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Introduction: The concept of the Void


This publication will focus on the properties of the creatures of the Void, their internal relations and their external functions. To grasp the concepts discussed on these pages some fundamental facts must be established regarding existance itself. The world we tread, which our senses are attuned to percieve and we use to define ourselves, is one of many outposts in a vast multiverse. Islands, if you will, in a black lagoon in which physical properties follow no laws. It does not have fields, trees, hills or rivers, but flows of raw energy twisting through the endless void. There is life in this void, yet it is entirely alien to us. We are born and grow into form and purpose according to a scheme born into us by our parents, their traits combine to make us what we are. The creatures of the void know no such set conditions of the flesh. What is known is that organisms spontaneously spark into independent life when flows of energy collide, and begin to take form influenced by the energy which fueled their creation. When they come into contact with other influences they mutate, sometimes into horrendous misbreeds, sometimes into more and more advanced lifeforms until they become gods. There are beings documented by demented sages from the lost age of my birth that have risen to unimagineable power in the void, and forced energy to crystallize into matter to create entire fortress worlds drifting though existance. Should such a thing collide with the world we call home we would most certainly be doomed. Yet, when such a being perishes its creation inevitably mutates into yet another form of matter or decomposes into energy.

These creatures sometimes find their way into our world. Some are summoned by sorcerers tearing rifts in the fabric of our world, letting them invade it from the void. Others wander the chaos by their own ability, finding their way here to absorb what they can find in our sanctuary and further evolve. The purpose of this publication is to explore the most commonly found mutations from the void beyond.

Gibberlings

Gibberlings are small, agile creatures. They resemble apes in that they can run quickly on all fours, but also stand on their back legs and tear into a victim with their front legs. Like all creatures evolved in the Void there are not two exactly alike and one differs more from the other to a greater extent than two animals of the same species. Yet there are some common traits. Their size tends to be smaller than a horse but larger than a dog. Their hide is made up of a crystalline material which is rough to the texture, giving them a frosty appearence. The eye placement is akin to that of a natural predator, with a sharp yet narrow field of vision. Their behavior suggests a strong aggressive instinct and little in the way of self-preservation.

Gibberlings are known to quickly seek out weak spots in the fabric of the world and pour through. While they pose little threat individually they tend to move in packs. A group of eight to fifteen Gibberlings can easily overwhelm an average farm. Isolated settlements are a favored target for these packs. They are eager to invade our world, possibly because they have met an evolutionary dead end in the Void. Where they appear they tear living creatures to pieces. No successful evolutionary chain from the Gibberling is currently known, suggesting that despite the carnage they often bring they have found no way to evolve into more advanced forms.

There is a weak correlation between Gibberling sightings and Ravager presence. In the realm of Malas, which by all accounts was less firmly separated from the Void than Felucca, Gibberling packs would sometimes act as sentries for lone Ravagers. The dungeon below the frozen city in Malas was known to exhibit such a symbiotic relationship between these two appearently unrelated mutations. Accounts from survivors speak of horrible, lightning-quick beasts tearing into pack animals and men, dissapearing into the darkness again after taking a tribute of blood. Once the warriors of the group managed to fight the Gibberlings off, a Ravager appeared within the hour and slaughtered the remaining members. The few suriving treasure hunters who passed this story on are one of the few sources describing any higher function of Gibberling packs.