Lesser vruul

Lesser vruul Picture Level 45 Family vruul family creatures Body Type Hybrid Biped Undead Yes (corporeal) Areas Found The Broken Lands BCS <Not Known> HP <Not Known> Armor [?]

Attack Attributes Physical Attacks battle axe +263 AS Bolt Attacks Use the Creature ability template here {{{bolt}}}. Warding Attacks Calm (201) +205 CS Silence (210) +205 CS Bind (214) +205 CS Frenzy (216) +205 CS Maneuver Attacks Use the Creature ability template here {{{maneuver}}}. Offensive Spells & Abilities Use the Creature ability template here {{{ability}}}.

Defense Attributes Melee <N/A> DS Ranged <N/A> DS Bolt <N/A> DS Bard Base <N/A> TD Ranger Base <N/A> TD Sorcerer Base <N/A> TD Wizard Base <N/A> TD Cleric Base +190 TD Empath Base <N/A> TD Paladin Base <N/A> TD Major Elemental <N/A> TD Minor Elemental <N/A> TD Major Spiritual <N/A> TD Minor Spiritual <N/A> TD Major Mental <N/A> TD Minor Mental <N/A> TD Defensive Spells & Abilities Spirit Warding I (101) Spirit Shield (202) Spirit Defense (103) Bravery (211) Heroism (215) Spell Shield (219) Lesser Shroud (120)

Treasure Attributes Coins Yes Gems Yes Magic Items Yes Boxes Yes Skin a vruul skin Other ?

The lesser vruul has tough, leathery hide, as black as midnight. Bat-like wings sprout from its back, but they do not look large or strong enough to support its weight in flight. The vruul's claws are long, sharp and appear to be stained with the blood of many victims. Its eyes are eerie, solid green orbs that seem to glow with an inner power.

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Behind The Scenes

Vruul were originally called "gogor", a special kind of artificial being. They were invented by the Empress Kadaena, along with several other kinds of malevolent construct. The I.C.E. age form of Marlu was known for plundering ancient crypts, looking for gogor, his favored pets left over from the First Era of Shadow World. They slumbered in urns filled with a foul necrolytic fluid. His interest in them was never given a canonical explanation in the Shadow World source material. These appear to be activated involving some brutal ritualistic sacrifice. Gogor were supposed to be able to fly, but these ones cannot, presumably being older than the mechanics for flying creatures. They were not considered undead, but unholy is plausible.

The invoking element to the Dark Shrine was: "Marlu lyxatis kort. Thro dyar K'mur." The loose translation of The Temple of Darkness Poem from Iruaric was "Marlu, Cruel Master. Guard the Dark Queen." More literally, "lyxatis" means something like "one who is the act of causing dread", or "dread incarnate." "Kort" means "master", but Marlu is the servant in this context, more like "the master's dread." "dyar K'mur" is a subtle play on words. While it means "dark female Lord", which is to say Lords of Essaence, the "Queen of Evil" who created the gogor was Kadaena. K'daen or Kaeden itself means "queen", or Kadaena as "high queen" or "Empress." Thus, the translation is more precisely a command: "Dread Marlu, Guard Kadaena."

This implies a relationship between the Lords of Essaence and the Dark Gods 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 Lornon deities were known as the "Dark Lords", and "Lady of Darkness" was the epithet of Eorgina. Eorgina was not the queen of their pantheon in the archaic theology, and resided at the time in the Black Hel with a theocracy run by the daughter of Kadaena. The Dark Path called Kadaena the "Guardian of the Forbidden." "Thro dyar K'mur" in this context means roughly the same thing as "Throk Farok."

Marlu was originally a "Dark Spirit", similar to Voln, which were extensions of will of the Dark Lords. The Dark Gods were speculated by some Loremasters, like Uthex Kathiasas, of having originated in Lord of Essaence experiments with creating non-corporeal life. Similarly, surviving followers of Kadaena were said to have created Great Demons, who were also demi-gods. The phonetic representation of Iruaric here indicates it was the "modern" form of the language, even though it is insinuating a relationship from a hundred thousand years earlier. These followers of Kadaena were known to have worked with the Dark Gods during the Wars of Dominion. Uthex was killed in the same year that one of them conquered this whole region.

References

• Lesser vruul on Play.net bestiary

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