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Moleskin
For the coddling of the weak and mewling shall one day be the Downfall of All Races!
—Morkoel Rasher, denouncin…
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Zh'o Wén Jûn, The Morning Lord of Writings
A beast made of writing; a strange, sad, and beautiful being that haunts the libraries and universities of the Sacred Wo…
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Yird-Swine
Et deprecabantur eum spiritus dicentes mitte nos in porcos ut in eos introeamus (Mark 5:12)
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The Cutsman
Created as a weapon by the ancient sorceror-primotologists of the Iron Triangle Nation, the Cutsman still stalks the und…
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Church's Devil
3 HoH
Quest entry
Necromantic Cult
'You know that saying that man made god? No, of course you don't. But we didn't make god. We made the Devil, and god is just a word the frightened cling to, to protect them from their own creation. And you? You are my creation. You are my d…
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The Ishafel Horror
Quest entry
Beneath crumbling towers wait Ishafel's Horror and Hate A monster grim and bleak Go to it if death you seek
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Shirion the Indescribable
Quest entry
Shirion may have been a human once. That time is long past. Now, it is an ever-shifting being, its form lost to time.
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Having spent many years facing the Swollen Shadow and it's lieutenants, the dwarven resistance fighter Vars is one of the few people who could be considered an authoritative source on the most active and malevolent of the Shadow's Minions, …
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Featured creatures of the Swollen Shadow Codex.
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Urn Beast
Golden
8 HoH
Several arson attacks, and two deaths later, as the Mayor retreated from the ashy figure before him and his curtains went up in flame, he decided that burning the Bishop had been a very bad idea.
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homunculi of the Old World, epargner daemons were once as common as cats...
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When in towns or near human habitation, be careful what you use your swords on, for that large sluglike Velvet Worm you might be facing could well be someone's beloved family pet.
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The Ink Drinkers
Golden
8 HoH
Codex
'The last thing we ever saw was its inky tail as it swept under the door. I fear the scions of Durnthar have taken yet another piece of us.' - Gould Maran, Keeper of the Throne Seal
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Scroll Gholem
1 HoH
What happens when the very fabric of magic is transformed into something else by accident. When the theories of transference are shattered due to lack of preperation and study? As long as you do not experiement around your stash of m…
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Some are called dhampir, others exalt as champions of undeath, and yet neither of these are correct...
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Bound to serve, unable to leave, many go insane with the duty of a ghoul.
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The Mogrolyth
Golden
10 HoH
Necromantic Cult
Forget the rickety, fragile skeletons. Remove all thoughts of the limping, weak zombies. Shrug off thoughts of blood-dependant vampires. Whereas the former are reflections of necromatic magic, the Mogrolyth is a creation derived from the pu…
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Some years ago a dark cult was founded in the Forecastle area of Hahvrensburg. The cultists were defeated by a band of heroes. A month after the heroes left the city and went on about their business, something massive came out of the earth.…
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Below the surface of the Earth, dwelling in darkness and forgotten catacombs, the goat-headed Ghouls, dark spirits of murder, feast on the dead. Ghouls dwell in old, forgotten places, luring others down into the grasping claws of their evil…
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Azhag
1 HoH
The Azhag ('ah-ZHAHG'; from Old West-Carmanian azadg, meaning watchman, sentry), called Tomb Guardians or Demon Shadows, are the terrible Undead guardians of the tombs of the Ancient Ones.
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The Kythrythe are a different kind of people. Given their worship of the Insect God Kythrellemen, they are more than just Humans. These people, except for their eyes, will be normal people at first glance. Some might be quite big or small o…
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Souless
2 HoH
Necromantic Cult
The call to Him is unnerving. The power He gives is unmatched. He is the reason why I turned my back on my God and now worship Him. I will live eternal for the trade of my Soul to a God. I can live with that. -Rakeos -Follower of Set…
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The first sign of one of the Few is the glow that surrounds it.Most of the survivors of such encounters only saw the glow, for few can fight face to face with the Few and survive to tell the tale.
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As your advisor my liege I am apt to tell you the difficulty in what you ask. Enemies are indeed everywhere and what you propose will inevidable be the end of your line. It is not always the enemies in front of you with a sword that are …
