The Left Hand of Eternity by Ray Winninger
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THE IRON LABYRINTH START feet = Water Pool FINISH 0 100 MEPHISTO'S REALM Official Game Adventure The Left Hand of Eternity By Ray Winninger Resource Book TABLE OF CONTENTS The Entities.................................................................................................................2 Death .......................................................................................................................2 Eternity .....................................................................................................................3 Galactus....................................................................................................................3 The Death Gods .........................................................................................................6 Mephisto ...................................................................................................................6 Mephisto's Demonic Thralls.......................................................................................7 Mephisto's Footsoldiers.............................................................................................7 Pluto .........................................................................................................................8 Pluto's Footsoldiers ..................................................................................................9 Hela .........................................................................................................................9 Seth .......................................................................................................................10 Other Characters ......................................................................................................11 Voyd ....................................................................................................................... 11 Uatu ....................................................................................................................... 11 Clea ....................................................................................................................... 12 Dormammu............................................................................................................. 13 Mindless Ones ....................................................................................................... 14 Dark Dimension Inhabitant, Typical......................................................................... 14 Thanos .................................................................................................................. 15 Captain Marvel........................................................................................................ 15 The Purple Man ..................................................................................................... 16 Credits Design: Ray Winninger Editing: Scott D. 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The TSR logo and PRODUCTS OF YOUR IMAGINATION are trademarks owned by TSR, Inc. Game Design ©1988 TSR, Inc. All Rights Reserved. What is forever? An appraisal of DEATH time that begins with the primal explosion and ends with the collapse F 5000 Cl 5000 Health: of the universe's incomprehensible 20,000 bulk? Or is it something more—a A 5000 Cl 5000 measurement without limits or true S 5000 Cl 5000 Karma: definition, a calculation of the Unlim. immeasurable span preceding time E 5000 Cl 5000 and continuing long after AII-That-ls R 5000 Cl 5000 Resources: ceases to be? Unlimited Who among us can know? What- I 5000 Cl 5000 ever the true nature of Forever, is is P 5000 Cl 5000 Popularity: more than a mere mortal—or even, -1000 perhaps, a god—dares hope to understand. Compared to Forever, KNOWN POWERS: our lives are but a decimal taken to Death can use any of the powers the billionth place; the entire history listed in the Player's Book (or in of our race does not amount to the MA3—The Ultimate Powers Book, if tiniest fraction. you have it) as it sees fit.with Class And yet, there are those that know 5000 proficiency. Death will rarely Forever: Beings of unimaginable use these powers directly, preferring power and age born with the Uni- to operate through other agents, or verse itself, and sentenced to live to wait for its prey to fail and eventu- until it dies. More powerful than ally die through some fault of its own. gods, more mysterious than the The closer a victim is to Death's darkest secret in the blackest heart, power level, the more likely Death is these beings know Forever. We call to employ its own vast powers in a these beings Entities. By this term, conflict. we mean to describe that which is Thanos fell so deeply in love with indescribable. Perhaps we can say LIMITATION: In the center of the they are intangible manifestations Death that he was willing to destroy universe is a 30-foot hole shaped like the entire universe in order to please which embody abstract concepts. a man. This is where Eternity was her. Death is extremely jealous of its But this would not be quite correct, born. Any being occupying this hole for very often men have seen and power and realms. It once attempted is immune to Death's touch and can- to destroy Dracula in order to stop been touched by and talked to them. not die. Yet it would be too simple to call the vampire from robbing it of con- them sentient beings, for they are quests by creating undead beings. BACKGROUND: The origin and true On this occassion, Death manifested part of the essence of the Universe nature of Death is unknown, but it is in a way we can never hope to itself to Dracula as a male rival. This apparently one of the basic forces of may be an indication that Death understand. Perhaps it is simply best the universe, embodying the princi- to describe them as something adopts the female form in order to ple of mortality and decay. Some seduce pliable males into doing its between the abstract and the tangi- beings who have studied the nature ble: mysterious existences which will. On several occassions, Death of the universe believe Death and has presented itself to living beings sprang somehow from the void that Eternity are siblings who embody the was Before, and which will not perish as a skeleton wearing a hooded entire mystical essence of the uni- robe. Death has also manifested until the universe returns to the lump verse between them. Although pre- that will be After. itself in order to preside over the sumably beyond the understanding death of a long-lived or immortal This section describes the Entities of mortal beings, Death sometimes that appear in The Left Hand of Eter- being, such as an Asgardian or appears as a sentient being with Olympian god. Presumably, Death nity. While only Death and Eternity understandable motivations. Most sprang directly from the Big Bang, felt that such a rare addition to its often, Death appears in female form, realm required personal attention. In the other entities can be said to have apparently seeking to extend its come from Chaos and exist beyond order to win true immortality, the realm or achieve dominance over its Grandmaster recently tricked Death the realm of any mortal's comprehen- sibling, Eternity. Death once sion. Therefore, we have grouped into barring all Elders of the Universe appeared in the guise of a beautiful from its realm. This may prove to be them all together under this general woman to the Titanian Thanos. heading. a mistake, for Death is one of the few 2 beings with the power to avenge sciousness of all living things in the itself it realizes it was tricked. universe, the embodiment of their life Despite the apparent simplicity of as Death is the embodiment of the Death's drive for more conquests, ending of that life. any being foolish enough to believe Unlike Death, which Eternity often he truly understands the dark entity refers to as its sibling, Eternity rarely may soon regret his arrogance. takes any sort of an active role in the Death moves without discernible dealings of the trillions of beings that pattern or logic, striking wherever make up its total. However, since and whenever it feels compelled to controlling the being Eternity allows do so. Because of this capricous- the controller to wield Eternity's ness, virtually all creatures in the unlimited powers over the beings universe fear Death. No matter how that make it up, this entity is a target mighty or powerful they are, they for extra-dimensional attackers of realize they must eventually surren- various abilities. Often Eternity can der themselves to its dark realm. The deflect such attacks