Shub Niggurath's Soul Sphere

Shub Niggurath's Soul Sphere in Quake is an custom entity that can be found in the Deathmatch variant of Shub-Niggurath's Pit. It was made on August 22, 1996. This was designed primarily as a means to exit the level in Deathmach, since the vanilla game did not offer such an ability in 1.01. This issue was patched in 1.06.

Shub-Niggurath is a chaotic entity, reveling in not only her own wars, but the wars of mortals. While she does not intervene in the combat, she claims the souls of the freshly slain for her own possession. Trapped inside a spherical entity, a soul sphere, the ghosts have been enslaved for all of eternity.

The soul sphere is contained in a hidden treasure room, alongside the only Quad Damage in the vincinity, that is relatively close to her dais. Rumored to be impossible to destroy, only through the destruction of the soul sphere can the souls be free from endless imprisonment.

Not only is attacking the sphere a daunting task due to how nigh invulnerable it is, but it fires off chaotic bursts of lightning, one strike of which can instantly kill whomever tried to breach the ominous prison. Of course, the further one damages the sphere, the weaker its forces gets, meaning its spinning gets more controlled and the lightning ceases to be as chaotic and even less lethal. As it gets progressively destroyed, it will begin dropping fragments.

It is further rumored that the ghosts have powerful supernatural abilities, such as the ability to travel between worlds. With the death of Shub-Niggurath and thus the closure of the Teleporters under her domain, they may be the only means available for Ranger to get back to Earth. This will also be the primary clue that the soul sphere is indeed destroyed.