Shattados
| Shattados the Cruel | |
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| Names and titles | |
| Title(s): | King or Lord (former) |
| General info | |
| Home: | Bright Desert |
| Former home: | Sulm |
| Alignment: | Chaotic evil |
| Gender: | Male |
| Species: | Monstrous scorpion, human (formerly) |
| Ethnicity: | Flan (formerly) |
| Class: | Sorcerer (previously) |
| Patron deity: | Tharizdun |
Shattados the Cruel is the former king of Old Sulm. In -913 CY, he was transformed into a giant monstrous scorpion, after entreating Tharizdun for a boon.
Description
[edit | edit source]Shattados is a unique monstrous scorpion.
"Shattados the Cruel's curse transformed him into a horrific creature, a great and powerful giant scorpion with awesome psionic abilities and a deep hatred for humanity."[1]
Personality
[edit | edit source]Abilities
[edit | edit source]Shattados is technically immortal.[1] As a monstrous (master) scorpion, Shattados has the expected poisonous sting.[1]
Previously a sorcerer,[1] Shattados has a great deal of powerful psionic powers incluidng: domination, mindwipe; contact, ESP, inflict pain, mind thrust, psionic blast, ultrablast; magnify, prolong, psionic inflation; life draining; body control, ectoplasmic form, immovability, suspend animation, project force, telekinesis; ballistic attack, control body, create sound, and inertial barrier.
Possessions
[edit | edit source]Shattados jealously guards the Scorpion Crown in the ruins of his palace in the Bright Desert.[2]
Activities
[edit | edit source]Relationships
[edit | edit source]All of Shattados' subjects became manscorpions with the Curse of Shattados from the Scorpion Crown.
History
[edit | edit source]"Once, over 2,000 years ago, a Flannish kingdom called Sulm ruled the central portion of what is now called the Bright Desert. Constant warfare with desert nomads and internal unrest led Sulm's rulers to delve into forbidden magic and the worship of evil gods. Finally, after a long slide into decadence, the land's last king, a sorcerer named Shattados, appealed to one of his wicked deities for a boon, a magical item which would enable him to be his people's unquestioned ruler.
Shattados's wish was granted, but in a way that both he and the Sulm people would soon regret. A crown appeared to him in the shape of a great scorpion. Eagerly, Shattados donned it, expecting it to simply bend others to his will. It did far more. The gods of evil are possessed of a perverse sense of humor, and Shattados was about to be the victim of an unpleasant practical joke. In an agonizing moment, he was transformed into a monstrous scorpion and his people into the wild manscorpions which still plague the desert."[3]
Rumors and legends
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[edit | edit source]Citations
[edit | edit source]- ↑ a b c d WGR3 Rary the Traitor (1992), s.v. Shattados .
- ↑ WGR3 Rary the Traitor (1992), s.v.Monarch Scropion.
- ↑ WGR3 Rary the Traitor (1992), 15.
Bibliography
[edit | edit source]Encyclopedia Greyhawkania Index
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| Topic | Type | Description | Product | Page/Card/Image
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| Scorpion Crown | Item | Encyclopedia Magica - Volume I | 337 | |
| Scorpion Crown | Item | Artifact, | Dragon magazine #294 | 93 |
| Scorpion Crown | Item | Artifact, | WGR3 Rary the Traitor | 9, 12, 22, 27, 29, 32, 44, 46, 48, 51, 63 |
| Shattados | Non-player character | Dragon magazine #294 | 93 | |
| Shattados | Non-player character | WGR3 Rary the Traitor | 15, 17, 18, 22, 27-30, 32, 42, 44, 46, 48, 621, 63 | |
| Shattados's Palace | Place | Defensive Structure, | WGR3 Rary the Traitor | 42, 43, 63 |
| The Ruins of Shattados's Palace | Adventure location | Located in: Bright desert, | WGR3 Rary the Traitor | 42-48 |