DM's Guide to Immortals: Vortex Creatures

The great dimensional Barrier, whose very existence creates the dilemma and paradox of the missing dimensions, is commonly called the Dimensional Vortex.  The few life forms known to arise from dimensional space including the Vortex, are called vortex creatures.

The characteristics of all vortex creatures place them within the Sphere of Entropy, though they are not actually part of that organization.

Illustration by Valerie Valusek

Spectral Hound

On the Prime, spectral hounds appear as ghostly dogs - pale in color and translucent.  Their eyes are formless pools of utter blackness.

*introduced in X5 "Temple of Death" (1983)

Blackball

These odd beings appear as featureless black globes, each about 5 feet in diameter.  Blackballs seem to arise spontaneously from the Dimensional Vortex space, and have been seen returning to it voluntarily.  Immortals suspect that blackballs can pass through the Vortex, and that they serve the Old Ones, but all this is conjecture.