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A creature of sublime beauty, the nonomino floats just above the ground in a pulsing sphere of unearthly light. Careful scrutiny of the creature will show cracks distending across his visage and mantle peeling away to reveal disease and decay. The incarnation constantly molts his epidermis, regenerating it moments later in a hideous parody of the struggle between life and death. Surprisingly, this horror's movements are very fluid and the adept dance of his hands as he summons his theurgical arsenal is hypnotic.
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Behind The Scenes
Nonominos are a class of mathematical objects with "nine cells", often serpentine in shape, used in puzzles reminiscent of Sudoku or Tetris. This strange name for a creature might be an oblique allusion to medieval Welsh folklore where Bran the Blessed wages war with the Irish King Math, involving a magical cauldron that brings the dead to life, which is kept bubbling with the breath of nine pythonesses. The mortally wounded Bran tells the survivors to sever his head, which continues to speak in Annwn, the Celtic Otherworld where time does not pass and food and drink are plenty. Castle Anwyn has a throne room of bones with a head on a pike and possesses magical foods which heal and unpoison player characters.
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