Incarnate Elemental of Death
The Incarnate Elemental of Death is a walking embodiment of Shyish, the wind of Death. [1b]
It is one of the three Incarnate Elementals known to the Colleges of Magic. [1a].
Apeearance
It is a terrifying apparition, bearing the heads of lean and hungry Dragons at either end of a massive and twisted serpentine body but as it moves, it is silent save for whisperings of the grave. Anyone who meets the gaze of an Incarnate Elemental of Death sees their own destruction, but few will live to recall it as the elemental strikes with a speed few can escape, crushing its foes beneath the coils of its twisting body or tearing them apart with its monstrous jaws.[1b]
Summoning
Those who summon one risk their own destruction, for to conjure this entity is to beckon Death itself into the world. They are bound to the mortal world by an enchanted hourglass that contains the dust of a monarch’s bones and this artefact alone can contain the straining power of such an unnatural entity. [1b]
Quotes
Having seen the destructive capabilities of dragons I find it eminently suitable that the embodiment of the wind of Shyish takes the form of such a beast.
~ Lokar Garrent, Wizard of the Amethyst Order.[2] |
Sources
- 1: Winds of Magic (book)
- 2: Monstrous Arcanum: Incarnate Elemental of Death, pg. 42-43