A Compendium of Monstrosities, Gerladine Hardsworth (a.392)

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Hardsworth on the Noctopus

They open the bestiary's thick leather-bound cover of solid wood, and lay bare the pages half-meter tall. They see page upon page of things which would traumatize a child or terrify a person just to look upon. The monstrosities are drawn in dark inks with bright accents of all colors, even silver and gold. They are listed, and cataloged, and in many cases hinted at... in a winding book entirely lacking of index.

Finally, they turn to a page fraught with depictions of tentacles across it, winding around and through the text written: "The tentacles of darkness come as a dichotomy of forms. The forces of pure darkness which may possess or be unleashed from a thing of evil, or the cursed proboscis of a living monster: The Noctopus."

The book continues, "The Noctopus' visage is similar to that of the 8-Armed Giant Squid, however it needs not for water. It may be found in the depths of the sea, or the nimbus of clouds, and has a terrible hunger for everything that it eats."