Slaad Hexos

The Slaad Hexos were six elite guards that served Torog in the Dawn War. Each of these guards was a grimlock aberration that had been mind altered to be 100% loyal to Torog. Loremasters of Torog say that the Slaad Hexos were so loyal to their master that they would throw themselves into the line of fire to protect him.

Death Slaad

The Slaad Hexos are aberrations. Each of their bodies were altered when Torog and his slave elemental miners went deep into the bowels of Bal-Kriav, deeper than even Surtur's Artery to the Decomposition String. The lead elemental earth titan, an enslaved taskmaster, warned Torgon that not even his near-divine status would protect him from the raw chaos emanating from the Decomposition String. Torog did not heed this warning, because he needed something to power a great bore-like device that he was designing. As a result of their getting close and touching the Decomposition String, Torog and the Slaad Hexos became infused with chaotic energies.

Torog, already chaotic, became more so when he plucked warp matter from the Decomposition String. His Slaad Hexos shielded their master from the chaotic tendrils that whipped about randomly. Each of these guards were struck multiple times and changed from the tendrils of chaos. One of his grimlocks fattened and elongated into a purplish worm body from the torso down to a tail with a poisonous stinger. Another's body changed to a blob of pulsating flesh with multiple flailing appendages, the only thing left of the grimlock were white orbs - with one in two of the four appendages of the monstrosity. The other four Slaad Hexos became frog-like humanoids of varying color and size.

In the God Era, angels and gods tracked down the Slaad Hexos and banished them from the Prime Material Plane. They were sent to Limbo, where successive generations called themselves the Scions of Slaadi. Somewhere along the line, this was simplified to just identifying themselves as the slaadi race. The four branches of slaadi that came from the Slaad Hexos are the death slaadi, gray slaadi, green slaadi, and the blue slaadi.