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Approved NPC Spindlemurk

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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
  • Intent: I'm resubbing this submission after making the necessary adjustments and edits, requested by Darth Machinus Darth Machinus . I'm making this submission to give my Sith Lord, Insatious, a nightmarish-like monster that will harvest victims' souls for Insatious to then later feed upon.
  • Image Credit:
    link [Fan art] Fiddlesticks Rework, Ruy E. Carulli
  • Role: Spindlemurk's role is simply to harvest the souls of those it kills and bring the trapped souls to Insatious, so he can eat them.
  • Permissions: N/A
  • Links: Darth Insatious
PHYSICAL INFORMATION
  • Age:
    • The construct body: existed for 20+ years, though the construct doesn't age because it's mostly machine.
    • The Soul: 50 years of age.
  • Force Sensitivity: Force Dead
  • Species: Construct with the trapped, twisted and tortured soul of a force-sensitive victim.
  • Appearance:The construct is reaching a little over 3.5m (11ft) in full height and weighs around 159kg (350lb). Despite its height and weight, Spindlemurk's form has a rather lanky and gaunt shape having almost no stomach, yet human-shaped chest size. Arms almost as long as its body reaching the shins, with razor-sharp fish hook-shaped claws reaching around 10.24in (26cm) in length and 6.3in (16cm) in width.
    Spindlemurk technically isn't alive, therefore it doesn't have a need for oxygen but just... exist. Instead, harvests the souls of its victims and stores them in the chest, the more souls it obtains, the brighter the prison within the chest burns... a blood-red colour. Clad in dark grey Phrik alloy mixed in Beskar of optimal survivability, giving it a natural ability to hide in darkness and shadows.

    Furthermore, it is dressed in dark pale cloth and rags, giving Spindlemurk an eerily resembling that of a scarecrow, especially in the distance. Spindlemurk's internal mechanism also allow it to flare bright blood-red lights from its mouth and long pointy eyes. When it does flare it often breaks through other tattered places of the cloth and rags it wears, which especially is visible around the head.
    Spindlemurk's mouth is filled with jagged metal teeth with a permanent Jack O'Lantern smile reaching all the way up to where ears would have been.
SOCIAL INFORMATION
  • Name: Spindlemurk.
  • Theme: Fiddlestick


  • Voice: Fiddlestick


  • Loyalties: Spindlemurk is completely loyal to Insatious and answers only to him.
  • Wealth: N/A
  • Notable Possessions: Soul Snare. A soul and life harvest crystal that is carried inside of Spindlemurk's chest.
  • Skills:
    • Voice mimicking: Able to mimic the voices of its victims.
    • Spider climbing: With metallic claws and agility to add, Spindlemurk is capable of climbing as fast as it's able to run
    • Adaptive combat: Spindlemurk is capable of adapting to opponents it's fighting
    • Soul harvesting: Due to Insatious, the being Spindlemurk is capable of draining the soul and life of beings it has killed. However, instead of absorbing the soul itself, the soul is transferred and trapped in a specially made Soul snare crystal to imprison and house many souls, until Spindlemurk brings the souls to Insatious to feed on them.
  • Languages: Spindlemurk is a bit of a special case as it's Able to mimic the voices of its victims. However, it can understand Sith and Basic, in order to take orders from Darth Insatious.
  • Personality: Spindlemurk is an extremely aggressive and highly erratic being. Those who have survived the encounter with Spindlemurk describes it as something out of nightmares. Spindlemurk also doesn't differentiate between its targets and people in its way as it's just more souls for the Soul Snare. Spindlemurk likes to ambush its victims, using the shadows to strike from. The only being it won't attack is Insatious and while it listens to its master's commands, its impulsive personality and opportunist nature can get the better of it and attack allies if Insatious isn't there to control it.

