Origins
Originally, Borem was just a river in the Shadowfell region known as Murk, part of the border Shadowfell mirroring the light realm of Tergaith. Murk was the place where an Ancient Amethyst Dragon from the Prime World known as Tergaith had set up a small retreat for his magical research. The dragon, known as Quindarinax or Quindarin, was particularly interested in the Far Realm, as many of his species are, but he in particular was old enough and powerful enough to develop actual therapies and technologies from his discoveries, including a substance called 'Gorgasuul' or Plasmic Essence which was taken from beings of pure chaos native to the Far Realm known as the Slaad Lords.
This gooey substance from the contained some portion of that universe's infinite reconfigurability, and has any number of fascinating properties that can be used for good and for evil. While researching on the Far Realms, Quindarin also encountered the Stardonyx, a race of intelligent humanoids that the Far Realm had created but not destroyed, though their numbers were dwindling. He found them highly compatible with his magic, and natural sorcerers, so he set about configuring the Plasmic Essence into a healing gel that could restore the strength and fertility of the Stardonyx race, safe in their new home on Tergaith's moon which had a lower gravity and atmosphere compatible with their needs. A delivery machine was built to target and deliver this healing substance at a safe enough distance so that they could be healed without the risk of the Chaos Gel drawing power from Quindarin himself. The caretaker that the Stardonyx had built for themselves, an artificial Mind called the Regulator, was used to calculate the precise mathematics of the operation, creating literal spooky action at a distance.
The Accident
Thousands of gallons of this healing gel intended to cure the wasting disorder among Stardonyx were instead blasted into the river of Murk in the midst of a containment failure due to an accident - or perhaps by the malicious intent - of the Regulator. Quindarin felt much of his soul and power drawn into the gel at this close proximity, and rather than saving his friends - or favored pets, or whatever the Stardonyx really were to him - the gel infused and awakened the river and the hot mud lake at its terminus into a living, intelligent being that he immediately and utterly rejected. As a result, when Borem achieved sapience, he was also filled with rejection and hate, as well as a near limitless supply of self-healing energy to tap into, while Quindarin's powers were diminished to the point that he could no longer even get back to his tower on his home plane. What Stardonyx were able to provide aid spirited him to a demiplane which Borem immediately corrupted, cutting him off from his home world as well as the Shadowfell.
Banishment
An awakened being of massive scale and destructive power suddenly emerging in her realm drew the immediate attention of the Raven Queen, who is the power ruling that place, and though she wished to punish Quindarin, he was already gone and the Lake was out of control. The raven Queen couldn't destroy it, or even harm it, but as high power in her own plane she could push it out from her realm. She exiled Borem then into the vacuum of the border of the Shadowfell and the Astral plane, where it slipped between the thin layers of Shadowfell Borderlands and emerged into the Prime Material, smelling Quindarin's work in making the Stardonyx a home on tergaith's moon, which Borem set about devouring as a fuel source. Borem then leapt from the Prime Material plane, having first removed a significant amount of mass from the moon; This reduced its mass enough to set the moon on a collision course with Tergaith itself during the thousand-year planetary alignment.
Borem continued to slide through the planes, both physically and metaphysically, on a quest to find Quindarin for its own reasons, attracting strange worshippers and jumbled symbols in its wake.
The Cult of Borem
A cult of worshippers, originally Shadar'kai and others from the region of Murk who witnessed its awakening, used a magical ritual to capture its valuable heart, protecting it from enemies who would seize it to use it to become gods themselves, and preventing their godling from simply merging once again with Quindarin which would certainly extinguish Borem, likely Quindarin, but achieve nothing greater or more momentous than that. In this act of protection and worship, they discovered that with the heart in their control they in turn had control over Borem, whose rage came from a place of painful innocence and lack of experience of other sentient beings, lashing out with anger and hate against the pain of its own existence. They understood that their god wanted oblivion, but also that it could bring oblivion with it.
The cult in turn made allies, of a sort, among the Star Spawn, which in turn are an alliance of a number of evil species from the Far Realm who sought the destruction of the Stardonyx and any allied with them, because the Stardonyx had refused to become a species of the Star Spawn. Though the motives of the Star Spawn are ultimately selfish and not strongly in favor of Borem, they are eager to claim any part of the Prime Material, especially when it also assures the destruction of the Stardonyx species.
Other Interested Parties
They were hardly the only other ones taking notice of Borem, though few perceived its true origins or intent. Quindarin was too weak to do much on his own, but he knew that Tergaith's best line of defense were its World Anchors, items designed to convert magical locations of power into a physical and magical shield for the planet. He was able to communicate the gist of this back to his apprentice, a sorcerer powered by his bloodline named Willow Candler, but communication was hampered by a lack of direct connection and mostly relied on her to figure things out from his notes. A wily Demon Prince named Camazotl also knew of a side effect of the World Anchor's power cycle, a temporary thinning of the barriers between worlds. His influence over the weak-willed con artist Naphan are detailed elsewhere, but the important point is that his interferences at the Caves of Chaos in turn reawakened a Yuan-Ti priestess named Ophidra, and she too was aware of the immediate value of world anchors - not so much in a coordinated effort to protect the world, but in a more selfish effort to extinguish the rival clans and restore some of the Yuan-Ti's former glories by bringing Dendar back to the Prime Material plane. Likewise a champion, the blessed of the Sun God Aot Solorex, saw the devouring act of Borem as a good start in his plan to destroy the moon for its insolence in eclipsing the sun. Where once was a moon, he wants a ring, and where once was a ring, he wants nothing to block his view, ever. And even the Ancient of Eons, the Drow Lich called Sylvanwroth, has decided to enter the game; he has been the lord of the halls deep under the Arborvast for so many planetary conjunctions, he's lost count of which one this is, but none have threatened the very existence of his world, if not the entire Prime Material plane should Borem actually be capable of bridging the gap and bringing the Far Realm itself to Tergaith. The world is often much changed by the conjunction, but it has thus far still emerged as an intact world on the other side.
Current State
In the midst of all these things, Borem continued to slip and squish and bubble its way through the planes before finally slipping through all of them into the Far Realm, achieving an awareness of the universe which, had he not been insane with rage already, would surely have driven him completely mad. He splashed back into the quantum probability matrix of nothingness, existing in nonexistence -- but his cultists used his heart to create Borem's temple, one of the few semi-permanent locations in the Far Realms. Like much else there, it is not so much a physical place to be traveled to as a quantum existential resonance that may or may not arise under the right conditions, only exists for those already experiencing it, and will cease to have ever existed once no one can perceive it. Just how far that event might 'fix' things is not known, and possibly not knowable, though Quindarin was able to perform an experiment with a willing participant that proved the changes of reality go far beyond the narrow circumstances of the event horizon itself - so far, however, that he can barely remember what the experiment was in the first place. In the meantime, Borem lingers, a literal pool of hatred barreling towards a destiny of destruction - his own, or the whole world's, or the whole of this universe's - who can say, but he's hoping for the latter.
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