The Beast of London

Description
Legend has it the beast was a pig, a pig that back in the past of hazy memory someone was fattening up for Christmas or some other feast day. The pig escaped (if it were a pig and the tales differ) into the sewers, feasting on the foulness there and growing huge and ill tempered. Every man that went to search for it came back without it or not at all. It grew larger and fouler as the years passed, growing ill tempered and vicious. As it killed and maimed it’s legend grew and hunters came to seek it and Bravos went to kill it, still returning fruitlessly or not at all, their broken weapons bristling in its hide and only aggravating its temper more. Eventually the Beast came to the Labyrinth, bound into place to guard Islington’s prison from foolish visitors. The Beast was finally slain by Richard Mayhew marking the final stage of his transformation from bumbling fool into the Warrior.

Prose
The beast was truly enormous, gross, vast, evil, a thing of foulness and great toughness. Unstoppable and possessed of extreme strength the Beast was fast, despite its size, and armoured from the broken blades stuck in its skin. Belligerent to the last, its foul tempered nature was its undoing as it focussed on finishing off Hunter and disregarded Richard. It was a legendary fighter with its razored tusks and thunderbolt hooves.

The Beast’s Blood contained the Beast’s power and the ability to navigate the ever-changing labyrinth.

- pg 50 Neverwhere 3

Adjectives
18 total
 * gross (+1)
 * vast (+1)
 * evil (+1)
 * foulness (+1)
 * Unstoppable (+1)
 * fast (+1)
 * armoured (+1)
 * Belligerent (+1)
 * foul tempered (+1)
 * truly enormous (+3)
 * great toughness (+3)
 * extreme strength (+3)

Occupation

 * legendary fighter

6 total

Knacks

 * ability to navigate the ever-changing labyrinth