Skivvlex - The Red Slaad
They didn’t just die. They split — like sacks of blood and teeth. I saw it happen to Davren. And the thing that came out of him was laughing.
Role in Its Society:
Red slaadi are the violent vanguard of Limbo’s entropy — frenzied spreaders of corruption who implant eggs into hosts and birth new chaos through transformation. But Skivvlex is no ordinary slaad. He is the Brood-Torrent, a living vector swarm, bred by madness to outpace the Spawning Stone’s own propagation.
Among slaadi, he is a pariah-patriarch, feared and reviled for his ability to force-spawn unstable variants. Aberrant cults, however, seek to worship him as a chaotic messiah, seeing his infectious body as a way to “unlock” their true forms.
Where Skivvlex walks, people don’t just die — they change.
Appearance Description:
Skivvlex has a bloated, pocked body dripping with translucent ichor. His skin is blistered and stretched around twitching, half-formed proto-slaadi growing within. His claws are jagged bone spears, and his back splits open to release spasming sacs of eggs. Dozens of small, malformed eyes line his belly and neck, constantly blinking out of sync.
When he speaks, it sounds like multiple voices gurgling inside a shared throat, each vying for control.
Backstory:
Skivvlex’s origin is whispered of even in Limbo. Born during a chaotic convergence between a tear in the Weave and a rage-blessed storm in the Blightgrove of Veridya, he was immediately unstable — growing beyond slaadi norms. The Brood-Torrent developed the ability to spawn multiple corrupted slaadlings within minutes of infecting a host, often bypassing incubation entirely.
Driven by hunger and ideological purpose, he left Limbo and entered the Material Plane, drawn to areas of psychic instability and mortal suffering. Some believe he is a weapon, released intentionally. Others think he is Limbo itself given form and fever.
