My body is a story that has forgotten how to end.

Core Concept

A Teratomorph is a living tragedy of failed artistry. It is the result of a Chymist’s “Chymical Wedding”, their sacred ritual of self-transformation; having suffered a catastrophic, irreversible failure. The Chymist’s guiding will, the narrative thread that shapes their metamorphosis, is shattered mid-process. Their biology, no longer guided by a coherent story, continues to follow the instructions of creation, but does so chaotically, resulting in a monstrous, ever-growing, and deeply painful fusion of unrealized potentials.

The Pathology: The Cancer of Creation

The birth of a Teratomorph is the ultimate risk for any Chymist. The cause is a loss of focus at the moment of greatest vulnerability. This can be triggered by:

• A direct psychic attack during the ritual.
• A fatal flaw in their alchemical catalysts.
• A profound crisis of Faith that causes their own will to falter.

In this moment of weakness, the formless, entropic influence of the Void seeps into their genetic code. Their body is no longer following a single blueprint; it is trying to follow every possible blueprint at once.

Physiology & Biology (The Vessel)

• Core Morphology: [Mutagenic Abomination]. The form of a Teratomorph is a horrifying, asymmetric collage of living tissue. It is a body at war with itself. One arm might be a perfectly formed avian wing, while the other is a mass of chitinous claws and weeping fungal growths.
• Uncontrolled Growth: The core tragedy of their condition is that the transformation never stops. Their body is in a state of constant, cancerous growth, sprouting new, often useless or painful, limbs, organs, and tissues. They are a living, growing tumor of possibility.

Psychology & Society (The Psyche)

• The Agonized Mind: A Teratomorph is in a state of constant, unimaginable pain, both physical and existential. Their Subjective Interface would be a nightmare of contradictory sensory inputs and warring biological needs.
• Exiles and Monsters: Teratomorphs are the great shame of the Chymical Conclave. They are seen as the ultimate failure of the artist’s will. They are typically exiled to the most desolate places in the cosmos, left to be forgotten. To most of the galaxy, they are simply monsters, tragic beasts to be hunted and put out of their misery.

Gameplay Hooks & Tensions

• The Tragic Antagonist: Teratomorphs are powerful and unpredictable “boss” enemies. Their attacks are chaotic, their abilities shift randomly, and their physical form might even change mid-battle as their cancerous growth continues.
• The Mercy Killing: Defeating a Teratomorph is often framed as an act of mercy. A successful battle might not yield loot, but a unique and powerful Eidos fragment of [tragic_failure] or [release_from_pain].
• The Search for a Cure: A player allied with the Chymical Conclave might be tasked with a high-level Quest to hunt a specific Teratomorph, not to kill it, but to retrieve a sample of its mutated tissue, hoping to find a “cure” for this catastrophic failure state—a quest the Conclave has been failing at for millennia.