Spirits of the Earth

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Name: Elthraye
Epithets/Other Names: "Granter of Wishes," "Bearer of Ambition"
Age: >1000, by its own memory.
Gender: Varies
Species: Outsider
Ethnicity: Varies
Height: Varies
Residence: N/A

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Physical Description
Elthraye is, in its base state, formless. When it manifests, it can take the form of (largely) whatever it wishes or needs to be. In some cases it has been an aged Human man, in others an armored hulk, and others still an abomination of scales, scything claws, and wicked teeth.

Personality
The creature is typically playful, but cagey in attitude. It will go out of its way to protect those it has granted wishes to (see: Magic/Abilities below), but at the same time is reluctant to give much information about itself in plain speech.

Moreover, Elthraye seems to loathe contentment, but only in a specific context. The creature despises the mortal "go with the flow" attitude, but expresses joy at the contentment found in an accomplished goal.

Magic/Abilities

• Desire and Ambition – Elthraye's power waxes and wanes with what desires, ambitions, and wishes it grants. It has, in a minor capacity, the power to shape and bend reality to its will. However, its abilities has an upper limit to what it can influence, depending on the state of its power. These granted wishes (usually) have no (purposeful) ironic twist, if Elthraye can help it. Such a thing is not its purview. After all, what good would an enemy do, when a friend would do so much more? In fact, Elthraye will typically go out of its way to protect those it grants wishes to, as those fulfilled desires keep it alive and grow its strength.


• For Example: If a mortal wishes for "Wealth," Elthraye can readily and easily create things like a pouch of infinite gold, or simply materialize resources (for those who view goods as "wealth") for that mortal. However, if a mortal wishes "to be king of Serendipity," Elthraye cannot grant that simply because the amount of changes made to the world would be too great for the creature to manage. As a middle ground, a wish such as "I want a loving family," could be more easily granted as Elthraye can simply create facsimiles of people for that person to have as a "Family."


• Manifest Form and Power – The creature- while normally formless- has the power to manifest itself into a physical form (or forms, in some cases). Sometimes that is an old man, or an armored behemoth, or an animal, or even an eldritch abomination of scything claws and wicked teeth. Destroying the physical form does not seem to harm Elthraye in a meaningful way, as doing so would be akin to smashing a clay jug in an attempt to harm the water inside.


• Symbiotic Parasite – To call Elthraye a "true parasite" would be misleading. The creature does grant the wishes and assist carrying out the desires of its "hosts," but at the same time it takes their life force from them. Slowly and surely, it drains away at parts of their souls to grow its own strength and keep it alive.
  
  
• More Than a Name – "Elthraye" is a series of sounds the creature calls itself. The name "Elthraye" is more than simply a word or name, it is Elthraye. To know and replicate this creature's name is to control its very consciousness, as without it Elthraye is simply a concept without thought or presence.
  

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History
"So long as mortal life has wanted something- anything, I have existed.

Ambition, desire, want... These are things that have existed in the mortal mind even before those same mortals became aware of their own consciousness. It is from these things that creatures like Elthraye are born.

By its own memory, the creature "Elthraye" became aware of its own existence about a thousand years ago. Before that, it has no memory. From its very awakening, it knew its purpose and its needs. Unlike what mortals call "gods," Elthraye's power has a distinct and vaguely quantifiable upper limit to its powers, and its main goal to exist is to grow that power.

Folklore in both Serendipity and Connlaoth tell of a Granter of Wishes or a Bearer of Ambition, an entity with as many forms as it has variations of its legend. The commonality among these legends though is that the Granter of Wishes does indeed give people what they want, but what creeping doom does one bring upon themselves by making such a deal?

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