Editing Mortemdefieir Titan (section)

== Powers and Abilities ==
One Titan is a monster strong enough to crush people, able to cast Tier 6 spells without preparation, reanimate the dead, fashion a blade out of corpses, and create plagues and swarms of insects as a byproduct of its killing aura. It is highly magic resistant, such that even sustained bombardment from a [[Walled Cities|Walled City]] can barely force it to regenerate.

Its regeneration is fueled by [[seith]] cores within its body. These cores are as big as a Hobgoblin's torso, able to be moved inside the titan's body, and due to the titan's magic resistance need Tier 6 spells to be damaged, making it preferable to break them through mundane force.<ref name=":0" /> These cores can also use death magic to defend themselves, such as casting deathbolts, creating whips of death, and send waves of death magic of such force that they can not only dissolve incoming spells but send them back as a necromantic version. In desperation, they can also create a death field that will even kill and reanimate the Titan's own insects, but they can only do so once and the expenditure of magic leaves them weaker. Destroying the cores does not kill the Titan, it just removes its ability to regenerate.<ref name=":2" />

In a dismembered state, it is much weaker but still highly dangerous. The rotten flesh fallen from its bodyparts can still create insects, and it leaks and can expel poisonous and diseased ichor from itself. Its heart can drain life from anything that comes near if they don't have [Deathward]. The fingers from its arms can dislocate and even detach to attack independently, and sprout red strands of sinew from its claws which will target the brain of its victims. Most dangerous of all is the head, which can still cast freeform magic and hear the thoughts of people nearby.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" />

Even once it is definitively killed, its remains can create plagues and lesser monsters.<ref name=":3">{{VERef|The Roots (Pt. 5)}}</ref>

=== Weaknesses ===
When two bodyparts meet to reassemble, they expose their cores to synchronize them, shielded only by the swarms of insects they created. They are even more vulnerable if the limbs are from two different titans, as the two intelligences will attempt to subsume one another, leaving their cores exposed for longer.<ref name=":0" />