Narak’algar Zukrick’tkgja’Takr Nor’nifkrlpra god of curiosity, wisdom and the thirst of knowledge was bored. Day in day out he watched over his few worshipers in the wastes of his world. There are only insects to worship him left since a few eons. The number of them is quite high but that’s not his problem, very few insect have a thirst of knowledge or any curiosity at all, his few worshipers being mostly mutant spiders and even they had just a limited drive.

He yearned for new things to explore, having combed the wastes millions of times already and coming no step closer to learning anything about them. He did however find a ritual, a while ago, that was supposed to bring a soul over into another world.

A concept that intrigued the restless god and so he had, immediately upon discovery, begun to make preparations for the ritual, to leave his barren world behind and starting anew with a blank slate and many secrets to uncover.

That at least were his hopes. He inspected his new vessel, a thick tome filled with an seemingly endless amount of blank sites. This book would be the Container for his soul, to be found later by a lucky soul of the other world, though it is questionable if the one who will pick him up, would consider himself as lucky as Narak thought he would, only the future could show.

And so, with one final farewell for the rest of the few of his worshipers he had left, he started the ritual in which the  most inquisitive souls sacrificed themselves to accompany their god into the new world.

With a wave of darkness that submerged the Curios deity’s consciousness, he found his perspective having shifted and his surroundings having changed, just as he wanted them to, finding himself lying on a patch of wet moss, in the middle of what seemed like a lush forest.

The curios god was ecstatic to see such a rich biotope promising new knowledge and adventure. As he wanted to move, he remembered one small detail he forgot about, that binding his soul to a book would bring.

He was unable to move by himself! How frustrating! Just as he finally found a new avenue to explore, new things to investigate, new discoveries to make and he was already bound to wait until someone picked him up. Something that could take years, decades even.

For now, he would have to make do with what he could see. It was something else he no longer had the godly ability to see everything he wanted if he just focused enough on it. Now he could only see everything in direct line of sight in a roughly two and a half meter radius.

And what he saw fascinated him he could see a tree trunk half rotten and covered in some kind of violet moss and on it, bathing lazily in the sun was a magnificent red lizard with 3 pairs of eyes. He immediately flipped open to document his find, drawing a copy of the lizard on one of the blank sites with description of what it was doing and how it looked. The text and the picture appeared as he wished them to and slowly the site filled itself with life.

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He proceeded to observe the things and beings in his vision meticulously noting them down. He saw strange toads that could create water out of nothing and spit it at attackers, he saw birds with two pairs of wings and red stripes that spat small fireballs at teleporting spiders and other bizarre things, fueling his wish to explore this world and learn its secrets.

After a few weeks of watching the constant struggle of the wildlife against one another quickly grew boring, as he probably had already seen and documented every creature that would come here and fight.

One interesting tidbit he could observe however that the creatures seemed to fight over the violet moss he saw in the beginning. If he concentrated on it, he could see it radiate some kind of energy, and most creatures were content with just staying near it and bathing in the energy.

The Scarlet lizard that rested one the rotten wood had stayed in his position most of the time. Bathing as he could now discern not only in the sun’s rays but in the energy of the violet moss as well there seemed to be a slow change the lizard grew from the size of a cat to the size of a medium large dog.

The lizard’s leg muscles glimmering in the sunlight, as the scales seemed to shed slightly revealing fresh, more lustrous, deep scarlet red scales that looked tougher and reflected more sunlight.

Interestingly enough it seemed that the lizard could now gather energy faster fueling his metamorphosis. However, that was not the only change the Lizards body underwent from his neck a ring of spikes slowly grew and filled with a membrane of thin flesh, building a sort of regal looking mantel for the reptile.

Even there it did not stop on its head a domineering crown slowly grew bigger and bigger, until it looked like the reptile was observing everything that passed near it, judging it and finding it beyond its notice. The reptile had an air of rightful arrogance about it that let the other creatures steer clear of its spot near the moss.

He noted as well that he could sense the same kind of energy from most of the creatures that entered his sight and decided to list it as a corruption section he would add to their respective pages.

It seemed to him that there was a certain pattern to the amount of Corruption a creature possessed and the danger of their mutations. The Corruption itself seemed to act like some kind of benevolent fuel for evolution of these creatures. He made a side note to ask his wielder to experiment with breeding these creatures and see how much Corruption they could bear.

And like this with silent observation of the wildlife around, him a couple of months went by without Narak noticing too much…

The scarlet lizard

Spezies: Lizard Corruption: Slight physical mutations Mutations: +2 Eye pairs; A crown& mantle;

Stronger scales; Increased corruption conductivity Estimated threat-level: No Reference

The violett moss

Spezies: Moss Corruption: Source Mutations: Emission of corruption Estimated threat-level: No Reference (estimated threat to self : trivial)