Lesser vruul - Revision history

GS4-XERAPHINA: updated body type to biped, removed outdated play.net bestiary link

2020-07-29T00:55:46Z

updated body type to biped, removed outdated play.net bestiary link

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	\| family = Vruul<!-- Add creature to family page list, which will be linked on preview/save -->		\| family = Vruul<!-- Add creature to family page list, which will be linked on preview/save -->
	\| type = ~~Hybrid~~ Biped<!-- Creature body type -->		\| type = Biped<!-- Creature body type -->
	\| otherclass = Corporeal undead<!-- Other classification limited to corporeal undead, non-corporeal undead, elemental, extra planar, magical; insert otherclass2= for 2nd classification (up to 3) -->		\| otherclass = Corporeal undead<!-- Other classification limited to corporeal undead, non-corporeal undead, elemental, extra planar, magical; insert otherclass2= for 2nd classification (up to 3) -->
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	When the vruul generate they "lope" into the room, likely an allusion in context to the narrator asking his ghouls ("dog-like lopers") to gather a swarm of night-gaunts to frighten off the [[Muylari#(C) Other Subtexts\|shantaks]] over [[hooded figure#Behind the Scenes\|Leng]], as well as witnessing mountain sized heads "lope" in the distance on their flight to Kadath. The eye windows in the Dark Shrine may refer to this and the face on Ngranek. The night-gaunts had vision all over their bodies. Consequently, "lyxatis" can be interpreted as a [[Iruaric\|glottalization]] of "lyxarulis", meaning "dread seers." The translation of the Dark Shrine inscription in this case becomes: "Marlu, Master of the Vruul." This is remarkable because Marlu's original post-I.C.E. Age gods lore gave him the title "master of the vruul", which was also when the roles of Kadaena and Origiana explicitly merged into Eorgina. The Broken Lands has a motif of omniscience, possibly associating Kadaena with [[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind the Scenes\|Yog-Sothoth]]. Night-gaunts also served Nodens rather than [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind the Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]], the father of Gwyn ap Nudd, the [[Castle Anwyn#Behind The Scenes\|King of Annwn]]. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and its fantastic creatures, including the [[Red Forest\|kidnapping]] behavior of the night-gaunts, is generally regarded as having been based on the [[Ghostly pooka#Behind the Scenes\|fairy fantasy]] literature of [[Spotted leaper#Behind the Scenes\|Lord Dunsany]]. It is possible the Vruul spelling may have been chosen to play off [[Muylari\|Vritra]], the root of the sleeping nightmare wasteland demon of [[Shadow Valley]], and likewise there were vruul invasions in the [[Vvrael]] quest.		When the vruul generate they "lope" into the room, likely an allusion in context to the narrator asking his ghouls ("dog-like lopers") to gather a swarm of night-gaunts to frighten off the [[Muylari#(C) Other Subtexts\|shantaks]] over [[hooded figure#Behind the Scenes\|Leng]], as well as witnessing mountain sized heads "lope" in the distance on their flight to Kadath. The eye windows in the Dark Shrine may refer to this and the face on Ngranek. The night-gaunts had vision all over their bodies. Consequently, "lyxatis" can be interpreted as a [[Iruaric\|glottalization]] of "lyxarulis", meaning "dread seers." The translation of the Dark Shrine inscription in this case becomes: "Marlu, Master of the Vruul." This is remarkable because Marlu's original post-I.C.E. Age gods lore gave him the title "master of the vruul", which was also when the roles of Kadaena and Origiana explicitly merged into Eorgina. The Broken Lands has a motif of omniscience, possibly associating Kadaena with [[Uthex Kathiasas#Behind the Scenes\|Yog-Sothoth]]. Night-gaunts also served Nodens rather than [[Bandur Etrevion#Behind the Scenes\|Nyarlathotep]], the father of Gwyn ap Nudd, the [[Castle Anwyn#Behind The Scenes\|King of Annwn]]. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath and its fantastic creatures, including the [[Red Forest\|kidnapping]] behavior of the night-gaunts, is generally regarded as having been based on the [[Ghostly pooka#Behind the Scenes\|fairy fantasy]] literature of [[Spotted leaper#Behind the Scenes\|Lord Dunsany]]. It is possible the Vruul spelling may have been chosen to play off [[Muylari\|Vritra]], the root of the sleeping nightmare wasteland demon of [[Shadow Valley]], and likewise there were vruul invasions in the [[Vvrael]] quest.

