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| Species | Lawas (plural Mga Lawas) |
| Order | Corporeal Undead |
| Classification | Undead |
| Dominion | Raesian |
| Sphere | Undeath |
| Origin | Murderers who died in the rain forest |
| Lifespan | Inmortal |
| Habitat | Rain forests |
| Food | Lifeforce |
| Description | Frail versions of what they were in life |
| Corruption | A person who runs away from a murder into the rain forest, where they die by accident or are killed by a lawas. |
| Esoterica | Mga lawas are beings of msawhat. They retain only a fraction of their powers from life (4-7). They do not learn new esoteric arts in undeath unless they join together as a pack, and then they gain special access to all forms of msawhat. |
| Special Powers | Mga lawas cause unease in those who see them. They are very stealthy. They have sharp senses of smell. They have very sharp fangs. The bite of a lawas will drain lifeforce from someone. A group of mga lawas can bond together into a pack and gain special powers from the act, able to channel powers together and form special roles. Each role has a special power: leader (msawhat), druid (brown msawhat), hunter (feirua), depraved (pravum), poisoner (vile energy), seer (doom), trapper (misfortune), thief (parasitic energy), singer (cacophony), stalker (uafas), and illusionist (black nommos). |
| Necromancy | Anyone who becomes a lawas must be a murderer. A necromancer may turn someone into a lawas either by manipulating them into being a murderer and being killed by a lawas or through a ritual (13) that drains a murderer of their lifeforce. The person must be tricked into entering a circle scratched into the rain forest floor by the bones of a mouse-deer. The msawhat-user then chants and dances around them while hiding their own face. The lifeforce will drain from the person, and they will rise as a lawas. To control a lawas, one must either have created them in the first place, control the lawas that created them, or stab them with the bones of a mouse-deer. Summoning a lawas requires a circle on the rain forest floor, etched by a mouse-deer bone, and the reversal of the chants used to create them. To capture and draw power from a lawas, one must use the leaves of a duhat tree to cover a hole large enough to hold a lawas, then chant over it until the lawas rises from it. |
| Sending | The family of anyone the lawas killed in life can send the lawas by burning ten objects that meant something to the lawas in life. |
| Weaknesses | Qi and the gates are especially effective; other heavenly essences can also send them. |
| Behavior | Mga lawas kill any mortal who comes into their territory, though they may flee in terror from any family member of their murder victims from when they were alive--unless they're in a pack. When a lawas drains lifeforce from someone, they cannot stomach the blood and spit it out afterward. |
| Dominion Culture | Raesians use mga lawas as guards in forests and other places, often to protect special territories near temples. They are a a specialized part of the enslaved classes, effectively an enslaved collection of nations. |
| Other Dominions | Mga lawas often end up in other Dominions simply by forming within their territories. Srisians give them stronger channeling. Fellwood gives them more powerful illusonists, stalkers, and singers. Durosian gives them stronger hunters. Agikaani have hunters and jagged fangs. Godless gives them power to smell faith, and Qhanuum the power to smell esoteric energies. Kaanian gives them stronger depraveds, and Dun gives them stronger druids and poisoners. Wapek also gives stronger druids, and Campionese stronger thieves. Pandemonian gives them stronger trappers. Sangarians give them stronger channeling as well. |
| Mortal Interactions | Mortals speak of mga lawas as if they were terrible predators, the worst of the worst in the deep forests. |
| Afterlife | Mga lawas end up spending millennia in the in-between. If they are sent, they may find redemption from purifying energies, but this is very rare as they were murderers in life. Most end up in the Grey Lands or the Hells. |
| Notables | Hait Nga Ngipon, Mother of Killers, Lawas Manifest; Minglihok, Lurker in the Undergrowth |
| Special Classes | Leader, Hunter, Druid, Illusionist, Thief, LawasDepraved, Poisoner, Stalker, Trapper, Singer |
| Sample Stats | PRO 13 ATH 13 STR 11 Fangs +6/+6 AWA 13 Smell 16 WIL 9 ROG 14 Sneak/Hide 17 Unease Presence 9 Draining Bite 13 |
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