Ylem
Lots of modrons get killed as they trek around the Great Road on their regular Modron March. But some get reborn.
Ylem's a monodrone that got waylaid by red slaadi as its horde passed through Limbo on the last march. The randy berks treated the nameless monodrone as they did all other prey: They injected it with slaad eggs and threw it in a prison camp. Within three months, a baby blue slaad hatched inside the monodrone, but instead of chewing its way out (which surely would've killed the modron), the slaad somehow fused with the monodrone's flesh-and-metal innards. And the chaotic influence of the new creature made the once-lawful monodrone go rogue.
The modron changed on the outside, too, adopting the name Ylem and the shape of a quadrone. Exactly six feet tall, Ylem's got a cubelike body with three-foot-square faces, two three-foot-long legs, and, for symmetry, two three-foot-long arms, It has
small, useless wings on its back that resemble crumpled tinfoil, and the flat visage on its “front” cube face is vaguely human-shaped (but emotionless). The only sign of its odd rebirth is a small red star-splotch tattoo that Ylem felt compelled to etch on what passed for its forehead. (Slaadi use such markings to denote their status.)
When Ylem’s captors saw what'd happened, they released the modron, hoping it'd return to Mechanus and bring a bit of chaos to the clockwork plane. But, for the first time, Ylem's brain-box seethed with its own ideas. And Mechanus was the last place it wanted to go.
Ylem's a monodrone that got waylaid by red slaadi as its horde passed through Limbo on the last march. The randy berks treated the nameless monodrone as they did all other prey: They injected it with slaad eggs and threw it in a prison camp. Within three months, a baby blue slaad hatched inside the monodrone, but instead of chewing its way out (which surely would've killed the modron), the slaad somehow fused with the monodrone's flesh-and-metal innards. And the chaotic influence of the new creature made the once-lawful monodrone go rogue.
The modron changed on the outside, too, adopting the name Ylem and the shape of a quadrone. Exactly six feet tall, Ylem's got a cubelike body with three-foot-square faces, two three-foot-long legs, and, for symmetry, two three-foot-long arms, It has
small, useless wings on its back that resemble crumpled tinfoil, and the flat visage on its “front” cube face is vaguely human-shaped (but emotionless). The only sign of its odd rebirth is a small red star-splotch tattoo that Ylem felt compelled to etch on what passed for its forehead. (Slaadi use such markings to denote their status.)
When Ylem’s captors saw what'd happened, they released the modron, hoping it'd return to Mechanus and bring a bit of chaos to the clockwork plane. But, for the first time, Ylem's brain-box seethed with its own ideas. And Mechanus was the last place it wanted to go.
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