The World Eater
Also known as: The Great Beast, the Beast Lord (by gnoll worshippers) Type: Planar entity — chaos seed manifestation Status: Active — roaming the Brookside pocket plane, destroying everything Origin: Bedegar Keep — born from the activation of an elder-god chaos seed First Named: Session 049
What the Party Knows
- It was engineered. The outer/elder gods seeded all planes with chaos seeds — latent mechanisms of world-destruction that activate when "prime bloodlines" (light, darkness, death) are combined. Mythrades / The Engineer deliberately engineered the combination by bringing Crowley's parents together, embedding the seed in their children's combined blood. When that blood was used in the ceremony at Bedegar Keep five years later, the countdown began. Five years of gestation — and the World Eater was born.
- It is titanic. The party observed it from a distance in Session 049: a creature the size of a small mountain, tearing into earth and trees with massive hands and horns, devouring entire sections of the landscape as it moves. The sound of it moving at a distance resembles thunder.
- It does not enter the protective bubbles. Leigha's protective bubbles repel it along with the gnolls. It is not trying to get in — it is simply consuming everything outside.
- The gnolls worship it. The Wraith King's gnoll army venerates the World Eater as the Beast Lord. The cursed flesh the gnolls were feeding on (the abyssal flesh at Crowley's Bear Cave) is connected to this worship.
- Zago says the World Eater's tether can be cut. The binding stone under Bedegar Keep tethers the pocket plane (and presumably the World Eater's manifestation within it) to the Abyss. Cutting the tether theoretically releases the plane — what this means for the World Eater specifically is not stated.
- It cannot be communicated with. When the party glimpsed it, the Druids briefly considered attempting communication. The DM advised against it.