#between molaesmyr and the netherdeep we have a few hints of what predathos unleashed could look like. and it's not good.

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Bell's Hells made a pretty salient point about how Predathos has been imprisoned for thousands of years, and releasing an entity that's been trapped for so long, left to go slowly mad, might not be a good idea. And that got me thinking about Call of the Netherdeep again. (Spoilers for all of that adventure, especially the ending.)

That is exactly what can happen with Alyxian, the anatagonist/deutragonist of Call of the Netherdeep. He is a powerful Ruidusborn who ends up stranded in a pocket dimenion, the Netherdeep, because of a magical cataclysm that happened when his 'connection to Ruidus flared to life'.

The Netherdeep is very Ruidus-flavoured. It's a psychic mirror for Alyxian's trauma, giving it physical forms. It's full of psionic aberrations, like sharks that cause a 'psychic maelstrom' around them and fish swarms that stun people who get caught in their space. Alyxian's own demigod nature and deep trauma are obviously an influence, but there's something of Ruidus - something of Predathos - woven in with his nature, and with the Netherdeep.

You know what happens if you release Alyxian - who has spent a thousand years slowly becoming absorbed into the Netherdeep, and being tortured by its influence - without helping him heal from his pain? He turns into a storm of shadow that 'can reduce cities to rubble in a matter of days' and begins razing Exandria.

Just an observation.