Obviously, you'd use the computer console in the ancient ruins whose experimentation with black hole mechanics has created a dead zone for 100 miles in every direction and is the origin of undead monsters in the world. After all, it was in that facility that they constructed the means to contain him, not before it was too late to save themselves, of course.
No one summoned it. Maybe there was a little black spot on the sun today, or maybe at night a star is no longer visible, and then more stars lost and then more, until something is apparent.
It isn't unravelling reality. Beings in your world experience reality unravelling, but that's presuming some sort of agency, volition and regard for your world by whatever's coming. Yes, things are happening in your world because of something coming, but that something doesn't notice or give pause. No one asked for it. In fact the one thing the whole world can agree on is that whatever is coming "should not be." But that's a forlorn sentiment and actually kind of an arrogant boast. The pretense that your world mattered was a precept held by almost all intelligent beings on it, but the opposite is becoming not just apparent but the greater matter.
Good thing your world is in a game where there's magic to appeal to through which the world may course correct, hide, or escape.
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Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
What is its motive and the motives of those who want to summon it?
That could/should be related to the summoner or cult.
There's lore that a guardian, seeing self-inflicted strife among the creations of its creators, decided that, if the creators are so flawed as to create such things, everything those creators made must be flawed and must be undone. Those who seek it are of two sects: those who agree with it and want oblivion and those who think they can curry enough favor to rule over whatever must come after (not considering that there might be no "after").
EDIT: The method that stopped the world-ender from carrying out its plans is usually the key in summoning it.
In that story above, there were other guardians and protections for one specific realm that prevented the fallen guardian from destroying the place. All but one other realms were erased, and that one other realm was dying fast. The fallen guardian had to resort to long-distance influence to try to get the people to destroy the things interfering with its mission; some kind of tree that tapped into the magic of the world, 5 dragons - one of which ended up corrupted, various heroes several of whom became corrupted. (If it sounds familiar to you, it likely is. This is just an example of why world-enders exist and how one might include them.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I feel like you wouldn't summon it, you'd get its attention. I'm picturing kind of like The Beast in the Magicians (the book not the show) when they first encounter it. Something happened that drew its attention to our plane of existence, and by its very presence and sheer otherworldly power, it begins to have a negatively impact on the world.
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You don't summon it, you get its attention. Some kind of ritual is in order to get its attention, like activating the Obsidian Obelisks scattered across the world. However, the World Ender loves to make a grand entrance. This might give you a couple minutes to find some countermeasure.
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Former Spider Queen of the Spider Guild, and friendly neighborhood scheming creature.
"Made by spiders, for spiders, of spiders."
My pronouns are she/her.
Web Weaver of Everlasting Narrative! (title bestowed by Drummer)
If I were going to include this as an event involving the party, it would depend on whether the party was good(ish) or evil(ish). An Evil party would contact the evil entity and then do as instructed to break the barrier that keep him(her) out of the material plane. A good party, on the other hand, would contact a lesser being. The lesser being would trick the party into helping the real badass into the material plane. A good party should have enough sense to avoid talking directly with Supremely Powerful Evil things. So I would have this accomplished by another evil being manipulate the party.
But, the mechanics could be a gate or a portal opened to the other plane.
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Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt
This seems like a great time to use a Great Old Ones Warlock or Death Cleric NPC (or both!) to attract the attention or unlock the gates for the World Ender.
It should be so beyond our reality that the players can’t perceive its true form. They have to choose the form of their Destructor. Let them fight a tarrasque reskinned as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.
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So, supposing a storyline involved a cataclysmic entity of pure darkness, intent on unraveling the very fabric of reality…..
How would you summon it?
I wouldn't.
Anzio Faro. Protector Aasimar light cleric. Lvl 18.
Viktor Gavriil. White dragonborn grave cleric. Lvl 20.
Ikram Sahir ibn-Malik al-Sayyid Ra'ad. Brass dragonborn draconic sorcerer Lvl 9. Fire elemental devil.
Wrangler of cats.
You wouldn’t. You’d let it in.
It’s waiting outside the gates, and if the four anchor relics that keep it out are destroyed, it will come.
