Marsh Demons

Etymidion the Wave-Shedder was an elder Servant who was called forth by an acolyte of Karlak, and has since haunted swamps and battlefields of Tveimunjar.

Description
The ancient Servant lies enraged and sundered, his essence split among a thousand bodies. These may be categorized as several types of monster, but each possesses a unique blend of minds and desires.

Wisps - Detritus from the failed Trollish ritual, the appearance of ghostly blue fires precede the arrival of the Marsh Demons. These wisps are uncomfortable to the touch, driving away all animals and people with any sense.

Follower - The followers of Baugi, a necromancer and student of Karlak. These trolls are twisted and elongated, and seem to believe that they still follow the living Baugi. They revel in destruction, and often bear extra limbs, and glowing blue appendages bulging uncomfortably from their flesh.

Sacris - The inhabitants of Flinder, the Crag Scholar village which Baugi had sacrificed during his attempt to bind Etymidion. Blessed- or cursed- with nearly-intact memories and a full awareness of their situation, the power bound within the Sacris have mutated them into hulking forms, with eyes of fire and wings of light. These powerful monsters weep as they slay their own kin.

Baugi - Much of Etymidion's mind and power were bound in the body of his summoner, and Baugi now stands taller than a tower, arms swollen larger than tree trunks. Etymidion's vengeful anger has twisted the troll's body into one like a vast lion, with fire as a mane and poison in its fangs. Much of the summoner's essence is shunted into a serpent-like head which is constantly immolated upon the creature's tail, and the dead troll's screams for mercy bring the tormented spirit a measure of dark satisfaction.

History
The Marsh Demons were created by The Demon Ritual, when the necromancer Baugi attempted to bind an Elder Servant with the sacrifice of the village of Flinder. When the ritual proved insufficient, the ancient and unwilling Servant was forced to draw in the life-force of the sacrifices, the jungle-troll aggressors and his summoner, as well as the life of all the animals and plants for miles around. The Servant's powers were thus split, with a small portion inhabiting each body per the strength of desire each one had displayed.

The combination of so many minds has driven Etymidion to the edge of madness, but the great composite-spirit has discerned three directives to follow: It kills the Crag Scholars it meets on the field of battle, it lies in wait and plots an attack on Karlak so as to supplant the ancient lich and, most pressingly, it is bound by a distant directive to destroy the ones responsible for its summonses; The Reasonable Folk.

Thus bound, the army of monsters often appears upon the Trollish battlefield and assaults the combatants, tearing through all the trolls its many bodies can reach until it can strike at the Reasons who hide among the ranks, felling them. When no great targets are present, the demons roam the marshes around the Gate of Desolation, foiled only by the spellcraft of the ancient traitors who rule there.