The Devolved

One of the dangerous races.Stooped spines, warped muscles, hungry eyes, wicked claws. The Devolved were Humans once, but have not been so for millennia. Thousands of years of degeneration due to exposure to terrible, necromantic magics have left the tribes of Ifrania twisted into inhuman monsters which were first called "ghouls" or "wretches" when discovered by Uropan explorers in the 15th century.
== History ==
In antiquity, several Uropan nations ventured into the treacherous interior of Ifrania, where they encountered grand hordes of murderous, cannibalistic monsters. The opportunity to retrieve hidden treasures from abandoned ruins proved too enticing to give up on expeditions into the baked wastelands of the North Ifranian deserts. But every single one ended in disastrous defeat at one point or another, with caravans of corpses left to rot in the sun and be consumed by the Devolved.
In early modernity, entrepreneuring Hispalian explorers ventured to Ifrania in search of natural goods to export, and wound up engaging in a series of wars with the Devolved, which they called Malvados. These went poorly, until they hired a mysterious benefactor known only as Liebman to assist in their efforts. He is purported to have employed magical powers in the defense of the Hispalian sailors, and to their surprise, this caused the Devolved to surrender after some of their number had been slain by Liebman's powers. Once sufficiently cowed, the Devolved allowed themselves to be chained and controlled, and it was this discovery which began the practice of using them for dangerous or taxing labor. 
Across the years, the Devolved were put to use in Ifrania and abroad, replacing Uropan laborers by doing their crude work quicker and for no pay aside from meat and the corpses of fallen workers. The natural readiness with which the Wretches take to menial tasks has lead to an investigation as to their history, which many Ifranian scholars now firmly believed is tied to that of the Fey Cats. 
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