Here is something to feast your eyes on.
This Leviathan is a Darrell Hardy Creation and will be featured in the book.
Hodd, the Dream Stalker
Primary Domain: Dreams and Nightmares
Additional Domains: Madness, Exhaustion
Inclinations:
• Harmony: Control
• Balance: Creation, Transformation
• Opposition: Destruction
Description: When Hodd incarnates, the Leviathan takes on an appearance similar to the people nearby that it plans to prey upon. It does its best to fit in, but its mind is full of madness, and its heart full of hate, so its disguise doesn’t last long if forced to interact with people. In its natural state, Hodd is a gray shadow with long, claw-like fingers. The Leviathan has been reported throughout Naalgrom, but is most commonly encountered in the inhospitable land of Atanastan.
Personality: Hodd is manipulative and cruel. Beyond the rush that Terror brings, the Leviathan just enjoys tormenting mortals. Hodd only incarnates in order to make contact with its prey. After touching them, listening to them, looking into their eyes, and coming to know their souls, the Leviathan reverts to its true form and prepares for the hunt. Before it was a Leviathan, Hodd was a demon who lived among the merciless men of Atan, so it equates its spirit form with safety and power.
While any Leviathan can haunt the dreams of mortals, Hodd specializes in it. It is a master of creating nightmares, and torments its victims until they are afraid to sleep. At that point, Hodd begins creating environments and circumstances during the day that simulate the nightmares. The Leviathan replicates a set of illusions based off of what it learns scarea its victims the most, and feeds off the resulting Terror. In the end, Hodd’s victims don’t all die. Many just go completely insane, no longer able to tell reality from dream, or waking from sleeping.
Hodd’s power is much more limited in the waking world. If one were to force a confrontation with the Leviathan outside of dreams, one would find the Leviathan weak and quick to flee.
Favored Miracles:
• Lullaby (Control): The sounds of the world turn to a comfortable drone and the whole village falls asleep. Hodd can direct this miracle against a single target or a whole community. Cost: 10 (Minor Innovation (5), Scale +2, Duration +1, Inclination -1, Location +2, Domain -2)
• Insomnia (Control): No one sleeps if Hodd does not will it. Using this miracle, the Leviathan can prevent anyone from falling asleep. Exhaustion and hallucinations are sure to follow. Cost: 10 (Minor Innovation (5), Scale +2, Duration +1, Inclination -1, Location +2, Domain -2)
• Nightmare Realm (Control): Even when awake, Hodd’s victims cannot escape the Leviathan’s claws. This miracle plunges up to a whole village of people into a horrible hallucination filled with terrifying imagery and events. Cost: 10 (Minor Innovation (5), Scale +2, Duration +1, Inclination -1, Location +2, Domain -2)
"The beatings will continue until moral improves!"
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Hodd the Dream Stalker
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Posted - 03/17/2007 : 10:41:06 AM
