Unnamed Cave Monster

**The unidentified cave monster** was a large amorphous beast that made up the Alvarian entrance to the Underdark. The monster's body was embedded in the cavernous rock that connects the King's Mine to the Northdark City of Spiders.

## Biography

### Early Life

Though unconfirmed, it is likely this creature originated in the Underdark.

### Jemi's Excursion

Though the details of Jemi's excursion into the Underdark are unknown, as are how many times he ventured there, it is known that he made use of the Alvari Mines' entrance and thus encountered the cave monster. Though he did not impart any specific advice regarding the monster, nor warned of it, he did provide the ICA with explicit instructions that ultimately guided them through it.

### The ICA's Excursion

When Jemi lead Bluebird's Team to the Alvari mountains, they descended into the King's Mine and subsequently entered the cave monster. The monster's parasites soon attacked them, killing two of their associates before the creature manifested a copy of Rodkeith that it used to lure the agents to an acid-filled cavern. Its attempt to drown them in the growing acid nearly cost them their lives, but the agents were able to flee and made their way through the beast to the Underdark. Along the way, it continued to taunt them with copies resembling monstrous versions of Rodkeith, successful devouring another associate of the group before they made their exit into the Underdark.

## Personality

Little personality was displayed by the monster, though it did seem to possess cruel and possibly psychopathic tendencies, relishing in attempts to frighten and torture its victims as it attacked them. It also made use of psychological warfare that indicates it is quite intelligent.

## Abilities

The physical nature of the entity is unclear, though it seems to have burrowed itself deep into the rock of the Alvari mines, with the large cavernous systems between the mines and the Underdark resembling its organs. Its attempts to swallow the group were made by leading them directly to what appears to have been its stomach and their escape was made through a shoot resembling an anus.

It also possesses the ability to generate life-like avatars that allow it to communicate with its victims. These are made up of a gelatinous purple substance which they dissolve back into when destroyed, though can seemingly take on any shape, including perfect imitations of others. The avatars can change drastically in size, be deformed and duplicated, as it was able to create a gigantic, as well as multiple smaller, copies of Rodkeith's image. Its shapeshifting abilities may extend to its body as a whole, as it it able to seal and open areas of rock, as well as flood its 'stomach' with acid.

The monster seems to possess some form of telepathic ability or psychic rapport, as it knew which persons to impersonate in order to gain its victims' trust and could do so with extreme precision, down to their behaviours, mannerisms and even memories. It could also summon images of persons and events intended to traumatise its victims, relating to their personal histories. It is possible this manifestation ability is empathic in nature and instantly allows it to summon whom or whatever its victim will trust or fear most.

## Relationships

* ICA
	+ Honey Smith - Attempted Victim
	+ Silk Greengallow - Attempted Victim
	+ Lacey Stain - Attempted Victim
	+ Eleanor Darling - Attempted Victim
	+ Freth - Attempted Victim
	+ Bollo Burbage - Attempted Victim
* Edward Bingham - Attempted Victim
* Acolytes of Lathander
	+ Luga † - Victim
	+ Lenthis † - Victim

## Trivia

* It is unclear if this creature created the passage between the Underdark and Suuk or if it simply made it its home.