The Sprites’ “Home” World
As gregarious and personable the sprites are, they hold their fair share of secrets. They’ve let slip that they’ve spawned from an unknowable cosmic horror’s rotting corpse, but they don’t share just where that body continues to fester. The beast had traveled many universes, holding down no recorded name, only subjecting any unfortunate life forms to catch its eye to its callous curiosity, abducting, dissecting, and cataloguing countless different creatures throughout the multiverse... But as it often happens with troublesome creatures, it finally stumbled across one society advanced enough to fight back. Though they succeeded in destroying the beast with surprising quickness, it came at the cost of their whole planet. The corpse fell, crushing and burying almost fifty percent of the surface. The other half would soon after be subjected to horrifying mutations from the miasma of the rotting inorganic flesh, and eventually all previously existing life would be entirely wiped out by creatures that spawned from the corpse itself. In truth, the creatures spawned from the corpse, while highly unusual and often possessing of unnatural abilities, aren’t more malevolent than any wild animal you might find in a more naturally formed ecosystem, a scant few might even make good pets should they be extracted from the planet... The true danger is the miasma that continues to saturate the entire atmosphere, and the rot that fills the oceans. Though the creatures spawned by the corpse not only survive, but thrive in such a substance, any outside creature will quickly experience painful debilitating mutations. Furthermore, the atmosphere rapidly degrades metal of any variety, renders technology unusable, and seems to attack the very soul of those unfortunate enough to find themselves there. While they rarely visit ‘home’, preferring to socialize with other intelligent societies, the sprites keep a close eye on the planet, and warn away any would be visitors for the safety of both the hapless wanderers and their own "sibling” species.