	== References ==
	*[http://www.play.net/gs4/info/bestiary/creature.asp?creature=1435 Lesser vruul on Play.net bestiary]

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GS4-XERAPHINA: fixed category/classification

2020-03-22T00:55:12Z

fixed category/classification

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	\| type = Hybrid Biped<!-- Creature body type -->		\| type = Hybrid Biped<!-- Creature body type -->
	\| otherclass = ~~Undead~~<!-- Other classification limited to corporeal undead, non-corporeal undead, elemental, extra planar, magical; insert otherclass2= for 2nd classification (up to 3) -->		\| otherclass = Corporeal undead<!-- Other classification limited to corporeal undead, non-corporeal undead, elemental, extra planar, magical; insert otherclass2= for 2nd classification (up to 3) -->
	\| otherclass2 = ~~Corporeal undead~~		\| otherclass2 =
	\| area = The Broken Lands<!-- For multiple areas, add area2, area3, area4 (through 8) fields if needed -->		\| area = The Broken Lands<!-- For multiple areas, add area2, area3, area4 (through 8) fields if needed -->
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GS4-XERAPHINA: updated classification to specify corporeal undead

2020-03-20T15:38:20Z

updated classification to specify corporeal undead

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	\| otherclass2 = ~~corporeal~~		\| otherclass2 = Corporeal undead
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ECHEAUX: Corrected area: Broken Lands is The Broken Lands

2019-11-18T15:34:42Z

Corrected area: Broken Lands is The Broken Lands

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	\| otherclass2 = corporeal		\| otherclass2 = corporeal
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TAENAR: Area

2019-06-10T20:41:39Z

Area

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GS4-SOTSONA: Updated template

2019-05-30T18:30:23Z

Updated template

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+| MnMTD =
-  {{Creature ability|[[Lesser Shroud (120)]]}}
+| DSP3 = Lesser Shroud (120)
-  {{Creature ability|[[Spirit Shield (202)]]}}
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INIQUITY: behind the scenes: add line about how vruul are created; link to urglaes talisman from Hunt for History

2017-12-11T23:49:59Z

behind the scenes: add line about how vruul are created; link to urglaes talisman from Hunt for History

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	==Behind the Scenes==		==Behind the Scenes==
	Vruul were originally called [[ICE age\|"gogor"]], a special kind of artificial being. They were invented by the [[Empress Kadaena]], along with many dark races, and several [[Shards\|other]] kinds of malevolent construct. ("Vruul" itself is likely an [[Iruaric]] portmanteau or composite glyphical form of "vuul" and "arul", meaning literally "The Enchanter's Sight", or more loosely "The Eyes of Kadaena.") The I.C.E. age form of [[Marlu]] (Morgu) was known for plundering ancient crypts, looking for gogor, his favored pets left over from the [[First Era]] of [[Shadow World]]. They [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|slumbered]] in urns filled with a foul necrolytic fluid, and appear to be ~~activated~~ involving some brutal ritualistic sacrifice. [[Greater vruul#Behind the Scenes\|Some gogor]] were able to fly off with their victims, but these ones cannot, being older than the mechanics for flying creatures. (This is likely a [[Giant fog beetle#Behind the Scenes\|subtle allusion]] to the sleeping [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|Cthulhu]] having vestigial wings that should have been [[Greater vruul#Behind the Scenes\|incapable]] of flight.) They were not considered undead, but unholy is plausible. His [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|obsession]] with them was never given a canonical explanation in the Shadow World source material. It was said that they survived the aeons in their [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|dormant sleep]] until dark priests of later ages awoke them from their crypts.		Vruul were originally called [[ICE age\|"gogor"]], a special kind of artificial being. They were invented by the [[Empress Kadaena]], along with many dark races, and several [[Shards\|other]] kinds of malevolent construct. ("Vruul" itself is likely an [[Iruaric]] portmanteau or composite glyphical form of "vuul" and "arul", meaning literally "The Enchanter's Sight", or more loosely "The Eyes of Kadaena.") The I.C.E. age form of [[Marlu]] (Morgu) was known for plundering ancient crypts, looking for gogor, his favored pets left over from the [[First Era]] of [[Shadow World]]. They [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|slumbered]] in urns filled with a foul necrolytic fluid, and appear to be created involving some brutal [[Urglaes-set pitted silver talisman\|ritualistic sacrifice]]. [[Greater vruul#Behind the Scenes\|Some gogor]] were able to fly off with their victims, but these ones cannot, being older than the mechanics for flying creatures. (This is likely a [[Giant fog beetle#Behind the Scenes\|subtle allusion]] to the sleeping [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|Cthulhu]] having vestigial wings that should have been [[Greater vruul#Behind the Scenes\|incapable]] of flight.) They were not considered undead, but unholy is plausible. His [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|obsession]] with them was never given a canonical explanation in the Shadow World source material. It was said that they survived the aeons in their [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|dormant sleep]] until dark priests of later ages awoke them from their crypts.

