Aberration

How it fights

A caster is dangerous at a distance and considerably less so once you have closed. It spends the opening of a fight making the ground between you expensive to cross, and if it is allowed to keep that distance it will simply keep spending. Reaching it is the whole fight. What happens after you arrive is usually brief.

Field notes

The aberrations belong to no ground and are found where the ground is wrong: where the walls run at angles that do not meet, where the water stands uphill. They drift rather than walk and watch with more eyes than they need. They are not hungry as other things are hungry. A place gone quiet with the animals fled and the moss grown pale is a place one has taken, and the taking is not finished.

Where it is met

Met in the Massing, the Ash Swarm, Patient Maze, Gullet of Sereth Isles, the Drowned Sanctum, Blind Undercroft, Meltway of White Interior and Wind-Scoured Strand, by travellers of levels 5 to 40.

What it leaves

Worth hunting for the ward and fire resistance it leaves behind, when it leaves anything.

The roll

Under this kind stand ten of the least sort, ten of the common sort, eight tough, 52 elite and one worldlord, and 19 named: Ashdan, the Second of the restless dead, Ashdis, the Fang of cult, Ashgath, the Herald of the restless dead, Ashrek, the Right Hand of scavenger crews, Ashrow, the Keeper of the Way of a hidden cult, Ashvan, the Voice of the restless dead, Kerrek, the Quartermaster of a hidden cult, Kerwen, the Quartermaster of the restless dead, Maelrow, the Right Hand of monster, Narrek, the Old One of monster, Raudis, the Keeper of the Way of a hidden cult, Raugrin, the Fang of scavenger crews, Torkell, the Right Hand of scavenger crews, Ulfmaw, the Voice of the restless dead, Veldan, the Old One of the restless dead, Velkell, the Second of undead, Velmaw, the Voice of the restless dead, Velth, the Second of the restless dead and Vordis, the Right Hand of a hidden cult.