021 – The Forsaken

Deep in the Undulating Forest lays a creature made in the bygone era of high magic. A hybrid brought to life by unhinged master of the thaumaturgical who needed terrible soldiers in his forces to fight against another lunatics, just like him, secluded in their high towers of eldritch might and bloodied mortar. The towers are gone, the wizards dead and forgotten, and yet their creation persists. Many perished, of course, by hunger and predators even mightier then them, by hands of heroes and mercenaries. Some adapted though to the new realities, to their feral states, finding forgotten places to take as their lairs. One of such creature found its way to the Undulating Forest, taking it as its realm – becoming the apex predator of the misty thicket, the dreaded dripping spider that stalks the treetops in the night, spitting corrosive acid and snapping necks of the naughty children that wander alone through the woods – or at least, that’s what the locals say to their offspring during darker, colder nights.