	It is impossible to understand the Dark Shrine, the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]], or the importance of the vruul without the obsolete lore as context. In the Shadow World history, the Dark Gods did not appear until the [[Second Era]]. Without being here in the First Era, there should be no link with Kadaena, or her Lord of Essaence followers from that period. Morgu has no obvious reason to care other than their resemblance. The significance of the "gogor" and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]] is in establishing this relationship between them both during and [[Black Hel\|prior]] to the [[Wars of Dominion]]. [[Andraax]] notably wrote a poem addressing her dark creations that began with: "Once She whispered and life was death. Gogur arose, his wide wings spread. Talons to tear and fangs to feed, the skies were darkened with dread." This can be interpreted for us as "Gogur" referring to Morgu, the archaic form of Marlu, as being made ("spirit born of death") or perhaps even ascended through some dark soul transformation as her servant and master of her gogor. There is possibly an implicit relationship between him and a contemporary [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|"servant of the Shadow"]] called the [[The Temple of Darkness\|Master of Malice]].		It is impossible to understand the Dark Shrine, the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]], or the importance of the vruul without the obsolete lore as context. In the Shadow World history, the Dark Gods did not appear until the [[Second Era]]. Without being here in the First Era, there should be no link with Kadaena, or her Lord of Essaence followers from that period. Morgu has no obvious reason to care other than their resemblance. The significance of the "gogor" and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]] is in establishing this relationship between them both during and [[Black Hel\|prior]] to the [[Wars of Dominion]]. [[Andraax]] notably wrote a poem addressing her dark creations that began with: "Once She whispered and life was death. Gogur arose, his wide wings spread. Talons to tear and fangs to feed, the skies were darkened with dread." This can be interpreted for us as "Gogur" referring to Morgu, the archaic form of Marlu, as being made ("spirit born of death") or perhaps even ascended through some dark soul transformation as her servant and master of her gogor. There is possibly an implicit relationship between him and a contemporary [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|"servant of the Shadow"]] called the [[The Temple of Darkness\|Master of Malice]]. Similarly, the vruul were most likely supposed to be created as pieced together abominations or "simulacra" formed in the urns using blood magic, becoming unholy monsters through transmogrification.

	The [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|invoking element]] to the Dark Shrine was: "Morgu lyxatis kort. Thro dyar K'mur." The loose translation of [[The Temple of Darkness Poem]] from what was presumably also [[Iruaric]] was "Morgu, Cruel Master. Guard the Dark Queen." (The existence of this poem in the ruins of [[The Temple of Darkness\|another temple]] of the Dark Lords implies its authenticity.) More literally, "lyxatis" means something like "one who is the act of causing dread", or "dread incarnate." "Kort" means "master", but Morgu is the servant in this context, more like "the master's dread" or "the dread who masters [my servants]." Cruelty would better be rendered as Malice. With glottalized sounds of "lyxarulis" this would also translate as "master of the dread seers." "dyar K'mur" is a subtle play on words. While it means "dark female Lord", meaning [[Lords of Essaence]], the so-called "Queen of Evil" who was said to have created the gogor was actually the Empress Kadaena. K'daen or [[Kaeden]] itself means "queen", which were another of her foul constructs, with Kadaena as "high queen" or "Empress." Thus, the translation is more accurately a command, which can be pointedly rendered as: "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx Dread Morgu], [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Guard Kadaena]."		The [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|invoking element]] to the Dark Shrine was: "Morgu lyxatis kort. Thro dyar K'mur." The loose translation of [[The Temple of Darkness Poem]] from what was presumably also [[Iruaric]] was "Morgu, Cruel Master. Guard the Dark Queen." (The existence of this poem in the ruins of [[The Temple of Darkness\|another temple]] of the Dark Lords implies its authenticity.) More literally, "lyxatis" means something like "one who is the act of causing dread", or "dread incarnate." "Kort" means "master", but Morgu is the servant in this context, more like "the master's dread" or "the dread who masters [my servants]." Cruelty would better be rendered as Malice. With glottalized sounds of "lyxarulis" this would also translate as "master of the dread seers" meaning vruul. "dyar K'mur" is a subtle play on words. While it means "dark female Lord", meaning [[Lords of Essaence]], the so-called "Queen of Evil" who was said to have created the gogor was actually the Empress Kadaena. K'daen or [[Kaeden]] itself means "queen", which were another of her foul constructs, with Kadaena as "high queen" or "Empress." Thus, the translation is more accurately a command, which can be pointedly rendered as: "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx Dread Morgu], [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Guard Kadaena]."

