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| Species | El Silbon (The Whistler) |
| Order | The Damned |
| Classification | Undead |
| Dominion | Fellwood |
| Sphere | Cacophony |
| Origin | Youths who murdered their fathers |
| Lifespan | Inmortal |
| Habitat | Tropical grasslands |
| Food | Raesian energy and alcohol |
| Description | El silbon have three forms: a tall, shadowy thin man with a hat and a tattered sack; a giant of 18' carrying a massive tattered sack; or a frail figure in tattered clothes with a tattered sack. In all forms, their back is bleeding. The tune they whistle is C, D, E, F, G, A, B. It rises in tone to F, then falls in tone to B. |
| Corruption | Any young man (or male-identified) who murders their own father in an act of extreme rage, often involving disfiguring and disemboweling, can be corrupted into becoming a silbon if they are then punished to death by a family member. |
| Esoterica | El silbon are beings of cacophony and msawhat. In unlife, they do not retain the powers they had in life, but they can learn some new ones, mostly arts of Raesian energy, uafas, parasitic energy, negative emotional resonances, Damaskian powers, mystery, infernum, shadow, and spirits. |
| Special Powers | The whistling of el silbon causes a deep chill to run through any listener. Those who hear the whistle as distant must resist its power or die within six days. If they are seen, they cause intense unease. Their whistling sounds near when it is far and vice versa. They can drain the alcohol from a drunk through the drunk's navel. If they stop outside a house at night, they can count the bones in their sack. If they are seen or heard before dawn, it will kill one member of the house. If they stop among the branches of trees, their hands will gather to them dust, which gives their touch the power to rend flesh from the bones of their victims with a touch. As they kill and gather bones, they gain strength. Their forms change depending on the time of the year. In the summer, they are the frail figure. In the winter, they are the shadowy figure. Only on the equinoxes are they the giant figure. |
| Damnation | The family member who punishes them to death determines the nature of their damnation. Grandparents mean the power to shatter glass with their whistling. Aunts or uncles mean the power to blind with their whistling. Siblings mean the power to sever ligaments with their whistling. And so on. |
| Necromancy | If one wishes to create a silbon, one must find a youth who has murdered their father or manipulate someone into doing so, then have them killed by a family member (or kill them yourself if you are a family member) by tying them to a stake in the middle of a grassland, lashing them til their back is raw and skinless, then cleaning their wounds with alcohol and releasing them and having them killed by rabid dogs. This must be accompanied by the condemnation (17) by the family member that they must carry the bones of their father for all time. To control one, simply steal one of el silbon's father's bones from his sack. To summon one, one must whistle their tune backward three times. To capture one and draw their power, one must steal their entire sack of bones. |
| Sending | Interrupting their whistling can send a silbon. |
| Weaknesses | The bark of a dog, the lash of a whip, or a chili can scare off el silbon. Euphony is especially powerful against them, but any heavenly essence, qi, or the gates can send them. |
| Behavior | El silbon wander the grasslands, seeking womanizers, drunkards, and innocents to prey on. They seek to steal the bones of womanizers, drain the alcohol from drunkards, and kill innocents in their homes. On rainy or humid days, they hunt; on dry days, they dwell in the trees, gathering power. On long nights, they sit by the homes of innocents and count bones, hoping to be witnessed so that an innocent may die. |
| Dominion Culture | In the Fellwood Dominion, they are the upper ranks of the commoner class. They are powerful but unorganized. |
| Other Dominions | In other Dominions, they are rare, but they are not unknown. Among the Raesians, they gain power from bones quicker. Among the Srisians, their shadowy form is stronger. Among the Godless, they can drain faith along with alcohol, and in Qhanuum, they can drain mana as well. In Agikaani, their flesh-rending is stronger, and in Durosian, they gather dust quicker. In Kaanian, they drain the alcohol quicker. In Dun, their alcohol-draining powers are stronger, and in Campionese, their stealth is much greater. In Wapek, their unease presence is replaced by a chilling presence, and in Sangarian, their giant form is thinner but taller. In Pandemonian, their whistling is more uneven and strange. |
| Mortal Interactions | Mortals speak of the whistlers as warnings against such intense violence and revenges, but they also are warnings to listen for the distinct whistles and avoid those areas. |
| Afterlife | Redemption is possible for el silbon if they are sent with enough heavenly essence or qi, or if they never harm an innocent in their unlife. This still requires many millennia in the in-between. Most end up in the Hells, the Broken Obelisk, or the Grey Lands. |
| Notables | Silbedo Demoledor, El Silbon Manifest |
| Special Classes | Rogue, Bandit, Hunter |
| Sample Stats | PRO 11 ATH 11 STR 7 Giant Form 17 AWA 11 WIL 9 ROG 12 Shadowy Sneak/Hide 17 Unease Presence 9 Whistling 17 Flesh-rending Touch 17 Bone Counting 17 Alcohol Drain 14 |
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