Shift

Hellspawn

Shift doesn't really have a name. Anyone who encounters it usually calls it something else... before they are gone. (Many just end up going "Oh shit!" which might sound like Shift if you're panicked enough.)

One thing is for certain, the ground shifts beneath your feet. It can grow eyes, it can grow teeth, hands, claws, and it will pull you into its ever shifting form, crushing you into oblivion.

Perhaps it simply wants a quick taste? To crush or tear off a limb; or perhaps keep you beneath its surface to feast on continuously as your body breaks and repairs, toying with you for days on end. And just maybe, it might just let you go, letting you walk across it's surface unscathed... just to snatch you back and pull you under, right before you leave its domain.

All are at it's mercy walking across its vast expanse and one simply cannot know its fleeting, nonsensical whims from one moment to the next. It is wise to either avoid walking on a shift; and if you find you must do so, be sure to tread lightly, so as not to disturb its dusty, sleeping surface.

Part of this demon spans across the red rocky terrain, overlooking the canyon around Phayne's castle. (His castle is actually partially built into it as well and its halls go well beneath the surface).

It does not work for Phayne, but has taken up residence there to prey on those frantically trying to escape his territory. Phayne's castle being not only the home of a violent storm (which is ironically a demon as well), but of the great and mighty Fire Lord himself. Though many have not seen him outside his castle in years, it is said he still walks its halls and will attack anyone on sight.

Just when you're exhausted from the lightning, the acid rain, the continuous tornados and violent winds that have pursued you throughout the land, you pull yourself to the safety of a dry and welcoming cliffside; only for it to Shift hungerly beneath your feet and pull you down forever under...

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- This demon has rocky 'fingers' located all throughout the land. It is one entity deep beneath the surface of the world, but various branching points spread underground across Hell. It's much like a tree's root network that spans across the world, and pokes up in random places, sitting stationary for many years at a time - that's where the ground tends to shift/come alive, and it uses its 'brain' there, in order to feed.

- One might be walking across its surface, but it's 'brain' in that area will be asleep, because it's fingers are active in some other area of the world (but if you stomp around enough, you'll gain its attention).

- there is more than one of these demons, but they consider themselves one being, even if they are technically 'separate'. Much how a tree will grow out of another living tree, AKA: Inosculation.

Because of this, when the ground opens up, it might have varying colours than other areas where the Shift is present.

* It should be noted though, that Shift(s) are not all created at the same time; and when one Shift enters Hell freshly new, it will quickly be consumed within the rest of the Shift network.

- It is not known to communicate to anyone in anyway. But it can, tho it doesn't.

- This demon might know where a Torture Demon's lair is located... Too bad it doesn't speak to anyone.

* For context: Torture Demons do not enter Hell, as they are incredibly sought after by the Fire Lords (and other demons of the world), for their magics in demon creation known only to them. Torture Demons (they call themselves Creators) remain in their pocket realm lairs just outside of Hell and Purgatory, creating demons and sending them out into Hell's BrainFog. This BrainFog is basically a giant mist that one walks through after leaving the lair, and it jumbles up all their thoughts, when they exit the other side, no one can remember where they were initially released, and the fog is mysteriously gone.

- The Shift can shoot itself up (extending the ground into tall columns) when its chasing down someone particularly elusive, or if it comes across an airborne demon daring to fly little too close to the ground.

The surrounding lands are enveloped in earthquakes and sink pits when this is happening, even if its far off and not active in that area.

Try not to fall in :)

Music: Eternal Eclipse - Wings of Apocalypse

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