Atropus
Atropus, known as the World Born Dead, was an alien entity whose coming was a harbinger of death and destruction. According to some, it was in fact an undead primordial.
Atropus was both a place and a being: an undead the size of a planetoid, whose surface was rocky and barren, but nonetheless inhabited by all manner of horrific undead. It had the seeming of a massive chunk of black stone, pitted and slick with putrid black slime. From certain angles, Atropus had what resembled a glassy eye approximately 40 mi (64 km) across, the moonlet itself measuring approximately 700 mi (1,100 km) in diameter.
Some sages speculated that Atropus was created when Adoa created the first gods, though they didn't have a unified theory about how it was born. Some claimed Atropus was the rotting amniotic fluid of Omegos, while others believed he was a divine mistake by Adoa—the last God formed, that arrived dead upon creation. Others stated that he was really one of the primordials.
Atropus was first observed for the first time in the ring of the planet Glyth. It was attracted to the planet by the widespread death and destruction the Illithid wrought on their own creator race on their original home world, then fled their doomed planet in space-faring vessels. Atropus laid waste to the planet, leaving it dead and devastated, forcing the Illithid to flee to their current home world of Penumbra.
Some of the few sages who knew about Atropus believed that its attention was turning toward Zelrinda next, slowly venturing over to the life-rich planet. They were ever vigilant for signs of its approach—a strengthening of necromancy and the spontaneous rise of the undead.
Divine Domains
Moon, cosmic, Death, Grave, The Great Old One, The Undead, The Undying
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