# Ovk ## Category Interdimensional Entity / Pocket Dimension / Containment Threat ## Known Facts - Ovk is described in [[Lab Halen]] research. - Ovk may be both a place and an entity. - The entity that came through the failed enhanced Rift Gate is connected to Ovk. - It is described as interdimensional. - It may be a pocket dimension in itself. - It is endlessly hungry. - It has powerful telepathic influence. - Anyone who stared into its eyes too long died. - Anyone who got too close to its tentacles died. - Telepathic attempts to communicate with it drove a researcher into ruin. - A researcher speculated that rifts may act as mouths through which it feeds. - The entity could not leave containment, but also could not be killed. ## Known Effects - Kills through gaze or proximity. - Has telepathic influence. - May feed through rifts. - May exist across dimensional boundaries. - May be impossible to kill by normal means. - May turn portals into feeding points. ## Known By - [[Lab Halen]] researchers - [[Pipe]], through records - Full party, partially - [[Keth]], likely ## Connected To - [[Lab Halen]] - Rift Gate failure - [[Keth]] - [[Lineage of the Veiled Kin/09 - Items, Artifacts & Documents/Aetherite|Aetherite]] - [[Shadowfell]], possibly - Rifts - Containment - [[Studies of Ovk]] ## Open Questions - What is Ovk? - Is Ovk a place, entity, plane, pocket dimension, or all of these? - Is it still contained? - Can it be sent home? - Would freeing it save the world from it or unleash it? - Did [[Keth]] intend to contact it? - Is Ovk connected to [[The Blight]], [[Whune]], the Void, or something else? - Can rifts across [[Tarin]] feed it?