Sigil Emporium – Earworm
Earworms are pernicious parasites. Psionic in nature, many a mage has suggested that they originate in the aether, having been brought to the mortal realm through a tear in the veil. Earworms are short, fat worms that glisten like oil when light shines upon them. When agitated or attacked, they let out a psionic scream […]
Sigil Bestiary – Minotaur
Minotaur are cursed creatures, born out of divine spite. Very rarely do the minotaur produce a stable line of descendents, and so most of these abominations found in the world were individually cursed by the gods. Perhaps they had angered the gods in some fashion, or erred in their worship, or their hubris may have […]
Sigil Emporium – Famine’s Scales
They say that an army marches on its stomach, and that society is only three meals away from collapse. Perhaps one could put these idioms to the test. With the Scales of Famine, anyone cruel enough can wither away crops, cause meat to rot where it sits, and spread decay amongst a civilisations food sources. […]
Sigil Bestiary – Swarm of Pests
Pests are horrid things that civilisation seemingly cannot get rid off, but luckily they are more afraid of us than we are disgusted by them. Rarely, and particularly when a supernatural element is involved, do these pests come together to form swarms. Individually a pest is an annoyance, but a swarm can become a deadly […]
Sigil Emporium – Sword of War
Said to belong to the God of War himself, this enormous two-handed blade is a reckoning on the battlefield. It requires a skilled swordsman to wield the heavy blade properly, but once he does, he becomes nearly unstoppable. The Sword seems to have a mind of its own, knowing where and when to strike, how […]
Sigil Bestiary – Leviathan
The great serpent of the ocean, the Leviathan is a legend in all cultures. With stories as long as its body, this colossal creature is rightly feared by sailors and fishermen across the realm. Some speculate that it is not a species of creature at all, and that there is only one Leviathan in all […]
Sigil Emporium – The Gray Portrait
Narcissism is a disease of the mind for which there is no cure. Prevention is the best means to combat it, and the gods have found that the best type of prevention is to show others what happens to narcissists. This, of course, means making an example out of them. Perhaps none of the poor […]
Sigil Bestiary – Giant Worm
Giant Worms are the leviathans of the desert dunes. They swim through and under the sand for most of their lives, only coming to the surface when they feel the vibrations of creatures walking above. Giant Worms are ferociously territorial and will do everything they can to remove interlopers from their domain, empty and lifeless […]
Sigil Emporium – Spell Scroll
Wizards are known for many things. Hard work is not one of these. A wizard, by nature, is a lazy creature. Why else learn to control the natural world through unnatural means? Magic is a way to bypass the virtue of hard labour and physical exercise; to let the mind do what the body cannot […]
Sigil Bestiary – The Hydra
Hydra are gargantuan, man-eating beasts with razor sharp teeth, two tails, corrosive bloos, and breath that is poisonous to all creatures. It is said they were created by the gods purely to torment mankind out of a sense of divine spite. True or not, these monstrous vermin are a plague on far-flung villages and settlements […]
Sigil Emporium – Triton’s Horn
There are eldritch things that man was never meant to find. Triton’s Horn is one of these and has been found not once, but twice, to let loose into the world. Discovered by a mage at the bottom of the ocean, this metre-long horn of some unknown ancient creature was soon discovered to be able […]
Sigil Bestiary – The Rogue
Thieves, thugs, highwaymen, hoodlums, ne’er-do-wells and scallywags. Rogues are a blight on civilisation because they stem from civilisation itself. Rogues show us that no matter the heights that we reach as a species, there is always a cancer growing in the darkness. Rogues are perhaps our greatest failure as a society, and a scourge we […]
Sigil Emporium – Djinni’s Lamp
Djinn are powerful aetherial creatures with the power of smoke and fire. While they make their homes in the deserts and wastelands outside civilisation’s reach, they often intrude onto our lands to wreak havoc and conquer mortal realms. Many don’t make it back to their wasteland sanctuaries, and those few that are not killed in […]
Sigil Bestiary – The World Ender
The Children of Merovech called it the Tarrasque; the rest of the world called it the eater of cities and the ender of worlds. This gigantic scourge of God has been called half dragon, half animal, and half fish. It has the head of a lion with teeth as long and sharp as swords, the […]
Sigil Emporium – The Cauldron of Chalcedon
Named after both where it was found and what it is made of, the Cauldron of Chalcedon is a dark spectre in this world. Made of red and black onyx chalcedony, the meter-high cauldron looks as if there is an ever-swirling vortex of blood on its surface. This macabre pattern is as beautifully ominous as […]