| Race | Ghoul, the Scavengers |
| Over-race | Goblin |
| Classification | Humanoid |
| Family | Fell Goblin |
| Sphere | Famine |
| Origin | Thereken made them from the originals |
| Lifespan | 50-100 years |
| Habitat | Palhuric & Ansulymic barrows |
| Food | Dead meat |
| Description | From Lovecraft: These figures were seldom completely human, but often approached humanity in varying degree. Most of the bodies, while roughly bipedal, had a forward slumping, and a vaguely canine cast. The texture of the majority was a kind of unpleasant rubberiness. (Pickmans Model) It was a colossal and nameless blasphemy with glaring red eyes, and it held in bony claws a thing that had been a man, gnawing at the head as a child nibbles at a stick of candy. Its position was a kind of crouch, and as one looked one felt that at any moment it might drop its present prey and seek a juicier morsel. But damn it all, it wasnt even the fiendish subject that made it such an immortal fountain-head of all panicnot that, nor the dog face with its pointed ears, bloodshot eyes, flat nose, and drooling lips. It wasnt the scaly claws nor the mould-caked body nor the half-hooved feetnone of these, though any one of them might well have driven an excitable man to madness. (Pickmans Model) Description is where comparison to Lovecraft's ghouls ends, however. |
| Procreation | Follows the mother, with other goblins. Halfbreeds may occur outside of race. |
| Magic | One in five million have soul magic. One in five hundred thousand have heart magic. Mind magic, body magic, & void are possible. Faith is not uncommon. |
| Special Powers | A ghoul has an extremely keen sense of smell. They have digestive systems that can handle almost any degree of decay & rot, & they have enormous strength in their jaws. They have an affinity for nuckalavee, though they rarely find any. They tend to stink horrendously. Their young are called shugghouls, and they are hairless, pale, clawed beings with oversized snouts and tusks on their faces and twisted hooves on their feet. They are weaker, but not by much, than their adult forms. |
| Weaknesses | Harvest magic or faith can harm them. |
| Culture | Ghouls live in brutal packs, feasting on the dead & dying, the rotting & the decaying, scouring hill country & graveyard, wasteland & urban sprawl, for carrion to devour. They are not unintelligent, but they rarely bother to speak. The shugghouls go through a Rite of Feast at about the age of 13, during which they are allowed to glut themselves on a raid. If the feasting doesn't go too far and kill them, they will begin their adolescent growth spurt and become full ghouls. They are referred to sometimes as the Scavenging Horde, or simply Scavengers. |
| Notables | |
| Sample statistics | PRO 13 ATH 10 STR 13 Jaws 19 Digestion 20 AWA 10 Smell 19 WIL 10 ROG 10 Stench 13Nuckalavee Speech 7 |
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