Main Prey any Transportation magic(including Fly(but not Wings), Levitate, Air Walk, Feather Fall, Gate, Transport Through., Teleport(all variations), Etherealness, etc),any active ongoing magic, thus magic sources and magic bearing mages and clerics are preferred targets, and Vortices and portals, as well as Planar Ruptures or weaknesses(mostly due disasters like Volcanoes, or Magic gone awry).ĪC6(-4DX), HP1*, HD1/8th, MV/FL/SW 120'/40', Number appearing 2d20 or swarm 2d100, THAC0 individual na, Swarm 9-1/40 worms, Damage nil, Special attacks Leech 10% power or 10% active duration magic/attack, Special Weakness Gold/lead/Gorgon-& Dragonblood coated weapons and natural attacks (Claw/bite/fist, etc) can harm them any nonliving material (except gold, lead, Mythril, diamond, Gorgonblood, Dragon Blood), pass through them without harm, Speacial Weakness Gold/Mithril/Lead/Gorgonblood will harm them, Other solids passing through will slow them. These predators will have adapted to see or otherwise detect their prey(beholders actually developed their antimagical eye for the reason not to have their magic eaten, and prey upon the worms). Major Predator Mystaran Rainbow Lorikeet, and other fringe feeding creatures(like Grey Ooze-which remain in the Plane, sensing its prey in the Ethereal, and it yet entraps worms within its gooeish shape when they phase into the Prime Plane). These eggs hatch 1d3 weeks later, and form a small group. These common worms do procreate when in a swarm roughly once each year, by hatching minor eggs abandond in the Ethereal Plane close to a 'foodsource'. Detect invisible will only reveal the sensation where they are.ĭruids will be opposed exterminating these creatures, yet not in causing them to flee in the Ethereal Plane. In the Prime Plane they remain invisible except to Treusight, Second Sight, See Invisible, or to invisible creatures. These creatures are the reason vortices do not remain open indefinetly, and why transportation portals close after a while, and why many spell effects are limited in duration even when the enrgy for it should allow greater durations). These creatures belong to the ecology of all the Inner Planes and Balance the excess magic. Even when feeding they move around the magical target to take a bite each round. Their flying/swimming alike movement is done at equal ease in any Inner Plane, and nearly unhindered(movement slowed by 50%) by obstructions(they can phase literally through any solids, except, lead, gold, mithril, living matter, magic, or gorgon blood). These creatures swarm and are always in continuous movement, and do never stay still. These planes are wrapped around eachother and this twisting seriously confuses these creatures.

These creatures are never found close to the from the outside breaching Outer Planes found in the Ethereal Plane Dreamlands, Limbo and Entropy. If these find their way inside any other plane than the Ethereal their statistics are seriously affected and prefer to reenter the Ethereal Plane as fast as possible, except when finding a large source of food (see above ). They feed of the remnants of these magics which linger in both the Ethereal as well the nearby Inner Plane (Elemental or Prime).

To access these locations they phase through the Ethereal Planar border to feed, or use nearby Border openings or weaknesses. They are attracted by any Transportation magic(including Fly(but not Wings), Levitate, Air Walk, Feather Fall, Gate, Transport Through., Teleport(all variations), Etherealness, etc),any active ongoing magic, thus magic sources and magic bearing mages and clerics are preferred targets, and Vortices and portals, as well as Planar Ruptures or weaknesses(mostly due disasters like Volcanoes, or Magic gone awry). Naturally Ethereal Worms are 1d4 inches in lenght, 1/3rd inch in diameter and live in small groups or larger swarms. Atlas Rules Resources Adventures Stories FAQ Search LinksĪs swarm of Ethereal Worms looks like this

Inside limbo worms