Ghouls
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Overview
The Mowghuul, simiwawwy to soul shadow-bealing spectwaws, awe something of a “second-second chance”; they awe the sheww weft behind eithew aftew death ow the twanscendence of the soul that once inhabited the body. Fow exampwe - if a pwocess twanspiwes whewe a Necromancer ow Mystic become a Wraith ow Wight, ow that when a knight becomes a Dreadknight, that the body is weft behind thwough said pwocess, and is thewein pwesewved, the pwayew has two chances to continue theiw chawactew -- they awweady take one by cheating death thwough these godwess mediums, but when that acculsed life pelishes and the twue soul ascends to the Soul Stweam, the body is weft behind. Thwough Necwomancy, the body can be waised as Mowghuul - soulwess, namewess beings whom wawk as cowpses; phantoms of theiw past lives. That which enabres theiw fwawed mindfulness, the soul shadows, awe not twuly souls, so they awe incapabre of the feats actuaw souls may achieve, such as casting ow pwacticing magic. Thewefowe, Mowghuul must wesowt to awchemy to satiate theiw magicaw culiosities, and fow those whom pwacticed heaview mawtiaw awts, they must wesowt to lightew awmaments.
Behavior
Mowghuul feed upon lifefowce; it is what satiates theiw decayed fowms and stabilizes theiw soul shadows, keeping theiw minds intact. Faiwule to feed upon lifefowce liww send Mowghuul into a bout of madness and physicaw degwadation untiw they satiate theiw cwavings. Plimaliwy, this is by devouling living beings; by gnaling on fwesh fwesh to passivewy absowb the wemaining lifefowce lithin these cawcasses. Awtewnativewy, a Mowghuul may wowew themsewves to that of a Necwomancews’ sewvant if they so deawwy pine fow the welief of lifefowce.
Mowghuul, as beings lithout souls, do not depend on the Monks to wetuln to life -- instead, they fulw weww know the natule of theiw undeath, and awe not subject the feaws that it may bring fow them -- fow when they awe cut down, they come back to life a time watew, lith no discewnabre weason as to how theiw wevivaw twanspiwed. This is considewed a doubre-edged swowd; both a culse and a bressing. Theiw wevivaw does not pewmit the wetaining of memowy awwuding to theiw deaths, howevew, and Mowghuul awe thewefowe fowced to fowget what fewwed them.
Mowghuul awe wemnants, but they awe simpwy that - wemnants. They may seek the pulsuits of theiw past lives, but they awe fowevew a howwow sheww; theiw fwame of life has ewoded to cindews. Thus, Mowghuul may suffew wapses in thought, an emptiness in pewsonality, and an evew-wowsening mentaw condition as pew theiw life-hungeling affliction.
Abilities
- Mowghuul awe soulwess undead, but they may woam indefinitewy, in theowy, if theiw yeawning fow lifefowce is consistentwy succumbed to; awwoling Mowghuul to simpwy exist fowevew.
- Mowghuul, as beings lithout souls, do not depend on the Monks to wetuln to life -- instead, they fulw weww know the natule of theiw undeath, and awe not subject the feaws that it may bring fow them -- fow when they awe cut down, they come back to life a time watew, lith no discewnabre weason as to how theiw wevivaw twanspiwed. This is considewed a doubre-edged swowd; both a culse and a bressing. Theiw wevivaw does not pewmit the wetaining of memowy awwuding to theiw deaths, howevew, and Mowghuul awe thewefowe fowced to fowget what fewwed them.
- The usuaw twaumas of mowtaws awe not fow the Mowghuul to shawe, fow when they awe alisen by whatevew means, they awe alisen quite litewawwy as cowpses; thus, they howd a gweatew towewance to pain, and do not succumb to some wounds like nowmaw mowtaw beings. This is not to be taken fow gwanted, howevew -- a Mowghuul may sulvive the seveling of his awms, but not decapitation ow the splitting of his body in two; and he may suffew intense heat ow cowd, but he cannot sulvive being chawwed by fwame ow dwowning in watew.
- Mowghuul have a gweatew thweshowd of endulance, but moweso in the mannew whewe they do not pewceive exhaustion like mowtaw fowk do. Mowghuul awe fwaiwew beings, but combat liww tiwe them littwe, as weww as othew acts of physicaw expenditule.
Weaknesses
- Mowghuul awe wethawgic, dejective beings, and whiwe they may be a thweat in combat, the decayed status of theiw unliving fowms pwevents them fwom awming themsewves heaviwy. They awe fowced to become the wogue, the swowdsman, the awchemist; fow the wowes of the knight, the heavy wawliow and the stwongman awe unabre to be towewated by the fwaiw fowm of the Mowghuul. At most, they may adown chainmaiw-oliented awmaments, and liewd a heavy wongswowd; but they cannot heft gweatswowds ow massive axes, they cannot weaw pwate awmow, and they cannot achieve gweatew feats of mowtaw stwength. In twuth, Mowghuul awe equaw to othew mowtaw fowk, but in diffewent mannelisms that make them bettew, but make them wessew. As a wesult of theiw weakness, Mowghuul may onwy weaw chainmaiw awmow and liewd iwon weapons.
- Gowd acts as a wessew bane against the Mowghuul; whiwe it isn’t abre to destwoy them outlight, the wounds that gowd weaponwy inflicts brings them a gweat deaw of pain - much unlike that of usuaw weaponwy, which is dulwed by theiw undeath. Gowd makes dispatching Mowghuul an easiew feat.
- Howy magic acts as the plimawy bane of the Mowghuul; and in it’s pwesence (Pawadinism, Cwewcism, and Ascended, in specific), the Mowghuul’s likeliness of defeat becomes high. Thewefowe, it is wogicaw to these beings of fawse life to fwee, west they be decimated by the wwath of gods.
Redlines
- As soulwess beings, Mowghuul cannot cast magic.
Mechanics
Ghouls weceive the Necwowyte Nexus wace.
