Horse-Head Horror

This sort of Horror, a beast of Iracundia, when summoned forth from the Void, is incapable, as many horrors can be, of taking a physical form itself. Instead part of the necessity of summoning it requires an appopriate vessel, in this case a freshly killed horse or similarly sized animal. Upon entering the dead body, it will begin twitching. Bones will crack, flesh will rupture, blood will spray, as the upper half of the torso rips loose of the body and mutates and shifts. The skeletal structure rips loose of the bottom half of the creature, the bones snapping, reforming, in a chain of shattered pieces that segment together with tissue and sinew that grows and ruptures forth from the shoulders of the creature's torso, turning into serrated whip-like appendages that will tear and slash at anything close enough to reach. It will bite anything that foolishly gets close enough to it, trying to rip, tear, injure, maim and kill. Its head will turn inside out, the brain housed in the neck or upper chest, and the skull will thicken, the shattered pieces from the head turning inside out becoming an armor of sorts.

In truth these creatures come in many forms, and that includes whether or not they choose to keep most of the flesh of the animal's upper half they are butchering their body from. Other versions of the same entity choose instead to simply rip and tear and rend most of the flesh away and rip loose with but skeleton and some of the organs and deep tissue simply floating, the blood drenched bones their haven, and it is these that generally are more commonly discussed and spoken of when such things are spoken of at all.

These are amongst the lowest forms of Daemon from the Blood-Soaked Fields, the realm of Iracundia, the fell God of Wrath. They exist only to cut, maim, bleed, and slaughter in its name. Their appearances on the Material Realm are oft short, due to their natural instability, but are brutal, bloody and exceedingly violent.

These creatures are generally not very intelligent, almost unreasoning by and large, though they actually can understand spoken word to a degree, which allows their summoning and indenturing, to a degree. They are volatile and unstable and exceedingly aggressive. Combine this with their less than adequate intellect, they are not servants meant for complex tasks very often.