Quote the Deviantart entry:
"Chaos is a gigantic protist that often imitates a castle. It is a powerful being, having achieved great mastery over earth and water magicks. Mostly because simply smashing its comparatively tiny opponents into red puddles with its tower-like pseudopodia gets very boring very quickly."
I always love "living buildings" whether it be a haunted house possessed by a ghost or, as in this case, an organic creature that has formed itself into the semblance of a man-made structure. In old 2nd edition Dungeons & Dragons there's a creature called a House Hunter (oh geez, I just got the real estate joke there) which is a kind of giant Mimic. It's one of my favorite old school D&D monsters- after the duck bunny, the living dust bunny and the modrons, of course. Heck, I'd love to see an adventure with a bunch of the "organic robot" modrons living inside a gigantic "organic building" house hunter. Or maybe this Chaos protist here.
Anyway, Chaos is clearly named after the genus of Sarcodina amoebae, microscopic predators and scavengers that live on the bottoms of freshwater environments.
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