Travellers returning from the Server Monastery of the Northern Reaches spoke of a creature whose silhouette seemed to reorganise the skyline behind it. The Polyhedral Basilisk, as it came to be known, is composed of forest & stone arranged in configurations that suggest intelligence — or at minimum, aesthetic intent. This illuminated manuscript depiction was commissioned by a patron who believed that owning the image conferred protection from the creature's more destabilising effects.
