Gorgog

The gorgogs are essentially the tainted remnants of the experiments which enabled Project Cosmic Hope. They were created by all four mage guilds by harnessing fire, air, earth, and water elementals.

They have the intellect of a small child and were incredibly strong and resillent. This allowed them to be sent as probes into the aether and is how it was determined whether it was feasible or not for the Empire to send a party to the Supra planes.

When Project Cosmic Hope failed, the gorgogs went mad as the portion of them that was made up of the Earth element became tainted. Those on the island of Nyalia were either destroyed or sealed behind a dimensional pocket but the ones on Itecia killed all of the mage-scientists there and established a colony of sorts lead by Gognigin, an unnaturally intelligent gorgog.

He guided the gorgogs into constructing a machine similar to the one the mage-scientists used to seal the other gorgogs. Using this machine, the gorgogs are able to open up the dimensional pocket and free their brethren so they might exact revenge from the cities that created them and used them as fodder for their experiments.