Often encountered by interlopers into the Wasteland is an insatiably ravenous tentacled hulk, officially dubbed Aequatherium Magnus by British scientific expeditions. The tentacled entity is amphibious and regularly hauls itself onto dry land, making ingress into the continent, seeking dark ruins and damp basements to aid its terrible fecundity.
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As expeditions into post-catastrophe France increased in frequency, so too did the discovery of bizarre and monstrous forms of life inhabiting the Aetheric wasteland. Whether these creatures are divergent mutant strains of life corrupted by the Aether explosion, or are not of this world at all, remains to be seen. The Prussian science ministry and British Royal Society demanded military missions into the wasteland carry out research and bring back samples, both mineral and biological.
The Prussian Guildmasters and British regimental commanders were initially reticent to endanger their men by subduing some of the more ferocious beasts of the Wasteland, but as soon they saw the rewards offered by the authorities, they danced to a different tune.
To bring back biological material for study is one thing, but the true prize lies in capturing living specimens. The practise of smuggling such dangerous creatures into uncontaminated lands is a point of contention in Britain, and strictly verboten in Prussia – and yet this does not stop the military, privateers and mercenary regiments from ignoring the sanctions in order to line their pockets. Many specimens, it is rumoured, do not end up in the hands of science ministries or Royal societies at all, but are instead delivered to wealthy individuals for private collections or diabolical research, or even to insane gourmands who crave the forbidden meat of potentially alien beasts.
Of course, to seek such beasts is one thing, but in the unpredictable Wasteland, capturing them is quite another. Many soldiers and collectors have lost their lives in the pursuit of these terrifying monsters, but their high demand and sky-rocketing value ensures that there are always others willing to risk life and limb for the sake of the hunt.
