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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gez" data-source="post: 3077539" data-attributes="member: 1328">Good thing the campaign is already aberration-centric.[sblock]Synopsys is taken from the game Morrowind. If you played it, you may remember the Sixth House, with people making odd dreams, becoming brainwashed through them, moving to dark dungeons where they are infected by a magical, incurable disease that causes them to suffer anarchic flesh growth, compensated by self-cannibalistic impulses. During that phase they gradually lose their individuality. Once they lose their eyes (which doesn't affect their sight), they become monsters. Their face becomes all fractured, looking like dry earth. Then it breaks and fall apart, leaving a gaping hole where their eyes and nose were, showing a total lack of brains. Then a tentacle grows in the cavity, and they start growing a new personality. The tentacles grows further and subdivides itself into many, resulting in a slightly cthulhuish monster. And finally after that last step they may become so powerful they can claim back their own appearance, though with a third eye.Well, I liked these villains and the background, and we adapted it a bit. Now, they're an offshoot of House Tarkannan, which dubs itself the Fifteenth House, and the dreams affect everyone who has an aberrant mark. Even if the mark is still latent and not manifested yet, so it's potentially a lot of people. In Morrowind, the source of the corruption was an insane mortal who became a living god and used the heart and blood of a dead god to "share" his special version of apotheosis with his "subjects". In our campaign, it's the leaking essence of a Rajah that is extracted from Khyber by servants of the Lords of Dust. People infected get to carry one shard of the Rajah, potentially freeing it while keeping it bound in a "safe" (for the Lords of Dust) way.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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