Adramelek

“Did ya see that on the left? Don’t look, you fool! Look without looking. I swear you’ll get us all killed.”

“No. No. Not that movement in the bushes. That was a deer… <sigh> The two pinprick lights. In the shadow of that oak we passed? The big one. Did ya notice that?”

“Noooo. It wasn’t sunlight on no leaves. This your first trip on this route isn’t it? And no one told you about this bit? No one mentioned Mother?”

“Ok. Did you not stop and wonder why the pay is so good on this run versus the one to Ko? Yeah it is longer, but that ain’t it. Bosses don’t care about distance. This is the Mother run, son. That’s why the pay on the back end is so high.”

“I can’t believe they didn’t tell you. Must be getting hard to find folks to do the run. I think Eslena in the first car is the longest timer on this trip. Not many of us do more than one, less they desperate… or crazy.”

“She ain’t either though. She’s just stubborn and will cut you from your balls to your bullshit’n mouth if you say a cross word to her. Believe me.”

“Any road. This is the Mother run. Takes us on the edge of her territory. Or what we think she thinks is her territory. Cross that border, and her kids will come for you. You do not want that.”

“No. Look at me. You do. Not. Want. That.”

“No. She’s not so much of a who as a what. Maybe even an idea. I ain’t never seen her. I’ve done this run, what? Thirteen times countin’ this one? Yea…”

“Thirteen. Damn. I am getting too old for this shit.”

“Yeah, her kids. No they ain’t little kids. You flat brained? Little kids scare’n me? Eslena? Say that shit ‘loud again and you are going to find yourself walk’n this route. Believe me.”

“The kids I’ve seen. You’ll catch glimpses of them for the next few days and that is all if you’re lucky. Shit. If we all lucky.”

“We unlucky though? Shit. One word. Teeth. Rows and rows on them orange skinned little monsters. Nasty smell on ‘m and finger nails like razors.”

“But you pretty, so they won’t kill you. Heh, no. My old ass ‘ill get the dirt nap, but you? You too pretty. You get the bag. Seen that happen.”

“The bag? Heh, how you think she makin’ them kids? Heh. Yeah, the bag be your fate son. Believe me.”

~ From Taubha’s Lesser Book of Names

Adramelek is often called the Mother of Monsters, or the Mother, for her whole purpose seems to be to breed her horrific spawn, whom she abuses and discards as needed. It is speculated by some that she has bred more children in her time than all of humanity that has ever existed on Yggdrasil. She demonstrates the kind of abusive affection with them that one sees in the worst of upbringings among mortals.

In the House of Gwhenegh she is little regarded, but that may be because of her singular focus on breeding and raising her brood. She is rarely seen by mortal and horror alike, but her presence is always known when her orange little monsters abound. She sends them out and bids them to capture males so that she may couple with them, draining them over days and weeks until they die a whither husk and she had brought more monsters into the world.

Adramelek is best used in a game as the monster behind the monsters. Her brood will raid out of the way locations, stealing food, kidnapping young men, and murdering everything else in their path. It is the perfect kind of disturbance to draw adventurers out into the wilds. Perhaps they even are ready to hunt her in her lair and put an end to her cycle of abuse.