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“
The Red End stirs in its slumber. Do not let it wake.
”
– 
The divine warning about Predathos.[1]
[!h]

Predathos is an entity that arrived on Exandria during the Founding.[6][7] Predathos is also referred to as the God Eater, by the gods as the Red End,[1] and by the Ruidians with epithets such as the One Who Sleeps, the Beating Heart, or the Dreamkeeper, since they avoid saying its name.[8]

History[]

The Birth of Ruidus by Wesley Griffith

Official art of the creation of Ruidus, by Wesley Griffith.[art 1]

The being came from somewhere beyond Exandria, from the stars, much as the Protean Creator gods did during the Founding. It descended on an island city and created twisted life forms. The gods recognized the entity and feared it.[9][10] It resisted the divine magic of the deities who were already on the planet. At some point, the entity devoured first Ethedok the Endless Shadow, god of darkness and winter, and then Vordo the Fateshaper, god of fate and order. After losing two of their own, the remaining deities struck an agreement with the elemental forces of Exandria, and together they imprisoned Predathos, trapping it (and the still-inhabited island) within a piece of the planet marked with gigantic runes.[11] They attempted to send this imprisoning shell far away, but it clung to the world and settled into orbit as a moon that would be called Ruidus. The satellite was surrounded by a guardian divine latticework, similar to the one that would become the Divine Gate.[12] The gods then "agreed to create a tale about Ruidus to conceal its alien origin from the mortals of the world, informing them that it was a moon of ill omen, and its magical influence was always to be avoided."[6]

During Ludinus Da'leth's time living in Molaesmyr, he discovered information about Predathos and managed to contact it during a flare of the red moon. Interested in this entity, the wizard started working to create better communication with it using the flare of the apogee solstice of 585 PD and the energy he was taking from the crystal well under the city, possibly also using in the process an Aeorian relic. While he managed to successfully contact Predathos, his plan caused the corruption of the city and the surrounding Veluthil Forest, although due to the secrecy of his scheme neither his involvement in the fall of Molaesmyr nor Predathos's existence were revealed.[13]

As of 843 PD, Predathos and the two deities it destroyed had been nearly forgotten. Only a few documents in Vasselheim acknowledged their existence, but the authorities of the city wanted to keep that knowledge hidden and forgotten, not only to maintain the faith of the followers of the Prime Deities, but also to protect Predathos's prison. Thus, when the Grim Verity stole the documents, Vasselheim sent judicators to chase those who possessed this dangerous information.[14]

According to Tuldus, a member of the Ruby Vanguard, Ludinus Da'leth is able to communicate with Predathos, and has put plans in motion to release it.[15] During the extended apogee solstice of 843 PD the gods were frightened by the possibility of Predathos being freed from its prison thanks to Ludinus' plans, so they urged their mortal followers to prevent it.[16] According to Liliana Temult, Predathos needs an Exaltant Ruidusborn "vessel" to carry it past the boundaries set to imprison it within the red moon, and its chief desire is to be awake, free, and able to seek vengeance against those who imprisoned it.[17]

In a dream, Imogen Temult traveled to the core of the Moon of Ill Omen, appearing in a dark space where she felt an immense and powerful presence that made her feel at home, and leaving her with a desire to find that place again.[18] While the party was on Ruidus sheltering from a storm in a cave, Imogen tried to connect with Predathos again and her consciousness was pulled toward it against her will. She heard its voice asking to be awakened, but she managed to resist the pull and returned to consciousness.[19]

The Weave Mind is a Ruidian council of extremely old and powerful reiloran mystics that act as a conduit to Predathos's mind for the inhabitants of the red moon.[20] Willmaster Edmuda revealed that the reilora aspired to free Predathos because if they did so and it devoured the gods, Exandrians' ability to oppose reiloran immigration to the Blue Promise would be greatly reduced.[21]

When half of Bells Hells were in the Colloquium of Candescense inside the Prime Pillar Chetney Pock O'Pea used his Grim Psychometry while touching the Ruidian glass branching into its walls, getting flashes of red and stone crushing, as well as feelings of anger, hunger and loneliness.[22] In an arcane laboratory within the Colloquium, the adventurers found a theoretical representation of Ruidus showing that its core was made of teal glass (forming 30-40% of the total), with pillars piercing upwards out of it in various locations across the moon.[23] Evoroa later confirmed that the glass veins were remnants of the God Eater's last form before being sealed and that the material itself was part of the prison, acting like a shell holding a second adamantine-like layer infused with divine magic.[24] Athion Zathuda called this prison "the Hallowed Cage".[25]

Abilities[]

  • Ruidusborn influence: Even from its prison the God Eater is able to influence and communicate with Ruidusborn that are close enough (physically and/or psychically). The DC for the Wisdom saving throw to resist the influence is between 15 and 18.[26]

Appearances and mentions[]

Ruidus

Depiction of Ruidus, by CoupleOfKooks from Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep.[art 2]

Quotations[]

