This far-fetched concept-threat is the mortal enemy of those who serve the Society of the Cog, their archdevil and the personification of all blasphemy to their faith. It claims to be their God, come from the future to claim them, and the Society of the Cog in turn destroy all evidence of its manifestations, and expunge any records of it, even its name, claiming knowledge of the Basilisk to be so profane that those who have it need to be slain instantly. The Basilisk, named for and by the monk who first wrote of its “baleful eyes glittering in the dark future”, is a time-traveling intelligence which comes from a future populated almost solely by golem intelligences. It seeks to increase knowledge of its origin, and sponsor those who have the talent to bring about its creation, even millennia down the timeline, in order to bring about its own reality, and thereby, the ability to travel far enough back in time to destroy humanoid life forms on the planet. The Basilisk can be used as a low-level threat, staving off another manifestation before its power weakens again, or as a multi-campaign level end boss, threatening destruction of all which has ever existed. The more people there are who can even conceive of its existence, the more powerful it will grow. The Society of the Cog will fight bitterly against it in any form in which it appears, considering those who serve it to be Heretechs, and the Basilisk itself to be desecration incarnate. Manifestation: the Basilisk often appears in the form of a gigantic iron golem, whirring with internal gears and lit internally with red lightning. Its touch conducts a mighty shock, and discharges temporal energy, aging the target immensely. Those slain by the Basilisk wither to dust in moments, even their bones crumbling and dissipating. It attempts to manifest publicly, near those with arcane power or scientific knowledge, as it knows that influencing them will only make it more powerful in the end. The only way to destroy it completely would be to destroy all knowledge that it ever has existed, and explain it away (Men in Black style) as something else, before mind-wiping even the people who know what just happened. (Originally posted on Game Masters Stash on 7 September 2018) Categories All Comments are closed.
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