Annona

"I turned to see a sickly red tentacle covered in spines slithering up from beneath the soil. Before I could speak it wrapped itself around Metus and dragged him down into the ground. I didn't know whether to laugh or scream as a second tentacle briefly appeared to brush the dirt back into a normal pattern before it, too, vanished underground."

- Sahmad, Sahmad's Tale, Chapter 3

The Unidentified Tentacled Being was a strange creature living in the Bara Magna mountains. It appeared as a large red sun-like body with tentacles covered in spines. It is said that the being existed even before the Great Beings came into existance. When it sensed the Great Beings, it tried to mess their minds with "madness", but the Great Beings sapped away the creature's dreams, forcing it to live under Bara Magna. Later, the creature was responsible for creating the Dreaming Plague that nearly wiped out the Iron Tribe. Years later, two remaining Iron Tribe members, Sahmad and Telluris, along with an agori-turned snake named Metus, who was infected by the Dreaming Plague, were searching for the cause of the Dreaming Plague when they unknowingly approached the lair of the creature, which dragged them underground and created an illusion of a city called New Atero to fool Sahmad, but failed when he was killed by an illusionary version of a female Iron agori, thus destroying the illusion. When Sahmad reawoke in the healer's chamber, where the illusion had started, the being spoke to him through deceased Iron agori which eventually changed into the Sisters of the Skrall. It then revealed its history to Sahmad, including that it gave the Sisters of the Skrall their psionics powers.The being finally revealed its true appearance to Sahmad and tried to seize him with its tentacles, but missed. Telluris and Metus, who was somehow reverted into an agori, stormed in to meet Sahmad, telling him to come with them. Sahmad, though confused weather or not Metus was really there, complied after accepting he was there, and the trio fought off the sisters and escaped, but the creature caught up with them on the surface, apparently waiting for them.

Appearances

 * Sahmad's Tale (First Appearance)