Maw of the Void

== Description ==
The Maw Of The Void is an entity, not tangible or visible to the naked eye as it travels. It steals the faces of the people it consumes. It's replicant face is malformed, contorted, and a hideous mirror image. Not many have survived to describe the Maw's appearance. All that is known is when it transmits itself to the form of matter that humans live on, it has a dark misty aura surrounding it. It appears from a tear in reality, displaying the human face in an attempt to lure it's prey. Despite all best efforts, once you see the eyes of the Maw, there is nothing you can do. It will unhinge it's jaw, widen it's eyes, and consume. 
== Abilities ==
=== Pure void energy ===
* The Maw can channel pure void energy to tear the fabric of reality, creating a physical form. It can also use this energy to dismantle the human body, picking it apart piece by piece in both an instant and eternity. The Maw has no feeling towards this practice, it simply feeds. 
=== Dark matter ===
* Dark matter picked from the darkest corners of the universe, it is highly unstable. Once dark matter makes contact with the human body, it slowly withers all of it's central organs. The Maw is less likely to use this to feed on prey, based on what little research we have. This form is more likely used to slowly kill multiple prey. Almost as a viral disease that only the Maw can inflict. The only thing we have is name for this virus. Darkemine.
=== Leech ===
* The Maw saps the life force of it's prey. Whatever is left of it, after inflicting Darkemine or Pure void into the victim. This last process takes all consciousness that is left and the Maw absorbs it into itself. It is unclear where the human mind goes after being consumed. Brain scans of Maw victims indicate high brain activity before being sapped into the Maw. Could they become part of a hive mind? A higher form of life? We still are unsure at this time.
== What we know ==
The Maw has more power than we can ever hope to understand. All we can gather is that it's pattern is seemingly random. There's no telling who will be taken at whatever time. We can only research the empty corpses that are left in it's wake. We know of Darkemine, but we don't have any hopes of finding a cure or treatment. All it is, is a mark of death. That is what the maw does. It marks innocents people for death to consume them and steal their face, and even possibly their mind. We have to go deeper. We have to find the source. 
== Ancient Text ==
The following is a passage of ancient text in an unknown language, left on the skin of withered victim,
"Khonnsumond ae bheain, khonnsumond ae vylnd, khonnsumond ae nyehgdeg.  Jheracomond noke, jheracomond nhebos, jheracomond wedere, jheracomond haerong, jheracomond jheratteub.  Ae nuuvakas djooyos gnoet sthaakebo yreisoneros jinene nokelleh sthaakebo wedeuioes phur jinenos myghn'had.  Dut gnoet tett afraid, dut gnoet ashtissi'haest"
Category:Cryptid