The First Mage, Lukan, learned the secrets of arcane energy not from books -- for who would have written them? His desperation for power called forth trange and terrible messengers whose very presence tore and strained and frayed reality. Lukan gleaned that these incarnations of the Beyond had just one goal -- to unify the Starry Beyond's arcane maelstrom with our world. In a terrible fight, he sought to banish them, and teach men to learn how to harness the Starry Beyond by discipline alone. But these creatures of terrible, bright, starlight still remain to tempt, scourge, burn, and transform the unwary - and your old friend was, it seem, more than ready to be tempted. Instinct: To bring the Starry Beyond into this world.

• Scour with the sizzling energies of the Starry Beyond
• Shimmering multicolored tendrils of energy speed out from its hovering mass and...
• Guide or force others to unleash the Starry Beyond.
• Take a humanoid form
• Teach maddening secrets.
• Strain the fabric of reality.