Sho'groth

Lore
The Withermoon is an astrological event during which the metaphysical boundaries between Atlas and the Void are at their weakest. During this time, the abominable dragon-creatures of the Void are able to affect Atlas’s reality. Most simply wish to terrify Atlas’s citizens: instilling night-terrors, causing hallucinations, and otherwise wrapping Atlas in a blanket of fear. A few, however, have much more malicious schemes. The being known as Sho’groth seeks to unmake Atlas’s reality, and during this time, the waning boundaries between worlds allows the dragon’s corruption to spread through the land. Each Withermoon, many settlements report the unnatural rotting of crops, sickening of livestock, and tainting of water. The more rural regions of Atlas live in despair as they struggle to survive the lunar calamity. Sho’groth has yet to achieve the critical mass of wrongness needed to manifest itself physically in Atlas, but this Withermoon has brought more reports of Sho’groth’s corruption than ever before. The eldritch being’s power is growing, and unless the cause of this imbalance is discovered, Atlas may slip further under the Void’s influence even after the Withermoon has passed.