Chebcast #6: Ghouls (Worldbuilding)
Channel: Cheb Gonaz
Date: 12/11/2020

00:00:00 - History of the ghoul as a bogieman of North African and Arabian folklore; How ghouls entered the English speaking world; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vathek#/media/File:Caliph_and_Giaour.jpg
00:03:39 - Islamic ghoul stories
00:05:07 - Ghouls depicted as bestial flesh eaters eg. Warhammer, Grim Dawn, Forgotten Realms, Warcraft; Origin of Ghouls in Warhammer Fantasy; Difficulty in defining ghouls as living or undead; Undead Husks/Cyclops with one eye made from fallen wizards
00:08:32 - Ghouls as the result of an infection or curse; Very clear transition between life & death for a zombie, but not so with a ghoul; Similarities to vampires; A wizard that delved too deep into knowledge and got cursed as an aberration
00:12:34 - Ghouls in Hellsing Ultimate; Tokyo Ghouls; Ghouls in anime
00:15:42 - Ghouls as a cautionary tale; Holy water; Ghouls and vampires as a metaphor for bad people in society; Scarlet Vecna's info on ghouls
00:23:30 - Off topic segment: The weird beliefs of various cultures; Cannibalism and Prions; Cheb speculates on why islanders cannibalize (and later fact checks himself)
00:28:07 - Ghoul intelligence; Ghoul sentience; Evidence for ghouls being alive and not undead;  Ghouls are like flesh addicts
00:31:18 - Off topic segment: Cheb corrects his wrong speculation from earlier with facts; Historical examples of cannibalism and motivations for it; Chimpanzee cannibalism;
00:37:17 - What animal best represents the ghoul?
00:38:35 - Off topic segment: Are there apes in the middle east?; Bigfoot, Gigantopithicus, Fear of big apes; Giants; Bantus eating Pygmies in Africa; Why do monkeys eat each other?; Prions effects on the brain; Prions are like Nokia Brick Phones; Dark matter and more offtopic stuff
00:49:00 - Ghoul worldbuilding; Effectiveness and tactics of Ghouls in combat; Redemption of ghouls as a story arc; Likening a ghoul's desire for flesh to substance addiction; Addiction in general; Difference between physical and mental addiction
00:59:07 - Ghouls as "clean" minions; Disadvantages of ghouls for work compared to skeletons; Warcraft ghouls
01:01:17 - Ghouls in combat: Comparing ghouls to zombies; Ghouls as skirmishers, hit and run, etc.; vulnurability of limb damage to ghouls; Allowing a ghoul's sentience to permit set-and-forget tactics, unlike zombies and skleletons that must be puppeteered
01:04:06 - Comparing ghouls to wendigos; Different types of ghouls dependent on environment - wendigo as snow ghoul, mournghul as waterghoul; Ghouls as cautionary tale thing again
01:07:02 - Lack of prominance of ghouls in fantasy - they're lesser known than zombies and skeletons; Good & bad of their relatively unestablished state
01:08:08 - Why would you choose a ghoul over a zombie or skeleton?; Ghoul curse allowing ghouls to multiply; Ghouls instincts in overdrive
01:11:17 - Similarities between ghouls and LotR Orcs; Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War; 
01:14:37 - End of Shadow of Mordor/Shadow of War spoilers; What would we personally, as necromancers, use ghouls for?; Ghouls as asset denial because they consume corpses that a necromancer could make minions from

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