Blowt

A collage of various blowt encountered during and shortly after The Arctic Autumn in the vicinity of Ravel

The Blowt are the end result of Frost Giant revenants from Orbis Alius posessing creatures (and rarely objects) as part of a siege on Quelmar during the Fantasial Freeze. They are antagonistic and violent, and seek the destruction of all living things specific things?

About

When X the Paladin used the Wand of the Spout to freeze the Ocean, the Blowt emerged soon after. Strange creatures they were; dragonflyfolk, whalefolk, mosquitofolk, and other humanoid creatures that had never walked the lands of Quelmar now slew citizens of southern Osugbo. They seemed mindless at first; the only readily available pieces of information were that the Blowt are connected to death/places of death, they are enlarged by whatever force is animating them, and they can be summoned by blowing on flutes carved from the bones of other Blowt.

It was not until several PCs journeyed into the Veil that the nature of the Blowt became more apparent. A skeletal monster named Thesaurus waits beyond the realm of death for creatures to become Blowted, a fascimile of life to carry out the orders of the Bheara.

We have also learned that living creatures can become Blowt themselves, which boosts their physical strength at the cost of their mind - they are cursed to follow orders despite their own nature, as the Kaiju Penguin Blowt indicate. Some PCs have taken on this curse, Ravel's army now contains Blowted soldiers, and other variations may exist.

At the end of Act I of the Freeze, the source of the Blowt's energy is located in Paraska Manor. Whatever entity exists there is ancient, evil, and perhaps not of this world - it warps the very fabric of reality to bend characters like Savile to its will.

The Blowt as a race have taken up residence in the city of Ravel, have taken over Tusgrer, and a hole in the Ocean ice that leads to the Otherworld lies between the two cities. It is the goal of the remaining cities of southern Osugbo to contain this scourge and help Quelmar get back to a place of peace.

In Act 2, infamous Blowt were able to be hunted by PCs in the form of Bounty Boxes, where the party could use which Blowt to target based on party level & composition. The Blowt hunted were:

• Mr. Mosquito, who seemed to warp back in time to haunt the village of Tusgrer. The heroes dealt with him by killing him multiple times, with all of Tusgrer's Blowted townsfolk as casualties. The fight opened up a Blowthole in the center of the town.

Yuki's Notes

If one has been on Osugbo for the last year, from before the Freeze to the Current Thawing Era, it would be impressive if they had not encountered The Blowt.

To many, the Blowt is a disease. A cold blue essence that takes over the living and dead alike, leaving those possessed to lash out in rage and scream “ —-- “. However, to those who have ventured into Orbis, the Blowt is much more complex than that.

In simple terms, the Blowt is an undead phenomenon where the souls of the vengeful dead possess the bodies touched by Haar, or the naturally occurring essence of wrongful death. “Blowt” manifests in sickly blue ice where a lot of Haar accumulates for various reasons. Most of which seem to circle around wrongful deaths, unceremonious burials and killing in revenge. It is important to note that not all of the unceremonious burials or acts of vengeance must be violent or fatal in nature to attract Haar and Accumulate Blowt.*1

The term Blowt also refers to the act of possession. To be “Blowted” is to be possessed by a vengeful spirit, often a frost giant who was Corpse-Stitched and cast aside after the Human - Animal folk war. Though recently more and more souls who have died wrongful deaths during and after The Freeze come back to the world of the living seeking to possess those that come in contact with concentrated amounts of Blowt.*2

Thanks to the Orbis expedition, we have learned that the origin of the Blowt is in fact Orbis. An afterlife for the wrongfully deceased created for (by?) the original Frost Giants who were Corpse-Stitched during the war. After the war was over, the Corpse-Stitched Giants were unable to go to an afterlife as they were multiple lives in one body.*3 Thus, they went to (made?) Orbis as no other afterlife would take them. There they stewed in their misery, turning their abandonment into hatred and vengeance.

*source 1 - Notes brought back from Orbis mentioning that not all acts of vengeance must be violent in nature to accumulate Haar to the location the act was done in. (Blue Sticky Note)

*source 2 - Notes brought back from Orbis mentioning that Xilas La Croix has joined the 8 Champions of the Bhearra and facilitated a lot of wrongful deaths to then use those newly dead spirits to enact revenge for their deaths, and so on and so forth. Creating a Haar farming engine.

*source 3 - —------ from the Infernal Library. “They had no place in heaven because blowt were made of multiple lives.”

Being Blowted

Though Blowt refers to the creatures who have a similar set of symptoms (large in size, blue skinned or furred or eyed, a bit savage), it seems that the Blowt all suffer from a condition that has been passed on to others, including heroes, which is called "Blowted". Being Blowted seems to be a disease of sorts, since it can be cured in similar fashion. The following methods have been confirmed to cure or save someone from a state of being Blowted:

1. The Gohei, temporarily removes active blowt from anyone in its radius, like a bubble of purification. However, the blowt itself can then freely appear, separate from its host, and automatically returns to the host if the Gohei is deactivated or moved away from the host.
2. The Gohei can be used more permanently if the Blowt ghost that appears is then beaten into submission and sent back to Orbis, freeing the body.
3. Natural Remedies, a verderer art.
4. Soverign Remedy, an alchemist art
5. Philosopher's Stone, an alchemist art
6. Purge Ailment, a healer art
7. Purified Body, a Vowed art
8. Unaging, a necromancer art
9. Immaculate Body, a slayer art
10. Occult Resilience Level 2, a set of feats
11. Conjunct the Vital Viscera, a level 3 spell