Ghoul Ghast

Ghoul Ghast
==About==
Humans who whatever reason feel the urge to lay their souls to either the Abyss or the undying. They are less than the were, but live in hope and eternal torment they will become more, with the blessings of the Wicked Ones.
Wherever the dark energy of necromancy settles and congeals, all around becomes corrupted. It is the necromancers’ human servants who were first to be changed beyond all recognition. Slowly, these humble men and women lost all semblance of self. Their hair fell out in clumps, their minds became addled. They developed an unnatural craving for the flesh of the dead, until nothing else could satisfy their hunger. Cursed for this vile appetite, their transformation was complete. Future generations born from these wretches were disfigured, deformed and bestial. They carried the same curse as their sires, and eventually became the creatures known as ghouls.
Ghouls are found across Pannithor, wherever the dead are interred. They gather in catacombs beneath the many-storied deeps of Basilea; they haunt the ruins of Primovantor, and the graveyards of Sathoi. Across the Successor Kingdoms, they can be found in the dead of night, digging at barrows like dogs in search of corpses. In some lands, particularly the tribal lands of the north, ghouls are so prevalent that burying the dead has become unthinkable. Instead, the deceased are burned on great pyres so that none can feast upon their flesh.
Universally reviled and hunted, fleeing persecution, some animal instinct drives them to seek each other out and they form loose ‘clans’, ranging from small isolated groups of little more than a dozen individuals, all the way up to mighty cave-dwelling hordes numbering in their thousands. 
Ghouls are not strictly walking dead, like skeletons or zombies, but rather deranged cannibals and eaters of the dead. They slowly lose their minds to the horror of their lives, degenerating into savage creatures that are half-human, half-undead. 
Some ghoul packs have existed for generations, descended from desperate survivors who ate their brethren’s flesh to survive past cataclysms. These cursed beings hide in mausoleums or dank caves that have become great charnel houses that cater to the ghouls. Those who consume more flesh, lose more humanity, becoming the closest things these foul societies have to leaders, the Ghasts. Ghasts are vicious hunters who direct their kin to attack the weakest prey and choicest flesh.
Category:Army Units
Category:Undead