Ink and watercolour plate of an ether phantom: a gaunt spiked-armoured figure with a crown of spikes and red eyes, pale blue ether glowing through its cracks, its lower body fading into mist.

Creature

Ether Phantoms

Semi-corporeal beings that slip through the thin veil of the Shrike Desert, immune to every spell of the material world.

  • The Goblin Invasion

Description

Ether phantoms are ethereal beings that pass between worlds wherever the veil between dimensions grows thin. No spell from the material world can harm them; only ether magic, such as the Ethereal Spear, can strike them down. They come in flocks, and their touch is a chilling thing: even the bodiless Aurelius felt it, and wished never to feel anything again.

Historical context

The stranger met them in the sandstorms of the Shrike Desert and the ruins of Shrike's Lookout, a place soaked in ethereal magic. In the trials later held on the same grounds they were known simply as the desert phantoms.