    During a mission, something managed to damage Spindlemurk causing it to develop speech in form of mimicking people it kills. At some point on a mission, it was damaged and as such the mimicking is often heard as ragged breathing while speaking in a contorted robotic voice which Spindlemurk oftentimes would end the sentence in a deep growling tone. Due to the many souls, it has harvested for Insatious, a soul imprint has been left on Spindlemurk's personality and voice, often time mixing and matching to speak crude sentences when facing an opponent. While Insatious most likely could have "fixed" Spindlemurk, he found it amusing and left the abnormality as it is.
COMBAT INFORMATION
  • Weapon of Choice: Its claws and teeth.
  • Combat Function: Spindlemurk isn't exactly a being with the greatest techniques or one who has trained its whole life, dedicated combat. What it can do, is take punishment to a frightening degree. Because its entire body is infused with Phrik alloy mixed in with Beskar, it's extremely resistant to physical damage. As such, Spindemurk always aims for close combat, where it can slash and tear its enemies to piece and then trap their souls.
  • Special equipment: Soul Snare. A soul and life harvest component that is carried inside of Spindlemurk's chest.
Strengths:
  • Force Dead: Through Sith Alchemy, Sith magic and experiments, the tortured soul was completely cut from the presence of the Force as it was bounded to the constructed body of Spindlemurk.
  • Darkness: Spindlemurk act very much like an ambush animal, in that it mostly stays in the shadows or preferably during evenings and/or nighttime. While it has no problem hunting in the day, the light of the sun is an annoyance though the commands from Insatious has powerful binding powers over the construct.
  • Durability: Because the entire body of Spindlemurk is made out of Phrik alloy mixed in Beskar, makes it almost nearly indestructible
Weaknesses:
  • Below average intelligence: Despite having a tortured soul of a Force Sensitive, the construct, Spindlemurk, lost most of its intelligence after the merge and doesn't feel particularly clever if compared to the likes of military tacticians. It isn't some great tactician or military genius, but a cyborg constructs with a singular goal.
  • Force Light: Having been forged from Sith Alchemy and Sith Magic, merged with an ungodly construct body, Spindlemurk's hatred burns deep at the light. The purer the connection to the Light Side of the Force, the more it hurts Spindlemurk.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
With Darth Insatious' ever-growing hunger for life, the Sith Lord sought to create something that could harvest souls for him from more powerful beings that could challenge his own prowess. In the end, he constructed a body of pure Phrik and Beskar alloy that would then be merged with the twisted and tortured soul of the purest child of the Light.
Binding soul and body, Insatious released his creation upon a bordering planet with spares villages. Letting Spindlemurk run rampant for twenty or so years Insatious was satisfied by his creation's success and left with his creation. While Spindlemurk was no more, it would feature in various local scary stories told by parents to children:
"Don't go out at night, or Spindlemurk will get you" or "Always remember to lock doors and windows on a full moon, because that's when Spindelmurk hunger for souls".
 
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Under Review Darth Insatious Darth Insatious

Very spooky! It looks like you've pretty much tackled the changes that Machinus asked for, so this is almost ready. Just a few more minor things and I can stamp this approved.

  • A couple of fields are missing from the template. Per the Codex rules, you may not leave out any field from the template.
    • Please add the Links field after Permissions (Out of Character Information section)
    • Please add the Languages field between Skills and Personality (Social Information section)

  • Age: While Spindlemurk and its victims might not know its age, this is an OOC resource, and we need something more specific. Is the soul hundreds of years old? Thousands? Tens of thousands? The Republic and the Jedi have been around for about 27,000 years. Is the soul older than that?

  • Using the Soul Snare is a great idea to get away from the "soul gem" copyright issue, but you still say "soul gem" in a few places. Please change those mentions to Soul Snare instead.
    • In the Personality section
    • In the Special Equipment section

  • Combat Function: Like Machinus mentioned, we steer clear of terms like "indestructible," even if it's only "nearly indestructible". Let's change this to something like "extremely resistant to physical damage", especially since its body (per the Factory submission) has much lower resistance to sonic and elemental damage types.

Please reach out with any questions or if you need any help.
 
There, all the edits should have been made now.

About the nearly indestructible in Combat Function. I was merely using what the wiki said about the Phrik Alloy.

Another thing, about the age. It's been really hard for me to come up with an age.
Why I wrote lost to time. Cause the soul is of the purest child of the light. That doesn't mean an actual child, so I'm having trouble picking an age that would represent a Force Sensitive being when they are a student of the light and have the purest soul.

Think I've indirectly made it harder for myself xD
 

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