Timeline: TC1853.01.26 (Late Afternoon)
Location: Veiled Winds City Wall → Outer District
The beast that charged Veiled Winds had been a boar once.
Raven could see traces of its original form buried under layers of corruption that had twisted a natural creature into a cosmic nightmare. The tusks that sprouted from three separate skulls—each growing from flesh that had split and multiplied like cancer given physical form—still carried the curved shape of wild pig ancestry. But everything else had been consumed by mutation that defied natural law.
Twenty meters tall. Four legs that bent at seven joints each, bones visible through translucent hide that pulsed with sickly yellow light. The corruption had stretched its body like clay worked by a mad sculptor—torso elongated until ribs showed through skin thin as parchment, muscle fibers visible as dark ropes that contracted and expanded with movements that suggested pain with every step.
