Category:Nightcrawler (Nightshade)

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Hailing from the Plane of Shadow, nightcrawlers are massive, 100 ft. long undead that resemble purple worms but composed entirely of darkness. Like other nightshades, they are utterly malevolent and radiate an negative energy aura that duplicates a desecrate spell. Like purple worms, nightcrawlers attack via bite and tail. Using the former they can swallow opponents whole and energy drain such swallowed foes. Their tail delivers a nasty poison that inflicts Strength damage. Nightcrawlers also can summon undead (shadows, greater shadows, or dread wraiths) and also have a massive array of spell-like abilities.^[1]

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We fled into a narrow valley of red sand and towering cliffs, running the risk of ambush to escape the teeth of the storm. A lone edifice stood among the ruins. By every evidence it was a temple long abandoned. None of us hesitated upon its threshold. But the nerve of the surviving crewmen quickly frayed. Our torches seemed feeble indeed, overawed by the vastness of the place, barely able to hold back its suffocating darkness and its enervating chill. The captain, defiant as ever, sought to fortify his men by declaring that it was the will of the Lawgiver that this place of pagan worship be sacked and that each man would be rewarded in proportion to his effort. No sooner had he finished, than the shadows, which had been playing cruelly upon our imagination, gathered themselves up and swallowed him whole. The nightmare had begun and with it, I believe, Raoul's descent into madness.

-The Wreck of the Albatross, Juno Luteum, Darkonese adventurer^[2]

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