Dread Akünh, Demon Spawn

the five-eyed daughter of SHE and the Death Realm

A spawn of SHE — conceived in the unholy bonding between the basilisk and a demonic being from a parallel world filled with undeath and torment (the Death Realm). Shut out from the world of the living by ancient covenant, the demon greedily took this rare chance to enter the world, if only through the vessel of Akünh.

Centuries ago, unsung knights of the Creton Order subdued her and bound her into the Death Realm in a ziggurat deep within Sarkash — the Death Ziggurat. As the Calendar of Nechrubel turns, the old shackles have failed. Akünh has broken free to ravage the world once more before the end is here. Together with her clergy of Rot Priests, she works to raise her army of drooling, red-eyed undead from the Necropolis.

Clad in a dazzling black robe embroidered with gold and crimson. Five eyes symmetrically placed around the head, crowned with cylindrical antlers. A huge, rotting vertical mouth covers the chest and abdomen. Mostly found in the ziggurat.

Stat block: HP 20, Morale 11, No armor

• Death scream. Test Presence DR12 or be drawn to arm's-length distance of Akünh.
• Claws and devouring (d6). Attacks twice per round. If both hit, you are devoured; test Strength DR14 to escape or die.
• Dark rays (d4). Shoot from her eyes; affect up to d6 nearby enemies.
• Separated heart. At 0 HP, will resurrect at her heart beneath the ziggurat.
• Teleport. Can teleport freely within the depression. A rotting mouth eats its way out of the ground and she climbs out.

Her heart is black and pulsating, embedded in a wall of pulsating flesh ten meters below the warm rotting maw inside the ziggurat's broken top. Destroying it banishes Akünh into the void until the end of days — but instantly causes one Misery to take place.