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The Mothertoad
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The Mothertoad is House Viviria's citygod.
Appearance
The mothertoad is a massive aggregation of corrupted mephitoads. It’s hard to describe exactly what it looks like, as it depends on the angle from which you’re looking at it, as well as when - the thing appears to constantly change and evolve. Mephitoad heads, toothy maws, eyes, and tentacles make up its boiling mass, among other various nodules, tendrils, and orifices. It tends to be a variety of swampy colors like olive and ochre, but these seem to shift with temperature and humidity.
Personality
The mothertoad is protective, aggressive, animalistic, and mostly concerned with spreading its influence. When in its presence, one tends to feel oddly doting of the creature, and is at great risk of being assimilated into the writhing mass.
Backstory
The mothertoad was once an ordinary mephitoad that was corrupted in an experiment long ago. The details of this experiment are not known to those outside the Council, but it was thought to have been related to Nodd’s chaos and order theories. The entire event became known as the Night of the Mothertoad.
As a result of the experimentation the mephitoad grew wildly in size and power and began absorbing the city and its inhabitants in earnest. The initial intent was to destroy the creature entirely, a task which Illa Phasmere and her followers were able to carry out, but not without considerable collateral damage to the city. Seeing an opportunity in the corrupted mephitoad, however, the Council intervened before it was completely eradicated and instead gave what was left of the creature a seat upon the Council in the same fashion as Illa. And thus were founded the first two arcane Houses of Nodd.