Medusa

"There are few things in this life that I fear. Most men are born with the understanding that this world is out to kill them. And It is a warriors way to learn how to steal yourself against the monsters that lurk within the shadows... But it was no simple horror that I faced within those long-forgotten ruins. A holy place where the songs of our god's glory sung out through the halls. Our faces did fall flat upon the stone their, ground itself raising up to us to take us to where it's queen did lay. Know this, before my lungs turn to stone, I look upon true beauty this day, and saw what our cruel lands had caused it to become." - Lieutenant Baximoor on his fatal encounter with the medusa of Acckafell.
Standing as revernet to the ancient past, Medusi are formed from the echos of lost and broken people. Great wrongs never righted, mass graves left forgotten, and civilization cut from the history are but a few of the things that can form a Medusa. Each Medusa is different, every one being a testament to a different burden that society chosen to forget.
Scollors in the past has painted these creatures as simple monsters. This greatly to the dismay of those who then ventured out to their lairs reclaim forgotten riches, only to turn to stone with tose treasures in hand. Indeed it was largely the lack of any actual evidence or witness to them that