Oblivion

Oblivion

(Creature)

Type

Ooze

CR

20

Environment

Any (Void)

Alignment

LG	NG	CG
LN	N	CN
LE	NE	CE

Source: Bestiary 6, pg(s). 202

For another meaning of "Oblivion", please see oblivion (drug).

Oblivions are colossal, intelligent, omnicidal oozes native to the Void.

Appearance

Oblivions typically measure several dozen feet across, but are covered in a cloud of roiling darkness that seem much larger. Tentacles of smoke coil and writhe beneath them. Oblivions are massless and collapse into nothing when destroyed.

Ecology

Oblivions hatch from eggs that form spontaneously among the accumulated entropy in the Void's darkest parts, preferentially near sceaduinars' crystalline constructs. They hunger to unmake the entire cosmos and themselves. Scholars debate whether oblivions are intrinsic to the Void or the result of sceaduinar manipulation of the plane.

Oblivions unleashed upon mortal planets lay waste to them until destroyed, but are incapable of the planar travel necessary to do so on their own. They often need decades or centuries to end a single world, and are very thorough in their job: their victims are quickly forgotten by others. Some deities claim that oblivions are intended to be released upon the multiverse to cleanse creation and begin a new cycle of life, while others insist their work is nearly complete, leaving only isolated specks of life in the void.

Oblivions can recreate victims from their dark substance as puppets. They themselves cannot traverse the planes and depend on servants capable of opening portals for them. These puppets know little of their masters' will beyond sharing comfort in the coming apocalypse, and most desperately fill in the gaps with philosophies. Some of the most powerful servants form doomsday cults to prepare for an oblivion's arrival.

Oblivions are unaffected by spheres of annihilation and can move them easily. It is speculated that these spheres are unborn oblivions, as rare survivors recount tales of spheres spontaneously birthing them.

An oblivion is a manifestation of disbelief and decay: any spaces it moves through are left fallow and lifeless, and the forces of compassion and creativity are anathema to it.

Society

Oblivions serve no masters or agendas. They believe themselves to be the way all things must end, are neither loyal nor antipathic toward sceaduinars, and rarely communicate with others, making their motives a mystery.