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Tezako, the Bottomless Whirlpool

In the time before times, Cytheria and Kimbery were mortal enemies; she the endless flame of creation that burned onwards, consuming the wyld into substance; she the waves of chaotic fluid madness that washed away the world in their passage leaving only themselves. The two warred countless times for countless years, the flame working with all its might to keep the sea at bay. Now, Cytheria is possessed with nothing but guilt for her earlier actions - she knows she should have let Kimbery consume everything, let the world be an endless ocean of acid and bile that would flow off into the wyld like a glass overturned. It is because of her newfound respect for Kimbery that Cytheria granted her her second greatest soul; Tezako, the Bottomless Maelstrom.

Tezako takes the form for which she is named, a whirlpool apparently bottomless opening in Kimbery's oceans. The vitriolic green waters flow and bubble into the spiralling tornado, and floating unsuspended in the center of the vortex, where the water drops away roaring below to infinite depths, is a being like a nest of tentacles, grotesquely flailing squid tentacles numbering the hundreds, lined with small, ridged suckers with barbed fangs. Tezako's flesh is rubbery and white like a mullosc torn from its shell, visibly cracking with angry red meat visible underneath where its skin is everywhere cleft and broken. It is a sea creature, and yet balanced precariously over nothing as it is it cannot touch water of its own volition; it is constantly dried by the bottled flame that burns at its heart, the same flame which Cytheria made its name and which boils away the water to produce the whirlpool. Tezako's pain has made it furious, and it lashes out at any being that it might see; it is thoughtless and violent, seeking only to alleviate the pain caused by its own not inconsiderable powers. This is an irony of its nature, for before it was remade to mimic a soul of Kimbery, Tezako was the greatest scholar among the souls of Cytheria, and one of the greatest in the demon city. It still has all of its near endless knowledge of the demon city and, more importantly, creation; and yet now it is reduced to a howling beast.

Supernatural powers:
All of Tezako's lore and occult dice are automatically converted to successes.
In creation, Tezako's whirlpool is not bottomless, but still a hundred yards deep at least; if forced onto land, the earth tears itself apart for dozens of yards around her at all times. In Malfeas if on land, the torn flesh of the world usually restores itself in her passage.
Sorcerors may ask anything of her; she knows nearly everything about the creation of the world and much of the first age, but is convinced as part of her new nature that she knows only everything destroyed by sea or wyld. A sorceror may order her to reveal knowledge that is not in that category, but she has no idea herself that she knows. She cannot control her whirlpool, and so sorcerors had best be cautious lest their ships be broken and their bodies swallowed.