The Devourer of the Earth

"Rain descends in copious torrents; quick the lurid lightning fly,
And the wide earth feels a tremor; restless thunders shake the sky,
Few there are who seek their weapons, as their nervous fingers shake,
And their lips they bite in anger, and their frames in tremor quake!
–The Mahabharata, Book III

Buried deep within the layered, labyrinthine mind of House Shiva’s Enlightened Librarian is an idea of such colossal devastation that somewhere, amid the 0s and 1s that compose the personalities of the Machine, even the artificial intelligence itself derives a sum of authentic fear. It is an idea for a bio-organic doomsday weapon that will eat, stomp, smash, blast and cut a swath of earth churning death and destruction across the ghoulish Splicers landscape. It will visit this cataclysm on humanity and Machine alike; ironic that it will take the combined genius and resources of both to bring about their mutual assured destruction. It is Sansarakhaana: The Devourer of the Earth."

This is a drawing I did for a fun contest that a few artists and writers got together for this Summer. It was basically designing a giant monster for use in a Palladium Books Role Playing game. This was done for the Splicers RPG with the talented Todd Yoho (he wrote the description above...check out [link] for the full entry plus all the other monsters).

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This big bad beastie (along with most of the others from our friendly contest) were printed in Palladium Books "The Rifter" issue #45. Complete with full stats for each monster, so all you sadistic GMs can throw them at your players.