Cacoethes

## Symbol

A grape bunch tinted green and purple

The Serendipsticks found themselves fighting four different eladrin, one associated with each season, at the University on Skaihame. The party was told originally that these were cyhyraeths acting independently, but they were neither. Each wore a collar that bound them to the service of Cacoethes, and three of four were rescued by the party. Cacoethes seems to have been Socks's predecessor at the University. He has since been heavily interfering with the University, its research, and its occupants.

Among his sacred symbols is a bull head and all things associated with wine and grapes. Among his skills is the ability to manipulate minds and to shapeshift. The party found him in the sewer caverns under the University disguised as a redcap. When they caught up to him, he had already eaten a portion of Aryavarta's Realmsoul. After the battle, the party managed to incapacitate Cacoethes long enough to get the God Keeper onto him, upon which he spit out several gemstones and the Heart of Bhakti Moksha, a ninth of Aryavarta's Realmsoul.

His lair is powered by wells that fill from the water in the caverns and allows him to regenerate health whenever the wells are in operation.

## Datapad Excerpts

### The Sea-Lantern Affair

**Author:** Aarti Apurva

> Yet there were some who chose to reject the family lines. Kyrielle and Tanwari, long friends and lovers, chose to turn aside from their families. The birth of their twins resounded through the cosmos, and many thought that, like the dreamer before them, it would bring peace. But unbeknownst to all, the Twins had secretly made something far worse: that most accursed beast of slaughter and prophecy. The hungry one stalked the newborn twins, and before any could act, struck out in violence and malice. In one stark moment, the whisperings of loyalty fell from the eyes of the Tuatha, and they turned against Megwandir and her ilk, casting them out as the Morrigan, now standing on its own as the fourth great family. Even Jorð was appalled, and sent fire and frost, mountain and sky, all to crash down upon the Crow with great vengeance and furious wrath.
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### Cast out the Morrigan!

**Origin:** Scattered Papers of Bral Library

> …my fellow eldar, we must not be swayed by this deceiver, this charlatan! Betrayer offspring of the starry palm! Let her name be here forgotten, though it may be spoken on other planes. Megwandir, I name her! Spider that births twin abominations! Hedonism and sadism ought to be shunned, not worshipped: we must seek to end the cults of Cacoethes and Glaire, by force if necessary! Bring forth the swords and spears, arm the people...
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## Relevant Items

### Collar of Cacoethes

**Found:** On the cyhyraeths that weren't actually cyhyraeths after all, but rather eladrin embodiments of the seasons whom the party fought in and around Aberylwyth, including in Llwybrgrawn.

**Description:** Binds the wearer to the service of Cacoethes.

### God Keeper

**Relevance:** Used during the Battle of the Skaihame Caverns to capture Cacoethes.

**Description:** While equipped on a Celestial, that creature is Incapacitated.

### Heart of Bhakti Moksha

**Found:** On Cacoethes after he was defeated in the Battle of the Skaihame Caverns.

**Description:** An ornate bronze shell surrounds a clear crystal sphere. Inside is mounted a small blue crystal that gives off a faint glow. Touching the surface of the orb is overwhelming: you hear a sensation as of a million voices speaking at once. The Heart of Bhakti Moksha is one of the nine fragments of Aryavarta's realmsoul.