Vorthuul
Vorthuuls, sometimes called singularity wraiths, are undead formed from the tortured souls of creatures who died inside a black hole, but managed to escape and wreak havoc among the living. They are capable of harnessing a black hole's inescapable gravity.1
Appearance
A vorthuul consists of two intertwined forms: a calm, squat, obsidian skeleton and a spaghettified, incorporeal visage screaming in agony. They are linked together by quantum entanglement, and at any given moment, only one has dominance, controlling the other. Vorthuuls bend light toward themselves, including that of laser weapons.1
Ecology
When a creature falls into a black hole, where time and reality are distorted, it is split into two versions: one is spaghettified while the other is crushed into infinite density. Both versions suffer painful deaths before being intertwined via quantum entanglement into an undead vorthuul.1
Habitat
When a celestial object passes near a black hole (though not near enough to be drawn into the singularity), a vorthuul might manifest there, seemingly as an avatar of the black hole itself. Black holes that have consumed many souls (and become 'home' to many vorthuuls) are particularly dangerous to living adventurers. Rumours of 'haunted' space often arise from collections of vorthuuls so large that no one manages to escape them alive.1
Society
Solarians, especially kasathas, are especially aware of and concerned with the danger of vorthuuls. Some believe that vorthuuls used to be solarians who became too attuned with graviton forces, to the point that their connection with gravity and light became imbalanced, leading to their rebirth as vorthuuls dedicated to seeking out and destroying living solarians. Other groups, like the Cult of the Devourer, respect the power of vorthuuls, seeing them as avatars of their god, and sometimes attempt to capture and unleash a vorthuul's wrath upon their enemies.1
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 . Alien Archive 3, 129. Paizo Inc., 2019