The Gestalt

The Gestalt is a strange entity. A formless mass of black liquid that spans entire worlds. The black liquid dissolves and integrates any material it comes into contact with, absorbing it's skills, memories and raw materials. The Gestalt grows and consumes, believing itself to be rescuing the world's it devours. It views any world where the minds of individuals are seperate and hold their own independent thoughts, to be a living hell.

While the Gestalt is incredibly dangerous, it exists so far away from the inner circles, that Andrasa is hardly in any immediate danger from it. In fact, many conjurers have learned to utilize the gestalt for their own means.

By summoning a tiny fragment of the gestalt, and binding it to a figurine, they can command the shapeless entity to take the shape of the figure depicted, and draw on the various knowledge and skills of entities devoured by the gestalt in order to create a powerful and mindless creature that they can command freely without fear of revolt, like many other planar entities. The true danger of summoning the gestalt comes should the conjurer fail the binding ritual, and unleash a practically unstoppable killing machine into Andrasa

While such events are not common, they have happened before. Usually the fragment can be banished quite easily if it hasn't had a chance to consume much, but summoning the gestalt is considered to be flirting with disaster

Nobody is sure of its true origins, but various Aether Expeditions and Conjurer Studies seem to conclude that it held much humbler origins at some point, likely as a failed creation by a sorcerer of another world, rather than any kind of cosmic diety.