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	==5e==		==5e==
	The 5e psurlon is a different beast to its predecessors. Now resembling giant, 7ft long maggots carried around on half a dozen little legs that end in hooves, they are led by a minority (1 in 100) of super-genius mutants ~~who have~~ two heads; one at either end of their body. They're still malevolent denizens of the Astral Plane, but their origins are a complete mystery; all that anybody knows is that they are manipulative bastards who spend most of their time lurking in the Deep Astral, invading [[Wildspace]] for a seven-year period once a century that they call "The Feast of Worlds", during which their objective is to devour as many humanoids as possible (but [[human]]s and [[halfling]]s are particular delicacies). Once the Feast is over, the survivors flee back to the Deep Astral to wait for the next one. These psurlons are nominal allies of the [[illithid]]; as they have no particular interest in brain tissue, they are happy to give the brains to the mind flayers and eat the leftovers. As a result, [[gith]] ''despise'' psurlons and hunt them bitterly, with the [[githyanki]] in particular often launching crusades to wipe out their strongholds.		The 5e psurlon is a different beast to its predecessors. Now resembling giant, 7ft long maggots carried around on half a dozen little legs that end in hooves, they are led by a minority (1 in 100) of super-genius mutants with two heads; one at either end of their body. They're still malevolent denizens of the Astral Plane, but their origins are a complete mystery; all that anybody knows is that they are manipulative bastards who spend most of their time lurking in the Deep Astral, invading [[Wildspace]] for a seven-year period once a century that they call "The Feast of Worlds", during which their objective is to devour as many humanoids as possible (but [[human]]s and [[halfling]]s are particular delicacies). Once the Feast is over, the survivors flee back to the Deep Astral to wait for the next one. These psurlons are nominal allies of the [[illithid]]; as they have no particular interest in brain tissue, they are happy to give the brains to the mind flayers and eat the leftovers. As a result, [[gith]] ''despise'' psurlons and hunt them bitterly, with the [[githyanki]] in particular often launching crusades to wipe out their strongholds.

	~~Whilst~~ they still use infiltrators, these "Ringers" are now psurlons who have psionically absorbed the memories of a devoured humanoid and permanently reshaped themselves into its physical double.		If a job requires something that holds up under scrutiny better than a simple disguise self (illusions only work from a distance when you are a three-fingered worm man), while they still use infiltrators, these "Ringers" are now psurlons who have psionically absorbed the memories of a devoured humanoid and permanently reshaped themselves into its physical double.

	==Gallery==		==Gallery==

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	Like in 3e, their goals are mysterious and basically left to the DM's prerogative. They are deeply interested in Athas and in fact have mostly migrated there, drawn by the high degrees of psionic power wielded by the native life forms. Three distinct types of psurlons are mentioned, but it's never clear if these are the only ones; Dustworms are shapechangers who infiltrate humanoid civilization to further psurlon goals, whilst the precognitive Mindworms use their formidable psionic ability to perceive the paths of the future to lead the psurlons, and the psionics-void but physically powerful Warworms are the brute muscle and enforcers for their smaller kindred.		Like in 3e, their goals are mysterious and basically left to the DM's prerogative. They are deeply interested in Athas and in fact have mostly migrated there, drawn by the high degrees of psionic power wielded by the native life forms. Three distinct types of psurlons are mentioned, but it's never clear if these are the only ones; Dustworms are shapechangers who infiltrate humanoid civilization to further psurlon goals, whilst the precognitive Mindworms use their formidable psionic ability to perceive the paths of the future to lead the psurlons, and the psionics-void but physically powerful Warworms are the brute muscle and enforcers for their smaller kindred.

			==5e==
			The 5e psurlon is a different beast to its predecessors. Now resembling giant, 7ft long maggots carried around on half a dozen little legs that end in hooves, they are led by a minority (1 in 100) of super-genius mutants who have two heads; one at either end of their body. They're still malevolent denizens of the Astral Plane, but their origins are a complete mystery; all that anybody knows is that they are manipulative bastards who spend most of their time lurking in the Deep Astral, invading [[Wildspace]] for a seven-year period once a century that they call "The Feast of Worlds", during which their objective is to devour as many humanoids as possible (but [[human]]s and [[halfling]]s are particular delicacies). Once the Feast is over, the survivors flee back to the Deep Astral to wait for the next one. These psurlons are nominal allies of the [[illithid]]; as they have no particular interest in brain tissue, they are happy to give the brains to the mind flayers and eat the leftovers. As a result, [[gith]] ''despise'' psurlons and hunt them bitterly, with the [[githyanki]] in particular often launching crusades to wipe out their strongholds.

