Nxla

Nxla (aka, the Cold and the Darkness, Soul Stealer) is a Lovecraftian-like extra-dimensional entity in the fictional universe of the Rifts pencil-and-paper roleplaying game by Palladium.
==Background==
Nxla the Harvester of Souls is an alien intelligence of such power, that even the Splugorth fear him. It establishes footholds on worlds where mortals worship power and/or death, accepting it as their master. Whom are recruited and turned into its minions, the Soul Harvesters. Once he physically enters the world, his minions are given immortality, though they can still be injured and killed. The only way to force him back to his home dimension is to destroying most of his physical body, killing or liberating at least half of the Soulless Xombies, and wiping out 60% or more of the Harvesters. 
It's appearance is that of a 800 ft tall living pillar of disfigured flesh, with a dozen 500 ft long tentacles, hundreds of eyes, and a half dozen 200 ft long human-like arms. It is a powerful psionic, is knowledgeable in spell magic and necromancy, can regenerate, is able to animate and control hundreds of the dead, and can survive a 85 Megaton-level nuke though with grievous wounds. Rune and holy weapons inflict twice as much damage as conventional weapons and psionic attacks inflict x10 as much damage.
The Soul Harvesters mutilate and kill their victims, taking their life essence captive within themselves. Which feeds their own power and evil. The victim's soul cannot find peace until the Harvester is killed or they are released via an exorcism. Nxla itself harvests its own souls by sends fragments out to the world. Taking possession of sentient beings which become Soulless Xombies (which are controlled by the Soul Harvesters), as their own souls in turn are torn from their bodies and sucked back into Nxla who enjoys tormenting them as long as they are held within it. The Soulless Xombies can take as much damage as a late 20th century armored fighting vehicle, and are able to regenerate. 
The number of fragments that Nxla can send out into the world, depends on whether or not it is physically on that world, and how many souls it has harvested. If he is temporarily summoned, he can manifest for up to 12 minutes and send out up to 40 fragments. On the other hand if it physically arrives on a world, every day on it the entity will unleash 1000 fragments of its lifeforce. His power increasing as more souls are harvested, and once he harvests 100 million souls he will be creating 10,000 lifeforce fragments a day. Nxla has etablished a foothold on post-apocalyptic dystopian Earth with 1000s of Soul Harvesters and Soul Xombies operating in North America.
Category:Extra-Dimensional Characters
Category:Characters Originating From Mythos-Inspired Works
Category:Other Supernatural Beings