Fiction:Teratoma

"The Colossi of old were indeed great beings with great powers. However, not every one of them was proud of their power like many think, and there were some who even regretted their own existences. The World Spore was one of them, and during its existence, it did nothing but cause death and decay through his path, much to his own dismay."

- Unknown

Teratoma was the Old Colossus of Poison. Two beings in one, Teratoma's true consciousness was concentrated in a towering mushroom tower covered in moss which had grown into the back of an immense arachnid monstrosity hundreds of thousands of years ago. As the old world's main beacon of venomancy, Teratoma's mere presence was enough to poison the very land beneath him, bringing terrible plagues and diseases along the way and turning his victims morbidly sick, all while spreading terrible toxic spores which could grow into whole forests of venomous mushrooms.

Despite this terrible power, though, Teratoma himself was not a malevolent entity. Greatly lamenting his own existence and the fact he could not stop the destruction he created, he found himself forced to be exiled from populous areas due to the danger he opposed, even though he wanted to aid the rest of the Colossi in their way against the forces of the Void. Grief eventually dominated the great fungus' mind, and he ended his own life by jumping into the sea, sinking, drowning and killing off millions of fish in the process.

History
Teratoma's origins are shrouded in mystery due to the lack of any documentation of his existence. The only knowledge of the Old Poison Colossus' life lie in the memories of still living ancient immortals and 's Library of Blood, both extremely difficult sources to be accessed by commoners. What is known about Teratoma is that he was born at the Western Forests and presumably lived there until the warded him off due to the terrible plagues he caused. The arachnid titan would flee to the Sea of Sand, where he was presumably attacked by s and s until he fled to the Tropical Lands, where he managed to hide himself in the far west. During his life, Teratoma found himself attacked by multiple entities who desired to end the diseases he was spreading, and any attempt to leave his hideout were met with violence due to the Colossus' own lack of means of communicating himself.

At presumed one hundred thousand years ago, legends claim a river of poison grew into the Tropical Lands and killed off a great number of forests until it hit the seas, and some records mention this river as being Teratoma's tears as he cried out for his own misery. The Poison Colossus eventually snapped and made a mad charge to the southern ocean, where he threw himself into the seas, causing the water around him to be contaminated and millions of fish to die. Teratoma sank down and eventually drowned, and no entity in the world displayed any sympathy for him.

Appearance
The Old Colossus of Poison was divided in two entities: a massive spider-like monster and a titanic mushroom. Teratoma himself is identified as being the mushroom and all the spore it produced, while the spider was a mere body the mushroom controlled in order to move around. The total height of the spider and the mushroom reached nearly three hundred meters tall, being big enough to walk over mountain ranges with his immense arachnid legs. The spider possessed a single eye in the middle of its face which shined in an intense purple light.

Personality
Teratoma was a tragic entity who lamented his own life, wishing to make himself useful but failing due to his incapability of controlling his powers. Due to being pushed aside in all of his attempts to aid the races of the world, Teratoma developed an intense self-loathing which eventually resulted in the Colossus committing suicide by drowning himself. To this day, it is uncertain whether the entities of the old world ever realized Teratoma wanted to help them against the denizens of the Void.

Abilities
As the Old Colossus of Poison, few beings in Koldenwelt rivaled Teratoma in poison magic potential. The mushroom in the spider's back continuously released an immense number of spores which caused the soil under the Colossus to be poisoned, with plants withering and dying while animal life was contaminated with terrible diseases and mutants, ranging from choking to death to growing mushrooms and teratomas inside their bodies. The spider's sheer size allowed it to crush most foes under it, and the Colossus' mandibles were strong enough to tear mountains apart.

Allies
"*confused screech*"


 * N/A

Neutral
"*crying screech*"


 * All Life

Enemies
"*violent screech*"


 * s