Conqueror worm

Conqueror worm

(Creature)

Rare

NE

Gargantuan

Aberration

Level

21

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Source: Night of the Gray Death, pg(s). 66

Followers of Yhidothrus are chaotic evil in Book of the Damned 105.

Type

Aberration

CR

21

Environment

Any

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Source: Bestiary 6, pg(s). 64

Conqueror worm

(Deity)

Alignment

Neutral evil

Worshipers

Cultists

Edicts

Manipulate those in power
Foster psychic abilities
Endorse unjust laws

Anathema

Enact hasty schemes
Tell the truth except to nurture a larger lie
Reveal those higher in the conqueror worm's network

Follower Alignments (1E)

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Domains (1E)

Charm, Evil, Nobility, Trickery

Follower Alignments (2E)

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Domains (2E)

Ambition, Secrecy, Trickery, Tyranny

Favored Weapon

Varies; always a simple weapon (commonly dagger)

Symbol

Varies; typically resembles a ring of eyes

Source: Bestiary 6, pg(s). 64 (1E)
Night of the Gray Death, pg(s). 67 (2E)

Followers of Yhidothrus share its alignment and grant its domains in Book of the Damned.

Conqueror worms are divine immense worm-like creatures of vast intellect and depravity who revel in ruling civilisations through puppet leaders.

Appearance

A conqueror worm resembles a gigantic maggot with pale flesh. Its mouth peels back to reveal four long, hooklike jaws. A conqueror worm is 80 feet long and weighs 70 tons.

Society

A conqueror worm telepathically infects the minds of others from afar, allowing it to control its puppets while remaining unseen. It typically burrows beneath the target nation's capital, then uses this ability to infect the leaders, promising them either wealth and power or simply controlling them outright. The end result is the same: without intervention, all end up as the conqueror worm's toys.

Conqueror worms are theatrical and spend decades engineering the downfall of their puppets. A conqueror worm might push a leader towards tyrannical policies, then use another puppet to incite rebellion, who will later be denounced as a traitor or criminal, causing the rebellion to turn on itself, all the while the conqueror worm delights in the madness, sin, and horror.

When a conqueror worm tires of its current puppets, it destroys them by sending them to war against another nation, devastating both. Its favourite servants are brought into its realm and given a glimpse of their master's true form before the conqueror worm devours them and moves on to another nation to subjugate.

Cults and worshippers

Conqueror worms can grant divine magic and uses this ability to attract cultists, who are absolutely loyal to the conqueror worm and worship it as an omniscient and omnipotent deity. The conqueror worm usually considers them expendable. Often, the conqueror worm's clerics are the only pawns that are aware of the true nature of their puppet master.

Certain sects of conqueror worms see Yhidothrus as their unclean origin and control nations in his name.

On Golarion

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A conqueror worm was responsible for the once-unending cycle of revolution and chaos in Galt, until its schemes were thwarted in 4721 AR.

A conqueror worm known as Xolchez rules Kraggodan's Vault, a xiomorn vault deep in Orv named after the dwarf who discovered it during the Quest for Sky.

External links

• "The Conqueror Worm" (real-world poem) on Wikipedia
• "The Conqueror Worm", from The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe Volume II: Poems and Tales (1859), on Wikisource