Hey, Bobacus. It would be eternally cool if you could do one of the following Victorian horrors for me. No need to do them both, though of course, if you want to I won't complain.
Thomas Pellgraine, The Thief of Forms
"Quite right, Mr. Shaw," says another, unknown voice. "Something is, indeed, amiss." A middle-aged gentleman walked out of the study - he wasn't there a moment before. "But forgive my rudeness, gentlemen. My name is Thomas Pellgraine." In the bedroom, Arthur began to scream.
A pensive and almost mournful expression crossed Thomas' face. Then Walsingham saw it - and instinctively started backing away. A movement under Thomas' flesh, under the skin on his arms, his face. He gazed up in a moment, flesh grown over his eyes. His arms extend with a painful sound, most of the skin now iridescent, purplish, like the skins of the small flying monsters...
Inspector Diggory gritted his teeth and fired at the creature's leg. To his amazement, the Pellgraine-Thing howled in pain but looked relatively unfazed, even by a gunshot in the knee. Walsingham, meanwhile, fell to his knees and screamed...
Dr. Hewitt pulled Walsingham to one of the walls, slapping him lightly on the face. Walsingham came to, glancing back and forth between the doctor and the man-creature before them. Diggory fired a shot at the monster, but missed and blasted a hole in the wall. Splinters and small bits of wood flew out. The creature lunged at the inspector as he made towards the study door, the formerly human hands shaping themselves into large, wickedly-edged blades of yellowed, toughened flesh. It chopped at his leg, but the inspector narrowly dodged out of the way.
Queen Tera, the Nameless One, She Who Insults the Gods
A woman emerges from the darkness, dressed in white and yellow robes, with an Arabic or Indian cast to her features. A diadem in the shape of an Egyptian crown sits atop her raven-dark hair. She commands your attention, and as you look upon her you notice her right hand bears seven fingers. Her eye glimmers and as it does so, a gigantic cat materializes and attacks...
Tera was a queen of old Egypt, a daughter of the king Djoser, but her name is now forgotten by all but the most erudite scholars. Tera was fascinated by the occult traditions of the Egyptian people, and was a disciple of the high priest Imhotep, who allowed the Red Death access to the world. She conducted many experiments into the possibility of eternal life, eventually becoming a master of manipulating her
ka or soul. She would often send it out of her body, spying on all corners of the land.
Tera soon joined Imhotep and Djoser in laying waste to ancient Egypt. One day, she fell ill and soon after died. Exactly why she met her fate is uncertain; some say she was poisoned by agents of Akhenaten and Nefertiti impatient for her to die naturally, others claim her
ka’s connection to her body was severed for good. Whatever the case, after her death her name was obliterated from all inscriptions and histories.
The centuries passed, and Tera was forgotten by most. Traditions and legends remained of a shadowy sorceress-queen, a Queen of Darkness; but her true name was forgotten. Then, in 1887, Tera’s tomb in the hidden Valley of the Sorcerer was found by an English archaeologist named Abel Trelawny. He had made a life’s work of studying the legends of the Dark Queen, and found her tomb through hints in ancient books.
When he got there, he was horrified to find that Queen Tera’s mummified corpse had been totally destroyed. All that remained in the queen’s tomb–perhaps all there had ever been–was a huge ruby. Trelawny translated a hieroglyphic cartouche on the gem as “Tera”. At last, after countless centuries, the queen once again had a name. He sailed back to England, the jewel in hand. He gave the jewel over to the possession of the British Museum and there it remained for several years.
In 1893, it was stolen by parties unknown. The jewel next turned up in the possession of a famous fortune-teller named Ann Harrington. She called herself Madame Sosostris, and affected the dress of ancient Egypt. Unbeknownst to London society, Sosostris was Tera, the queen’s resurrection facilitated by the jewel.
(( It's not mentioned in Tera's description, but she also carries a long-bladed knife [a shortsword] and the jewel is in the shape of a scarab ))