	This implies a relationship between the Lords of Essaence and the Dark Gods [[Black Hel\|dating back]] to the First Era. Iruaric was the language of the Lords of Essaence, and would otherwise be out of place when speaking about the Dark Gods. However, there is another play on words, given the literal meaning of "dyar K'mur." The Charon ([[Lornon]]) deities were known as the "Dark Lords", and "Lady of Darkness" was the specific epithet of Orgiana ([[Eorgina]]). Orgiana was not the queen of their pantheon in the archaic theology ("dark queen" alludes to Kadaena), and resided at the time in the [[Black Hel]] with a theocracy run by the daughter of Kadaena. The "Temple of Darkness" might actually be her "Temple of Burning Night", which would explain the poem being written in Iruaric. [[The Dark Path]] called Kadaena the "Guardian of the Forbidden", which was contemporary with her daughter, with the crypt's design being based on the temple of her theocracy. "Thro dyar K'mur" in this context means roughly the same thing as [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|the chant]] "Throk Farok". With Morgu as a "spirit born of death", essentially an artificial demon, it is the same meaning of transmogrification as eternal existence in the [[Pales\|Void]].		This implies a relationship between the Lords of Essaence and the Dark Gods [[Black Hel\|dating back]] to the First Era. Iruaric was the language of the Lords of Essaence, and would otherwise be out of place when speaking about the Dark Gods. However, there is another play on words, given the literal meaning of "dyar K'mur." The Charon ([[Lornon]]) deities were known as the "Dark Lords", and "Lady of Darkness" was the specific epithet of Orgiana ([[Eorgina]]). Orgiana was not the queen of their pantheon in the archaic theology ("dark queen" alludes to Kadaena), and resided at the time in the [[Black Hel]] with a theocracy run by the daughter of Kadaena. The "Temple of Darkness" might actually be her "Temple of Burning Night", which would explain the poem being written in Iruaric. [[The Dark Path]] called Kadaena the "Guardian of the Forbidden", which was contemporary with her daughter, with the crypt's design being based on the temple of her theocracy. "Thro dyar K'mur" in this context means roughly the same thing as [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|the chant]] "Throk Farok". With Morgu as a "spirit born of death", essentially an artificial demon, it is the same meaning of transmogrification as eternal existence in the [[Pales\|Void]].

INIQUITY: add messaging, tweak details. they can be ewaved as long as they are not targeted

2017-11-28T14:03:09Z

add messaging, tweak details. they can be ewaved as long as they are not targeted

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INIQUITY: tweak details mentioning greater vruul

2017-11-19T03:16:20Z

tweak details mentioning greater vruul

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	Vruul will stand up and leave the room in a single action. They will not open doors if you wish to cage them. Those that generate in the Dark Shrine carry a short sword and wooden shield, but will wear it, drop the sword, picking up the battle axe and attacking all in the same action. With the shield out their CvA is +20, and with the battle axe it is +25. The vruul absorb the energy from Minor Elemental spells and part of [[Balefire (713)]]. Vruul are immune to heat, vorteces are immune to cold. Vorteces are immune to most sorcery, but they both take damage from unfocused [[Energy Maelstrom (710)]].		Vruul will stand up and leave the room in a single action. They will not open doors if you wish to cage them. Those that generate in the Dark Shrine carry a short sword and wooden shield, but will wear it, drop the sword, picking up the battle axe and attacking all in the same action. With the shield out their CvA is +20, and with the battle axe it is +25. The vruul absorb the energy from Minor Elemental spells and part of [[Balefire (713)]]. Vruul are immune to heat, vorteces are immune to cold. Vorteces are immune to most sorcery, but they both take damage from unfocused [[Energy Maelstrom (710)]].
	==Other information==		==Other information==
	The lesser vruul are relatively poor compared to the [[Sheruvian monk\|Sheruvian monks]], who have no magical protection spells. Both the vruul and the vorteces will damage you if you try to touch them. Teleportation is somewhat inhibited near the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]], [[Spirit Guide (130)]] will randomly fail sometimes. It will return you to the [[hooded figure\|hooded figures]] or Sheruvian monastery, which can easily make you prone while locked in hard RT. [[Greater vruul]] swarm behind the two ~~trapped~~ doors in the monastery.		The lesser vruul are relatively poor compared to the [[Sheruvian monk\|Sheruvian monks]], who have no magical protection spells. Both the vruul and the vorteces will damage you if you try to touch them. Teleportation is somewhat inhibited near the [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]], [[Spirit Guide (130)]] will randomly fail sometimes. It will return you to the [[hooded figure\|hooded figures]] or Sheruvian monastery, which can easily make you prone while locked in hard RT. [[Greater vruul]] swarm behind the two locked doors in the monastery, the right one having a rotating trap, and used to spawn sometimes in the Dark Shrine but are weak for their level.

