Maddened Travesty (Basic Lore)

Maddened Travesty (Heavy; CR 23)
True Chaotic - Large - Aberration
This creature possesses the Heavy role, and therefore counts as 2 monsters for purposes of encounter size, XP award, and treasure. This monster frequently has the Heavy role, but may be set to other roles if desired. It is widely accepted among most intelligent creatures, at a very general level, that the world we all live in is balanced upon the surface of a much larger, darker, and far more terrible reality called the Outer Madness. Most people have little understanding of Planes, and in the minds of most people, Demons, Devils, Aberrations, and most 'weird' monsters are part of this terrifying background reality. However, there are always those who think that 'larger and more terrible' means, 'a convenient way to get power'. As a result, all over the world, in every race, creed, and culture, civilized or not, there are those with far too much greed and far too little wisdom who seek out this Deep Darkness and pledge themselves to it. The Creeping Madness is easy to access, easy to draw upon...and insanely dangerous. A fair number of those who attempt this foolish act are consumed utterly by their very first sup of that dark well, their lives, essence, souls, and flesh consumed entire. Many of those luckless fools do not quietly disappear, however. Maddened Travesties are those creatures, with the Spark or without, who have reached out to the Madness, and not only survived, they have grown exalted. Travesties are truly utter abominations, horrifically twisted, warped, and mutated, their minds nearly destroyed by the agony and ecstasy of the Nothing. A few Maddened Travesties are likely to be Maddened Reavers or Maddened Fanatics who have survived and grown and been granted greater gifts by the Deep Dark. Most Travesties are created new and whole, as the foolish mortal who sought the embrace of Madness is massively empowered...and nearly destroyed. Indeed, it would be better for the world if they were destroyed. Travesties have warped and grown awful due to their corruption, as evidenced by their vast, inhuman, shapeless bulk. They are far too large to pass as any civilized race, and they are too dull of wit, too consumed by their insane worship of the Deep Waste, to even want to try. Maddened Travesties are little more than raging monsters, bent on killing and destroying everything, unless they fall in with some of their more clever ilk. Travesties and Aberrants are closely aligned in the horror of their new forms, but Aberrants are deep, powerful thinkers. A travesty who is lucid enough to take suggestions from an Aberrant is a true menace to everything. Maddened Travesties are often drawn from the Civilized Races, people who should have known better, but many large 'monstrous' races are also commonly sources for Travesties. It is possible for Ogres, Hobgoblins, and Giants, among others, to be subsumed by the Eternal Black Night, and thus become Maddened Travesties. Maddened Travesties, like all of the Maddened, are united in their allegiance to the Endless Night, the Dark Sweet Depths that lie Outside. They are completely disorganized unless they have the advice of an Aberrant, or far worse, they are under the sway of a Maven or Magnate. Guided by a better mind or not, they always act, vaguely or cleverly, to tear down civilization, destroy all the structures of the world, material and social, for good and for ill. They lurk, they stalk, they rampage, murder, and ruin, they despoil and burn, everything. Maddened Travesties are terrible juggernauts of bleak, writhing woe, and they will attack anything, civilized or monster, instinctively working to bring the Dark. Maddened Travesties are stupid, even by the standards of the Maddened, although their allegiance to the Pure Bleak Woe is absolute. Travesties seek to kill and destroy everything in the world. Travesties are massive blobs of greenish darkened ichor, studded with eyes and teeth and tentacles, and their power is vast. Travesties are often sought out by Fanatics, Mavens, Magnates, or even Aberrants, for their great strength in battle is useful to bringing the world to an end.