Editing Atropus (section)

==Where the fuck did it come from?==
While origins can vary between settings, all depictions have Atropus being as old as time - essentially being described as the afterbirth of Creation, a primal force of undeath that exists only to create more undead and snuff out all life.

In the [[Forgotten Realms]] specifically, scholars believed that the World Born Dead was accidentally created by [[Ao]], either indirectly as a byproduct of the creation of the first god of death, or directly as a divine mistake - the last god created, stillborn in immortal undeath upon creation. However, [[Derp|both of these origin theories conflict with it being described as a Primordial]], so whether Atropus is indeed the fault of Ao or not is up in the air (or up for the DM to decide).

In other settings, especially [[Greyhawk]] in 3/3.5E, Atropus was speculated to be, in fact, the undead remains of the 'Prime Mover', aka the ''creator'' of the universe, not just some accident created by a more powerful being. This former self apparently saw the chaos of what came before, and decided to create gods to shape it, but [[Lawful Stupid|didn't bother to read the fine print]] for gaining the power to create and ended up dying after using up all his energy creating said gods. But since creator deities just don't die, they instead became the shriveled undead moon one witnesses in the present day. Essentially its said it destroys planets and absorbs their positive energy in order to restore itself to life, although doing so will require everything it created to be destroyed.