It’s not often when you’re exploring an ancient dead city that you discover a tall, ripped lady in a temple whose floor has been covered in burnt-out candles.
But the Panspermia β people managed it. Good for them?
“People whisper of the terrible behemoths that dwell within the swamps, green as moss and nearly silent as they slip under the waters and through the muck. If parley can be reached with them, it won’t be reached by blundering outsiders, and the marshes hold secrets still.”
“It’s as if you took a person, and stripped away their hunger for food, for water, for companionship, for argument, for love, for war, and in their place filled them with nothing but a terrible yawning hunger for knowledge.”
“Councillor Ykarax is a rare sort, even among the sapient undead of the Sunless Isles − when she remained after death as a ghost, she reanimated her own corpse as a faceless dead, and retains it to perform what tasks she, as an incorporeal creature, can no longer perform.”
Marquess Vildrath Duranal is a wealthy socialite, philanthropist and member of the Night Guild who currently resides in the city of Absardra, and is relevant to the backstory of a character in Panspermia β.
"A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man."
