Glurrash’ttha - The Gibbering Mouther
In the fetid sinkholes of the Blightgrove, there slithers a gibbering mouther unlike any other—one whose babbling mouths echo names, secrets, and forgotten truths. Glurrash’ttha is no mindless horror, but a cursed amalgam with fractured memory and maddening intent.
(In Deep Speech, "Glurrash’ttha" roughly means "The Many-Tongued One Who Remembers")
Role in Its Society:
While most gibbering mouthers are primal consumers, Glurrash’ttha occupies an aberrant status among aberrants—a memory vessel. Deep aberrations and mind flayers occasionally seek it out to extract forgotten truths through torturous rituals. It is not revered, but utilized, and kept in the deepest wastes as a forbidden oracle.
Appearance Description:
Glurrash’ttha's many eyes are milky and rheumy, yet some shimmer with a strange iridescent hue—like oil on black water. Dozens of mouths whisper constantly, but a few are larger, rimmed with bone and tattooed with runes formed from scarring tongues. Its surface is a sickly blend of purples and raw crimson, shot through with veins that pulse with soft light.
Backstory:
Glurrash’ttha was once Thalivan Yr'thek, a scholar-priest of the Abstrusian cult in Eldervast’s Gloomshade. He sought to understand the Whispering Root—a cryptic offshoot of the Great Birch believed to house forbidden truths. When Thalivan attempted to consume the essence of a fragmentary god trapped beneath the birch's roots, his soul and body unraveled into madness. What emerged was a gibbering mouther—but one whose mouths still spoke with fragmented pieces of ancient truths, and remnants of Thalivan’s arcane obsession.