	They only sniff the air, growl, and glare when you are dead. Lesser and greater vruul are indistinguishable other than level. There is no node for resting in the Broken Lands, but they usually do not wander into the secret room behind the tapestry.		They only sniff the air, growl, and glare when you are dead. Lesser and greater vruul are indistinguishable other than level. There is no node for resting in the Broken Lands other than the Summoning Chamber, but they usually do not wander into the secret room behind the tapestry.

	==Behind the Scenes==		==Behind the Scenes==
	Vruul were originally called [[ICE age\|"gogor"]], a special kind of artificial being. They were invented by the [[Empress Kadaena]], along with many dark races, and several [[Shards\|other]] kinds of malevolent construct. ("Vruul" itself is likely an [[Iruaric]] portmanteau or composite glyphical form of "vuul" and "arul", meaning literally "The Enchanter's Sight", or more loosely "The Eyes of Kadaena.") The I.C.E. age form of [[Marlu]] (Morgu) was known for plundering ancient crypts, looking for gogor, his favored pets left over from the [[First Era]] of [[Shadow World]]. They [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|slumbered]] in urns filled with a foul necrolytic fluid, and appear to be activated involving some brutal ritualistic sacrifice. [[Greater vruul#Behind the Scenes\|Some gogor]] were able to fly off with their victims, but these ones cannot, being older than the mechanics for flying creatures. (This is likely a [[Giant fog beetle#Behind the Scenes\|subtle allusion]] to the sleeping [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|Cthulhu]] having vestigial wings that should have been [[Greater vruul#Behind the Scenes\|incapable]] of flight.) They were not considered undead, but unholy is plausible. His [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|obsession]] with them was never given a canonical explanation in the Shadow World source material. It was said that they survived the aeons in their [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|dormant sleep]] until dark priests of later ages awoke them from their crypts.		Vruul were originally called [[ICE age\|"gogor"]], a special kind of artificial being. They were invented by the [[Empress Kadaena]], along with many dark races, and several [[Shards\|other]] kinds of malevolent construct. ("Vruul" itself is likely an [[Iruaric]] portmanteau or composite glyphical form of "vuul" and "arul", meaning literally "The Enchanter's Sight", or more loosely "The Eyes of Kadaena.") The I.C.E. age form of [[Marlu]] (Morgu) was known for plundering ancient crypts, looking for gogor, his favored pets left over from the [[First Era]] of [[Shadow World]]. They [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|slumbered]] in urns filled with a foul necrolytic fluid, and appear to be activated involving some brutal ritualistic sacrifice. [[Greater vruul#Behind the Scenes\|Some gogor]] were able to fly off with their victims, but these ones cannot, being older than the mechanics for flying creatures. (This is likely a [[Giant fog beetle#Behind the Scenes\|subtle allusion]] to the sleeping [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|Cthulhu]] having vestigial wings that should have been [[Greater vruul#Behind the Scenes\|incapable]] of flight.) They were not considered undead, but unholy is plausible. His [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|obsession]] with them was never given a canonical explanation in the Shadow World source material. It was said that they survived the aeons in their [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|dormant sleep]] until dark priests of later ages awoke them from their crypts.

