Editing Soul Eater

The '''Soul Eater''' is one of those nonstandard monsters from para-[[Dungeons & Dragons]], in this case David "Zeb" Cook's adventure module ''[[Desert Nomads series|X4: Master of the Desert Nomads]]''. It is a cloud of amorphous shadow with luminescent pale clawed arms... ''reaching'' for you.

Not unlike [[undead]]s' [[energy drain]] this one sucks your Wisdom, albeit temporarily. When all the WIS is taken, your Soul is Eaten and you ain't coming back. At least: not by Expert-level ''[[Raise Dead]]'' or ''Reincarnation''. (Later ''[[Tome of Horrors]]'' will allow Divine intervention. We suppose [[Basic Dungeons & Dragons]] might square this circle by ''Resurrection''.)

The bad news: you, the victim, cannot kill this monstrosity in the Prime Material. The ''good'' news: you ''can'' defeat it; and if/when you do, it will spin around to attack the asshole who had summoned it upon you. (Not that this will necessarily help on account the summoner is likely some massively overpowered cleric... like Hosadus.)

The Soul Eater is one of those critters like the [[Nagpa]] and [[Tabi]] but more so, as something alien to whatever the party had experienced up to now in more "Western" environments. (Southeastern, if [[Mystara]].) [[Frank Mentzer]] deemed it too-weird for the [[Companion Set]]. We could understand Mentzer's decision here if he hadn't included the next module's [[malfera]] for [[what|reasons]].

So the Soul Eater has always skirted the edge of the monster-collections. It made it to the BXCMI Creature Catalogue; also, ''Tome of Horrors''.

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