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Mortasheen: Scyllawatt

Added 2025-02-15 15:32:42 +0000 UTC

Not yet added to the final book, but set to be added for its final coming update, Scyllawatt is a brand new Vampire class based on Siphonophores. Its design somewhat homages one of my first favorite Magic: The Gathering creatures, the Krovikan Horror, while drawing from both the more famous Portuguese Man O' War and more elongated wormlike deep-sea Siphonophora.

The glowing eyes were a last-minute idea. I originally invisioned it totally eyeless, with a xenomorph feel, but the head felt too empty, and the bright light eyes felt even more cold and ominous to me. Part of me regrets not giving it more of a weird quadrupedal body; a bunch of polyps forming into the shape of a vertebrate-like superpredator. As cool a concept as that is, though, it would have made for a less memorable visual, in my opinion, than a 300 foot long chain-creature that floats through the upper atmosphere.