Editing Atropus (section)

===The Aspect of Atropus===
[[File:Aspect of Atropus.jpeg|thumb|What you're actually going to fight.]]
Chances are, finding and slaying this thing is why you even set foot on this abomination. A headless Gargantuan Undead (with a CR of 23 in 3E), the Aspect of Atropus is the final obstacle between a party and sending Atropus packing. It's definitely no pushover, and [[Anal circumference|just standing ''near'' it is enough to get weakened considerably and take necrotic damage]] - and attempting melee is suicide anyways, since (depending on the edition) it's entirely immune to nonmagical damage. However, [[FAIL|it can't teleport or otherwise force you into the range of its adverse effects]], so its entirely possible to [[cheese]] it to death by [[Tau|keeping it at range]] and using all your best spells. Just watch out for its minions - its rarely alone.

Fluffwise, [[What|its said to be the body to Atropus's head]]. This makes absolutely no sense until one considers said body is a shell of its former self, and was likely XBAWKS HUEG in the past. Now its withered and fossilized to the point it can stand on its own head without adverse effects, but is still large enough to tower over giants. It also now acts a giant 'phylactery' for Atropus itself, being the center of its Eldritch intellect and unworldly power. While this makes it an Achilles' heel - [[Not as planned|something that's foiled the moon's deadly descent more than once]] - it does allow it to defend the core of its power with legions of undead, taken from the surfaces of worlds its devoured. 

The reason why killing the Aspect forces Atropus to retreat is that killing it is like destroying a Lich's phylactery, only less permanent. Soon as it dies, many of its adverse effects on the targeted world vanish, including its ability to siphon positive energy. Atropus essentially flees because they can't do jack shit now that the Aspect is dead - and resurrecting it at the time of its fall likely would result in it just dying again. And orbiting until the Aspect revives is not an option either - since its power is weakened, the gods of that world have a window of opportunity to actually ''kill'' Atropus for good. As such, while convulsing from the backlash of the death of its aspect, it breaks orbit and shoots back into the void of space. [[Necron|The Aspect is never dead for too long though]], and soon enough Atropus is back to destroying worlds.