| Race | Gibberer, the Gibbering Horde |
| Over-race | Goblin |
| Classification | Humanoid |
| Family | Fell Goblin |
| Sphere | Pestilence |
| Origin | Venair made them from the originals |
| Lifespan | 50-100 years |
| Habitat | Palhur & Ansulym |
| Food | Meat |
| Description | A little large for man-sized, with bluish skin, gibberers have human-like hair & faces that look like a cross bewteen a man's & a bat's. Their hands are clawed, & thier bodies overly muscular. They tend to decorate themselves with body mutilations--unusual piercings (like through the area between the fingers, or the spare skin along the ribs), patches without skin, intricate scars in unseemly places (along the genitalia, across the stomach), & blood stains all over themselves & what shreds of clothing they retain. Young gibberers are referred to as gibberlings, and they are merely smaller versions of their parents. |
| Procreation | Follows the mother, with other goblins. Halfbreeds may occur outside of race, especially due to the high volume of rape. |
| Magic | One in five million have soul magic. One in five hundred thousand have heart magic. Mind magic, body magic, & void are possible, but extremely rare. Faith is rare. |
| Special Powers | The Gibbering Horde have an incredibly high tolerance for pain & disease--which is to say, once they get a disease, it tends to linger & manifest, but not actually slow them. No wound penalties occur on a gibberer. They are incredibly intelligent, but they tend to use this for intricate snares, weapons, & torture devices. Gibberlings are weaker than their parents, but otherwise the same. A gibberer can see in the dark. |
| Weaknesses | Healing magic or faith can slow them. |
| Culture | Gibberers travel in bands that raid settlements, killing, raping, torturing, flaying, & sometimes (though rarely) eating their victims. To paraphrase Firefly, if the victims are lucky, it's done in that order. There are no recognizable leaders, merely the band & its insatiable lust for violence. Gibberers have no word for themselves, and have thus taken up the name others have given them. Their young, called gibberlings, go through a Rite of Blood before their seventh year, usually during their first raid. Before that, they are kept in caves or other hideouts and fed scraps. The Rite usually requires their first bodily mutilation or intentionally inflicted disease. They will then continue to grow normally. Gibberers are called "the Gibbering Horde" by other goblins, and even by other goblins are they feared. Similar to the reavers from Firefly & the Forged from The Farseer's Trilogy by Robin Hobb. |
| Notables | |
| Sample statistics | PRO 14 ATH 10 STR 14 AWA 14 Nightvision 15 WIL 10 ROG 10 No Wound/Disease PenaltiesTrapping 13 |
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