	It is impossible to understand the Dark Shrine, the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]], or the importance of the vruul without the obsolete lore as context. In the Shadow World history, the Dark Gods did not appear until the [[Second Era]]. Without being here in the First Era, there should be no link with Kadaena, or her Lord of Essaence followers from that period. Morgu has no obvious reason to care other than their resemblance. The significance of the "gogor" and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]] is in establishing this relationship between them both during and [[Black Hel\|prior]] to the [[Wars of Dominion]]. [[Andraax]] notably wrote a poem addressing her dark creations that began with: "Once She whispered and life was death. Gogur arose, his wide wings spread. Talons to tear and fangs to feed, the skies were darkened with dread." This can be interpreted for us as "Gogur" referring to Morgu, the archaic form of Marlu, as being made ("spirit born of death") as her servant and master of her gogor. There is possibly an implicit relationship between him and a contemporary [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|"servant of the Shadow"]] called the [[The Temple of Darkness\|Master of Malice]].		It is impossible to understand the Dark Shrine, the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]], or the importance of the vruul without the obsolete lore as context. In the Shadow World history, the Dark Gods did not appear until the [[Second Era]]. Without being here in the First Era, there should be no link with Kadaena, or her Lord of Essaence followers from that period. Morgu has no obvious reason to care other than their resemblance. The significance of the "gogor" and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]] is in establishing this relationship between them both during and [[Black Hel\|prior]] to the [[Wars of Dominion]]. [[Andraax]] notably wrote a poem addressing her dark creations that began with: "Once She whispered and life was death. Gogur arose, his wide wings spread. Talons to tear and fangs to feed, the skies were darkened with dread." This can be interpreted for us as "Gogur" referring to Morgu, the archaic form of Marlu, as being made ("spirit born of death") or perhaps even ascended through some dark soul transformation as her servant and master of her gogor. There is possibly an implicit relationship between him and a contemporary [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|"servant of the Shadow"]] called the [[The Temple of Darkness\|Master of Malice]].

	The [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|invoking element]] to the Dark Shrine was: "Morgu lyxatis kort. Thro dyar K'mur." The loose translation of [[The Temple of Darkness Poem]] from what was presumably also [[Iruaric]] was "Morgu, Cruel Master. Guard the Dark Queen." (The existence of this poem in the ruins of [[The Temple of Darkness\|another temple]] of the Dark Lords implies its authenticity.) More literally, "lyxatis" means something like "one who is the act of causing dread", or "dread incarnate." "Kort" means "master", but Morgu is the servant in this context, more like "the master's dread" or "the dread who masters [my servants]." Cruelty would better be rendered as Malice. With glottalized sounds of "lyxarulis" this would also translate as "master of the dread seers." "dyar K'mur" is a subtle play on words. While it means "dark female Lord", meaning [[Lords of Essaence]], the so-called "Queen of Evil" who was said to have created the gogor was actually the Empress Kadaena. K'daen or [[Kaeden]] itself means "queen", which were another of her foul constructs, with Kadaena as "high queen" or "Empress." Thus, the translation is more accurately a command, which can be pointedly rendered as: "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx Dread Morgu], [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Guard Kadaena]."		The [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|invoking element]] to the Dark Shrine was: "Morgu lyxatis kort. Thro dyar K'mur." The loose translation of [[The Temple of Darkness Poem]] from what was presumably also [[Iruaric]] was "Morgu, Cruel Master. Guard the Dark Queen." (The existence of this poem in the ruins of [[The Temple of Darkness\|another temple]] of the Dark Lords implies its authenticity.) More literally, "lyxatis" means something like "one who is the act of causing dread", or "dread incarnate." "Kort" means "master", but Morgu is the servant in this context, more like "the master's dread" or "the dread who masters [my servants]." Cruelty would better be rendered as Malice. With glottalized sounds of "lyxarulis" this would also translate as "master of the dread seers." "dyar K'mur" is a subtle play on words. While it means "dark female Lord", meaning [[Lords of Essaence]], the so-called "Queen of Evil" who was said to have created the gogor was actually the Empress Kadaena. K'daen or [[Kaeden]] itself means "queen", which were another of her foul constructs, with Kadaena as "high queen" or "Empress." Thus, the translation is more accurately a command, which can be pointedly rendered as: "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx Dread Morgu], [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Guard Kadaena]."

