Creatures of Onan
Husks, Sand Dragons, and Essa-Constructs. What survives in the Wastes has adapted to survive everything else.
Husk
What the Long Night made of the dead. A Husk Walker is nothing more than a corpse directed by an impulse the Citadel calls the Deep Directive — the low-frequency signal something h…
Not all the dead that fell in the Pulse Wars were simple soldiers. A Husk Knight was someone who mattered — a trained warrior, a Rig-user, a commander. The Deep Directive found som…
Something the Directive doesn't make often. A Husk Warden is not a risen soldier — it is something older, something that was already dead when the Directive found it and chose to i…
A husk that has spent decades in a high-Essa environment — a collapsed Forge site, a ley line junction, the aftermath of a catastrophic Essa event. The Essa doesn't animate it diff…
Beast
The apex megafauna of the Blackglass Wastes. Blind, entirely deaf, navigating entirely by heat and vibration. A Sand Dragon Worm detects footfall at half a mile. It detects Essa ac…
A pack hunter native to the ruined outskirts of the Blackglass Wastes — rocky terrain at the Wall's base where the glass gives way to shattered stone. The Glassback's carapace is c…
Greywater Eels live in the flooded tunnels of the Drowned Spine and the tidal channels beneath Ragged Hook. They are ambush predators. They do not pursue. They wait in absolute sti…
Pack predators from the deep Blackglass Wastes, adapted to a landscape that has burned for three hundred years. Scorch Hounds run in packs of three to five, using coordinated flank…
Leviathan
Mid-shelf apex predator of the Drowned Spine. A Shelf Leviathan reaches forty to sixty feet in length. Its organs are dense with T2–T3 Essa, concentrated by centuries of deep-sea p…
The bottom-feeders of the Drowned Spine ecosystem. Deepcrawlers are small by Leviathan standards — Large rather than Gargantuan — which means they can navigate the flooded corridor…
Essa-Construct
Deployed constructs built using Machinist Forge Techniques. A Forge Sentinel operates semi-autonomously within parameters set by its Machinist — patrol zone, threat priority, engag…
A Forge Sentinel or similar construct whose directive core has been corrupted — by Husk Directive interference, by Rawcaster wild discharge, or by deliberate tampering. An Override…
The Empire manufactures Sweepers in lots of fifty from a central Forge depot in the capital. They are cheap, disposable, and everywhere. A Sweeper costs less than the monthly wage …
Port Authority harbor drones, built for open-water patrol and contraband interdiction. A Tidal Drone can hover above the waterline to survey vessels, submerge to check hull attachm…