Name: Ammit
Also Known As: Devourer of Souls
Type: Celestial
Ethereal Forces: 2 Intelligence:
2 Perception: 6 Mind Hits: 4
Celestial Forces: 6 Will:
18 Precision: 6 Soul Hits: 55
[Editor's Note: the high Will is not a typographical error: this entity is a definite anomaly. Research continues on this topic: copies of all encounter reports involving Ammit should be forwarded to the Office of Quest Facilitations, Industrious Sisters of Saint Joan.]
Skills: Area Knowledge/6 (Hell, Astral Gulf,
Heliopolitan Pantheon), Dodge/4, Fighting/6, Survival/6 (Hell, Astral Gulf)
Songs: Celestial Song of Movement/6, Celestial Song
of Shields/6
Esoteric Abilities: Destiny/Fate Determination
Primary Attack: Celestial Attack/(I dunno; big)
Secondary Attack: None
Appearance: A horse-sized hippo-like creature with a
crocodilian head, covered in tough, dark brown, crocodilian hide.
Favored Habitat: Hell
Number Typically Encountered: 1
General Classification: Ethereals: Neutral; Heaven:
Neutral; Hell: Hostile; Humanity: Neutral
Capsule Description: This creature was first
reported in Egyptian mythology, where it stood next to the scales of judgment
at the trial of each soul entering the Egyptian afterlife. It was fed the souls
of those Osiris deemed unfit for his paradise of Duat.
The creature is not, however, an Ethereal; it just
found a good food-source on that part of the Ethereal Plane. It is only
attracted to souls who have met their Fates, and so now is found almost always
in Hell, where most demons regard it the way farmers regard foxes (which is why
it preferred the easier pickings of Egyptian mythology). Unfortunately, from an
Infernal point of view, the creature is tough, fierce, and able to teleport.
When it wishes to leave Hell, it generally resorts
to the Astral Gulf, the waste area of the Celestial Plane between Hell and
Heaven. There, it sometimes preys on imps, small demons, and escapees. It still
occasionally travels the Ethereal Plane, searching for demons and Fate-bound
dreamshades; it transits from one plane to another through Beleth's
Principality.
Devouring a soul leaves the Ammit replete with
Essence and restores 1d Soul Hits. If it is missing no Soul Hits, a meal
restores 1d Mind Hits. If it is missing no Mind Hits, a meal restores a missing
Force, if any.
Reported by: Deuel, Elohite of Destiny
Corporeally Researched by: Earl Wajenberg
Corporeal Reference: "The Book of Imaginary Beings," by Jorge Luis Borges