			Whilst they still use infiltrators, these "Ringers" are now psurlons who have psionically absorbed the memories of a devoured humanoid and permanently reshaped themselves into its physical double.

	==Gallery==		==Gallery==

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	'''Psurlons''' are a species of highly intelligent, worm-like [[aberration]]s, who are the transformed remnants of a race of humanoids. They once existed on a now-unknown world, where their racial mastery of [[psionics]] elevated them to a highly advanced, powerful culture - but what they had wasn't enough. Consumed by ambition and the hunger for ever-greater knowledge and psionic mastery, the psurlons attempted to perform a ritual to mentally mesh all of their race into a singular consciousness, which they believed would further their goals. However, the ritual went wrong - their planet couldn't sustain the raw psionic energy built-up by the ritual, and it subsequently exploded, tearing open a rift into the [[Astral]] and casting the psurlons who survived this cataclysm into the void, where they took upon hideous new forms, resembling monstrous worm-like invertebrates with only the faintest remnants of their former humanoid forms left behind.		'''Psurlons''' are a species of highly intelligent, worm-like [[aberration]]s, who are the transformed remnants of a race of humanoids. They once existed on a now-unknown world, where their racial mastery of [[psionics]] elevated them to a highly advanced, powerful culture - but what they had wasn't enough. Consumed by ambition and the hunger for ever-greater knowledge and psionic mastery, the psurlons attempted to perform a ritual to mentally mesh all of their race into a singular consciousness, which they believed would further their goals. However, the ritual went wrong - their planet couldn't sustain the raw psionic energy built-up by the ritual, and it subsequently exploded, tearing open a rift into the [[Astral]] and casting the psurlons who survived this cataclysm into the void, where they took upon hideous new forms, resembling monstrous worm-like invertebrates with only the faintest remnants of their former humanoid forms left behind.

	The psurlon race made its debut in the [[Dark Sun]] videogame "Shattered Lands", but were so well received that they received official [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] monster write-ups in two of the Monstrous Compendium Appendixes (Dark Sun 2, [[Planescape]] 3). They were subsequently updated to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]], making their debut in the Monster Manual 2, and were then expanded upon (marginally) in the 3e splatbook [[Lords of Madness]]. [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]] saw them return to [[Athas]] in the Dark Sun Creature Catalog.		The psurlon race made its debut in the [[Dark Sun]] videogame "Shattered Lands", but were so well received that they received official [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] monster write-ups in two of the Monstrous Compendium Appendixes (Dark Sun 2, [[Planescape]] 3). They were subsequently updated to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]], making their debut in the Monster Manual 2, and were then expanded upon (marginally) in the 3e splatbook [[Lords of Madness]]. [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]] saw them return to [[Athas]] in the Dark Sun Creature Catalog. And in 5th edition they made their return in the [[Spelljammer]] book, Boo's Astral Menagerie.

	Their precise lore has... fluctuated a little over the editions.		Their precise lore has... fluctuated a little over the editions.

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	'''Psurlons''' are a species of highly intelligent, worm-like [[aberration]]s, who are the transformed remnants of a race of humanoids. They once existed on a now-unknown world, where their racial mastery of [[psionics]] elevated them to a highly advanced, powerful culture - but what they had wasn't enough. Consumed by ambition and the hunger for ever-greater knowledge and psionic mastery, the psurlons attempted to perform a ritual to mentally mesh all of their race into a singular consciousness, which they believed would further their goals. However, the ritual went wrong - their planet couldn't sustain the raw psionic energy built-up by the ritual, and it subsequently exploded, tearing open a rift into the [[Astral]] and casting the psurlons who survived this cataclysm into the void, where they took upon hideous new forms, resembling monstrous worm-like invertebrates with only the faintest remnants of their former humanoid forms left behind.		'''Psurlons''' are a species of highly intelligent, worm-like [[aberration]]s, who are the transformed remnants of a race of humanoids. They once existed on a now-unknown world, where their racial mastery of [[psionics]] elevated them to a highly advanced, powerful culture - but what they had wasn't enough. Consumed by ambition and the hunger for ever-greater knowledge and psionic mastery, the psurlons attempted to perform a ritual to mentally mesh all of their race into a singular consciousness, which they believed would further their goals. However, the ritual went wrong - their planet couldn't sustain the raw psionic energy built-up by the ritual, and it subsequently exploded, tearing open a rift into the [[Astral]] and casting the psurlons who survived this cataclysm into the void, where they took upon hideous new forms, resembling monstrous worm-like invertebrates with only the faintest remnants of their former humanoid forms left behind.

