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The Wreck of a Transport Ship by William Turner

Victory’s Bestiary: Living Cloudkill Hurricane

For days, schools of dead deep-sea fish washed ashore on tall waves violent with green foam. An olive-colored cloud then stretched across the entire horizon, blotting out the rising sun and casting bolts of jagged lightning down into the tempestuous sea. All ships were moored, and the people of the coastal cities were warned to […]

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Koninklijke Bibliotheek, KB, KA 16, Folio 136r

Victory’s Bestiary: Two-Headed Rustmaw Displacer Purple Worm

Countless strange and terrifying creatures lurk in the subterranean world that sprawls beneath the mortal empires. Through lightless tunnels, caves, and dungeons they burrow, most driven only by a primal desire to hunt, to mate, and to nest. Many of these creatures, however, are warped by the feral magic of the underworld, their already monstrous

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1870s paintings by Arnold Böcklin, 1878

Victory’s Bestiary: Half-Tarrasque Hydraic Medusa Serpent Queen

For centuries, rangers from the Queen’s Wood have traded rumors of a blighted fortress built from hundreds of thousands of petrified sacrifices. It is here that the half-tarrasque hydraic medusa serpent queen is said to dwell, reigning over a court of snake cultists drenched in the blood of displacer beast young. Believed to be an

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Victor Hugo "Hic clavis, alias porta" (The key is here, the gate elsewhere) 1871

Victory’s Bestiary: Lich-Touched Siege Kraken Monumentbringer

In the center of a great saltwater sea floats an island necropolis: a city of twisting catacombs, looming mausoleums, and sprawling graveyards rivaling in size the capitol city of the empire itself. It is from this nether citadel that the arch-lich lays his schemes, forever plotting to overrun the shores of civilization with his hordes of

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Victory’s Bestiary: Hand of Drought and Famine

From her obex beneath the rotting corpse of the First Titan, a goddess known as Mother Pestilence rules over an endless dust bowl that once was an azure sea teeming with fish the size of carriages. For centuries, the civilizations along the edge of her wasteland have offered Mother Pestilence tribute–the surplus of their harvest–as

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