Nimbaloth, the Empty Death is a reclusive outer god — a shapeless, nihilistic force that hunts along the river of souls, consuming both the hunter and the soul so that the devoured receive no afterlife and cannot be resurrected. The party cleric first described her as the direct opposite of his own faith [S3]. Her holy symbol is a mossy skull; the party identified one in a hidden circular room and destroyed the magical idol, collapsing the floor into a pit [S6]. A stone door in the library's restricted collection depicts her as a feminine shape rising from cemetery mists, feeding on the spirits of her worshippers, and pointed toward the ghoul Cult of the Canker that venerates her [S13]. An octagonal graveyard chamber served as a shrine to her, with a despair-aura altar the party destroyed during an encounter with crawling hands and flicker-wisps [S21]. The full scope of her connection to Gauntlight was revealed when the party learned that Belcorra serves her: the lantern of empty light is a window to her domain, the void glutton is her intermediary, and the Gauntlight ritual was designed to let her into the world [S24]. She has no shape, affiliation, or rewards to grant — a nihilistic power whose purpose is to consume everything until it returns to nothing — and the mouth in Belcorra's temple is described as the place where she feeds through [S40]. Souls dying under the empty-death curse are marked and eventually consumed and utterly annihilated by her; the Whispering Reeds text is a compilation of encounters with Nimbaloth assembled to find ways to counteract it [S50]. Hooded cultists who 'don't care about living' continue to openly invoke her [S45], and the captive Sagathi was identified as a servant tied to her cult [S51]. Deeper in the vaults, a grave knight bore Nimbaloth's symbols and was counted among her servants [S56], and the pale-blue glow of the Gauntlight beam was tied explicitly to her empty-death power [S58]. As of [S61], Bulcora's journal references an underground temple being expanded toward the Darklands below — likely an attempt to extend Nimbaloth's reach further — though a party member noted that the evil forge gear encountered nearby was not tied to her specifically.
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