Editing Campaign:TheMeansToTheEnd/The Dragon Below (section)

=== Background ===
''The Dowager's little known 'Dusk Caste Champion,' once known as Worm Underfoot, was Dowager's only experiment in exalting someone who was not a child. He was, however, cursed with the mind of a child, and subjected to endless vivisection and torture. His limbs, malformed from birth, were replaced with crude necrotech replacements, and his face still is covered with scars from when he only had knives for fingers. Holding only contempt for him, the Dowager would often allow his necrotech limbs to decompose, allowing him to feel the sensation of decaying while still alive, until they would stop working altogether, being forced to crawl around like his namesake. He did not like to kill furred animals and so he was forced to subsist largely on a diet of bugs and filthy water, sleeping in a hole. Abyssals created by the Mask of Winters 'rescued' him from his former fate and showed him a 'kinder' master, who has granted him decent meals, finely crafted necrotech prosthetics which can be changed as the situation warrants, and a new name: The Dragon Below.<br/>''

''And yet, though Mask fancied himself doing the brute a favor by curing him of his brain defects and granting him genius-level intellect, the Dragon Below only views his increased level of understanding as a source of never-ending horror. Though formerly in constant pain and humiliation, only now does he realize the nature of the pact with the Neverborn that he -- and his master -- made, and just how close all Creation is to falling into the Void. He realizes that he is truly what the 'normal' humans have viewed him as all along -- a monster.<br/>''