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	Like in 3e, their goals are mysterious and basically left to the DM's prerogative. They are deeply interested in Athas and in fact have mostly migrated there, drawn by the high degrees of psionic power wielded by the native life forms. Three distinct types of psurlons are mentioned, but it's never clear if these are the only ones; Dustworms are shapechangers who infiltrate humanoid civilization to further psurlon goals, whilst the precognitive Mindworms use their formidable psionic ability to perceive the paths of the future to lead the psurlons, and the psionics-void but physically powerful Warworms are the brute muscle and enforcers for their smaller kindred.		Like in 3e, their goals are mysterious and basically left to the DM's prerogative. They are deeply interested in Athas and in fact have mostly migrated there, drawn by the high degrees of psionic power wielded by the native life forms. Three distinct types of psurlons are mentioned, but it's never clear if these are the only ones; Dustworms are shapechangers who infiltrate humanoid civilization to further psurlon goals, whilst the precognitive Mindworms use their formidable psionic ability to perceive the paths of the future to lead the psurlons, and the psionics-void but physically powerful Warworms are the brute muscle and enforcers for their smaller kindred.

			==Gallery==
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			Psurlon planescape.jpg\|2e
			Psurlon 3e.jpg\|3e
			Psurlon LoM 3e.jpg\|Lords of Madness
			Psurlon 4e.jpg\|4e
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	'''Psurlons''' are a species of highly intelligent, worm-like [[aberration]]s, who are the transformed remnants of a race of humanoids. They once existed on a now-unknown world, where their racial mastery of [[psionics]] elevated them to a highly advanced, powerful culture - but what they had wasn't enough. Consumed by ambition and the hunger for ever-greater knowledge and psionic mastery, the psurlons attempted to perform a ritual to mentally mesh all of their race into a singular consciousness, which they believed would further their goals. However, the ritual went wrong - their planet couldn't sustain the raw psionic energy built-up by the ritual, and it subsequently exploded, tearing open a rift into the [[Astral]] and casting the psurlons who survived this cataclysm into the void, where they took upon hideous new forms, resembling monstrous worm-like invertebrates with only the faintest remnants of their former humanoid forms left behind.		'''Psurlons''' are a species of highly intelligent, worm-like [[aberration]]s, who are the transformed remnants of a race of humanoids. They once existed on a now-unknown world, where their racial mastery of [[psionics]] elevated them to a highly advanced, powerful culture - but what they had wasn't enough. Consumed by ambition and the hunger for ever-greater knowledge and psionic mastery, the psurlons attempted to perform a ritual to mentally mesh all of their race into a singular consciousness, which they believed would further their goals. However, the ritual went wrong - their planet couldn't sustain the raw psionic energy built-up by the ritual, and it subsequently exploded, tearing open a rift into the [[Astral]] and casting the psurlons who survived this cataclysm into the void, where they took upon hideous new forms, resembling monstrous worm-like invertebrates with only the faintest remnants of their former humanoid forms left behind.

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	Like in 3e, their goals are mysterious and basically left to the DM's prerogative. They are deeply interested in Athas and in fact have mostly migrated there, drawn by the high degrees of psionic power wielded by the native life forms. Three distinct types of psurlons are mentioned, but it's never clear if these are the only ones; Dustworms are shapechangers who infiltrate humanoid civilization to further psurlon goals, whilst the precognitive Mindworms use their formidable psionic ability to perceive the paths of the future to lead the psurlons, and the psionics-void but physically powerful Warworms are the brute muscle and enforcers for their smaller kindred.		Like in 3e, their goals are mysterious and basically left to the DM's prerogative. They are deeply interested in Athas and in fact have mostly migrated there, drawn by the high degrees of psionic power wielded by the native life forms. Three distinct types of psurlons are mentioned, but it's never clear if these are the only ones; Dustworms are shapechangers who infiltrate humanoid civilization to further psurlon goals, whilst the precognitive Mindworms use their formidable psionic ability to perceive the paths of the future to lead the psurlons, and the psionics-void but physically powerful Warworms are the brute muscle and enforcers for their smaller kindred.

