Remains of the Colorless One

Item · 500 gp · Weight 0.25

Captain Kerz became famous among the pirates of the Abyss after he slew the legendary monster called the Colorless One. This monstrosity spawned from the calcified remains of demon lord Colyphyr. His body became an island, his blood became crystals, and the disgusting ichor that seeped through the isle's crags gave life to a monster — a crystalline ooze of mythic proportions. Silent and unseen, the creature slid through the waves of Ishiar, waiting for airships. When spotting prey, its tendrils shot out of the water like monumental pillars and shattered decks into splinters. The translucent slime engulfed the sailors' bodies and slowly dissolved them. The Colorless One also attacked border settlements, devouring everything in its path and leaving nothing except bloody ooze and acid-scarred buildings behind. No weapon or spell could overcome this beast. For Captain Kerz, hunting the Colorless One was a challenge. Stalking the beast in Ishiar for three years, he figured out that the Colorless One regularly returned to Colyphyr to recover its strength and drink from springs tainted with the ichor of its progenitor. Kerz set up an ambush next to one of such riverlets, catching the Colorless One unaware. He gave a signal, and the fire spells ignited, encircling the mound of predatory slime with an incendiary wall. The creature boiled, foamed, and raged in the trap but could not break out. The thing was dying... but too slowly. The fire magic ran its course, and the incendiary wall began to fade. The Colorless One attacked, grabbing the pirates, and devouring them one after the other. The outcome of the fight hung by a thread when a flaming arrow streaked through the sky — it was "Rabid Bitch," Captain Kerz's airship, and he was piloting her straight into the Colorless One. Her sails and her hull were ablaze, lit by the pirate's steady hand. The captain himself stood at the helm. The burning vessel struck the pile of slime like a battering ram, and an explosion shook the island. The monster's chunks were tossed hundreds of feet away, where they writhed helplessly and dried into crystalline powder. Wafts of poisonous smoke rose to the sky and a toxic cloud swelled over the site of the explosion. And it was from that cloud that Captain Kerz triumphantly emerged — much to the joy of his remaining crew — covered in burns and sores left by the caustic slime, but alive and victorious. The tale of his hunt became a legend among the denizens of the Abyss, and the Colorless One became a small pile of crystallic refuse. However, it still retained a modicum of its terrifying power.