The Indigo Worm

“Oh no, Run away

The Indigo worm, comes this day

Hungry and fat, dark and cold

To swallow your dreams so they’ll ne’re be told.

It’s teeth in your brains

It’s Tongue in your bones

Suck your soul dry

When you’re all alone.”

Nursery Rhyme Sung along the Takara Coast

The Indigo Worm is one of the last remaining of the Larval Colossi; predating recorded history by several epochs. It is also one of the founders of the Psi’ic heresy, specifically the Syntrofi Configuration (also known as cryptomnemonics) dealing with accessing the ancient memories of race and realm. It lairs somewhere beyond the Pale Border within the desolate Farcold. How it manages to survive there and remain uninfected is unclear but what is known is that it uses its psionic abilities to project itself through the frigid Underwild passages beneath Reaverlund to feed just off the Takara coast in the northern Ghenlands. It was believed at one point that it served as one of the guardians of Emperor Takara’s sunken armada but recent insights into the creatures motivations reveals a distinct lack of interest in all matters of material wealth rendering such assumptions inherently flawed.

What is known is that it surfaces infrequently and feeds upon the emotional refuse of the coastline, extending its psionic probes deep into the surrounding territories seeking out the psychologically damaged, the deranged and the psychically turbulent and feeding off their subconscious draining them of their mental and emotional potency (specifically their memories) and leaving them void of feeling or recognizance. Given that it seems to be drawn to the most extreme examples of suffering it can find, one cannot help but wonder if this is something of a warped mercy or merely a gluttonous beast sating itself on the misery of others: for all its power, still merely a parasite.