The Sleeper

While Evil that corrupts our lands comes from and lays within the earth, it is not the only one that has set its malevolent gaze upon our world. A being just as horrifying, vile and unfathomably ancient as the thing that sleeps in the depths of the Darkest Dungeon has descended from the darkest reaches of the heavens to claim this world for its own. While the Evil that resides within the Darkest Dungeon seeks to unmake and remake all flesh into its image, this new Evil from the star-filled heavens seeks to devour all that lives and replace it with cold, unfeeling mockeries made of crystal and stone.

While this new evil is just a mere fragment, a shard of something far greater and insidious exists. It is not yet strong enough to take over our world, nor challenge the thing inside the Darkest Dungeon. Hidden within the remains of the Old Windmill, it slowly grows stronger as it changes the surrounding acres to suit its alien physiology by rewriting physical laws, distorting the very fabric of space and time, transforming our world into something more alien resembling its place of origin. However, our world and the alien world where this Thing comes from are like water and oil, they cannot coexist together. But the unrelenting crystalline corruption of this star-spawn horror inches outward from the Mill, slowly taking over and consuming our world with each passing season. To make matters worse, this temporally paradoxical menace warps time itself to its will, pulling waves of creatures that it has corrupted and consumed from the past and future, and even from alternate timelines were it was victorious, to protect its past-self. Only saving grace is that this endless and timeless horde of abominations cannot exist outside the Thing’s sphere of influence, but as more of the land get the consumed by crystalline corruption so does grow the thing’s reach. What future it has envisioned for our planet, we can only guess; the only thing that is clear is that it would be the end of our world as we know it.

We can adequately defend our Hamlet while besieged on all sides by darkness and corruption. But we don’t have the resources or manpower to fight two great evils at once. So we either have to get rid of this invader, this Thing from the Stars, as soon as possible, or we risk being consumed by its crystalline corruption- or even worse, getting caught in the crossfire when these unspeakable terrors rise from their slumbers and decide to fight each other for dominance over our planet. It's not a matter of "if", but a matter of "when".