Project MORTASHEEN

Illustration by Daimera

   What began in 2003 under the name "necromon" was initially no more than a dumping ground for some of my miscellaneous monster ideas in a setting that vaguely parodied franchises such as Pokemon and Digimon. Now entitled "MORTASHEEN", its menagerie of gruesome creatures continues to grow and the world they inhabit expands almost daily in the depths of my imagination. I'm far from professional at art, but I think I've illustrated their concepts adequately enough to finally warrant a webpage of their own, and perhaps even spark public interest in the online game concept that I've had so much fun plotting out.

   To sum it up as briefly as possible, Mortasheen is a vast, dark city ruled for thousands of years by power-hungry scientists and inhabited primarily by inhuman (or ex-human) entities who's lives focus heavily upon the strange, mutant monsters they create and command for every imaginable purpose. It's yet another world of collectable battle-monsters, but one with a lot more maggots. If you're as overcome by curiosity as you ought to be, click some of the monster names below for my crude pencil drawings and detailed descriptions!

ZOMBIE SPAWN

While true zombism affects only the human race, a variety of strange organisms can develop from a zombie's body.

Beeblezug -a master of maggots.

Ectozyme - an amoebic, chaotic zombie offspring.

Encephalobe - a rogue brain that has evolved into a mental predator.

Escarghoul - a mutant merging of zombie and gastropod.

Festerling - a zombie's inhuman offspring.

Festerling B - a bloated festerling variant.

Festerling C - an acid-spitting festerling variant.

Festerling D - a multi-fanged festerling variant.

Festerling E - a crawling, pathetic festerling variant.

Foetusaur - a powerful, highly evolved mutant embryo.

Gangrena - a hungry, bug-eyed blob of fungoid tendrils.

Garboid - a rancid, fish-like trash creature.

Gastriking - a stomach that has evolved into a gluttonous monster.

Grimgug - a titanic, sloth-like mutant embryo.

Lesion - an oozing, floating pus creature.

Mortigore - a one-eyed heap of miscellaneous meat and bone.

Pestequirm - an overgrown head with control over worms.

Progenoid - a ferocious, beastly mutant embryo.

Spawnlet - a mutated, zombie placenta.

Wormroot - a tree grown on an extra-special fertilizer.

Zombster - a mutant merging of zombie and crustacean.

Zombryoid & Sarchrysalis - early stages in the zombie-spawn life cycle.

Zyghast - a powerful, highly evolved mutant embryo.

BIOCONSTRUCTS

Genetically grown or assembled from a variety of organic and/or inorganic materials. Bioconstructs range from all-purpose subhumanoids to specialized, living tools for everyday convenience.

Abysmal - a toothy, floating fish with an unusual lure to attract prey.

Belladonna - a living iron maiden.

Bemzuul - a winged being with mastery over sight.

Blightshade - a noxious floating monster that spews infectious fungus from its hollow antlers.

Bombadire - a birdlike living cannon.

Bonezark - a bony, insectile fish monster.

Brainpan - a silly-looking creature that lives in its own skull.

Bullysnag - a brutal, flightless mutant bat.

Cackle - a mischievious pumpkin-headed doll.

Catoplagas - a camel-like monster infested with symbiotic fleas.

Chainsaw Kid - a chainsaw-faced, platypus-like being.

Clawsimon - a mutant bat with a built-in "stoplight".

Coccyx - a misshapen skull-like monster.

Crepusculent - a bony, moon-shaped creature that produces tasty psychotropic worms.

Dementipede - a tentacled horror that invades the mind.

Devilweed - a nasty toxic plant that sprouts from the dead.

Doomboros - a large and demonic-looking monster that happens to suffer extreme paranoia and bashfulness.

Dreary - a drifting, membranous creature that feeds on dreams.

Eledirge - a saclike "piper" who's songs cause insanity.

Exovoros - a multi-armed, long-jawed, radioactive horror.

Eyedra - a scuttling skull with a limitless number of branching eye-stalks. Two guesses how it fires beams.

Eyejacker - a slimy mutant that feeds on eye-jelly.

Eyepicker - a long-clawed gremlin, fond of body organs.

Fevile - a ghoulish long-limbed cat.

Funguslyme - a zombie-destroying, humanoid fungus.

Gasjack - a gas-masked, bony equine with acidic breath.

Ghoulantern - a candle-like monster that generates extreme cold.

Golgotha - a conical executioner with a terrifying gaze attack.

Goza - a timid, faceless creature that can cause blindness.

