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| ====== Totem Creatures of the Far Realm: The Aberrant Souls ====== | ====== Totem Creatures of the Far Realm: The Aberrant Souls ====== | ||
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| Throughout the world, there are those who find themselves | Throughout the world, there are those who find themselves | ||
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| as they grow, they show signs of corruption, or if they | as they grow, they show signs of corruption, or if they | ||
| might follow the path of the aberrant soul. | might follow the path of the aberrant soul. | ||
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| + | ===== Corruption of the Far Realm ===== | ||
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| + | How does the connection to the aberrant totem | ||
| + | creature manifest itself? When an aberrant soul | ||
| + | uses psionic powers, those nearby | ||
| + | might hear faint incomprehensible whispers in their | ||
| + | minds. When calling upon primal evocations, the | ||
| + | spirits summoned are subtly twisted, with echoes of | ||
| + | creatures from the Far Realm. The aberrant soul’s | ||
| + | form alters, subtly at first and becoming more apparent | ||
| + | over time. Even so, these changes can usually be | ||
| + | explained as the result of some other magic, or concealed | ||
| + | without too much difficulty. | ||
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| + | The mental changes are far more insidious. To | ||
| + | touch the Far Realm is to risk madness, but also to | ||
| + | gain unparalleled insight. Aberrant souls experience | ||
| + | visions from the perspective of their totem creatures | ||
| + | during their dreams and trances. The feeling of | ||
| + | malevolent pleasure as a mind flayer consumes its | ||
| + | victim or as a gibbering mouther rips apart its prey | ||
| + | can lead the weak to madness, but the strong can gain | ||
| + | understanding. Stories tell of a druid who traveled a | ||
| + | hundred miles to cure a child of the touch of a chaos | ||
| + | beast. When asked how she knew the boy had been | ||
| + | attacked, and how to cure him, she said only that she | ||
| + | had seen it in a dream. In the Underdark, spymasters | ||
| + | tell tales of a drow who stopped a major illithid | ||
| + | incursion. When a scout’s brain was devoured by a | ||
| + | mind flayer, the drow used his totemic connection to | ||
| + | siphon off the knowledge gained by the mind flayer, | ||
| + | and thus learn the scout’s findings. | ||
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| + | It is possible to try to control these flashes of | ||
| + | insight, and some aberrant souls who are more experienced | ||
| + | with ritual magic have created a ritual to aid | ||
| + | with this control. | ||
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