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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 4800922" data-attributes="member: 19675"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />In context, its not a bad name at all.However, because I'm a bit of a cut-up and a jester, my first thought was...sorry to say...<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Ghost" target="_blank">Space Ghost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>Mostly in the context of the fictional talk-show he hosted...  You know your players better than I- if you have anybody in the group who is a pop-culture clown, you might want to avoid that name.But I'd also like the a really fine name for how others would perceive it, who might know nothing of its background but would only know how weird and frightening it seemed to them.Right off the bat, my first instinct would be to go with a Scarab of some kind.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarab_artifact" target="_blank">Scarab artifact - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a><a href="http://www.egyptianmyths.net/scarab.htm" target="_blank">Ancient Egypt: the Mythology - Scarab Beetle</a>Does it control the swarm (in which case, the swarm's possession of it lets it act freely)?  Does it empower the creature?Instead of it being a mere killing machine, perhaps it is like the Sin-Eater as depicted in X-Files- a sentient "Death" Tarot card that transforms those it eats.  It consumes you- yes, a painful and horrible experience- but it then excretes you as a living and transformed being.After discovering this- most likely as those thought irrevocably dead start returning to their respective villages- the horror dies down and the creature becomes revered by some as the living incarnation of the will of a god whose portfolio includes the cycle of life and rebirth.  Druids, perhaps?Of course, given its link to the infernal, that might not be the whole truth...perhaps not everyone comes back.  Perhaps some of those who return are demon-possessed.Thanks!</blockquote>

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