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	The psurlons are led by specially reared and educated psionicists known as "Psurlon Adepts", who not only serve as protectors and leaders of the psurlon settlements, but also sometimes serve as the race's scouts, exploring the Astral Plane and into other realms in pursuit of knowledge, power, food and slaves. The race also possesses a small number of unique mutants, simply called "Giant Psurlons", who grew to immense size and gained formidable powers, surpassing even that of many adepts. These creatures are shunned by their kin, however, who consider them to be cursed monsters; most giant psurlons establish lonely dens in the Astral Plane, but a few have taken over psurlon cities and rule them as vicious tyrants.		The psurlons are led by specially reared and educated psionicists known as "Psurlon Adepts", who not only serve as protectors and leaders of the psurlon settlements, but also sometimes serve as the race's scouts, exploring the Astral Plane and into other realms in pursuit of knowledge, power, food and slaves. The race also possesses a small number of unique mutants, simply called "Giant Psurlons", who grew to immense size and gained formidable powers, surpassing even that of many adepts. These creatures are shunned by their kin, however, who consider them to be cursed monsters; most giant psurlons establish lonely dens in the Astral Plane, but a few have taken over psurlon cities and rule them as vicious tyrants.

	==3e===		==3e==
	In the [[Monster Manual]] 2, psurlons lose all of their AD&D lore about being transformed humanoids, and are depicted as giant earthworms with a single pair of tentacle-like forelimbs. They are simply described as a reclusive and bad-tempered psionic race that normally lives alone or in mated pairs, but sometimes gather in small groups called "clusters" for the sake of claiming territory or achieving a common cause.		In the [[Monster Manual]] 2, psurlons lose all of their AD&D lore about being transformed humanoids, and are depicted as giant earthworms with a single pair of tentacle-like forelimbs. They are simply described as a reclusive and bad-tempered psionic race that normally lives alone or in mated pairs, but sometimes gather in small groups called "clusters" for the sake of claiming territory or achieving a common cause.

	[[Lords of Madness]] redesigned them, giving them a new appearance with a vaguely wormish body that skitters along on small, primitive, insectile legs and has a single pair of hooked, insectile claws - like a mantis's forelimbs - for arms, with a long-necked, wormy head attached to something that weirdly resembles a humanoid upper torso. Here, they are again described as simply a desert-dwelling race of aberrations, but now classified as clever, malicious and deceitful, with a strong antipathy towards humanoid life. Their goals mostly revolve around killing or driving off those who get too close to their desert lairs, or simply for the fun of stirring up trouble amongst the humanoid races. Giant psurlons returned in this edition as a bizarre fluke that occasionally happens, when a maturing psurlon's body starts growing instead of its psionic powers.		[[Lords of Madness]] redesigned them, giving them a new appearance with a vaguely wormish body that skitters along on small, primitive, insectile legs and has a single pair of hooked, insectile claws - like a mantis's forelimbs - for arms, with a long-necked, wormy head attached to something that weirdly resembles a humanoid upper torso. Here, they are again described as simply a desert-dwelling race of aberrations, but now classified as clever, malicious and deceitful, with a strong antipathy towards humanoid life. Their goals mostly revolve around killing or driving off those who get too close to their desert lairs, or simply for the fun of stirring up trouble amongst the humanoid races. Giant psurlons returned in this edition as a bizarre fluke that occasionally happens, when a maturing psurlon's body starts growing instead of its psionic powers.

	===4e===		==4e==
	4e psurlons are a blend of AD&D and 3e lore. Once again, psurlons are former humanoids who destroyed their home planet with a mindmelding psionic ritual that went disastrously wrong and the survivors were catapulted into the [[Astral Sea]]. Unlike in AD&D, only the disembodied psyches of the psurlons survived this catastrophe, and they maintained their integrity by embedding themselves in the bodies of small, slug-like astral organisms. Thousands of worm generations of self-applied psionic [[fleshcrafting]] later, and the psurlons evolved into their present form - which more closely resembles the Lords of Madness artwork than anything else. It's mentioned they could theoretically transform themselves further, but they've come to prefer their squamous bodies.		4e psurlons are a blend of AD&D and 3e lore. Once again, psurlons are former humanoids who destroyed their home planet with a mindmelding psionic ritual that went disastrously wrong and the survivors were catapulted into the [[Astral Sea]]. Unlike in AD&D, only the disembodied psyches of the psurlons survived this catastrophe, and they maintained their integrity by embedding themselves in the bodies of small, slug-like astral organisms. Thousands of worm generations of self-applied psionic [[fleshcrafting]] later, and the psurlons evolved into their present form - which more closely resembles the Lords of Madness artwork than anything else. It's mentioned they could theoretically transform themselves further, but they've come to prefer their squamous bodies.