Wizard (Gandalf) of the Tolkien Club
Obviously, you'd use the computer console in the ancient ruins whose experimentation with black hole mechanics has created a dead zone for 100 miles in every direction and is the origin of undead monsters in the world. After all, it was in that facility that they constructed the means to contain him, not before it was too late to save themselves, of course.
No one summoned it. Maybe there was a little black spot on the sun today, or maybe at night a star is no longer visible, and then more stars lost and then more, until something is apparent.
It isn't unravelling reality. Beings in your world experience reality unravelling, but that's presuming some sort of agency, volition and regard for your world by whatever's coming. Yes, things are happening in your world because of something coming, but that something doesn't notice or give pause. No one asked for it. In fact the one thing the whole world can agree on is that whatever is coming "should not be." But that's a forlorn sentiment and actually kind of an arrogant boast. The pretense that your world mattered was a precept held by almost all intelligent beings on it, but the opposite is becoming not just apparent but the greater matter.
Good thing your world is in a game where there's magic to appeal to through which the world may course correct, hide, or escape.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
What is its motive and the motives of those who want to summon it?
That could/should be related to the summoner or cult.
There's lore that a guardian, seeing self-inflicted strife among the creations of its creators, decided that, if the creators are so flawed as to create such things, everything those creators made must be flawed and must be undone. Those who seek it are of two sects: those who agree with it and want oblivion and those who think they can curry enough favor to rule over whatever must come after (not considering that there might be no "after").
EDIT: The method that stopped the world-ender from carrying out its plans is usually the key in summoning it.
In that story above, there were other guardians and protections for one specific realm that prevented the fallen guardian from destroying the place. All but one other realms were erased, and that one other realm was dying fast. The fallen guardian had to resort to long-distance influence to try to get the people to destroy the things interfering with its mission; some kind of tree that tapped into the magic of the world, 5 dragons - one of which ended up corrupted, various heroes several of whom became corrupted. (If it sounds familiar to you, it likely is. This is just an example of why world-enders exist and how one might include them.)
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I feel like you wouldn't summon it, you'd get its attention. I'm picturing kind of like The Beast in the Magicians (the book not the show) when they first encounter it. Something happened that drew its attention to our plane of existence, and by its very presence and sheer otherworldly power, it begins to have a negatively impact on the world.
I would pick up the 3rd edition instant classic Elder Evils.
THANK you!
Oh, you mean the lunch lady? Touch food and put it back.
But seriously; here's how you do it: gate.
It summons itself. Obviously
Lets summon archdevils
Platymaster of the Church (Cult) of the Platypus
Arachnapriest of the Guild of Spiders
Disclaimer: Underfan8 is not to be held responsible for any of the following events happening as a result of talking to Underfan8, touching Underfan8, or even just seeing Underfan8: The rise of Tiamat, resurrection of vecna, pissed of genies, a complete and udder power change in the blood war, or a fate worse than a fate worse than total annihilation. Exist with Underfan8 at you own risk.
You don't summon it, you get its attention. Some kind of ritual is in order to get its attention, like activating the Obsidian Obelisks scattered across the world. However, the World Ender loves to make a grand entrance. This might give you a couple minutes to find some countermeasure.
Former Spider Queen of the Spider Guild, and friendly neighborhood scheming creature.
"Made by spiders, for spiders, of spiders."
My pronouns are she/her.
Web Weaver of Everlasting Narrative! (title bestowed by Drummer)
If I were going to include this as an event involving the party, it would depend on whether the party was good(ish) or evil(ish). An Evil party would contact the evil entity and then do as instructed to break the barrier that keep him(her) out of the material plane. A good party, on the other hand, would contact a lesser being. The lesser being would trick the party into helping the real badass into the material plane. A good party should have enough sense to avoid talking directly with Supremely Powerful Evil things. So I would have this accomplished by another evil being manipulate the party.
But, the mechanics could be a gate or a portal opened to the other plane.
Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt
This seems like a great time to use a Great Old Ones Warlock or Death Cleric NPC (or both!) to attract the attention or unlock the gates for the World Ender.
It should be so beyond our reality that the players can’t perceive its true form. They have to choose the form of their Destructor. Let them fight a tarrasque reskinned as the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man.