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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8290935" data-attributes="member: 7023887">I have a few . . .<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Shibboleths (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth#Origin" target="_blank">inspired by a real world term with an age-old history</a>). A Shibboleth is an elder aboleth that not only remembers that they were created by <a href="https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Pisaethces" target="_blank">Pisaethces the Blood Queen</a>, but worship her as their creator deity (after all, she predates the coming of the Gods to Abeir-Toril). Basically, they're archpriest-aboleths with blood and water-related spells, like Control Water, Create/Destroy Water, and so on, but the water that they control/create through their spellcasting appears as blood-colored mucus. They're essentially the "Hive-Mothers" of the few remaining aboleth dens, having the whole run of the place, commanding younger and less powerful aboleths, and having the most slaves (typically kuo-toa and sahuagin).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">The Dream Watchers and Dream Snatchers. Hundreds of years ago, an Elder Evil from the Far Realm sent out a fragment of its whole self to venture into the now secluded worlds of Tor-eal, curious of the unique nature of the world. Eventually, this Elder Evil found a demiplane drifting through the Deep Ethereal that strangely felt a bit like home, the <a href="https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Demiplane_of_Nightmares#:~:text=The%20Demiplane%20of%20Nightmares%20was,like%20monsters%20out%20of%20nightmares." target="_blank">Demiplane of Nightmares</a>. This alien entity decided that to use a bit of its aberrant powers to transform and expand this demiplane, separating it from being a part of the Deep Ethereal, and causing it to become a whole plane of existence; the Plane of Dreams. In the act of using great power to promoting a mere demiplane into a whole plane of existence, the Entity bound itself to this plane of existence, causing the fragment of it that is dwelling in Tor-eal to be incapable of leaving the Plane of Dreams so long as it exists. In order to balance out this major restriction to its ability to act freely in Tor-eal, the Entity used even more of its power to cause the minds of creatures to venture into the Plane of Dreams as they slept, forming their own "dream hubs" for their dreams to play out as the servants of the Entity watches (now being known only as "That-Which-Watches-Us-In-The-Night"). Its servants are the Dream Watchers (Medium-sized floating eyeballs with psychic-damaging mind-blasts) and Dream Snatchers (Medium-sized floating human hands that drag people back into the dream hubs if they ever somehow escape). That-Which-Watches-Us-In-The-Night dwells in the very center of the Plane of Dreams, appearing as a giant eyeball the size of the Sun with an aberrant-purple and deep-orange iris.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Gem Golems. They come in all variety of gemstones, typically serve Gemstone Dragons, and have minor telekinetic powers.</li> </ol></blockquote>

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