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	==Behind the Scenes==		==Behind the Scenes==
	Vruul were originally called [[ICE age\|"gogor"]], a special kind of artificial being. They were invented by the [[Empress Kadaena]], along with many dark races, and several [[Shards\|other]] kinds of malevolent construct. ("Vruul" itself is likely an [[Iruaric]] portmanteau or composite glyphical form of "vuul" and "arul", meaning literally "The Enchanter's Sight", or more loosely "The Eyes of Kadaena.") The I.C.E. age form of [[Marlu]] (Morgu) was known for plundering ancient crypts, looking for gogor, his favored pets left over from the [[First Era]] of [[Shadow World]]. They [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|slumbered]] in urns filled with a foul necrolytic fluid, and appear to be ~~activated~~ involving some brutal ritualistic sacrifice. [[Greater vruul#Behind the Scenes\|Some gogor]] were able to fly off with their victims, but these ones cannot, being older than the mechanics for flying creatures. (This is likely a [[Giant fog beetle#Behind the Scenes\|subtle allusion]] to the sleeping [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|Cthulhu]] having vestigial wings that should have been [[Greater vruul#Behind the Scenes\|incapable]] of flight.) They were not considered undead, but unholy is plausible. His [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|obsession]] with them was never given a canonical explanation in the Shadow World source material. It was said that they survived the aeons in their [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|dormant sleep]] until dark priests of later ages awoke them from their crypts.		Vruul were originally called [[ICE age\|"gogor"]], a special kind of artificial being. They were invented by the [[Empress Kadaena]], along with many dark races, and several [[Shards\|other]] kinds of malevolent construct. ("Vruul" itself is likely an [[Iruaric]] portmanteau or composite glyphical form of "vuul" and "arul", meaning literally "The Enchanter's Sight", or more loosely "The Eyes of Kadaena.") The I.C.E. age form of [[Marlu]] (Morgu) was known for plundering ancient crypts, looking for gogor, his favored pets left over from the [[First Era]] of [[Shadow World]]. They [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|slumbered]] in urns filled with a foul necrolytic fluid, and appear to be created involving some brutal [[Urglaes-set pitted silver talisman\|ritualistic sacrifice]]. [[Greater vruul#Behind the Scenes\|Some gogor]] were able to fly off with their victims, but these ones cannot, being older than the mechanics for flying creatures. (This is likely a [[Giant fog beetle#Behind the Scenes\|subtle allusion]] to the sleeping [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|Cthulhu]] having vestigial wings that should have been [[Greater vruul#Behind the Scenes\|incapable]] of flight.) They were not considered undead, but unholy is plausible. His [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|obsession]] with them was never given a canonical explanation in the Shadow World source material. It was said that they survived the aeons in their [[Muylari#Behind the Scenes\|dormant sleep]] until dark priests of later ages awoke them from their crypts.

	It is impossible to understand the Dark Shrine, the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]], or the importance of the vruul without the obsolete lore as context. In the Shadow World history, the Dark Gods did not appear until the [[Second Era]]. Without being here in the First Era, there should be no link with Kadaena, or her Lord of Essaence followers from that period. Morgu has no obvious reason to care other than their resemblance. The significance of the "gogor" and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]] is in establishing this relationship between them both during and [[Black Hel\|prior]] to the [[Wars of Dominion]]. [[Andraax]] notably wrote a poem addressing her dark creations that began with: "Once She whispered and life was death. Gogur arose, his wide wings spread. Talons to tear and fangs to feed, the skies were darkened with dread." This can be interpreted for us as "Gogur" referring to Morgu, the archaic form of Marlu, as being made ("spirit born of death") or perhaps even ascended through some dark soul transformation as her servant and master of her gogor. There is possibly an implicit relationship between him and a contemporary [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|"servant of the Shadow"]] called the [[The Temple of Darkness\|Master of Malice]].		It is impossible to understand the Dark Shrine, the work of [[Uthex Kathiasas]], or the importance of the vruul without the obsolete lore as context. In the Shadow World history, the Dark Gods did not appear until the [[Second Era]]. Without being here in the First Era, there should be no link with Kadaena, or her Lord of Essaence followers from that period. Morgu has no obvious reason to care other than their resemblance. The significance of the "gogor" and [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|Dark Shrine]] is in establishing this relationship between them both during and [[Black Hel\|prior]] to the [[Wars of Dominion]]. [[Andraax]] notably wrote a poem addressing her dark creations that began with: "Once She whispered and life was death. Gogur arose, his wide wings spread. Talons to tear and fangs to feed, the skies were darkened with dread." This can be interpreted for us as "Gogur" referring to Morgu, the archaic form of Marlu, as being made ("spirit born of death") or perhaps even ascended through some dark soul transformation as her servant and master of her gogor. There is possibly an implicit relationship between him and a contemporary [[The Dark Path#Behind the Scenes\|"servant of the Shadow"]] called the [[The Temple of Darkness\|Master of Malice]]. Similarly, the vruul were most likely supposed to be created as pieced together abominations or "simulacra" formed in the urns using blood magic, becoming unholy monsters through transmogrification.

