Chourst

Chourst was the slaad lord of randomness, an agent of chaos at its most unpredictable. He was said to be a living incarnation of whimsy, spontaneously spreading disorder wherever his aimless wanderings took him.

"It was like a visit from Chourst."

- The githzerai phrase for an unexpected and unpleasant event.

Description
Chourst appeared as a gangly slaad, around tall, of purest chalk-white; his other forms were unknown.

Personality
Caring for nothing but himself, Chourst's one desire was to follow his mercurial passions, impulsively indulging whatever whim struck him from moment to moment. Rarely did this behavior manifest in any constructive way, for he was too unfocused to build anything significant and too independent to worry about the affairs of other slaadi.

By most estimates, the erratic Lord of Randomness seemed utterly insane. The urge might strike him to go on a random rampage, killing and destroying everything in sight, before stopping the carnage to smell a flower or do whatever else caught his eye. This also made him an odd being to try and fight since even the throes of combat was often insufficient to hold his attention, leading him to quit the battle halfway through to do something else.

However, it was important to note that despite this behavior, the Lord of Randomness wasn't an idiot. In fact, Chourst was a remarkably intelligent creature capable of making convincing arguments, at least towards other beings of chaos, and possessed a truer understanding of the concept than many others. He was also aware of the circumstances around him, and made sure to at least disable those he believed to be dangerous threats to him before moving on to other activities.

Powers
Chourst was both physically powerful and had access to a great variety of spell-like abilities. He could cast advanced illusion, astral projection, chaos, cloudkill, confusion, darkness, detect magic, detect thoughts, fear, flame strike, light, solid fog, and wind walk at will, as well as conjure a symbol of his choice three times each day.

Chourst's very presence caused instability in reality, reverting land shaped by chaos matter in a radius around himself into its basal state and causing spells cast within  of him to trigger wild magic surges, even outside of Limbo, the effects of which he was immune to. A strike from Chourst caused corporeal instability identical to that caused by chaos beasts in all living creatures, and also turned modrons into chaotic neutral rogues.

If in Limbo, he could try to summon a gray slaad or two green slaadi (the latter occurring more often when he tried) every minute with a near-perfect chance of success.

Realm
Chourst typically stayed within Limbo since he found its primal soup soothing, though he occasionally journeyed to other planes for a change of pace, giving him a new environment in which to cause chaos.

Activities
Chourst does not make plans and is not interested in anything beyond his momentary desires. Anything that requires more than a few minutes of his attention is not worth exploring.

Relationships
Although Ygorl approves of the chaos and entropy Chourst wreaks, Chourst has made many enemies, especially among the githzerai who frequently fall on the receiving end of his antics. Chourst’s inquisitiveness once drove him to visit Mechanus, although he barely survived the encounter; Primus himself showed up to deal with the slaad after he had worked enough mayhem and disorder on the orderly plane, and still seeks justice against Chourst.

Worshipers
Although Chourst has no desire for followers or resources, members of the Xaositects admire Chourst’s dedication to chaotic ideals, but still give him a wide berth.