Grave Snitch - an amoebic, rat-toothed grave robber.

Graunch - a big-jawed cyclopean mummy.

Grindrome - a clown made primarily of teeth and gums.

Grinmangle - a tentacled saurian skull that behaves like a bear-trap.

Gromory - a basic subhumanoid monster.

Gruemaw - a big heap of flab with teeth like a shark.

Gut Klaun - a parasitic "clown".

Hangman - a monster of burlap and rope.

horribloom - a one-eyed plant-based organism that grows from psychic energy.

Ickwriggle - a disgusting double-headed worm.

Jackanergal - a flying, equine-faced serpent with highly disorienting attacks.

Jitter - a monster filled with narcotic chemicals.

Madcap - a multilimbed clown-like monster with a sinister power.

Malignus - a creature with hooked chains for appendages and a very familiar mask.

Malodorodon - a large and ugly four-legged beast with horrendous breath.

Malphas - a blind but lethal two-legged dog beast.

Marrow - a burlier, bulldog-like canine monster.

Mayhem - an esthetic combination of voodoo doll, jester and owl.

Mormel - a giant gnashing mole-rat mutant.

Mumblegogger - a beak-nosed plague spewer.

Neurosia - a "jack in the box" that invades the mind.

Nozo - a ghastly limbless clown with a sharp, venomous snout.

Oculapus - a one-eyed mollusk with incredible vision.

Oogaboo - a ghost-like cloth monster.

Oolg - a multi-armed head that petrifies its prey.

Orifice - a fat, floating monster with an immense maw.

Oubliette - a living guillotine.

Phalange - a moldy, chattering creation of bone.

Plazm - a gelatinous little blob with a biting stomach.

Polyfrog - a two-faced, poison-eating amphibian.

Putrephile - a creeping, embryonic monster that breathes clouds of flies.

Prednaught - a multi-skulled, multi-eyed behemoth.

Pteracide - a small, leathery flier that rains acid on its prey.

Sawful - a faceless dancing monster with a massive sawblade.

Scalamax - a sword-faced pirate fish.

Scravenous - a skull-headed, stinging avian.

Shearsome - a gangly humanoid mutant who's arms form a massive set of scissors.

Shreeg - a legless beast that howls from multiple orifices.

Skoffix - a flightless, blade-winged bird.

Sleez - a long-nosed, hyperactive "weasel dog".

Smogulus - a squidlike, pollution-spewing monster made of septic pipe.

Smultch - a creature with little more than winding limbs and a big set of lips.

Snotweasel - a monster akin to both a mole and a hagfish.

Stinkweed - a hunchbacked monster with gas-filled boils.

Succoom - a monster employed in carpet-cleaning.

Ticklestitch - an eerie surgery-creature.

Tumorman - a being encrusted with infectious, cancerous warts.

Ug - an ugly, hairy beast that "sneezes" flesh-rotting fungus.

Veezil - a birdlike monster with branching brambles instead of wings.

Viscerix - a massive bony land-eel with a bladed tail.

Volross - a vicious, saw-jawed canine.

Waxwork - a dripping blobby creature that melts and absorbs skin.

Wervelkolom - a serpentine skeleton with massive mandibles and dozens of venomous barbs.

Widoweed - a fly-trap woman.

PSI-WITCH BIOCONSTRUCTS

- special creations of the psionics guild.

Bagayaba - a monster somewhat resembling a long-legged birdhouse.

Brewsome - a cauldron-backed frog beast.

Jennyvex - a sort of an umbrella thing, basically.

INTERDIMENSIONALS

A blanket term for creatures that must be called into our world from alternate realities.

Corpusite - a body-snatching pod-man.

Cynapse - a sort of giant living brain cell.

Endo - a babylike monster that enters its victim's bodies.

Lobotomask - a floating, tentacled face with ghastly feeding habits.

Oovule - an embryonic, psychic life-form.

Radiovade - a weird floating entity with unusual molecular properties.

Scumbat - a parasitic, fungoid flier from beyond.

Vault - an alien being that preys on energy.

Willobog - a bug-eyed tentacle beast that sucks sugar.

Xenogog - an eerie needle-armed invader.

DEVILBIRDS

These horrific beings are created when the egg of a natural organism is infused with raw psychic energy, creating a monster that lives and breathes one of humankind's primal emotions.

Bonnagander - a greater devilbird with insectoid traits.

Diablymous - a greater devilbird with multiple faces and a skeletal form.

Envy - a specialized devilbird

Gloomsday - a greater devilbird with a black, long-necked visage.