	The [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|invoking element]] to the Dark Shrine was: "Morgu lyxatis kort. Thro dyar K'mur." The loose translation of [[The Temple of Darkness Poem]] from what was presumably also [[Iruaric]] was "Morgu, Cruel Master. Guard the Dark Queen." (The existence of this poem in the ruins of [[The Temple of Darkness\|another temple]] of the Dark Lords implies its authenticity.) More literally, "lyxatis" means something like "one who is the act of causing dread", or "dread incarnate." "Kort" means "master", but Morgu is the servant in this context, more like "the master's dread" or "the dread who masters [my servants]." Cruelty would better be rendered as Malice. With glottalized sounds of "lyxarulis" this would also translate as "master of the dread seers." "dyar K'mur" is a subtle play on words. While it means "dark female Lord", meaning [[Lords of Essaence]], the so-called "Queen of Evil" who was said to have created the gogor was actually the Empress Kadaena. K'daen or [[Kaeden]] itself means "queen", which were another of her foul constructs, with Kadaena as "high queen" or "Empress." Thus, the translation is more accurately a command, which can be pointedly rendered as: "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx Dread Morgu], [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Guard Kadaena]."		The [[Marlu#The Broken Lands\|invoking element]] to the Dark Shrine was: "Morgu lyxatis kort. Thro dyar K'mur." The loose translation of [[The Temple of Darkness Poem]] from what was presumably also [[Iruaric]] was "Morgu, Cruel Master. Guard the Dark Queen." (The existence of this poem in the ruins of [[The Temple of Darkness\|another temple]] of the Dark Lords implies its authenticity.) More literally, "lyxatis" means something like "one who is the act of causing dread", or "dread incarnate." "Kort" means "master", but Morgu is the servant in this context, more like "the master's dread" or "the dread who masters [my servants]." Cruelty would better be rendered as Malice. With glottalized sounds of "lyxarulis" this would also translate as "master of the dread seers" meaning vruul. "dyar K'mur" is a subtle play on words. While it means "dark female Lord", meaning [[Lords of Essaence]], the so-called "Queen of Evil" who was said to have created the gogor was actually the Empress Kadaena. K'daen or [[Kaeden]] itself means "queen", which were another of her foul constructs, with Kadaena as "high queen" or "Empress." Thus, the translation is more accurately a command, which can be pointedly rendered as: "[http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/cc.aspx Dread Morgu], [http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/og.aspx Guard Kadaena]."

	This implies a relationship between the Lords of Essaence and the Dark Gods [[Black Hel\|dating back]] to the First Era. Iruaric was the language of the Lords of Essaence, and would otherwise be out of place when speaking about the Dark Gods. However, there is another play on words, given the literal meaning of "dyar K'mur." The Charon ([[Lornon]]) deities were known as the "Dark Lords", and "Lady of Darkness" was the specific epithet of Orgiana ([[Eorgina]]). Orgiana was not the queen of their pantheon in the archaic theology ("dark queen" alludes to Kadaena), and resided at the time in the [[Black Hel]] with a theocracy run by the daughter of Kadaena. The "Temple of Darkness" might actually be her "Temple of Burning Night", which would explain the poem being written in Iruaric. [[The Dark Path]] called Kadaena the "Guardian of the Forbidden", which was contemporary with her daughter, with the crypt's design being based on the temple of her theocracy. "Thro dyar K'mur" in this context means roughly the same thing as [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|the chant]] "Throk Farok". With Morgu as a "spirit born of death", essentially an artificial demon, it is the same meaning of transmogrification as eternal existence in the [[Pales\|Void]].		This implies a relationship between the Lords of Essaence and the Dark Gods [[Black Hel\|dating back]] to the First Era. Iruaric was the language of the Lords of Essaence, and would otherwise be out of place when speaking about the Dark Gods. However, there is another play on words, given the literal meaning of "dyar K'mur." The Charon ([[Lornon]]) deities were known as the "Dark Lords", and "Lady of Darkness" was the specific epithet of Orgiana ([[Eorgina]]). Orgiana was not the queen of their pantheon in the archaic theology ("dark queen" alludes to Kadaena), and resided at the time in the [[Black Hel]] with a theocracy run by the daughter of Kadaena. The "Temple of Darkness" might actually be her "Temple of Burning Night", which would explain the poem being written in Iruaric. [[The Dark Path]] called Kadaena the "Guardian of the Forbidden", which was contemporary with her daughter, with the crypt's design being based on the temple of her theocracy. "Thro dyar K'mur" in this context means roughly the same thing as [[Spectral miner#Behind the Scenes\|the chant]] "Throk Farok". With Morgu as a "spirit born of death", essentially an artificial demon, it is the same meaning of transmogrification as eternal existence in the [[Pales\|Void]].