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Podcast: Earthdawn Survival Guide
Episode: EDSG Episode 154 - Ristul and Taint
Description: * Our Horrors series continues with Named Horrors.
* Ristul
* Narrator Cymric and the novel Prophecy.
* More esoteric: no body, mind, or specific entity -- corruption itself.
* Most Lovecraftian, cosmic horror styled Horror.
* Implacable – nothing concrete to defeat. Might exist as long as magic and corruption exists.
* Subsumes minds and personalities of those it infects.
* Event Horizon
* “What Ristul corrupts, Ristul absorbs.”
* Manifestations of Ristul: Nightwists and Ristular
* Very few game statistics in Horrors book: Spellcasting, Mystic Armor, some Horror powers.
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