingredients, including bones and tissues from human beings. They are usually created with a specific mission or task in mind, usually assassinations.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

Adepts

Adepts are exceptionally gifted demons minor who study the dark arts with fanaticism. They are often kept on retainer by the higher demon lords, and act as sargents, lieutenants, spellcasters, and majordomos. It is not unheard of for a particularly crafty adept to manipulate events and elevate themselves to Demon Major status.

Friday, January 28, 2011

Architalaix

An Architalaix is a necroconstruct, that is a creature or being created using materials obtained from other dead creatures. This particular example transforms the head of a recently deceased human into a mobile creature with arms and grasping tentacles. The Architalaix form is most often used to spy on enemies or guard specific treasures. Like all necroconstructs they are not truly undead, but do share many of the same characteristics.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

The Order of D'hjuin

The Order of D'hjuin is a secretive sect of adepts who serve a being called "D'hjuin," who they maintain is a dark extradimentional being currently locked in the center of a neutron star. They are primarily made of up a humanoid race from Zeta Reticuli, but will accept members from other races if they are deemed worthy. Each member goes through decades of instruction and indoctrination, finally accumulating in a ritual where each member seals their mouths shut in an eternal vow of silence. The order works to free D'hjuin from his prison, whereupon they believe he will reshape the universe in his image.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Tiger Squid

The unnatural result of a mad warlock's tampering with the forces of nature. Tiger Squids were created to act as guards or sentries. As word of the bloodthirsty beasts spread and they became popular with rulers and despots. Trade in the savage creatures spread them world wide.

Thursday, November 25, 2010

Soul Poppet


Soul Poppets are short, rag-doll like creations, animated by forgotten Hoodoo rituals. The poppet is infused with the soul of one who has been wronged, in order to gain revenge against it's transgressors.

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Ghorapines

Ghorapines are large predatory mammals which hunt in forests and grasslands. They are the result of a mad wizard's experiments, the combination of a rabbit, wolf, rat, and demon. The resulting creatures hunt in packs, live underground in warrens, breed excessively, and are highly dangerous. Several organized campaigns to eradicate the creatures once and for all have all thus failed.

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Cleaner Cubes

Cleaner cubes are artificial beings, created by mad wizards from arcane sciences out of the flesh of the dead and the bile from beasts. They are living vacuum cleaners, set loose to crawl along the corridors and consume any and all detritus left by (or of) intruders. Cleaner cubes do not have digestive systems, instead anything consumed is mystically transported to another dimension.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Pumpkin Wraith


An animated corpse with a carved pumpkin in place of it's head. These creatures are usually created with a specific task in mind. The Pumpkin Wraith will single mindedly go about the duty it is charged with, will ignore all dangers or obstacles, and will attack anyone who tries to impede them. After the task is fulfilled the Pumpkin Wraith dissolves on the spot. They are often created for revenge plots or assassinations.