Meritursas/common octopus 🇫🇮 / Sony α55

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Meritursas/common octopus 🇫🇮 / Sony α55
Meritursas
“Iku-Turso” © Traci Shepard, accessed at Arcane Beasts and Critters here
[My complain with the iku-turso in Pathfinder is the same as my problem with the leshys. Cool monster, should have a different name. Iku-Turso in the Kalevala is huge, and the humanoid eel look owes more to China Mieville and the D&D kopru than anything in Finnish mythology. Although what exactly Iku-Turso is supposed to look like is a bit of a mystery. According to Wikipedia, “tursas” is an antique Finnish word for walrus, and “meritursas” is the current word for octopus. And in the Kalevala, Iku-Turso is given the title “many horned”. So a walropus with antlers, like TAS’ illustration above, is a pretty solid supposition.]
Meritursas CR 15 NE Outsider (native) This creature is a massive chimera of land and sea life. It has the overall shape of a walrus, with tusks and clawed flippers, but the horns of a mighty stag and the tentacles of an octopus.
A meritursas is a physical avatar of pestilence, a great sea beast that spreads deadly and debilitating diseases. They are sometimes referred to as the “fathers of nine plagues”, and some scholars believe that the contagion spell is modeled after a meritusas’ breath. Iku-tursos are drawn to meritursases and venerate them as if they were divine. The meritursases, for their part, welcome such attention, and often direct their flock to spread illness, rendezvous with daemon cults, and otherwise increase the net suffering in the world.
A meritursas is a terror to behold; lesser creatures flee from its approach. It usually initiates combat with its breath, which inflicts random diseases on creatures caught in it. Then, the meritursas charges into combat with its branching horns. Its tusks can inflict lethal blows, but if a creature is struck once and survives, the meritursas will usually move onto different targets, if its tursas affliction is spread. Meritursas want to create more iku-tursos, and so spread strikes with their bite as widely as possible.
Meritursases believe in a warped version of survival of the fittest. Creatures that can become infected with their diseases and survive the process are to be respected, and those that die are to be pitied. Anyone who becomes an iku-turso is blessed to join the program of testing the world. Creatures that are inherently immune to disease may be allies if they recognize the power of infection, and enemies to be destroyed if they do not. Paladins and clerics of gods of healing are a meritursas’ greatest enemies, and a meritursas will stop at nothing to slay one of these healers.
A meritursas is approximately fifty feet long from its snout to the tips of its tentacles.
Meritursas/common octopus 🇫🇮 / Sony α55
Meritursas/common octopus 🇫🇮 / Sony α55
Iku-Turso is a sea monster in Finnish mythology. He is known by many names, including Tuonen härkä (the ox of death) and tuhatsarvi (the thousand-horned.
Iku-Turso is described in certains stories as the father of disease, while in others he is identified as the son of the sky. In the epic poem Kalevala, he rises from the sea and burns a stack of hay, from which an oak tree grows, so large it blots out the sun.
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Iku-Torso
Variations: Iku-Tursas, Iki-Tursas, Meritursas, Tursas, Turisas Location | Distribution: Finland The iku-torso (”the infinite Torso”) is a monster from Finnish mythology. It is said to be an evil sea monster with no exact appearance because of the different depictions and accounts it has. Varying literature and the accounts also tell Iku-Torso as the spreader of disease, and is also said to be the god of war.
meritursas replied to your post:
Give me a mug and I’ll come do it.
i was going to give you a mug anyway but ill gladly take this exchange
meritursas replied to your post:
The monster.
yes, the monster