THE PRIMORDIAL DRAGONS
URGASH, the Dragon of CHAOS
The Dragon of Chaos is “raw untamed potential”, primordial chaos in its inexhaustible energy and infinite variety of forms.
He is ravenous and insatiable, the “dragon-snake that eats its own tail”.
He is the Father of wanton Destruction, of frantic Mutation, of rampant Madness.
He is also the progenitor of the Demons.
Urgash is utterly unpredictable. His “logic” defies mortal reason. He can save one day and kill the next, laugh and cry within a matter of seconds, be alternatively cruel and comforting, etc.
He has been long banished to slumber at Sheogh, Ashan’s core, but in this prison-world, the Demons linger, and still strive to carry out his desires.
Symbolic associations:
The number 0 / the circle (the primordial void, the Ouroboros, the Wheel of Fortune, perfection in revolution, stasis in movement, etc.).
Graphic description:
Urgash is a colossal wingless dragon with twisted, ever-shifting forms. His features are monstrous, dreadful to behold. His thick dark scales seem to be made of melted, boiling metal, as their patterns never stay fixed.
Bony excrescences (horns, spikes) constantly “erupt” from his body, to be almost instantly “reabsorbed”. The blood that flows from these perpetually renewed “wounds” is a toxic corrosive ooze that consumes everything it comes into contact with.
Urgash’s body is perpetually surrounded by what seems to be a heat haze that “distorts” reality around it.
Urgash’s mouth is filled with rows after rows of serrated teeth, and it can stretch to impossible width. He really is the insatiable Devourer of Worlds.
After centuries of imprisonment in the fiery core of Ashan, Urgash’s eyes reflect only pain, madness, hunger, and hatred.