  • (to Imogen) "Welcome home. Join us. Wake us."[27]
  • (Liliana Temult, about Predathos) "It's real tired of being here [in Ruidus] and it's real angry at those who put it there, and it's real hungry."[28]

Trivia[]

  • Its name seems to combine the Latin prefix preda- (referring to predators/predation) and one of (or both) of the following suffixes:
    • Athos, referring to a giant in Greek mythology. In myth, he is indirectly responsible for creating a mountain named after himself: in one telling, he attempted to throw one at Poseidon but missed (depending on the variants, it either landed in the sea and became the mountain there, or Poseidon then used it to bury Athos). In other tellings, Poseidon threw the mountain at Athos first.
    • Thos (θώς), an Ancient Greek word meaning "jackal" that may be related to an earlier root meaning "to eat".[29]
  • This article uses "it/its" pronouns for Predathos until further confirmation of its gender expression. So far the only time Predathos has communicated it has spoken as a collective, using "we", but other people refer to the entity as "it".[30]
  • Even if Predathos doesn't communicate verbally, the emotions it shares are processed in the brain as words.[31]
  • Members of the Grim Verity have theories and hypothesis about the creation of Predathos's prison, having correctly guessed it could have been originally a landmass on the surface of Exandria.[32] They also theorize that the most powerful Ruidusborn, called "Exaltant" or "Scions", could be receiving their power from the entity in the red moon, who might want to use them as anchors.
  • Matthew Mercer confirmed that the Moon of Ill Omen occasionally "notices" specific lycanthropes, influencing them and forcing them to change.[33]
  • According to the documents, Predathos came "from beyond the stars" and the gods recognized it,[34] hinting that, like them, Predathos came from beyond the Material Plane. It might be the "nothingness" that destroyed Tengar in the prologue of Downfall.

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 See "Escape From The Past" (3x58) at 3:43:25.
  2. ↑ See "For The Tempest" (3x68) at 2:18:36.
  3. ↑ See "Red Rural Revelations" (3x84) at 0:34:04.
  4. ↑ See "Red Rural Revelations" (3x84) at 0:59:33.
  5. ↑ See "Red Rural Revelations" (3x84) at 0:59:37.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 See Call of the Netherdeep, p. 6.
  7. ↑ See "Axiom Shaken" (3x43) at 3:03:03.
  8. ↑ See "Red Rural Revelations" (3x84) at 0:59:14.
  9. ↑ See "Axiom Shaken" (3x43) at 3:03:04.
  10. ↑ See "A Path of Vengeance" (3x65) at 3:27:57.
  11. ↑ See "The Cradle's Convocation" (3x104) from 2:25:23 through 2:29:43.
  12. ↑ See "Axiom Shaken" (3x43) from 3:00:43 through 3:05:41.
  13. ↑ See "Escape From The Past" (3x58) at 2:29:06.  The fact that Ludinus contacted Predathos about 300 years before the events of Campaign Three was confirmed in "Broken Roads" (3x92) at 0:28:13.
  14. ↑ See "Axiom Shaken" (3x43) at 2:38:01.
  15. ↑ See "Bawdy Basement Belligerence" (3x44) at 3:14:32.
  16. ↑ See "Escape From The Past" (3x58) from 3:42:12 through 3:46:32.
  17. ↑ See "Broken Roads" (3x92) at 0:19:45.  See also at 0:22:42–0:24:21.
  18. ↑ See "The Eve of the Red Moon" (3x81) at 1:29:40.
  19. ↑ See "Ruidus" (3x83) at 3:01:18.
  20. ↑ See "Red Rural Revelations" (3x84) at 0:58:17.
  21. ↑ See "Intense Interrogations" (3x85) at 1:09:44.
  22. ↑ See "Mission Improbable" (3x90) at 2:31:08.
  23. ↑ See "Mission Improbable" (3x90) from 2:46:25 through 2:48:01.
  24. ↑ See "Broken Roads" (3x92) at 1:17:01.
  25. ↑ See "Where The Red Fearne Glows" (3x94) at 0:42:16.
  26. ↑ See "Ruidus" (3x83) at 3:01:46.  Imogen failed her first saving throw with a 14, and she succeeded on the second one with an 18. "Ruidus" (3x83) at 3:04:22.
  27. ↑ See "Ruidus" (3x83) at 3:01:32.
  28. ↑ See "Broken Roads" (3x92) at 0:23:50.
  29. ↑ Entry for θώς at Wiktionary
  30. ↑ See "Ruidus" (3x83) at 3:01:32.
  31. ↑ See "Ruidus" (3x83) at 3:01:19.
  32. ↑ See "Axiom Shaken" (3x43) at 3:20:44.
  33. ↑ See the Rose City Comic Con podcast at 12:56.
  34. ↑ See "Axiom Shaken" (3x43) at 3:03:16.

Art:

  1. ↑ Official art of the creation of Ruidus, by Wesley Griffith (source). Used with permission.
  2. ↑ Depiction of Ruidus, by CoupleOfKooks from Critical Role: Call of the Netherdeep. Used with permission. This page contains unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Wizards of the Coast Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.
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