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	In the [[Monster Manual]] 2, psurlons lose all of their AD&D lore about being transformed humanoids, and are depicted as giant earthworms with a single pair of tentacle-like forelimbs. They are simply described as a reclusive and bad-tempered psionic race that normally lives alone or in mated pairs, but sometimes gather in small groups called "clusters" for the sake of claiming territory or achieving a common cause.		In the [[Monster Manual]] 2, psurlons lose all of their AD&D lore about being transformed humanoids, and are depicted as giant earthworms with a single pair of tentacle-like forelimbs. They are simply described as a reclusive and bad-tempered psionic race that normally lives alone or in mated pairs, but sometimes gather in small groups called "clusters" for the sake of claiming territory or achieving a common cause.

	Lords of Madness redesigned them, giving them a new appearance with a vaguely wormish body that skitters along on small, primitive, insectile legs and has a single pair of hooked, insectile claws - like a mantis's forelimbs - for arms, with a long-necked, wormy head attached to something that weirdly resembles a humanoid upper torso. Here, they are again described as simply a desert-dwelling race of aberrations, but now classified as clever, malicious and deceitful, with a strong antipathy towards humanoid life. Their goals mostly revolve around killing or driving off those who get too close to their desert lairs, or simply for the fun of stirring up trouble amongst the humanoid races. Giant psurlons returned in this edition as a bizarre fluke that occasionally happens, when a maturing psurlon's body starts growing instead of its psionic powers.		[[Lords of Madness]] redesigned them, giving them a new appearance with a vaguely wormish body that skitters along on small, primitive, insectile legs and has a single pair of hooked, insectile claws - like a mantis's forelimbs - for arms, with a long-necked, wormy head attached to something that weirdly resembles a humanoid upper torso. Here, they are again described as simply a desert-dwelling race of aberrations, but now classified as clever, malicious and deceitful, with a strong antipathy towards humanoid life. Their goals mostly revolve around killing or driving off those who get too close to their desert lairs, or simply for the fun of stirring up trouble amongst the humanoid races. Giant psurlons returned in this edition as a bizarre fluke that occasionally happens, when a maturing psurlon's body starts growing instead of its psionic powers.

	===4e===		===4e===

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	'''Psurlons''' are a species of highly intelligent, worm-like [[aberration]]s, who are the transformed remnants of a race of humanoids. They once existed on a now-unknown world, where their racial mastery of [[psionics]] elevated them to a highly advanced, powerful culture - but what they had wasn't enough. Consumed by ambition and the hunger for ever-greater knowledge and psionic mastery, the psurlons attempted to perform a ritual to mentally mesh all of their race into a singular consciousness, which they believed would further their goals. However, the ritual went wrong - their planet couldn't sustain the raw psionic energy built-up by the ritual, and it subsequently exploded, tearing open a rift into the [[Astral]] and casting the psurlons who survived this cataclysm into the void, where they took upon hideous new forms, resembling monstrous worm-like invertebrates with only the faintest remnants of their former humanoid forms left behind.		'''Psurlons''' are a species of highly intelligent, worm-like [[aberration]]s, who are the transformed remnants of a race of humanoids. They once existed on a now-unknown world, where their racial mastery of [[psionics]] elevated them to a highly advanced, powerful culture - but what they had wasn't enough. Consumed by ambition and the hunger for ever-greater knowledge and psionic mastery, the psurlons attempted to perform a ritual to mentally mesh all of their race into a singular consciousness, which they believed would further their goals. However, the ritual went wrong - their planet couldn't sustain the raw psionic energy built-up by the ritual, and it subsequently exploded, tearing open a rift into the [[Astral]] and casting the psurlons who survived this cataclysm into the void, where they took upon hideous new forms, resembling monstrous worm-like invertebrates with only the faintest remnants of their former humanoid forms left behind.

	The psurlon race made its debut in the [[Dark Sun]] videogame "Shattered Lands", but were so well received that they received official [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] monster write-ups in two of the Monstrous Compendium Appendixes (Dark Sun 2, [[Planescape]] 3). They were subsequently updated to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]], making their debut in the Monster Manual 2, and were then expanded upon (marginally) in the 3e splatbook ''Lords of Madness''. [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]] saw them return to [[Athas]] in the Dark Sun Creature Catalog.		The psurlon race made its debut in the [[Dark Sun]] videogame "Shattered Lands", but were so well received that they received official [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons]] monster write-ups in two of the Monstrous Compendium Appendixes (Dark Sun 2, [[Planescape]] 3). They were subsequently updated to [[Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition]], making their debut in the Monster Manual 2, and were then expanded upon (marginally) in the 3e splatbook [[Lords of Madness]]. [[Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition]] saw them return to [[Athas]] in the Dark Sun Creature Catalog.

	Their precise lore has... fluctuated a little over the editions.		Their precise lore has... fluctuated a little over the editions.