Hoinlitranvizadriak

''"You have no alternatives. I desire nothing from your poverty. Lacking for naught I pursue your corpses. And they shall be accorded to me upon a whim. You CANNOT DECLINE." ''The speech given to Hoinlitranvidriak upon first meetings with humanoids.

Overview
An ancient aboleth, Hoinlitranvidriak possesses the ability to absorb and contain the knowledge and memories of the corpses it consumes. An extension of aboleth's natural ancestral memory, Hoinlitranvidriak's power makes it frighteningly intelligent and terribly powerful. With an understanding of arcana second to few, it consumes the corpses of the men of Dalahas in a vain attempt to discover the secrets of the Plane of Water.

Appearance
A regular diet of men and beasts of the swamp has made Hoinlitranvidriak enormous and bloated. A lack of regular fresh food has drained it of aboleth's normal blue-green coloring and turned its skin to a deep gray. It is also massive; at fifty feet long it's nearly five times longer than a standard aboleth.

Divine Mission
Hoinlitranvidriak is one of the few aboleths remaining on the Plane of Flesh. Most of the rest vanished from the world millenia ago, and the few that remain are convinced of both their own superiority and obsessed with returning to their kin. Hoinlitranvidriak is no different, and believes that the aboleths left for the Plane of Water after the Ophidian destroyed their civilization. It traveled to Dalahas—the site of the first human landings on the Plane of Flesh—to sift through ancestral memories corrupted by time and human psyche to find confirmation. So far it has found none, but Hoinlitranvidriak is so convinced of its own hypothesis that it refuses to consider another option and abandon the swamp.

Brudgus' repeated assaults on pride and person have forced an even more personal stake into Hoinlitranvidriak's goals in the swamp: it refuses to leave while Brugdus still exists.

Notable Followers
In addition to his enthralled cultists, Hoinlitranvizadriak commands a force of kuo-toa that reside within its lair, addressing its basic needs, pampering it, and ensuring that its every want and need is met. Their faith in it makes the creature even stronger,

Religion
While most people of Dalahas live in terror of Hoinlitranvidriak, it does have a small cult that worship it as a vengeful god that punishes the dead for their sins. They are responsible for mobs whenever there is a death—many attempt to burn bodies to keep them out of Hoinlitranvidriak's maw, and the Levianites form a masked mob covered in ooze that violently halt any funerals they find.

Any and all fires not sanctioned or noted by the Levianites may be subject to a violent visit, and if bodies are discovered on a pyre, those who began the funeral are likely to join the deceased.

A cult of personality surrounds Hoinlitranvidriak. Taken in by its psychic influences and enormous physical bulk, a group of humanoids convinced of his true divinity strictly enforce its demands for corpses; often this group burns the homes of people who refuse to give up their dead.

Divine Appearances
A false god, Hoinlitranvidriak appears irregularly wherever it wishes. Its psychic connection with some members of the Levianites notifies it whenever a death has occurred and a body has been recovered; the aboleth appears within hours or minutes to consume the deceased. This applies to every village or town in the marsh. Being a marsh, that's most of them.

Afterlife
There is no afterlife ruled by Hoinlitranvidriak, but that doesn't prevent it from misleading its followers. The Levianites believe that when they die Hoinlitranvidriak will transport their souls to a paradisaical city beneath the marsh where sinners that denied Hoinlitranvidriak will serve them for eternity. Hoinlitranvidriak does nothing to deny this, and encourages it by keeping the corpses of deceased cultists intact until submerged.

Magic Properties
Roiling gray tendrils and mounds of flesh form the spells cast by Hoinlitranvidriak and its cultists alike.