Gluttony - a specialized devilbird

Greed - a specialized devilbird

Lust - a specialized devilbird

Phasmoria - a specialized devilbird

Pride - a specialized devilbird

Sloth - a specialized devilbird

Wrath - a specialized devilbird

ARTHROPOIDS

In the wonderful tradition of Brundlefly, Mortasheen features a whole line of human-arthropod hybrids.

Ambler - daddy long-legs.

Apteros - dragonfly.

Blighterfly - butterfly.

Blobotle - housefly.

Bloodbloat - tick.

Bugpie - stinkbug.

Doodleblargh - antlion.

Excremite - bombardier beetle.

Exekiss - assassin bug.

Exothresher - solifugid or "camel spider".

Formicrawl - ant.

Hagworm - moth/bagworm.

Heartsucker - flea.

Hellwig - earwig.

Heraclamp - beetle.

Horrida - walkingstick.

Horneterror - bee.

Jeremiad - cricket.

Jujubug - caterpillar.

Karacha - cockroach.

Katydread - locust/katydid.

Luminoct - firefly.

Mandibite - beetle.

Millipatter - millipede.

Morgmaggot - grubworm.

Pestilouse - louse.

Polka-dotted Pansyface - ladybird beetle.

Q-lex (female) - mosquito.

Q-lex (male) - mosquito.

Rotsucker - fly maggot.

Scarabellum - dung beetle.

Scimitor - mantis.

Scolomorph - centipede.

Semikekkan - cicada.

Sepoldier (Thresher) - termite.

Sepoldier (Nasute) - termite.

Sliffervish - silverfish

Tachinitoid - parasitic fly.

Venomax - scorpion.

Vertigo - spider.

Vespicable - wasp.

Weevious - weevil.

Zeze - bloodsucking fly.

VAMPIRES

The result of a unique chromosome that can mutate any predatory organism into a hyper-evolved parasite.

Armadour - armadillo vampire.

Artereater - anteater vampire.

Bloodbell - comb jelly vampire.

Blueskewer - swordfish vampire.

Boggle - monkey vampire.

Bunyip - monotreme vampire.

Clampire - clam vampire. Obviously.

Crawvire - lobster/shrimp vampire.

Crocodemon - crocodilian vampire.

Dismole - mole vampire.

Draculisk - chameleon vampire.

Equinoct - seahorse vampire.

Estrel - bird vampire.

Fangatan - ape vampire.

Fangkite - snake vampire.

Floundire - flatfish vampire.

Fuguketsu - blowfish vampire.

Ghoulana - lizard vampire.

Gill Devil - basic fish vampire.

Gorehound - canine vampire.

Grisliak - bear vampire.

Hanivile - ray vampire.

Heartlicker - feline vampire.

Hemodusa - jellyfish vampire.

Hydrac - viperfish vampire.

Knifeslink - weasel vampire.

Leech Angel - sea snail vampire.

Makkoron - shark vampire.

Mudsucker - mudskipper vampire.

Narwight - porpoise vampire.

Necrozoa - crab vampire.

Nocturtle - turtle vampire.

Nosferachu - rat vampire.

Octopire - cephalopod vampire.

Pentasite - starfish vampire.

Polypire - anemone vampire.

Salamire - newt vampire.

Sandsneak - anglerfish vampire.

Scorpilisk - stinging fish vampire.

Scumwort - frog vampire.

Siluro - catfish vampire.

Sinister - bat vampire. How unusual!

Slitherbleed - eel vampire.

Vamprey - leech vampire.

MISTAKES

The living waste product of monstrous experimentation.

Flarmph - a set of flapping, filthy ears.

Gnarblewomp - a dim-witted and clumsy little monster.

Host - a scurrying, faceless thing.

Vulg - a giggling, rootlike mutant.

Vloggle - a somewhat obscene, backwards monster.

Schnooze - a somewhat immature nose-monster concept.

Urgh - an upside-down suction cup baby.

Oov - a melon-shaped head...thing.

Dross - a twisted, molten humanoid.

Feculus - a dung-spewing blob.

Wezzle - a teddy-bear shaped monster.

Blister - a blubbery, gibbering abomination.

Varroa - a peculiar creature that must drag its own mouth around.

Grobbidile - a creature perpetually eating itself.

Korpum - a creature encased in a ball of limbs.

Snargle - a twisted reptilian monstrosity.

Vermoeba - a hideous shape-shifting mass of rodent bodies. One of the rare "dangerous" mistakes.

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